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| - Our stay was at the Four Seasons, but we had access to use all the Mandalay Bay facilities.
This hotel is as far of the south end of the strip as you can get and has a monorail tram connecting to the Luxor & Excalibur Hotels. We used this a lot to get as far north as possible. An easy walk from the tram stop over the bridges to NY, NY then to MGM Grand will connect you to the larger monorail system.
Do NOT eat at: The Noodle Shop, worst Pad Thai that ever was served. The Bayside buffet was "meh" for breakfast. Seeing waffles freshly made we selected and although steaming fresh, they were cardboard-y and the scrambled eggs were surely powder eggs, yuk, prison food.
The Orchid had the BEST cup of coffee ever, serious. An OK breakfast, but not worthy of the $25 per person for awesome coffee. The service was excellent though.
The casino was big and after finding some video poker machines with 9/5 odds settled in to serious gambling & cocktails waitresses were regular & kept the drinks at hand. Casino bathrooms are too few and far between. Heavy on the slots, few video poker, most offered 8/4 odds.
The pool was crowed and the chaises were so close together, there was no way to gracefully get in to one. The wave pool was interesting, didn't use the lazy river as we didn't buy/rent a float (I think hotel quests should get one per room, gratis rental).
We used the tram to the Luxor/ Excalibur a lot to get north to the action part of the strip.
The service overall was excellent.
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