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| - Now a little more than two years old, the Wynn still has "It".
There is not too much that I could say that hasn't been said by the other 485 reviews, except to share my experience:
Steve Wynn has the experience of building so much of modern day Vegas. I just stayed at Bellagio last month and with the Wynn/Encore, he has truly built the best hotel. The difference between Bellagio and W/E is that they are now "corporate-owned" whereas Steve gets to do whatever he wants or needs to do.
The rooms are opulent. I should warn you that I think the front desk plays an upgrade game where they tell you that your room is not ready and then they try to upsell you to be a bigger room. I witnessed this on either side of me when I was checking in. They had a problem with my reservation and I was offered an "upgrade" for free. Comparing rooms with my coworkers, I could not see any difference. Hrmmm
The food is all over-the-top good. There are NO inexpensive restaurants in the hotel. Expect to eat like a king everywhere and pay a fortune for it. I ate at Lakeside and can wholely recommend it, if only for the experience of seeing a strange animatronic show. Steve Wynn certainly has a sense of humor having a giant, black-lit frog sing "It's a Wonderful World"
The convention services are phenominal. Not a blip of trouble and everyone was super nice and responsive. Catered lunches were almost as good as the restaurant food - definitely a departure from your normal troughs of food at trade shows.
The clubs - XS and Surrender - oh if the walls could only talk. I am beyond the "clubbing" age, but it was definitely a treat to see how/where the rich, young, rich, beautiful, rich people party.
I am not sure who/how the $20/day resort fee works. I thought I signed something agreeing to it when I checked in. But then when I went to use the fitness center - they told me I didn't sign up for it. And then they wanted $15 for each day of using the center.
Yes, the blackjack tables START at $25 per hand - ON A TUESDAY NIGHT! There were no shortage of people playing/losing at the $100 table. I guess it goes with the rest of the place.
On the flip side, I only paid $159/night with my convention rate, but Steve made up for the [cheap] room rate with everything else. However, it was all worth it.
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