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| - Stayed 5 nights for the marathon in November. Probably wouldn't stay again. The sleeping area is recently renovated and decent, but the bathroom is horrible. Tiny, dark shower with nowhere to put your shampoo, etc. except the floor. Only had hot water one day, lukewarm or outright cold the rest. The only thing keeping the basin attached to the wall was a crumbling layer of caulk, it sagged and threatened to come crashing down with the slightest weight on it.
Housekeeping was otherwise adequate and I never saw a bug or stray hair (but I wouldn't walk barefoot in a hotel room in Vegas, period),
Smoking in hotels is a given in Las Vegas, but this one, being 100 years old, doesn't have the ventilation systems that the new hotels have, and there is the reek of decades of cigarette smoke everywhere. I bought two Febreze air fresheners at Walgreen's--one for the room and one for the closet to try to salvage my clothes--and they barely made a dent in the smell. I laid in bed Sunday night after finishing the marathon and it felt like the effing stench was coming through the floorboards.
I was on the Fremont St. side, and the stage was literally right outside my window and it was OMG LOUD until 2 or 3 am every night. Even with earplugs, I could feel the bass from the shitty DJ in my skull. If getting more than a couple hours' sleep is important to you, ask for a room on the opposite side. I was usually just winding down at that point so it didn't really bother me, and watching drunken pedestrians dance, from the vantage point of my window, was hilaribad.
The resort fee, as mentioned by other reviewers, is a total rip off. There's no pool, no wifi, no spa, etc. and only one restaurant. The rooms have no mini bar, there's a Keurig but the cups are $3 each. What, exactly, is the resort fee going towards? The room rate was $20 a night, plus the $20 resort fee. I personally wouldn't object to paying $40 because the bed was comfortable and the location is great, but just charge me $40 and don't insult my intelligence by calling it a "resort fee".
The cons of the Golden Gate outweighed the pros for me. I love staying on Fremont as opposed to the Strip, (I've stayed at the Golden Nugget and Main St. Station as well as Bally's, Encore, and Mandalay Bay), but this place didn't do it for me. Next year I'll stay somewhere else.
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