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| - A friend and I stayed at the Aria 02/21-2/24 and I must say it was a good experience overall. When we arrived, checkin took approximately 30 mins and the desk clerk was very friendly and informative. After receiving an explanation of where all the highlights of the Aria were, we made our way to our room. One complaint I do have is in regards to the Aria's TooTight security in front of the room elevators. I understand the need for security, but the constant checking of every guest to see if they have a room key is a bit much. I noticed that this is especially troublesome for women, since they have to continue to dig through their purses to find the key each time they go back up to the room.
We did breakfast, brunch and dinner at the buffet and it was very good, I feel in love with the anchovies there (originally I thought they were sardines due to the size). The food is of a good quality and the desserts are excellent, I'd recommend the oreo shooter to anyone. The only downside to the buffet is that the offerings are somewhat repetitive; I noticed on several occasions that they Asian section always had orange chicken, mixed veggies and beef and broccoli, even during breakfast at 8am. I'm not Asian, but I doubt a lot of people eat sweet and sour chicken at 8am :-)
The casino was great, I had two of my longest ever slot machine sessions there: one was for 2.5 hrs on a mega bucks $1 machine and another was for 2 hrs on a 2 credit reel $1 machine. For the table games the dealers were really friendly and the slot floor supervisors and drink service was excellent. One one occasion the cocktail waitress even remembered what I was drinking and corrected me when I ordered the wrong thing, due to being inebriated :D
All in all, I give this place 4 stars. My only suggestions are to loosen the elevator security, add more variety to the buffet and add some late night dining options. We found ourselves going to other casinos whenever it was after 10pm just to find food.
Note: The Aria is very tight on comps if they give you a comped room. I played through about 15k over 3 days and that wasn't even enough to get us 1 free breakfast. So, it seems that you need to play through at least 10k per day just to cover a comped room.
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