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| - Bally's is just a basic hotel but in a very good location and the price is very cheap. If you are price conscience, stay here, but just expect to always walk to nearby hotels for beautiful scenery, shopping, etc. If it were a special occasion or I'm showing someone Vegas, I would not go to Ballys. If it was for myself, I'd stay here.
Pros
- Location - right in the middle of the strip, across from Bellagio, walkable to forum shops, walkable to anywhere, it's in the middle.
- Price - Sign up for a Total Rewards card and you can get free nights during weekdays and cheap rates for weekends (~$70)
- Lower limits - Relatively lower limits, it's $5 usually until about 8pm then it goes to $10-15
- Free Shuttle to Rio - Feeling a Seafood Buffet? There is a free shuttle to Rio
- Hotel Staff - Extremely Extremely friendly front desk. Ashlyn at the front desk made every statement like a slot machine win
Cons
- Security - There is no guard to make sure you have a room key to get up to your room. I had prostitutes approach me in my hotel room hallway and I also saw a guy trying a room key on every door. I guess he must've found it on the floor. Good luck trying every room in the hotel. I got at least two pizza togo flyers shoved under the door. Again, if there was security, this wouldn't have happened.
- Phone Connectivity - My AT&T LTE suffered a lot here. It just didn't work. I couldn't check email or chat in the casino. In the hotel room, it worked.
- Internet Speed - You pay $13.99/day and the internet is HORRIBLE. We're talking pages that don't load and youtube video that stops loading. Speedtest shows 2.68mbps download / 0.36 upload (at least when it's working)
- Hotel Noise - Yes, you can hear loud people walking through the hall and you can hear people in their rooms, but I didn't have problems with people waking me up in the morning
- Homeless People - Yes, there are homeless people on the side of the entry.
- Patrons - These are people staying in Vegas at a budget. People are usually dressed in polo shirts or regular sweaters and it kind of takes away from the Vegas image
- Bar - Usually you play a card game at the bar and they give you the drinks on tip. Ballys does not. You pay for your drinks. Some guy was confused when he gave $1 and the worker said "we don't accept tips." It's because they want you to pay $6 for the beers.
- Front Desk is unavailable - I'm being picky here, but I called twice to front desk from my room, once on a Tuesday and once on a Saturday morning, both times I had to wait for someone to become available.
Other Notes
- Rooms - You can't compare these to Wynn or Venetian or Cosmo, etc. The rooms work just fine. Yes, you can hear loud people in the hallway and they can hear you "talking" if you know what I mean
Tip
- Try asking for an upgrade for the room. I just asked nicely and they bumped me up to North Towers
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