My friend Sara who stayed with me at the HRH called it the Slutty Hotel. This is a place where the door hangers instead of saying "Do Not Disturb" say "Tied Up" with a picture of handcuffs. This is a place where you can flip through the room service book and find ready to order sex kits complete with boobie tassels and tickle feathers. This is the place where your mini bar snack area has stuff like snickers mini's, skull candy headphones and "pleasure" kits filled with condoms and lube samples. The beds sit very low to the ground. There are no Bibles in the dresser drawers.
Speaking of beds, ohmahgah amazing comfortable!!! Our beds had goose down comforters and even though Vegas had experienced a cold front in mid-November that put the nighttime temps at 35 degrees we still burned up like an oven under the goose down. HRH has my favorite bed so far out of every place I have ever stayed in Vegas (and that is a lot of places--including the overrated Bellagio).
There are 2 main towers at the HRH: The original Casino tower and the newer Paradise tower. Even though the Casino tower is older I picked it for two reasons: 1. It is closer to the main lobby meaning you don't have to go on an excursion to get to your elevator like you do in the Paradise tower. 2. It has french doors that allow you to open up to your un-walkable balcony so you can smell the mountain air or peek out at any neighbors who may have their french doors open too. Paradise doesn't have that. Our room was on the top (11th) floor which was nice as we didn't have people stomping up and down on top of us.
Which brings up a point: this is a rock and roll hotel. Though it has lost some of its original luster in later years the Hard Rock caters to the young, rock and roll crowd. These people may get noisy. Don't come here for peace and quiet.
The hotel itself is filled to the brim with lots of neat rock and roll memorabilia from The Beatles to Elvis to the Rolling Stones. It is fun to walk around an take in the sights. Hard Rock also has several restaurants such as Nobu, Pink Taco and the newer 35 Steaks + Martini's plus MORE. The Joint concert venue is also located inside the Hard Rock and is host to some really great music acts so be sure to catch a show there. It is nice to be able to just walk from your hotel room straight into the music venue without having to go outside.
I want to come back in the summer months and swim in the pools as HRH is famous for their swimming pools. The rooms here can run from an affordable $40 a night to several hundred a night depending on what is going on. The Friday night we stayed we were able to do early check-in. If you need to park your vehicle the parking garage is included in the mandatory $25 a day "convenience fee" the hotels on the strip are now charging. Hard Rock is not located on the strip so be prepared to walk 3 or so blocks if you want to be in on the strip action.
The Hard Rock IS close though to my favorite dive bar in Vegas where you might be able to catch a local thrash metal or punk band: The Double Down Saloon. Enjoy!