my wife and i have been going to the horseshoe (the original name) since 1970. we have always been treated like high rollers even we are far from it. rooms are nice. but the staff is exceptional and the ambiance is old las vegas. its great!!!!

My husband and I stayed for two nights at Binions in April 2009. This hotel is very old. On one website there was a comment that said "Recently renovated in 1952". We thought this was hilarious. All of the furnishings are just that....50 years old. Although like mostly everyone says...it is kept clean. Check in was the quickest I have ever had in Vegas, about two minutes.
The first room we had had felt for carpeting with multiple old iron stains and a very old TV with no reception. We arrived very late so we immediatly went down to gamble and when we came back to sleep we immediatly noticed that the bed was seriously as hard as a rock. We slept there anyway for as long as we could....about six hours. All of the next day our backs and shoulders were killing us.
The next morning we went to the desk and asked for a different room because of the bed. The clerk was very helpful and just nodded as if she knew about the beds. She gave us keys to another room. The second room was the smallest hotel room I have ever seen. Maybe 8X8....not kidding. Although the bed was slightly softer it was a little bigger than a twin size bed for two people. So basically we had to sleep on top of each other.
Now on to the casino. This is one of our favorites in Las Vegas because the slots seem to always be loose and the tables hot with low limits. This hotel is dead center of all the action on Fremont street.
We did eat one morning at the coffee shop and the food was terrible and very overpriced.

So overall this is a very old hotel that is kept clean but has the worst beds possible. I would not recommend staying here longer than two nights because the uncomfortable sleeping will make you so tired that you wont enjoy your time in Vegas. But if you are looking for a room at rock bottom prices and can sleep on very hard beds then go for it. The location and the casino definetly do something to make up for the hotel rooms.

Let me start by saying we are casual gamblers looking for fun without blowing a great deal of money. We live close to Altantic City and are long over being impressed with fancy , shiny , plastic casinos that suck your money from your wallet the minute you walk through the door. We stayed at the Golden Nugget but found their slots tight and table limits too high. Over to Binions we went where we discovered that on weekday afternoons, Binions has $2 rolette. What a blast. We played for hours on $20.00 and got fabulous drink service. We met great people from around the country and got local insight from the incredibely friendly dealers. In the evening , when the table limit changed to $5, the "boss" let us and the other couple playing continue with our $2 bets.
This is by far my favorite casino to gamble in. Great service and great fun! Cant wait to go back!!!!

Looks like I had just about exactly the same experience as all the other recent reviewers. Got a great price--came out to $9 a night after all the promotions. The room was dated but big and clean. Service was friendly.

My room faced Fremont street, so it was a little loud even on the 18th floor, not terrible but a little irritating sometimes. Also, I got a smoking room, which was not what I requested, as many others did. I checked in at midnight on a Friday, and the place seemed pretty full. so I probably got whatever was left.

And, exactly like everyone else's room, the cooling was a little iffy. It seemed to work fine at night, but one day I came back to the room and it was blowing warm air, it wouldn't cool off no matter what I did. I called maintenance, they said they'd send someone up, and it worked fine when I came back that night. So either the cooling system is on its last legs or they're saving pennies by turning it off during the day when they figure everyone is out anyway.

Oh, and it does have in-room coffee, which is a big plus for me. As hotel coffee goes, it was solidly above average.

So, not my favorite stay in Vegas, but acceptable. If prices were about equal, I'd probably pick somewhere else next time, but for $9 a night, I'd definitely stay there again.