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| - In my opinion, having a run-down, super-cheap dump like The Quad so centrally-located on the Las Vegas Strip is awesome! My boyfriend and I stayed there over Labor Day weekend and parked our car upon arrival and didn't need to use the car again until it was time to go. Not only is it extremely close to several nice resorts (Venetian, Caesar's Palace - I kept referring to it as Little Caesar's for some reason... I must have been hungry, Harrah's, Flamingo), and several good places to eat (Ruth's Chris, Chipotle, Hash House A Go Go, McDonald's, Panda Express, etc...), but it is home to one of the Vegas Monorail stations, which will take you down the strip for $5 one-way or $12 for an all-day pass.
Our stay was not without complications, that's for sure. We arrived in Vegas at 1 a.m. after a 5-hour drive from Orange County. After waiting in line for an hour to check in, we headed to our room. After being in our room for about a half-hour, it was getting warm, so we turned on the air conditioner. The air conditioner sounded like a train was running through our room! To make a long story short, they could not just bring us keys to a new room - they had to send up a maintenance man to officially declare our room un-livable, then after calls back and forth to the front desk, we were finally given keys to a new room at 4 a.m. What a mess. I was extremely upset. The only compensation they offered was an upgrade to a king suite free of additional charge. If I'd have had any fight left in me at check-out, I would have tried to get our first night 'comped, but Vegas is draining!
Another issue was housekeeping. Our room was nice and clean when we arrived, but they didn't clean once during our 3-night stay, even after we requested that they clean and got a verbal "OK" from the maid. Oh well.
So, the main positives are the location and price, and that's enough to get me to return. This is a great place for people who don't ball quite as hard as they'd like, but still want to be in the middle of all the action.
Also, another positive is when we stayed a while back, we had to leave two nights early due to my daughter being ill. They fully refunded me for those nights when I explained the situation. That was much-appreciated.
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