Four of us stayed there from July 3rd-July 5th. Being a 3 day weekend I think I got a very good deal through Priceline.com. After reading all the bad reviews and I was pretty scared that the room was going to suck.
Check-in was kind of a pain but like I said it was a holiday weekend so I understand. Our room was very nice, clean and our view was beautiful. Yes it far from the strip but they have the monorail right outside and we actually didn't use it. We valet the car and just drove to the Cosmopolitan and to the Encore where we did most of our partying. I deducted one star because our AC was not working. I called the front desk 2 times and was told they would send someone to fix it but they didn't. We called a third time and told them our room felt like an oven and we were dying lol. We were told they were very busy and would have someone go to our room or change us to another room. Within the hour a technician came in, checked the AC and told us the motor was not working. It was already pretty late and we wanted to party so we told him we would be gone so just come in the room and fix it. We returned to the room after 4am and the AC was fixed. YAY!!! The rest of our stay was great. Everyone was very nice and we never got approached by any of the timeshare people. On Sunday we visited the pool which was very nice...they closed it due to the weather but hey they cant control the weather so its all good.
Overall it was a nice stay...better than Hooters where we stayed our last night...I should have just payed the extra money to stay at the Westgate for that night because Hooters sucked.
Anyway, my conclusion based on my stay is that people expect way to much. If you want a five star hotel then pay for one. This is definitely not the Caesars Palace but I could really care less. I go to Vegas to party not to stay in the room so I'm more than pleased with the Westgate and will definitely be staying there again.