Four Queens Shows Off $24 Million Hotel Tower Renovation

By Scott Roeben, on November 03 2025
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A downtown classic, Four Queens, unveiled its freshly renovated North Tower, a project that cost $24 million.

That’s the average cost of renovating a slushy drink stand on the Las Vegas Strip, but in Four Queens dollars, that’s a metric hell-ton.

We were there for the unveiling hoopla, which featured the requisite politicians glad-handing, official proclamations, day drinking and a peek at the new Four Queens rooms and suites.

Fun fact: The Four Queens was developed by Ben Goffstein and named after his four daughters—Michele (Queen of Spades), Benita (Queen of Clubs), Faith (Queen of Hearts) and Hope (Queen of Diamonds). You’ll need to know this for a callback we make in our closing paragraph.

The newly-rejuvenated rooms at Four Queens offer some sweet amenities, including new plumbing, heating and air conditioning systems; sound-dampening windows; bigger bathrooms; sound-dampening windows; new carpeting and furnishings; sound-dampening windows; closet organizers and vanities; sound-dampening windows; 50-inch TVs; sound-dampening windows; coffee makers, mini fridges and safes; and also sound-dampening windows.

We cannot emphasize the sound-dampening windows enough. It’s right on Fremont Street, the volume level of which has increased dramatically over time, to the point where bleeding ears are the new drunken stupors along this famed tourist destination.

ChatGPT’s opinion: “The decor of this Four Queens suite feels clean and modernized but safely neutral; muted grays, dark woods and geometric patterns that aim for contemporary comfort without risking too much personality. It’s more ‘updated downtown classic’ than ’boutique Vegas flair.'”

Anyway, work on the North Tower rooms and suites started in June 2024, also known as “more than a year ago.”

Room renovations can take a minute, especially in older buildings.

The owner of Four Queens, Terry Caudill, was expected to be at the ribbon cutting, but wasn’t feeling well, so had to miss the event. He also owns Binion’s under the umbrella of TLC Casino Enterprises.

We were initially annoyed when this woman blocked our view of the remarks from public officials, but then we realized public officials are really, really boring and also this is the amazing Nikki Bowers, on the digital content team for the City of Las Vegas (formerly of Channel 8) and she’s awesome, so bygones.

Speaking of hotel towers, the hotel tower at Binion’s has been closed since Dec. 2009. Hotel Apache (with a dainty 81 rooms) opened in July 2019.

Unlike on The Strip, there’s more demand than supply for rooms downtown, so it’s wild the Binion’s hotel tower remains closed after all this time. The reasons are complicated, but mainly involve the massive cost of removing asbestos. Because Binion’s doesn’t own the land upon which it sits, finding investment is impossible.

So, Caudill works with the hand he’s been dealt, fixing what’s fixable and improving what’s improvable.

Namely, the rooms at Four Queens.

The standard room has beds. We’d share the official photos, but we haven’t seen any yet.

Longtime Four Queens fans will appreciate the renovations more than regular people because they saw how beaten up the previous rooms had gotten. Not bad, but definitely in need of some love.

The bathrooms really needed a refresh. We’re pretty sure the old rooms had tubs, which really shouldn’t be a thing in hotels due to their similarities to petri dishes.

Nothing too jaw-dropping, but the rooms at Four Queens have come a long way.

The new Four Queens rooms and suites are nice, but as with so many things, a qualifier is necessary: “Nice for downtown.” Just keeping it real so your expectations are set correctly. These rooms and suites are a far cry from similar accommodations on The Strip. Downtown, Circa is still the gold standard.

Here’s a walkthrough of the best suite at Four Queens.

Four Queens keeps things old-school, with value as the driver.

For whatever reason, Four Queens downplayed the fact it never charges resort fees. That probably should’ve been the headline, followed by everything else.

People really, really hate resort fees.

Also new at Four Queens, the Some Like It Hot Coffee Bar, located in the hotel lobby.

But Four Queens isn’t really about all that.

Four Queens is about the people. Some of these folks have worked there 50 years. Other companies talk about employees being “family,” but the family feel isn’t just a talking point at Four Queens.

It’s not really about the rooms.

Four Queens is unpretentious, focuses on the simple needs of longtime guests (it’s about the gambling and drinking), offers generous perks for loyalty club members (including offering cash back for play) and gives off a vibe you won’t really find elsewhere in Las Vegas: Earnestness.

Four Queens isn’t flashy. It’s basic and beloved.

Nothing is being innovated at Four Queens, or reinvented. Nothing is “immersive,” thankfully.

Even the Four Queens Web site is a throwback. (They actually spent a good amount of money revamping their site, but they were scrod by a shady Web designer who didn’t even make the site mobile-friendly.)

Oh, relax. Everyone at Four Queens knows teasing is our love language. Besides, would you rather have an updated, 21st century Web site or a cheaper room with no resort fee? ‘Nuff said.

Four Queens is reliably Four Queens.

Four Queens is what Vegas used to be.

Who needs a new-fangled Web site, anyway?

Admittedly, our photos of the rooms weren’t great, but here’s an attractive, backlit woman distributing Champagne.

Yes, the prices have gone up since yesteryear, but costs have gone up (it’s the labor). Why is Las Vegas always being criticized for not living up to its own yesteryear? The prices are half of what they are on The Strip, so let’s lay off the yesteryearing.

Other offerings at Four Queens: Hugo’s Cellar (where every lady gets a rose), Magnolia’s Veranda (a throwback casino cafe), Wana Taco (the aforementioned underrated grab-and-go food for your drunchies), Chicago Brewing Company (great food ruined by cigar smoke), comedy-magician Mike Hammer and Silver Strike slot machines.

Silver Strikes are a whole thing.

The lack of redemptions for this Silver Strike coin was called “startling and unprecedented” by Four Queens officials.

The new rooms and suites at Four Queens are a worthy addition to downtown’s room inventory.

Our friends at Four Queens were beaming with pride at the media event, and for good reason. The team did a fine balancing act of updating its room product without ticking off guests during the one-year renovation process. They brought some new without sacrificing the old-school charm of the place.

Another fun fact: We’re busy working on a story about who owns what land under casinos along Fremont, and this is how many parcels are beneath Four Queens, most leased from others, including a good number of dead people. More to come.

Four Queens is a reminder there is still faith and hope Las Vegas casinos can deliver friendliness and value.

There is also still Michele and Benita, but that doesn’t really fit our narrative, so please move along.