Casino Royale Walking Tour
6 discoveries Audio narration
Casino Royale’s low frontage on July 25, 2015, with the separate Venetian and Palazzo towers behind it. Neighboring signs and advertised prices record that period.
Casino Royale’s casino history begins with the Nob Hill, which opened in July 1978. After a closure in 1990, the casino reopened under Tom Elardi as Casino Royale on January 1, 1992. Its hotel has an earlier history. Those dates describe different stages of the small property at 3411 South Las Vegas Boulevard.
The motel beside the Nob Hill
The hotel accommodation began as the Caravan Motor Hotel in 1964 and later used the Travelodge affiliation. The Nob Hill casino opened beside that motel and a Denny’s restaurant. Claudine Williams and partners associated with the nearby Holiday Casino operated it. The later hotel-casino complex brought together elements that had not all opened as one integrated resort.
Closure, reopening and a common facade
The Nob Hill closed in November 1990 when its lease ended. The Elardi family remodeled it before the 1992 Casino Royale reopening. Further work during 1993–1995 enlarged the casino, added parking and connected the casino, hotel and restaurant behind a coordinated facade. The European-style frontage helped give the low buildings a common identity beside the Strip’s much larger resorts.
The Elardi years
The Elardi period also intersected with the bitter labor dispute at the family’s Frontier resort. Casino Royale faced picketing because of that shared ownership; the Frontier and Casino Royale were nevertheless different properties. Las Vegas Advisor’s 2022 retrospective places the family’s business history in that wider context. The dispute should not be mistaken for evidence that the two casinos occupied the same site.
The Best Western affiliation
A Best Western affiliation added another name to the hotel operation in 2012. That was not a newly opened casino. The Advisor account distinguishes the hotel association from the Elardi land and gaming interests. The current operator presents the property as Best Western Plus Casino Royale, combining hotel accommodation with casino activity on a comparatively compact Strip site.
A small property beside large resorts
The July 2015 photograph makes that scale visible: Casino Royale’s low frontage sits in front of the separate Venetian and Palazzo towers. The tall tower and neighboring restaurant signs are not all part of Casino Royale. Advertised prices and businesses in this dated view are historical. The map locates the current hotel-building area, rather than the precise outline of every former motel or the original Nob Hill casino.
Read the full historySources and context
The motel, Nob Hill and Casino Royale chronology
History sections: 1964 Caravan motel, July 1978 Nob Hill, November 1990 lease-related closure, January 1, 1992 reopening and 1993–1995 facade/parking work; also 1990s picketing. Secondary synthesis read; original newspaper references are not represented as independently read.
The Elardi family and the hotel affiliation
August 27, 2022 account: former Nob Hill rebranding, Tom Elardi, 2012 Best Western hotel association and distinction from land/gaming interests; Frontier labor dispute context. Ages and forecasts in the retrospective are not treated as current facts.
The operating Casino Royale hotel and casino
Operator home page read October 20, 2026: Best Western Plus identity, 3411 South Las Vegas Boulevard and hotel/casino activity. Stale Mirage wording, game descriptions, rates and historic sign offers are not adopted as present configuration or advice.
The dated source photograph
Supercarwaar’s own-work photograph taken July 25, 2015, published on Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0. Casino Royale is the low frontage; the Venetian and Palazzo towers and neighboring restaurant signs are separate.
The representative current building-area location
Named and addressed building geometry retrieved October 20, 2026. Existing qualified point lies within the mapped building. Current geometry does not prove original historical walls, a visitor entrance, the full grounds or access.
The 1978 opening refers to the Nob Hill casino, not the earlier Caravan motel or the January 1992 Casino Royale reopening. The early sequence is supported by a cited secondary chronology; its original newspaper items have not all been independently inspected.
Earlier businesses and later combined frontage do not establish identical boundaries across every period. The qualified map identifies the current building area, not an entrance, full grounds or surveyed original Nob Hill walls.
The photograph shows July 2015 signs and neighbors. It does not verify current prices, businesses, table-game configuration or visitor access. The Venetian and Palazzo are separate properties.
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