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I have been heading to vegas now for well over a decade and have stayed at many properties, I will never set foot in the Rio again, I am a poker player and have considered the world series of poker, but now I think not!
I realize that Las Vegas is the desert, but seriously lets throw some humidity in the air please, dry smokey stale nasty! My room was dated, which is fine, but the air was even unbreathable in my room! I literally would start to gag when I walked through the gaming floor! Here I sit back in Chicago with a stuffed nose a sore throat and an overall disdain about me!
Rio could offer me 2 weeks free stay in their best room and I would say NO!
The sad part is, the staff was relatively nice and accommodating; all things considered...
The poker room dealers and floor managers were great, clearly the company shifts their dealers from property to property, I recognize most of the dealers from Caesar's Palace. Even the action in the poker room was fun and exciting, but all that goes out the window when you can't breathe... (guessing they rotate because no one wants to be stuck in that nasty air every day)
My coworkers experienced the exact same thing so I know it was not just me, One of my coworkers woke up with bleeding noses and feeling hung over when he was not even drinking or smoking...
Having stayed at dozens of properties in Las Vegas this is not the norm, far from it in fact! At the top of my List is the Renaissance Las Vegas (non-gaming property), but also have enjoyed Caesars, Bellagio, The Hotel @ Mandalay Bay, here is the kicker even the Imperial Palace which last I stayed (2 years ago) was super out dated, still manages a cleaner more humidified breathing environment!
I was so devastated by the air quality I couldn't even complain because I knew whatever they would offer me would be in that hotel and every minute I spent in that environment would have just made me that much sicker!
(I gave it 2 stars not 1 because of the service and great poker room staff)
Im thinking if you are a heavy smoker, then this may not bother you, but even if you smoke, that does not compensate for the exceptionally dry air....
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