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| - This is an enthusiastic endorsement, really it is. For the price, and for the opportunity to stay in the heart of downtown, you're really looking at some prime real estate at not a primo cost. So in the location department you're in good shape. Life is bumping and if that's what you're into, you're in good shape.
The room was decent, too. Not old school. I was on a non-smoking floor and it didn't have too high of a stench of cigarettes, and even though my window had a view of the parking garage, I'm not going to complain. If you're staying in downtown Vegas and you want to stay in your room the whole time, what are you doing, really?
All of that said, this is a quantity affair. They have a lot of tour buses and groups, conferences, aging tourists, and other people cycling in and out in droves. I don't expect a boutique hotel experience, and this hustle and flow of the hotel is really what Las Vegas in the downtown and strip area are all about, so just take that expectation with you. It's a hopping place and you just sorta fall in line and get to your room, and go downstairs and push levers and buttons, and go out to the street and do the thing that you do in downtown. It's fun for a night and you'll find nary a better launching off point than the Nugg.
All of that hustle and bustle comes at a price, though. The check-in line seemed to be moving kinda slow, but they did direct me to another desk with the giant aquarium behind it. And speaking of aquariums, the big shark tank by the pool was being repaired, so no sharks. And speaking of the pool, that sucker fills up fast and it's elbow to elbow people. That's the nature of Vegas in the heat, but it's not my scene.
Everyone I dealt with seemed pretty friendly. My coworker had about 9 run-ins with housekeeping after a booking snafu that took a while to iron out, we couldn't quite get the water situation figured out (the housekeeping staff who cleans cannon deliver water due to chemicals being used?), but the WiFi worked fine for me and my room was clean upon arrival.
Totally stay here if you want to stay downtown in the heart of it all. You can do a lot worse than the Nugget.
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