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| - SLS, a small boutique hotel with unique and interesting designs, everything is edgy and different from other luxury hotels in Las Vegas. I was actually happy about a new SLS hotel opening in Vegas, and was looking forward to staying here on this trip. We stayed at one of the biggest suites in Lux tower for 3 nights and 4days, tried pretty much all the restaurants and bars here, actually all the places that are opened during our stay, so I think my review is pretty legit in a lot of ways.
They like drapes, a lot of drapes, on the walls, all over the walls, in the suites, at the spa, everywhere! They don't like bathtubs, NO bathtub in our 955sf SLS king suite at Lux tower? !!! They should change the oversized bath description on their site to oversized dining table about this suite! Seriously, there is only a king bed for 2 people in the bedroom, why on earth would they put a huge dining table for 6 people in the living room? Not to mention the huge couch in living room that can easily fit in 12 thin people, and another couch in bedroom with a small dining table, are we hosting dinner parties in this suite or what?! It's just odd....
Our suite is very spacious with separate living room and bedroom, a guest powder room and a decent sized master bathroom. NO closets at all, just a storage shelve with a few drawers and in-room safe in the bathroom. Did SLS tell Starck to use the minimum cost on remodeling? If they didn't build new closets and bathtubs and walls, the cost must be the lowest for them, the walls were just drapes with pictures on them, that's convenient for sure, just put on drapes all over the walls! It looks like they intended to waste a lot of spaces to make a comfy guest room, hey let's just put the furnitures in and foregt about the rest of the spaces! Easy for them, not so comfy for us hotel guests.... Just saying...
But, I still love Starck's interior design, all whites with popped out pinks, very girly and beautiful, just not very practical, we guests deserve a bathtub for what we pay for a suite!
Because of the small size of this hotel, there is not much going on here. All fine dining restaurants only open for dinner, even the casual dining Ku noodle only opens for dinner? Comeon! Who eats noodles for dinner? It's for lunch! We stayed for 4 days and ran out of places to eat, especially during the day. And I am never gonna stand in line to order pizzas at that pizza joint, just not gonna happen! Since it's winter, there is only LIFE nightclub, Foxtail pool club is closed for the season, same as the pool, guests can still go there but it's just too cold to hang at the pool area.
A little shopping at Fred Segal, different stores at different wings of the hotel, I got something of course, the selections were not as good as the one in Santa Monica. There are only two bars, Monkey bar and Center bar, they share some same specialty cocktails I noticed. There is a screen above the center bar, it plays 50 images that is so cool to look at!
The room service was miss and hit, we ordered room service on Friday night but it never came, they still charged to our room? WTH? Ordered room service again on Sunday night, the options were extremely limited as the lady told me on the phone "it's late night so we don't have that!" Okay.... just flatbread, omelettes and bottle of champagne with OJ to make mimosa! At least the food was pretty delicious, loved the hash browns.
Overall this is a cute luxury boutique hotel, the Lux tower we stayed at was great, close to the monkey bar, spa / gym, and monorail. And it's very private, you need guest keys to get in the elevators. But....will I stay here again? Maybe just maybe for one night, more than that? Very unlikely. The service was disorganized from time to time, not enough restaurants and lounges. Only three fine dining establishments, had to cross out Bazzar meat by Jose Andres cause it sounded like a chamber of horror to me. And above all? NO bathtub in our big suite! It's completely unacceptable!
This hotel just didn't work for me as well as I expected, it's luxury alright, on both prices and servies, but the suite, restaurants and bars just fell a little bit short!
The rates of regular guest rooms in other towers are very low, because they are very small rooms. So if you are looking for luxury hotel at affordable prices, this hotel might work for you!
Ps. Depite how much they love drapes, the drapes don't close completely in our suite bedroom, there is a gap... So bad!
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