Spent a weeklong trip out west visiting parks, but started and ended in Vegas. Since none of us had been to 'Old Vegas' we decided to spend our first night at the Golden Nugget. The decor in the lobby is great and they have a fantastic shark/slide pool. However, the check-in time was horrendous! There was a long line which contained both people checking in and those looking to book shows. That slowed down the line tremendously - they really need to separate these two lines and bring extra people onto the desk when there's that long of a line waiting. Once we got to our rooms, we found that our safes had been left locked and could not be used. We called and were told someone would come up to open them - that never happened before we had to check out the next day. In fact most things that we needed to call down for either took forever to arrive, or just never showed up.
It was nice to experience this part of town, but now that we've done it once, we would not return.