The California is a festive place filled with Hawaiian shirts and balloons. This friendly facility actually provides sofas and armchairs in the casino area -- an unheard-of luxury in this town. Players can join the Players Gold club (which is also good at Main Street Station and the Fremont Hotel & Casino) and amass points toward gifts and cash prizes, or participate in daily slot tournaments.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Las Vegas 2009, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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