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| - I read a number of reviews (both good and bad) before deciding to stay here on a brief 40 hour Las vegas hiatus a few weeks ago. I had never stepped foot inside the Las vegas City Center since it's completion in 2009 even though I visit the city/Strip three times a year.
This is a nice hotel for many of the reasons a myriad of other posters have noted (clean, non-smoking, non-gaming, quiet, nice rooms).
I stayed in the City Corner Suite which has 1 King, a pull out sofa bed, separate shower and bathtub, kitchenette (with stovetop, fridge, microwave), dining table, two flatscreens, and a washer and dryer unit.
The fridge/freezer has an ice maker, so if you like to relax and get plastered before or after you donate multiple hundreds to the local economy, it's a nice, convenient perk.
The negative regarding the room is that you apparently need to bring all of your own connections to whatever entertainment devices you would like to use, if need be. I'm assuming the hotel probably has USB cables and audio/video chords if you ask, but it's odd in this day and age that there isn't some sort of audio-steroe-DVD player in the actual room. I had my ipod and the girl at the desk told me there was a cable to connect it to the TV in the work desk, but I couldn't tell you where the actual connection was as I looked for a solid 15 minutes (and this was well prior to being plastered).
They also give you a couple Keurig coffee's, but I didn't have a coffee maker in the room. Again, I'm sure you can get one if you ask.
There are two coffee cups and some random cocktail glasses supplied in the room, but no pots, pans, plates, utensils.
That's just nitpicking there and none of the above comments bothered me at all because, again, it's a nice room, the bed's comfortable and it has a unique layout.
As far as the 'convenience' of the hotel, I find some of the reviews laughable where people say it's off the beaten path and it's confusing to get in and out of. My guess is that, if you're driving there, it could be a bit challenging, but you just have to take a ramp where the arrows point up to the two hotels (Vdara and Aria).
If you're walking around (like most human beings do who visit this city), you're 8-10 minutes from the Strip if you walk through either the Bellagio or The Cosmopolitan. The Bellagio is literally connected to Vdara while you have to walk outside, down a flight of stairs and across one lane of traffic to get to The Cosmopolitan. There's also a tram that's in between the Bellagio and Vdara, but I'm not sure where the hell it goes to. I think it goes as far south as Monte Carlo, but not positive.
You can reach the southern end of the Strip by walking outside and through the Aria, which is a three minute walk away. I'd say it will take you twenty minutes to walk from the Vdara Lobby to, say, the NYNY (which I did three times). So it's really no big deal at all unless you're extremely high maintenance (sorry fellow reviewers).
If you're looking for a change of pace from the regular Strip scene (as I was), give this place a shot. You could do much, much worse and I thought the $ for the rom type was a very good bargain.
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