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| - First off....I couldn't decide between 3 or 4 stars, so I decided on 3. My wife, 4 year old and I stayed here this past week, we usually stay at Harrahs or Luxor but her nephews always stay here for the Viva gathering every year so they recommended it.
Price wise, it was awesome. for 3 nights we paid like $135 total after tax and resort fees. There were a few minor things that I didn't like but none of it actually affected our stay. I read on Yelp its a locals kinda place and its a little run down but still nice and I agree 100%. It could of used a little up keeping but all in all, I liked the hotel and will most liked stay when I go back to Vegas around Thanksgiving.
But heres a little review on our stay. Upon arrival, we had a lot more bags then we usually do cause we brought our 4 year old and we seldom travel much with him for 3 full days so we had our bags and his bag of toys, bedding, bag of clothes and cooler full of snacks for him....ETC. We had around 11 bags, so we decided to use the bell hop to take our bags to our rooms. The black older gentlemen who had dreads or brades or something in his hair was very rude and snotty to me, but whatever...then when we called to bring our bags up, I asked my wife "what do you tip these guys?" because honestly I have never used a bell hop before in my entire life. I'm not cheap, I just don't know the norm. I tip my barber or valet like $3 so I figured id tip him the same, when I gave him $3. Apparently I should have tipped more cause the white ex-con looking guy looked at me weird when I gave it to him. Sorry but I don't have to tip you sh*t so take what someone gives you and shut up.
I also thought the channels they provided on T.V. were pretty lousy but we all agree that we don't go to Vegas to watch T.V. but when you come back to the room at midnight and wanna doze off, watching some good T.V. helps. So I say they need to get some better channels.
Another thing that pissed me off was they have 2 pools and a Jacuzzi. We specifically choose The Orleans over our first choice (SOUTH POINT) for 2 reasons: 1) The Price and 2) we saw online and asked the reservation desk and was told they had a wading pool that is like 2 feet deep that is perfect for my 4 year old to sit and play in. But guess what?? the damn pool was drained and closed and had cones around it. We asked around and no one knew when it would open up and just said "they are still working on it". The day we left we noticed it was filled with water but still had cones around it so we were hoping it was gonna open that day and I asked around some more and no one knew anything about it. I even told my wife that if they open it that day...we would stay an extra day because we really wanted our son to play in it cause its only like 2 feet deep and we didn't need to be back at work until 3 days later....Oh well. The fact the pool was closed the first week of August really pissed us off and that is why we gave 3 stars instead of 4.
The room itself was nice and was a little dated but no biggie. We did have a couple issues with the room (1501). We noticed the faucet stopper, you know that plunger you pull up to plug the sink, wasn't working and broken....you pulled it up and nothing happened. It wasn't a huge deal since we would never have used it anyway. Also that night when I went to shower, I turned the dial of the spicket to turn the water on and the handle broke off in my hand. I guess the threads of the handle were thin and it broke off. Again...not a huge deal. Also on the bathroom slider door, it was funny because the locking mechanism was on the outside of the door, which is weird, and it was all busted inside. Yet again no biggie but it made me think "this hotel is falling apart". But the thing that was kind of annoying was the last night we were there, we gave my son a bath. After his bath...the water wouldn't go down the drain, so when my wife and I showered we had to make it fast because the water level was rising and obviously we didn't want to overflow the tub since all our dirty body water was getting higher and higher. By morning it had drained so i'm guessing the drain was flowing slowly, but we had no issues showering the first and second night we were there.
I also wish they had more ice machines because we were in 1501 and it was the absolute last room down the hall so going all the way across the hall down a looooooooong corridor for ice was kinda annoying.
So like I said, none of these things really made us have a unpleasant experience (except the wading pool issue, we would have had so much more fun if our son could have gone in it) and I don't mean to nitpick, but over all we enjoyed The Orleans and if you wanna stay at a really reasonable casino/hotel without the hussel and bussel of the strip, I recommend staying here. We enjoyed it.
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