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| - We were staying in henderson for thanksgiving with family and got a good price on a room here. The location was perfect, less than 2 miles from the in-law's house. We stayed two nights. The check-in in the beautiful lobby took 2 minutes, really liked that after driving in from Los Angeles. Found out at the front desk that there's an exercise room, or you can show your room key at the Gold's across the street and work out for free. No matter how good a hotel gym is, having access to a full gold's gym is priceless. No hotel gym has a squat rack! We are members at home anyway, but showing the room key is actually quicker than having them call your home gym and filling out the form, so we just showed our keys and worked out, walked back to the hotel. This is the reason the review is 4 stars instead of three.
The room is very nice, liked the layout. Nice couch (looked to be a sleeper) and a desk which breaks the room up a bit with the bed and the wardrobe on the other side. We were able to put our daughter down in bed and then watch tv on the couch until we went to bed. Bathroom was okay, counter space was a little limited. Room has an empty fridge and microwave, coffee maker, and a little snack shop downstairs with some microwavable food, snacks, sodas and energy drinks.
The wifi was a huge problem for me, for two reasons: i couldn't connect to my remote desktop back at the office, and we couldn't process any payments online (we did some online black friday shopping). When i disconnected from their wifi and connected to my tethered iphone, we were able to do both. I'm not sure why a hotel would have their internet set up that way, if i was there for business it would have been a huge bummer not to have internet that would allow me to connect to my office. Additionally, i had paid for the upgraded internet (only 5 bucks but still gives me more room to complain haha) to get a little more speed for my remote connection.
The walls and ceiling were a little thin, there were some travel youth soccer teams staying at the hotel and i could hear doors opening and people running through the halls above us. I'm a deep sleeper and i woke up at 1:30am the second night from the room next to us opening and closing their doors and yelling at each other. I'm a 205 pound powerlifter with a lot of tattoos, so all it took was for me to open the door in nothing but basketball shorts and look at them for 5 seconds to not hear another peep all night.
The complimentary breakfast was nice, oatmeal and eggs, fresh fruit, selection of coffees and yogurts and a waffle maker. My daughter wakes up at like 6:30 so we went down when it first opened and it was nice and empty, 2-3 people. When we left around 9:30 for the gym there was a line of about 25 people and no available tables. The same thing happened when we went to check out which made it a little tricky to get our luggage past, since the line forms in the same 4' hallway you need to use to get to the front doors.
All in all, the next time we get a hotel to visit henderson we will probably use the same one.
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