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| - If you want a nice, relatively quiet place in Vegas, the Vdara is definitely for you. That's generally not what I want in Vegas, but the Aria is so close, it makes that less of a factor.
Lots of cool touches
-doorbells on the rooms (nice to not have to hear people knocking at doors down the hall).
-button inside the room for Do Not Disturb and Housekeeping that changes the color of the light around the doorbell to alert the housekeeping staff
-Market Cafe has good food, although they're pretty slow.
-Master light switch that cuts off all lights in the room
-Automatic shades
-two free 12 oz water bottles left in the room each day by housekeeping.
-housekeeping exceeded expectations with lots of nice little touches (like putting my dirty laundry in a laundry bag).
-overall, the rooms are very nice aesthetically - but I'm more of a functional guy, so this doesn't carry a whole lot of weight with me beyond that it's clean and has a good TV.
Things I didn't like:
-The alarm clock is idiotically designed. Any alarm clock that you can look at for more than 3 seconds and not know how to set the alarm is poorly designed.
-The bed is a bit hard for my taste
-There was a pair of dirty tighty whities sitting on the shelf in the closet when I arrived. Seriously. Although I guess this was good for a few laughs, which is a positive!
-The shampoo/body wash they provide is in a square bottle, and you can't really squeeze them out. Really, really stupid design.
-uber-cheap towels - felt like sand paper. This is just unacceptable for a place trying to be high end. More like an EconoLodge.
-Similarly, really cheap toilet paper. Hey, little things like this are important! =)
-Drinks at the bar are absurdly expensive (typical for the high end places in Vegas). $11 for a Jack and Coke.
-Electrical outlets weren't very well placed - this is inexcusable for a new hotel. There was no outlet were I could plug in my phone and leave it within reach of the bed, and finding an outlet accessible for the iron was impossible without moving stuff around.
Vdara falls into the category of "I'd stay there again, but it's far from my top choice."
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