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| - I stayed here on an exchange with the Disney Vacation Club.
The rooms are quite nice, if far away from anything interesting in Las Vegas. It is right across the street from South Point, which is no different than any of the other casinos intended more for locals than tourists. They have low limit tables and food that isn't ridiculously overpriced, as you might find on the strip.
The rooms are spacious; basically a one bedroom apartment, with a nice kitchen and a jacuzzi tub. The rooms must not be terribly sound proof as there is a sign above the jacuzzi tub stating "Be kind to your neighbors. Please limit tub use to 8:00am-10:00pm." Or something along those lines. I have stayed in many rooms with a similar tub, but this is the first I have seen that has posted hours. AND IN LAS VEGAS! Come on!
They charge for wireless. I didn't realize businesses still did that. Poor form.
My wife and I decided to sit through one of their timeshare presentations. We didn't have any intention to buy. We were more interested in a free breakfast at the South Point buffet and the "free gift": either discounted show tickets or $100 cash.
The 90-minute presentation took 2.5 hours. We encountered three different people who attempted to sell us on a time share. It was high pressure, buy now or the world will end type sales. On a side note, it was quite interesting to observe some of the psychological tricks they were trying to pull on us.
In any case, we walked away with $100 and ran off to the strip to enjoy the remainder f the day.
Upon returning to our hotel room, neither of our room keys worked. I have never had a room key cease to work, but I understand that it is possible. However, it seems more than coincidence that BOTH mine and my wife's stopped working at the same time, just hours after refusing to purchase a time share.
After walking back to the front desk, they did give us new room keys, but it was quite the inconvenience after a long day of walking through miles of casino floor followed by a night of drinking. The whole thing seemed terribly fishy.
As if that ordeal weren't enough, during our time on the strip we were bombarded by more of their sales representatives. They have multiple kiosks in every casino and sales reps scattered around everywhere. Every single one of them was terribly pushy.
Apparently Grandview actually buses unsuspecting tourists to their location (8 miles south of the strip) and holds them captive in their giant sales compound, dangling various incentives in front of them, while pressuring them to purchase fake property, and often taking double the quoted time to do it.
Finally, customer service at the front desk was terrible. Grandview Resorts is concerned with one thing - selling time shares - and it shows. They have a huge 3-story building dedicated to sales and I would not be shocked if 90% or more of their total staff were sales reps.
I will never return to this place, and recommend you do not either.
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