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| - My wife and I stayed here last weekend as kind of a getaway. We've been to Las Vegas several times but have never stayed on this end of the strip. We figured that staying in the pyramid would be kind of cool.
We were wrong.
Nothing to do with the hotel, but our trip got off to a bad start. We took the shuttle from the airport and the driver ended up giving our bag to someone on a stop before us. When we got to our hotel, he pulled a bag out that clearly wasn't ours. He assured us that he'd get the bag back, got our number, and then left. I called the shuttle line to file a complaint and then wondered if he'd ever be able to find those people. It turned out alright and an hour later we got our bag back. Nothing missing and probably was never opened. This is the first time I've had this issue with the shuttle. Nevertheless, not a good start.
The hotel smells of stale cigarette smoke. Every hotel allows smoking but the quality of the filtration system is what counts. This one was sorely lacking. The room was even worse. It was either a former smoking room (they're all smoke free now) or the filtration system just pipes that $hit directly into the rest of the systems that also condition the room. Or people ignore that they can't smoke in the rooms. All are plausible.
The room itself reminded me of what I might get if I stayed at a Motel 6 or something similar. It was incredibly basic. There's no hint of luxury anywhere. The bed was not comfortable caused my back to ache. The linens looked like they'd been using the same ones since the 90's when the hotel opened. The bathroom was very basic, the water didn't drain properly in the shower, and everything was in need of an update badly.
The entire hotel needs an update. The Titanic and Bodies exhibits have been there since I've been going to Vegas, which is more than 10 years. The hotel theme isn't bad, but they really need to reimagine the entire thing. They're getting left behind very quickly.
Oh...the elevators. They're horrible rickety old death traps. They sway from side to side, the doors are about to fall off, they're dirty, and they're loud. I feel like they are super slow or so fast that they pass their destinations and have to double back. And only about half of them work. If they had personalities, I believe they would be bitter old baby boomers screaming at you to get off their lawn.
I said all that and then I'm going to say this: I shouldn't be surprised. This is a budget strip hotel. It seems to have picked up where the Sahara left off before it was imploded. I never stayed there but I visited.
Right now you have to be asking yourself something: Are there any positives?
Why, yes there are. There are two, but I'll give you a list of three things. But wait...that math doesn't add up. Yeah, well...half credit for two of them.
1) It's cheap. Real cheap. Someday I'll actually learn from my cheap ways. Maybe.
2) The Tacos & Tequila restaurant has some decent street style tacos.
3) The poker room isn't half bad.
I'll leave it at that. This review is quite long and by now, I'm probably talking to myself.
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