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~Excellent location when visiting Las Vegas
~Modern rooms with beautiful views.
~People who have $$$
I seriously thought I had already written this, but clearly I did not do it here... I think it was their survey which means I wrote a lot of stuff I have to re-write now!
We rented a week at Elara from an owner. Its a time share. I have wanted to stay here for some time. I own across the street at Marriott's Grand Chateau and I've heard really nice things about Elara and was ready to see for myself when we spent a week in Vegas for New Year. We arrived on Saturday along with a million of our closest friends and it was a ZOO. The valet parking was FULL and the directions of where to park sent me to a parking area that was also full so I was getting super frustrated and a little hysterical. I'd already dropped my husband off with most of the luggage but was just going a little nuts because all we needed to do was get everything put in the room and we were leaving so a kind valet/bell employee let me leave my car at the curb for 15 minutes. I appreciated that, but I think they could have found a better way to handle this and they should have enough parking!
The Elara is very beautiful and elegant. Its connected to the Miracle Mile shops that are connected to the Planet Hollywood and its just south of the center of the strip, so the location is FANTASTIC. Its probably the best thing about the place.
The rooms are just like what you see in the photos. They are very beautiful and modern. Our room was modern, nicely decorated and clean. The windows are covered with shades that go up and down electronically with switches and the living room shade is hooked up to a projector so you have giant TV. I was looking forward to surprising my husband with this because he is really into tvs and movies and all that, but we were disappointed that you can't really watch movies on the giant screen, only tv. You can't hook up a bluray player, in fact there are no players in the rooms and we didn't bring one because i had already read a review about how it can't be done so I'd called ahead. We were able to hook up Apple tv to the tv, but it would not work with the projector. I know, First World Problems, right?
I paid a little more than our friends so we would have the master bedroom/bathroom with the giant bathtub and the view in there was awesome. The bedroom has the screens that go up and turn the walls into windows. Its really cool. It would be nice if the screens worked independently of each other, but they don't except when they get quirky on you. The bed was comfortable. The bathroom was huge and had nice amenities.
In the kitchen, there were every kind of appliance you need and what I liked was the refrigerator had water and ice in the door so that was nice. We had a large dining room table, perfect for playing games.
We also used the spa at the pool one day, too. As it was winter, they didn't have everything opened, like the bars, but we enjoyed the spa and were able to use the upper level owners spa area which was nice.
Overall, with the exception of not truly getting to enjoy the giant screen tv, it was a nice place to stay. I'm pretty cheap, so it was likely a one time splurge, but I'm glad we did it and we had a great time. But, I'm very happy with my home away from home across the street at Marriott's Grand Chateau.
I did reach out to the Hilton Vacations folks about having a vacation ownership meeting when we returned in March and gave them my contact info, but they never contacted me so I guess they weren't interested in selling to me.
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