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| - In all my trips to Vegas, last week was the first time I stayed here. I came with the fams, and my mom had a free room voucher she wanted to use, so alas we ended up here.
Considering we got a free room, registration felt it was necessary to give us a room on the 16th floor with a view of some buildings and part of the pool. the view was whatever to me, but you see access to certain floors are divided among 4 sets of elevators. Access to floors 9-16 were assigned on one of them. If you don't see where I'm getting at, picture this:
Our room is the last floor accessible going up and down. It doesn't help when you're going up and there's others in the elevator that are getting out on floors 9-15. It also doesn't help when going down that there's a stop on every floor going 15-9. It wasn't like that all the time, but 2 to 3 stops in each direction guaranteed. FML.
Besides that, my other annoyance with the Mirage is the volcano show. After hearing about the improvements and watching it at night, I was thoroughly disappointed. Its one of those "That's it?!" moments.
Now onto the good stuff. $5 minimum craps tables for most of the day up until midnight. Jet is a fun nightclub to go to. Apparently I heard Aubrey O'Day from Danity Kane was supposed to be there on Friday night to celebrate her birthday, but I left for home that evening. They did a lot of interior remodeling for their rooms to make it look modern and stuff, almost Ikea status. Well not really, because there's a catalog in the room that tells you exactly what came from where and where to buy that stuff should you feel like copying the room. I'm pretty sure the beds were pillowtops too.
I do enjoy their buffet Cravings, but I was kinda turned off from trying it last week because the food wasn't that great. Maybe because it was a weekday lunch menu. Whenever I see Japonais I chuckle to myself over a name like that for a restaurant. Location is key alone the strip, and the Mirage is in the middle of it all. Short walks to Wynn/Encore, Caesar's, Venetian/Palazzo, and the Fashion Show Mall. There's also a walkway that will lead you to a crosswalk to Harrah's, the side where McDonald's and Chipotle are. Sweet.
Mirage has been around for a long time, and after all this time, it still doesn't disappoint. I'd stay here again.
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