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| - If it's your first time in Vegas, perhaps you should stay on the strip. If you don't care about that and want to save your cash to spend on other things than "that place you might sleep a couple hours a night", read the last section of this review.
I think most of the rooms have been renovated and at least have flatscreen TVs, refrigerators and a safe. Not the fanciest of rooms, but who comes to LV for the rooms? Hop on the monorail ($24 for 3 days unlimited) and take it to the strip. It runs til 3AM Fri-Sun so you can take plenty advantage of it. The coffee shop is kind of expensive for what it is and not impressive. Six of us agreed the best thing there were the onion rings. The deli by the sportsbook isn't bad if you're craving a sandwich. Benihana is always good. We didn't try the fancy schmancy restaurants here so I can't speak to them. So why 4 stars, you may ask? Well...it's the best deal for a room in Vegas if you're not getting comped. Here's what you need to do:
Call the LVH and get transferred to the Players Club. Sign up for a card over the phone. You might need to be transferred to them by the reservations people, but they'll do it over the phone. Now that you have a card, you can book the better rates even though you've never even played there. I've successfully booked 3 nights with a bunch of free crap (buffets, drinks, spa, etc) for $155 total a number of times over the last year; you can get these rates for any night of the week, weekends included. You can get the same price for 4 nights without the extra crap they give you if you don't care about that stuff. Don't be persuaded into paying extra for a strip view over the phone. When you check-in, try the $20 trick (google it if if you're not familiar). High rate of success using this here between me and friends. Also, you can press a button on your hotel room phone to "go green" and if you forego a room cleaning, they'll leave a $10 voucher under your door that you can use for food anywhere in the hotel, This is awesome...so your second night there, take your voucher with you and go grab a free sandwich at the deli...you know you're gonna be wasted and have the munchies when you get back from wherever you're coming from.
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