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| - Found good prices online for last-minute Vegas trip while in LA over long Memorial weekend to work with a fitness model. Drove rental to Vegas (por fin!) to see that fabled location. Am not a gambler (surviving life challenges is enuff) going just for area sights, Red Rock Canyon, and night lights. Success in all + walked lots. Reading many hotel reviews, there is more than meets the eye for this hotel.
PROs:
"Great" online prices
at far end of Strip so "quieter"
Free access to Tower for fab views of Vegas
Free parking
CONs:
NO microwave
NO frig
NO facial tissue
NO hotel room security
NO free wifi
Smoky, smoking tobacco smell everywhere (yuck)
SELF-PARKING is BEST; drive ur car to hotel side (turn 1st LEFT after passing IHOP), park on 3rd floor where access to the casino is thru a bridge walkway. Once downstairs inside the casino the check-in is located not 4mins from the entrance to the casino. Very stuck-up clerk informed us hotel room rates fluctuate daily (each day) and that the cost for the room I was getting during MY three day stay was over $100. Don't see why as room was NOT very luxurious! After reading a few of the reviews here, expected the worst.... but unfortunately not all was lost. Room was very spacious w/view fm tower fifth floor of parking garage & roof a/c units. Particular rooms with a "better view" are offered for extra fee, but spoke to one guest in elevator, and though he paid extra for the view, stated he sees the garage also. Very good water pressure BUT tub wall are very high, and one can slip/fall getting into the tub/shower. Thick plastic shower curtain is type seen in hotels decades previous. Be careful! The queen-size beds were very comfortable BUT smoke - even in non-smoking rooms as I had reserved - is still slightly apparent due to the casino below and hotel/casino guests still smoking though there are areas where smoking is not allowed. Confusing hotel layout puts elevators far from the parking garage entry, but doable though NOT not one luggage cart for hotel guests was seen, nor did I see any hotel employee helping w/suitcases inside. Also didn't see one room cleaning maid during my 3-day stay, but of course I was gone from dawn to dusk sight-seeing (staying at number of hotels around the world and throughout USA, I have *always* seen cleaners) but not here!! In every hotel I have stayed in, many "luxury" hotels the beds will be turned down at night, and at the very least, the toilet paper in the bathroom will be a fresh room, with a cute fold starting the roll ~ not here! Nice flat-panel tele e BUT ONLY limited channels included 3 hotel channels! Dresser served its purpose better as a support for the television than for clothing: drilled holes on dresser top in my room, plus several of the drawers had loose knobs and dirt inside; looked to be of very thin construction and very old & ill-maintained. Though hair dryer was available in bathroom, several shampoos and soap in the bathroom + iron/ironing board in "closet" area, there was no security safe nor coffee maker or teas/coffee available. There was nothing I have had previously in hotels/motels of less or similar "luxury" status - I've had better service/room quality in European hostels!! One note of interest is that ALL calls (even local calls) are charged access use "fee", even using a calling card to call home will incur charges! Could easily hear guests next door opening/closing doors & talking in the hall, but did not hear anything from any rooms at all. Bicycle security guards patrol the various floors of the parking garage, but security for rooms itself seem to be non-existent; nobody checks to ensure ONLY registered guests enter the elevators as on the last two days of my stay, there were external Vegas advertising handouts that were slid into the rooms under the door!! Most of all, I hate the smoking allowed throughout the casino, and as the elevators are located far from the parking garage entry, one must WALK many minutes through the casino to get to the elevators, thus exposing everyone to the tobacco smell. Separate review about the tower observation deck is which great.
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