We just got back from another trip to Las Vegas. We've gone once a year for the past several years and always have a great time. We've stayed on the strip a few times, but over the last few years have preferred to stay just off the strip at places like the Orleans, Gold Coast and the South Point. This time we got a great deal on the Main Street Station and decided to give staying downtown a try.

We had been to MSS once before to eat at their good buffet and remembered it as vaguely nice, but I was still a little hesitant to be downtown and away from the Fremont Street Experience at that,. They rate we got for 4 nights was great so we gave it a try.

Location: MSS is just a very short and safe walk from Fremont St and is only a few blocks off the interstate highway that more of less parallels the strip. Getting to strip hotels was quick enough (although traffic in Las Vegas just keeps getting worse every year).

Food: We only ate at the buffet for a couple of meals and it was good, but not as great as I remembered. The buffet room may be the most beautiful in town.

Staff: Everyone we encountered at the hotel was great and very friendly.

Rooms: The rooms are fairly comparable to the other places we've stayed. Very nice, but not overly plush. My one disappointment was not having a coffee pot in the room. Since there is no coffee shop in the hotel (there is one at the California which is connected to the MSS by an elevated walkway) you are forced to leave the hotel or get it from a casino bar.

Casino: We did not play much there but it is very nice and not smoky.

I enjoyed my stay at the Mainstreet Station.Rooms are clean,A/C worked fine.They have there own brewary,Had hot wings at 4:30 AM.What is better than that.We almost always stay downtown and have stayed in almost all casino/hotels there.This one ranks very high(maybe the GN a bit nicer),for the price this is the place you want to stay.

Booked MSS through Hotels.com as we needed to arrive Saturday and leave Monday ,
5 of us stayed and check in was efficient and we got adjoining rooms with a rollaway bed. The rooms were big enough and clean .

The casino was great, really friendly clientele, the buffet great and really cheap with vouchers and the 77 brewery restaurant superb.

Its in a good location not too far from Fremont.

Our only criticism would be that the rooms were very noisy at night but that would not stop me staying there again.

I stayed here with my husband for 3 days. We had a very big room. Both the bedroom and bathroom were clean.

The hotel apparently has been voted as having the best buffet in Vegas. We didn't try the buffets at other places so can't really compare, but we were very impressed with the Main Street buffet.

We really loved the casino too. There was a very friendly vibe about the place and it wasn't pretentious at all (which we found to be the case with other, top-end, casinos). Plus the minimum bet on games such as roulette was lower at Main Street, which suited our budget.

I guess the main drawback to Main Street is that it is not on the Strip, but we didn't find it to be a problem - we either got the Deuce bus (which stops about 1 minute walk away) or drove. (All the attractions on the Strip we went to have parking).

It is within easy walking distance of the Fremont St experience and the many casinos in that area.

I would definitely stay here again.