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| - Got the room for $37 total off Hotwire on a weekday. No resort fee and no deposit, they didn't even bother taking my card at check-in, so that was the final total.
Initial check-in experience almost sunk the whole thing, some inexplicably angry and completely unapologetic Muppet told me the room wasn't ready at 3, told me to come back in 30 minutes, then I come back and they try to tell me it's going to be to like 4:30 before I can check in. On a weekday with no one else around at all. Thankfully another lady jumped in and upgraded me to a Klondike tower room, which is really what should have been done in the first place -- don't tell obviously exhausted people to go walk/drive around in the 105 degree heat for an hour when they arrive at check-in time! Nice save 2nd lady, you saved this place from a 1* and probably an apoplectic scene at the desk.
Anyway, once past the desk, everything was really pretty good, especially for $37. The only downside to the Klondike room was that it had a conjoining door. But I didn't hear anything through it all night and slept like a baby, thankfully. Also no wall noise or stomping idiots above me either! Nice fan for white noise helped there too. Fire map on the door indicates only about half the rooms toward the middle of each floor have these doors, so you can maybe avoid them by asking for a room toward either end of the hall.
Room was surprisingly big, good TV, everything reasonably clean, even had a mini-fridge and a coffee maker. Only downside is that no resort fee means no free wifi -- 12 or 13 bucks a day for that, yikes.
Not gambling at all atm but the in-house restaurant has the same good deals on all sorts of junk food found over at the Boulder location. Walk just a block down to the intersection with Charleston and it's like cheap food paradise down there too.
No idea about whatever Hotwire Room they were initially trying to make me wait 2 hours to get into would have been like, but the Klondike room is great if you can snag it for a good rate.
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