First time visit here after purchasing tickets to a concert in their event center. Everything here is SO NEW. HOTEL: Check in was easy and a breeze. We paid $166 for a Saturday night stay and booked about two weeks in advance. I think for a summer rate it is a bit high. When walking in - please get auto open doors. When your carrying luggage, not good to have doors that have SUPER HOT handles you have to yank open and try to twister move by holding & wheeling luggage in at the same time. Just saying. Our room however was lovely with mountain views - we asked for the 3rd floor - much less noisy. Very upscale with modern furnishings & a 55 or 60 inch Samsung flat screen on the wall. The room phone has a screen which displays your name - nice touch. The bathroom is equipped nicely with a blow dryer & lighted makeup mirror you can move to the desk if you wanted to without taking up the bathroom space while your significant other is getting ready. LOVE LOVE the mirror! Walls were a bit thin, we could totally here the folks next door just having general conversation. Totally forgot to pack my swim suit - but the pool area was very nice. It was also handicap equipped with auto rise chair lifts. There is a sweet bar outside as well along with beautiful cabanas.
CASINO: While entering into the casino someone said it is BIG - NO IT IS NOT AT ALL & there is not much to choose from to eat. Ditkas is the only real sit down waiter serviced restaurant unless you prefer their buffet which looked like a cheaply catered event. There NEEDS to be another inside dinner restaurant to choose from outside of the sparse food court style options. With such nice hotel amenities, we want to spend our money on good eats too. Service at the Square Bar & Dunkin Donuts.......S-L-O-W. We had Open Table reservations for Ditka's for our anniversary dinner that evening. Took a bit to get seated and the hostess did not look very happy - just sporting a bland face. We started with 2 San Tan beers & 4 oyster shooters. I topped the shooters with a little lemon flavored vodka I ordered separate. Damn good!!! I then ordered the house salad - eh nothing special & kinda boring. Hubby had the crab bisque - very good I have to say. I then had the NY Strip special - amazing flavor!! Hubby had the Prime Rib - bland but the mushrooms, horseradish, & au jus gave it a little boost. It was a generous cut and very soft but very bland on the meat flavor. We had the jalapeno hash browns - they were pretty good. The waitress was very good however I had to ask a passing waiter to have my water refilled. No one was walking around refilling water - at all. Hmmmm. For our anniversary, we chose the cheesecake (on the house)and 2 espressos. The cheesecake was light & fluffy - simply amazing. I'll be craving that later! I think for being new - they need to have a hostess who is ON all the time and pleasant. Also, with all the rich food they serve, water is a necessity - be sure to serve it freely - without asking.