Main Street Station

The Main Street Station, in Las Vegas

The Main Street Station is a hotel-casino of Downtown Las Vegas with a Victorian theme, nicknamed 'the best kept secret of Las Vegas' for its decor of antiques and woodwork. The Las Vegas audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this establishment with the atmosphere of the end of the nineteenth century, that plunges the visitor into the golden age of the American railway.

The journey into the Victorian time

Behind the discreet façade of the Main Street Station hides a true journey into time. Opened a first time in 1978 under another name, the hotel knew several closures and rebirths before reopening definitively in 1996. It has since been nicknamed the best kept secret of Las Vegas, so much its charm contrasts with the glitz of the great resorts. From the entrance, the decor plunges the visitor into the America of the end of the nineteenth century: dark woodwork, stained-glass windows, mouldings, imposing chandeliers, everything evokes the Victorian era and the golden age of the railway, the theme of the establishment. The casino shelters a remarkable collection of authentic antiques and historical objects, scattered throughout the building like in a living museum: you find there chandeliers coming from operas and palaces, old stained-glass windows, sculptures, and even unusual pieces like a private wagon having belonged to personalities, or a fragment of the Berlin Wall, transformed in an unexpected way. The Main Street Station also has its own microbrewery, the Triple Seven, renowned by the lovers of craft beer, as well as restaurants with a careful atmosphere. More intimate and authentic than the casinos of the Strip, it seduces the travellers in search of a Las Vegas of human scale and charged with history. A Victorian hotel-casino and a cabinet of curiosities, the Main Street Station is a fine stop of the discovery of Las Vegas.

What to see

Here you discover a hotel-casino with a Victorian theme, nicknamed the best kept secret of Las Vegas, whose decor of dark woodwork, stained-glass windows and chandeliers evokes the end of the nineteenth century and the golden age of the railway; it shelters a collection of authentic antiques, including a fragment of the Berlin Wall, and its Triple Seven microbrewery, in an intimate atmosphere charged with history. The Main Street Station is a cabinet of curiosities of Las Vegas. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Main Street Station lies in Downtown Las Vegas, near Fremont Street, reachable on foot. It is a hotel-casino in activity, open continuously, whose access to the casino is reserved for adults; restaurants and microbrewery follow their own hours. You discover it during a walk in Downtown.

Why is the Main Street Station of Las Vegas called the best kept secret?

Because its Victorian charm, more intimate and authentic, contrasts with the glitz of the great resorts of the Strip; this hotel-casino, reopened in 1996, plunges the visitor into the end of the nineteenth century and the golden age of the railway, with woodwork, stained-glass windows, chandeliers, a collection of antiques including a fragment of the Berlin Wall and its Triple Seven microbrewery.

Where is the Main Street Station in Las Vegas?

In Downtown Las Vegas, near Fremont Street, in the United States.