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| - What a great stay we had here last weekend for 3 nights!
Our apartment here was nicer than any place that I have ever resided. I could have moved in here permanently, and we were sad to check out.
I do not recommend staying here if you do not have a car as taxis do not station here, you will have to call one and wait. There is no restaurant within safe walking distance and the surrounding neighborhood is "okay" but not safe for unescorted women. Best to have a group of people if you are walking around outside the hotel. But the SLS hotel is right next door with many services. The convention center and monorail is across the street. The Vegas strip is a few blocks aways and easy to navigate to and we had an easy time pulling in and out of many hotels and returning to the Residence Inn.
Also, there is no one here to help you with your bags, and if you take a 2nd floor apartment, you will have to carry your stuff up 2 flights of stairs. (See my photo of the stairs.)
It's like moving into an apartment. Parking is free and easy but it is a walk to the apartment entrance for many units. Have a bag with wheels.
All apartments are smoke free!!
The staff was very accomodating with our requests for late checkout, extra towels, and shampoo, bed size, and getting a pet free room. We wish they would ban pets altogether from this property--it's hard enough maintaining a hotel and keeping a room clean with humans moving in and out regularly, let alone have to deal with a poop factory running around. We usually try to avoid hotels and motels that allow pets.
The towel quality was better than you will find at most hotels, but not as good as a 5-star hotel. They are all branded, "Marriott."
The room was very clean, housekeeping did a very good job, and I was not able to find one stray hair anywhere from a prior guest. I did find some hairs from my partner on my stuff, but that is a personal matter...
They have a small pool that we did not use at all. On Saturday night, we walked by and it was jammed with adults and children all conversing in spanish.
Free breakfast is provided and the best part of it was the OATMEAL!!! The Oatmeal was incredible and the only reason I did not skip breakfast. They also had an excellent make your own waffle (M to F only) and Activia yogurt and bananas. Disappointingly, they did not have any hard boiled eggs! I have stayed in many a free breakfast hotel around the USA and hard boiled eggs are a staple these days at Holiday Inn and Hyatt and other chains. I was disappointed. The fake scrambled yellow eggs and frozen heated breakfast potatoes were inedible and should be immediately discontinued--I have never tasted anything so disgusting at a hotel breakfast.
As a side note, we interestingly watched what folks were eating at breakfast since you can take anything you like. Amazingly, it's the most overweight and obese people that put on their plate the most unhealthy and fattening foods--it was a pure example of what is wrong with the American diet. More education is needed.
Maybe Marriott can set the example for healthy breakfast (and reduced health insurance costs) by eliminating certain foods like the yellow eggs, greasy potatoes, sausage, and bacon, and replacing it with egg whites, more whole grain cereals, gluten free breads, and a bowl of fruit, yogurt to start the day. That along with oatmeal will better our country more than anything Congress has done.
Last, I would replace the cloth sofas with leather ones. It's gross to sit on a cloth sofa you cannot clean and have no idea who did what on?...With leather, housekeeping can take a wet rag and clean it to new for every new resident--much more sanitary.
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