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| - Came here for a timeshare presentation deal. We received 2 nights for a discounted price, a $50 gift card to the other Hilton (with the convention center), $15 in gambling chips for the other Hilton, and $100 toward our next Hilton stay in the next 6 months - but ONLY Hilton, not Doubletree or Hilton Garden Inn, etc.
The presentation was fine. 2 hours long, not super pressure-y, and our salesperson was sincere and nice. We explained that it simply would not work for our lifestyle. A manager came to ask us questions about the presentation, and he was VERY curt with us, borderline rude. Whatever, we got our free stuff. I'd do the timeshare presentation again.
However, the hotel itself was a major disappointment. It's quite far from most of the strip, so make sure to budget for cabs, rent a car, or, as we did, drive to Vegas. There's really nothing exciting there and nothing that makes it particularly nice or family-friendly, so it's not even as though you could bring your kids there for a fun family getaway. There's a pool, and that's that.
We stayed in a studio, which is one bedroom closed off from a larger room. It was small but clean. The very worst part was that the walls are paper thin. We could hear EVERYTHING that happened in the next room... when they came home, when they watched TV, when they listened to music, etc. It was impossible to get a good night's sleep. To be fair, at one point, when they were playing heavy metal at 6am, I called security, and they promptly came up and asked them to turn it down. Ten minutes later, though, they turned on the television, and it was just as bad. At that point, we realized it was a lost cause.
We told our timeshare salesman that we were disappointed in the room's thin walls - he said we were likely in a marketing room, and that they were planning to tear those down when needed and rebuild them as the timeshare rooms (which look identical). That doesn't make sense. You'd think they'd put us up in a nice room if they want us to own a stake in this place - no thanks!
Parking is $8, valet $13 - a little odd when the rest of the strip is free parking.
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