When we first started planning a group vacation in Vegas for about 60 people flying in from all across the continent, I thought the whole thing would be a gong-show, and an expensive one at that. The bulk of the crew were staying at the Flamingo with a group rate but my roomie and I managed to stumble across amazing deals at the MGM that completely won us over. $69/night for a double occupancy room (for two of the four nights)? That's better than I can get in my hometown.
The rooms were impeccably clean, offered enough furniture for us to feel like home rather than just two beds and a television, and staff seemed to be at our beck and call. You know, including the night that we ended up back in the room at 5am after a theme party, me with fake eyelashes now gluing one of my eyes shut (we were eighties glam rockers, for the record) and we decided that ordering a pizza would be a GREAT idea. The lady who brought the food up laid water on our bedside tables and seemed quite genuinely interested in our tales of debauchery from the night.
Actually, we ordered that pizza using their iPhone app as we walked down the strip and they were more than happy to accommodate us despite not being in ideal conditions to be on the phone talking to anyone.
Oh - and while I don't completely love the poor lions cooped up in their habitat, it was HILARIOUS when we walked by during a time that they weren't in their pen to see that the MGM has average joe's pop into the habitat and pretend to be lion's in their absence. Amazing.
Well played, MGM. We'll be back.