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| - Normally, I write big, long reviews, even on "meh" places. The Monte Carlo was so thoroughly "meh" that I'm just going to give the Cliffs Notes version.
Huge lines to check in. Took over half an hour. Only half the desks were staffed. The desk staff were very nice and very professional, though.
What kind of a hotel has a pool area that closes at 6 PM, and has only one hot tub for a pool area that has a capacity of many, many hundreds? Sure, Las Vegas gets hot... from May through August. The rest of the year (as when I was there, in April), I want to use the dang hot tub and not cuddle with the scary man in the Speedo next to me.
6 PM. What a total joke. I'm sure you want me on the casino floor, but sometimes, I just want to sit in the pool or the hot tub. Jeez.
We booked a room with a king bed, got up there to find two queens. After an eight-hour drive down, too exhausted to wait in that stupid line again to get it fixed, so we spent our anniversary getaway in separate beds. Awesome.
No wifi? $20 daily hotel fee (thinly veiled Internet charge)? Boo. Boo boo boo.
Toilets flush like airplane toilets but even more noisily and ferociously. Shouldn't weird me out, but it did.
Water got hot fast. That was nice. Shower heads were low, though.
They don't use covers on their comforters, just a sheet on top and bottom, so of course that doesn't stay more than one night. Annoying.
Location is great, of course. It's on the strip, after all.
Our room was pretty quiet. Nice.
Restaurants and shops didn't attract me for even a moment. Neither did any of their in-house shows. Bummer. Good thing we had a car.
In all, a blah stay--it was everything we did outside the hotel that made it a great vacation.
I'm still bugged about the pool hours. Enough that coupled with everything else, I will never, ever go back.
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