Downtown Reno
Circus Circus Reno
The family option downtown: a free circus midway above the casino floor, and the starting point for most of Reno's bar crawls.
Reno
Where to stay
There is one trade-off in Reno lodging and everything else follows from it: the best rooms are not downtown, and downtown is the only part of the city you can walk around.
Stay downtown and you can leave the car, walk to the river, the ballpark and three connected casinos, and get home at 2am on foot. Stay in South Reno and you get a materially nicer hotel and a spa, and you drive or rideshare to everything. Neither is wrong. Pick the one that matches the trip.
Downtown Reno
About this area →Genuinely walkable end to end, roughly twenty minutes north to south. Note that minors cannot cross a casino gaming floor in Nevada, which occasionally makes two adjacent buildings a longer walk than the map suggests.
- Downtown Reno
Club Cal Neva
A downtown gaming floor with no hotel attached — cheap, unpretentious, and the closest thing left to what Reno's casino core used to feel like.
- Downtown Reno
Eldorado Resort Casino
The Carano family's original Reno property, and still the best place to eat inside a downtown casino.
- Downtown Reno
J Resort
The newest property in Reno and the anchor of the Neon Line District — the one downtown casino most visitors have never heard of.
- Downtown Reno
Silver Legacy Resort Casino
The one with the mining rig under a white dome. Downtown's most recognisable interior, and skywalk-connected to two other properties.
- Downtown Reno
Whitney Peak Hotel
Downtown's non-gaming, non-smoking hotel, with a climbing wall up the outside of the building and the Arch at the door.
The Riverwalk District
About this area →Entirely walkable, and the most pleasant walking in the city centre.
South Reno
About this area →Not walkable in any useful sense. Plan on a car or rideshare for anything beyond your own property.
- South Reno
Atlantis Casino Resort Spa
The Peppermill's closest rival, skywalk-connected to the convention centre — which in January is the whole argument.
- South Reno
Peppermill Resort Spa Casino
The best resort in Reno, and it is not downtown. Family-owned, Tuscan-themed, with the spa that everyone else is measured against.
East Reno
About this area →Not walkable. Everything here assumes a vehicle.
Sparks
About this area →Victorian Square itself is walkable. Getting to downtown Reno is a fifteen-minute drive; it is not a walk.
Out of town
Off the interstate rather than in a neighbourhood. Worth considering if you are driving in from California, or if being nearer Tahoe than downtown matters more than being able to walk anywhere.