The staff are extremely friendly here. It's also not a bad place for conferences. I just returned from a conference and I enjoyed the lunch and breakfast catering.
My "non-smoking" suite was pretty lousy in that it reaked of cigarette smoke. The elevators smell like alcoholics and the stores charge $3.99 for bottled water so even if you make money, it disappears quickly.
Don, the shoe-shine guy from Goodfellows Shoeshine was a cool chap and was pretty reasonable ($8 with a free repolish the next day).
The card tables are all $10 and above. I lost a $10 bet on Roulette bet on the #33. #35 came up! Darn!
I won $190 on the bonus poker slot machines. Yes, yes, I know, the odds are horrible on that machine and very much unfair, but all in all, I still enjoy that slot machine game for some reason. I got 3 4-of-a-kinds in a span of 15 minutes. At that point, my $20 of quarters turned into $165 worth of quarters.
The bar at the entrance is nice and cosy. The sports book isn't that special.
Word of Warning: Do not use the slot machines between 1am and 4am. I am convinced that the payoffs of the slots automatically go down sharply. I've learned in my gambling experiences that all my biggest slot machine winnings have occurred in the day time and all my losses late, very late at night.
At the Rio: Lost $200 in 30 minutes on a poker slot machine; and won $200 in the day time slot machines.
Could be a pattern there *inserts twighlight zone music*.