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| - I loved my stay at the MGM Grand!!! My husband and I were there from June 14-19 which was Friday-Wednesday. It was definitely enough time to see Vegas, and some of our group left on Monday or Tuesday due to their schedules and they had a great time in those few days! I had never been to Las Vegas before so I have no other Vegas experiences to compare it to, but it was amazing! I cannot wait to go back. My husband and I went to Vegas for his birthday celebration and I had been planning our trip for months. We heard great things about the MGM and decided it would be a great place for our entire group to stay (we had about 15 family members and friends flying in from all over the country). My parents stayed even longer than we did and they rented a car for the week, which was great. We took it to go off the strip for dinner a couple times and to visit Fremont Street (not the best place, I went during the day but heard it's more fun at night). There is also a Haufbrau (spelling?) House, a German beer/food place off the strip that my husband enjoyed going to! Here are the pros and cons of the MGM:
Pros:
*Lots of restaurants - we went to Rainforest Cafe, The Pub, McDonalds, the place next to McDonalds that had Krispy Kreme donuts (yum), the pizza place in the basement, the crepe place (delicious), and Diego.
*Great location - south end of the strip but not all the way down the strip, still close to NYNY, Walgreens, etc.
*Close to the airport
*Check in at the airport is available to skip the lines at hotel
*Huge hotel, tons to do!
*Good breakfast buffet, I went one time
*Convenience store by elevators, has everything you need!
*Elevators are fast (we used the ones behind a set of glass doors, go past the elevators in your wing on the ground level, they are even quicker and no lines!)
*Pools are amazing!! 5 pools total, lazy river, and outdoor pool club
*Clean rooms
*Blackout shade in your room! Woo hoo!
*Nice amenities in the room and bathroom
*Huge casino
*Cirque de Soilel show (Ka) that we has tickets to was right in the hotel, which was great!
*Monorail is accessible from inside the hotel, which was awesome
Cons:
*I was not treated nicely at Wet Republic (staff was incredibly rude to me)
*There is practically no shade at the pools, get there super early if you want shade!
*Lazy river was full of drunks, it was a little off-putting and felt like a cheap spring break in college
*You have to walk A LOT! Huge hotel.
*Long line to check out of hotel (we opted for the express check out)
*Valet parking took over 35 minutes to get our car on the day we were leaving for the airport. We had called ahead, too, but it still took that long! That was unusual compared to the rest of the week, but it happened on the worst possible day when we needed the car!
*Wi fi is horrible at the hotel
*TV in two of our friends' rooms stopped working numerous times
*The rooms smell pretty bad, not sure why
*Sometimes the room had not been cleaned by the afternoon hours, but it is a big hotel so that is understandable
Two tips: Do not move anything in the mini fridge, they come to check daily to see if you opened something. Luckily they did not charge us even though we were curious about all of the items!
If you are traveling with four people and staying in one room, only book the room under two names instead of four. You can ask for four room keys and then you solve the problem of getting everyone into the pool (everyone needs a key), while also saving money on the daily hotel charges for each person. I am not saying that we did this.... Just a tip.
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