I actually had pretty low expectations for Aria after reading all the non-rave reviews on yelp. I stayed here only because we got a great deal. If you are an MGM club card holder you can stay $109 weekdays and $139 weekends. Our total for 2 nights was $311 which is a pretty good deal consiering you get to try out a brand new hotel. The hotel istself is pretty nice. I love all the wood work in the hotel and its pretty easy to navigate.
We encountered our first problem when we were checking in. So 4 of us stayed in one room and we called to book 2 queens. When we checked in the lady insisted that they only had one king available and that when you book a room, you are not guaranteed to get two queens. WTF? I have never heard of this before. Then she went on to say that all the hotels in vegas are like this.. ummm NO! I've stayed in multiple hotels in vegas and never have I heard of anything like that. She than asked us to upgrade for $400 per night to a room that does have two queens. WOW! i was floored haha. After a very long discussion, we asked to talk to the manager. We waited about 20 minutes to talk to the manager and she pretty much said the same thing to us. By that time we were pretty pissed as it was taking us 30 minutes to check into a room that we didn't book. All in all, we finally got her to "find" us a room with two queen beds. horrible!
when we got to the room, all the decoration pillows were on the floor, not on the bed. hmm.. we opened the window sheers only to find bird crap and water stains all over our window. We had a great view...
The only thing great about Aria, is their buffet and the fun we had making fun of everything bad that went wrong!!
p.s be prepared to walk a lot! from the elevator to your room, its quite a distance!!! =P