What Are the 10 Oldest Hotel-Casinos in Las Vegas?

What are the 10 oldest hotel-casinos in Las Vegas?

Since you specified hotel-casinos, we ranked the order by the year the original property first opened (regardless of whether they’ve been remodeled, expanded, or rebranded since). The criteria were based on the original opening date of the structure that houses the hotel-casino and that the property is still open today.

Golden Gate (after several name changes): January 1906

Railroad Pass: August 1931

Hotel Apache (now part of Binion’s): March 1932

El Cortez: November 1941

Golden Nugget: August 1946

Flamingo: December 1946

Sahara: October 1952

Fremont: May 1956

LINQ: August 1959 (as the Flamingo Capri, then Imperial Palace)

Caesars Palace: April 1966

Honorable-mention number 11 -- Four Queens: June 1966

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Toni Armstrong Jr. Apr-21-2026

What started as Flamingo Capri…

… became Imperial Palace, then (briefly) Quad, now Linq

Hoppy Apr-21-2026

Re: Armstrong

Good Eye

O2bnVegas Apr-21-2026

Motel only

Looks like Flamingo Capri was a motel only, so not a hotel-casino, the 'criteria' to make that "oldest" list, before the IP.

Quad was a baaaddd name.  JMHO.

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Albert Pearson Apr-21-2026

Flamingo Capri

I stayed there many moons ago. They did have a small casino there that I played at.

Henry Apr-21-2026

No ...

- Golden Gate opened as a casino in 1955 and did not become a "hotel-casino" until they bought the hotel above them in the 70s. That does not retroactively make them “oldest hotel-casino.” Even LVA has busted this myth in the past.  

- RR Pass, Golden Nugget didn’t have a hotels until later.  

- Hotel Apache is an old building, that's it. Doesn't qualify at all as a "hotel-casino" 

- Flamingo Capri and the Linq are on the same land, but they're not a continuously operating hotel-casino. 

Oldest HOTEL-CASINOS: El Cortez (1941), Flamingo (1946), Sahara (1952), Fremont (1956), 4 Queens (1966), Caesars (1966), and argue the other 4 after that due to name changes and other details.

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