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.
South Reno
Where the Peppermill and the Atlantis sit, along with the Reno-Sparks Convention Center and most of the city's larger-format shopping.
South Reno is where two of the city's best resorts are, and neither is downtown. The Peppermill and the Atlantis both sit on South Virginia Street, roughly ten to fifteen minutes' drive from the Arch, and both are genuinely nicer properties than most of what is in the casino core.
The trade is that you are not walking anywhere. This is an arterial-road part of the city, built around driving, and stepping outside your hotel does not put you in a district.
If you are here for a convention it is the obvious base — the Atlantis connects to the Reno-Sparks Convention Center by skywalk, which in January is not a small thing.
Good for
- The best resort rooms and spas in the city
- Conventions at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center
- Shopping
Getting around
Not walkable in any useful sense. Plan on a car or rideshare for anything beyond your own property.
Should you stay here?
Because the two best hotels in the city are here and neither is downtown. The Peppermill and the Atlantis are a mile apart on South Virginia Street, both are genuinely high-end, and the Atlantis connects to the convention centre by skywalk — which in January is worth real money. Stay here for the room, not the location.
What it costs you
- There is no neighbourhood outside the door. Step outside and you are on a six-lane arterial road.
- Every evening downtown is a rideshare each way, and that adds up across a trip.
- It is the wrong base for a first visit, when the point is usually to see the city rather than the hotel.
Do you need a car?
Effectively required unless you intend to stay on the property. Nothing here is walkable to anything else, and this is also the easiest part of town to park in.
When it is at its best
It has no street life to speak of, at any hour — the activity is inside the resorts. That is consistent rather than disappointing, provided you know it before you book.