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| - As always, my numerical rating is as the philosophers say, relativized to a scheme. This is a MOTEL. It's a cheap place and I am now aware there are ways to stay at better places for not that much more.
BUT as motels go, this one rocks. The people at the desk, the maintenance staff, the managers are all so so nice.
The room was immaculate and there were no roaches, as others have suggested. Sometimes these motels have management/ownership turnovers so perhaps there used to be roaches but my room is big, clean and while lavender paint would not be my decor choice, it's a perfectly adequate place to stay on the cheap (59/room on a Saturday night).
The linens are just fine and so is the mattress. I slept great!
It's by the Encore and there is a Walgreens close by.
Cabs in Vegas are offensively priced and driven by utterly miserable and unapologetic people, not just in my experience yesterday but in the view of a dozen employees at various establishments with whom I spoke at length.
YOU NEED A CAR IN VEGAS unless you plan to stay on the strip. Car rental is dirt cheap and I will never come back to Vegas without one. But the airport transport is great: 13.50 RT for a shuttle to the Strip hotels/motels.
The "breakfast" is not really a breakfast, as others have noted. And the coffee faintly resembles bilge water, but that's true at Burger Heaven on Manhattan's Upper East Side and a lot of fine dining restaurants both in LA and NYC.
I could not be more pleased with this motel.
Note: the pool is not heated, which is unfortunate because it's an old pool with a true deep end (8 feet). Liability issues have driven hotels and motels at all price points to build shallower and shallower pools. But since hotel pools are too short to do laps, treading water vigorously is your only option on the road if you don't pay a guest fee at a club or gym nearby.
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