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| - i've never been a fan of las vegas and i really don't get it's appeal to so many people ... it's too damn hot, the traffic sucks, everything is overpriced, the people are either too fake (obnoxious fucks from los angeles) or too real (obnoxious farmers from omaha), and the hotels are either too cheesy/theme-ish/tacky (luxor, excalibur, new york new york, etc) or too stodgy/stuffy/conservative (wynn, bellagio, venetian, etc)... but my recent stay at the palms place hotel just may have changed my antipathetic view on las vegas fandom.
i've been following the hotels construction progress for the last year after seeing renderings and mock-ups of the interior and exterior. it opened the first week of march and i just happened to be going to vegas for a friends wedding the last weekend of april ... so i had to check it out.
the palms place is a condo-hotel where about 80% of the owners allow the hotel to rent their units out when not occupied. there are two available room types for rent:
*600 sq ft studio w/ king-sized bed, living room area, full kitchen, and bath
*1200 sq ft one bedroom suite w/ king-sized bed, full living room w/ a free standing fireplace, full kitchen, 1.5 baths, washer & dryer, and a wrap-around balcony
(all the unit are identically furnished w/ the same furniture, appliances, finishes, etc)
some features of the hotel include: simon restaurant (opening soon), roja bar (cool little lobby bar/lounge), pool w/ full service bar and cabana rentals, drift spa, and a hammam (a big-ass coed sauna for "ritual cleansing & social gathering" ... basically a straight bath house).
ok, on to my actual review of the place ... booked a studio ($275/night) online and when we arrived i asked the front desk guy if they had any high floor strip view rooms available ... he said they did ... and did they ever ... 'cause dude upgraded us to a one bedroom corner suite ($749/night) on the 26th floor facing the strip. the room was unfuckingbelievable ... two walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, a free-standing purple-ish mirrored fireplace, two 42" plasma tv's, full living room area w/ modern italian furniture, kitchen w/ stainless steel countertops and cabinets, subzero refrigerator, gaggenau cook-top, fisher paykel dishwasher, breakfast bar w/ four stools, super comfortable king-sized bed, a large jetted bathtub in the bedroom, white carrera marble in the bathrooms & kitchen, ginormous walk-in shower w/ three showerheads, and a 500+ sq ft wraparound balcony. oh, and views of the strip (from the stratosphere to the mandalay bay) were mofo amazing.
the only downside i can think of is ... after kicking it in a brand new, 1200 sq ft, super modern, high-end hotel room ... i have a feeling that every hotel room from here on out is gonna look/feel a little/a lot underwhelming.
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