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| - I spent three nights at The Orleans with my husband and some friends for the VLV Rockabilly Weekender. It was our first time in Vegas, so I've never stayed in one of the mega hotels on the Strip.
Things I liked:
- The price. I don't remember what we paid per night, but it totaled about $200 for all three nights.
- The room was huge. The bed was huge. There was a phone in the bathroom. There was a bathtub - I LOVE having bathtubs while on a trip.
- Free shuttle to the Strip. (It's not far, so a cab could be reasonable, too)
- I didn't use the pool, but had a perfect view from my room. It looked really nice, spacious, with some chairs and grassy areas. Looked clean, too.
- Bowling alley!
- There is a convenience store type place with some souvenirs and giant cans of beer, and a liquor store.
- Decent drink prices.
- We didn't have a car, but there is a huge parking lot.
Things I didn't like:
- The main floor especially was incredibly smokey. I'm a non-smoker, and after about a day in the hotel my throat started to hurt pretty badly and feel kind of inflamed. We were walking around some other hotels on the Strip and they seemed WAY better ventilated - I could hardly notice the smoke in some of them. The Orleans should really try to improve on this somehow. It was disgusting.
- The front desk person upon check-in: She was polite, but she didn't give us any information other than our room number. It would have been nice if she told us about the dining options, how to get to different places (pool, bowling alley, movie theatre, etc.), internet, etc. I'd never been to that hotel before, how was I supposed to know?
- Cell reception in most areas of the hotel (for calls and texts) was terrible. Really inconvenient if you're meeting up with people, etc.
- Some jerks down the hall from us decided to hang out with their door open when we were trying to sleep, talking really loudly. I was just kind of surprised at just how loud it sounded in our room. I mean, they were a few doors down and it sounded like they were standing on our bed.
- $12.99 a day for spotty wi-fi.
We ate at the Mexican restaurant a couple of times, which was pretty decent. I think sub-par Mexican in the SW USA is still better than "good" Mexican food in Northern Alberta. We decided to have breakfast at Fuddrucker's for about $8 each rather than getting the $14.99 buffet. I still can't get over how much butter they gave us for one slice of bread, but it was alright. The food court also had a Subway and Sbarro, and there were a couple of other restaurants we didn't try.
I don't gamble, so I don't know if the selection of games and machines was good or not.
I would have no problem staying at The Orleans if I were to go to Viva again, but if not I would probably opt to try out staying on the Strip.
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