I love the Flamingo. It's my absolute favorite hotel to stay at on the strip. It's close, it's cheap, they generally take care of everything. This time was not the case.
We came into to town for work and to visit friends and compete in a weekend long tournament plus a couple days and here is how it went down.
check-in 1
1. Check-in from the diamond lounge, service is stellar as usual
2. Get to our room and it is a standard king sized room
3. About 5pm we realize we're situated over carnival court can hear EVERYTHING
4. Our neighbors check in and clearly plan to rage in their room. Awesome.
5. I go to shower and find myself standing shin high in grey water (tub won't drain)
6. I am greeted on my towel by a cockroach...this has never happened before
Check-In 2 go to diamond office and change rooms
1. All is well at check-in again
2. We move rooms
3. Our new room over looks the high roller (cool)
4. Towards the evening hours we realize our neighbors have a dog
- dog whines, barks, yelps for hours after being left alone
5. We come back to the room after a long day of competition and dog is still upset
6. At 4am....our TV turns on blaring to the menu screen
-the remote control doesn't turn it off and pushing power on the tv itself doesn't turn it off so we end up just unplugging it
7. The lamps in the room are either broken or have some sort of short, once you turn the, on, they don't stay on
Day 3
1. Elevator 1 doors will not close
2. Try to take a bath after another long day at competition and THIS TUB won't hold its water. Ironic.
3. After everything else we just give up.
By day 4, doggy couple checked out, reasonable neighbors checked in and we spent the remainder of our trip on the casino floor.
Side note to housekeeping: is it really necessary to slam the vacuum against the walls??? And two...why when we have a do not disturb card out do we get woken up at 9am to make sure we're checking out???
Not my favorite stay here....but it could've been worse. I could've stayed off strip.