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| - Went to the Mandalay Bay for my Bachelor Party. The hotel is superb and the rooms were quite nice. The Rum Jungle club downstairs keeps you rocking into the wee-hours of the morning. I have to be honest, though, I'd probably give the whole place 1 star if it hadn't been for the fact that, it being my Bachelor Party, I didn't have to shell out too much money during the weekend.
The pool's a total joke. If you're going to charge hundreds of dollars for a room, you have to provide adequate numbers of chairs for the pool. We had to resort to putting our stuff next to the edge of the pool and just staying in the water the whole time. Poolside service was nonexistant. Now of course they have the Moorea Beach Club, which charges admission.... Fricken' $50 per guy, no less.... So we ask the guy at the door if there are any chairs available: "I dunno," he replies cooly. "Well," we said, "Can one of us at least go and take a peek to see if you have seating for the five of us?" "Nope," he replies. "So let me get this straight," my best man asked, "We have to pay $250 just to find out whether or not we can get chairs in there?" "Yup." Clearly, Mr. Doorman's vocabulary was as extensive as our President's. I'm secretely hoping that the buffoon gets a bad case of skin cancer (he seemed to be well on his way, anyhow) in the near future for treating hotel guests so rudely.
One might say all hotels are like that, but having been at the Paris Paris, I can tell you with certainty that I got a comparable (not quite as nice) room for $129/night at Paris and there was PLENTY of seating around the pool.
Gambling here was fun... but either I'm really cheap or I just think that this place was not even worth close to what it cost... In fact, as I'm updating this review, I realize 3 stars is way too generous for these jerks and I just took back one. 2 stars is all these rip-off artists deserve from my cheap ass.
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