Great location and hotel - just not as perfect as previous visits
If you want beautiful, spacious room in a smoke free hotel in the northern Strip this is the hotel for you. I LOVE the location - on the strip but not ON the strip. The Fashion Show mall is right across the street so all the shops/restaurants of the mall along with the Wynn/Encore, Venetian/Palazzo, Ti and Mirage are all a short (mostly) air conditioned walk away.
That said...everything was just a little off this time. I usually visit for a longer than 'normal' stay and in the past when checking in I would get, 'I see you're with us for some time...can I offer you an upgrade' or 'I'm sorry, but we're fully booked over the weekend portion of your stay so this is best room available.' This time, nothing. And while the breakfasts are usually uniformly wonderful I had an off breakfast this time - the Eggs Benedict came back hard poached. And previously when I put the 'housekeeping please' light I've always come back to a cleaned room. This time I put the light on and left at 9:30 then came back at 3:00...to an unmade room. At base, nothing horrible...just not the perfection of my previous visits.
Lastly, if you are travelling with younger guests, you should note that the hotel is no longer allowed to serve breakfast to people under 21 in their restaurant (because there is a small bar in the back). As an alternative, they have set up a 'to go' breakfast station in the lobby (and of course offer room service).