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| - So yeah, it's pretty pricey, but as far as pricey hotels go, this is the first one I've stayed at that I walked away thinking, "yep, that was totally worth the price". Granted, I got two free nights free from myvegas (just paid the resort fee), but I did still pay for Saturday night, which was a couple hundred dollars - wanted to fly in Saturday, and didn't feel like fiddling with having to stay somewhere else the first night, so I just ate the cost. Arguably worth it, which is something I don't generally say about hotels that pricey.
I was impressed with a number of things staying here: the staff was super friendly, checkin and checkout were super fast and painless, even the cheapest room was still enormous (featuring both a couch and a full desk, a king-sized bed, a giant bathtub *and* a shower, and a dining room area we never used, but still), it was classy as *frack*, with nice art all over, both in the room and around the hotel, there were zero issues with the wifi, and of course, it's hard to beat the location (right off the strip, so it's not full of loud drunk people or smokers, but *right* off the strip, so you can walk out of the hotel and be on the strip in maybe 5 minutes. A bit hard to figure out *how* at first, but it is possible - you walk out, to the left, down some stairs, and in through the Cosmopolitan parking lot, or across and through Aria, depending which way you're going.)
I even felt entirely like, apart from the ubiquitous resort fee (just part of the cost of Vegas hotels at this point), they weren't trying to nickel and dime you, which is highly refreshing for hotels at this price point - base internet supported unlimited devices and was entirely fast enough, they gave you free bottled water, and there was a proper-sized complimentary fridge for your use that you didn't have to sneak stuff into around the stupid expensive crap in the minibar. Alright, so the tablet they put in your room instead of a booklet to tell you about the hotel, wakes up in the morning and asks if you want room service (no thanks), but it isn't *annoying* about it, so I'll let that slide. And yes, they do charge for parking now, though it's comped if you get their credit card, which, if I were in Vegas by car often, I'd probably just get the stupid credit card, but whatever. Not that many other major cities have ever had a culture of free parking in hotels, so I can't fault them too much for that either.)
It wasn't totally perfect, though. Most notably, while the bathroom door being frosted glass instead of wood looked super modern, it was a *terrible* design choice from a usability perspective - that frosted glass is pretty much the same frosted glass they use around lights, i.e. you turn the bathroom light on, and it illuminates the whole bed area, which is *not* so great if your other half is trying to sleep. Speaking of, the blackout curtains they used had gaps in between, so they totally did not function as proper blackout curtains, which was kind of lame.
And I did not feel remotely like I got what I paid for with the small upgrade (was about ten bucks) to get a "view of the Bellagio fountain" room - I could technically see it, but on the 15th floor, I would call that view "obstructed". I expected it to be pretty far away, but I didn't expect it to be about 2/3s blocked by the back of Cosmopolitan, so that was kinda lame. So yeah, I'd say, if you're thinking about spending a couple hundred bucks a night in Vegas, you could do a lot worse than to stay here, and probably not that much better, but... don't bother with the view upgrade, if my room is anything like normal, view-wise.
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