Hotel Review Thread

I don't enjoy trying to walk through hordes of people on crowded sidewalks and through oversaturated casinos; passing table games with terrible odds and high minimums; or getting in long lines to order extremely overpriced food. unless there is a specific reason (see a show, play at B/W/V, eat at specific restaurant, see the Fountains or Conservatory) I find the Strip to be supremely overrated.

not quite as overrated as Downtown. I still stay on Strip when I need to. but Red Rock and South Point are so much a better experience overall.

As a frequent traveler, I can say from experience that this can result in unnecessary hassles. Most commonly I've run into hotels not being able to link a room purchased through a third-party site through their computer systems. This results in you having to "check out" of one room and "check in" again. Usually this just means having to walk down to the front desk, sign new paperwork and get new keys for the same room.

However I've had multiple instances where I've had to switch rooms, and sometimes they won't let you check in right away. This can mean hauling your luggage down to the bell desk, having them hold your bags between check out time of 11 am and check in time of 3 pm or whatever. Then having to make another trip to check in at the front desk (sometimes with a line if you go when everyone else is checking in). I've been forced to do this even after I told them on day one that I had two reservations.

Basically if you're booking through a third party it's best to book your entire stay through them. If you want to be able to easily add nights to extend your stay or whatever it's better to book direct. That's provided there's not a promotion that makes the hassle worth it to you.

Station has casinos all over the place. Maybe you can find a place not far away and throw a few bucks in some slots or vp machines. Sign up for the card while you're there.

You forgot gagging on stinky weed.

If by all over the place, you mean around the Vegas area, yeah. And it would be a lot more convenient for me to get to, say, Palace Station than out to Red Rock. But I've read elsewhere that you're much more likely in the Station system to get comps for the Station property you played at. Obviously anecdotal and not entirely reliable, but I don't really want to risk wasting my time at Palace just to get offers that don't apply to RR or at not as good as what I would get at RR.

Based on Langdon's experience, it seems it might be worth spending a half-day there playing VP, dice, and maybe a little slots play just to juice it up.

I haven't been in the bolded situation, but I'm pretty sure they're going to have to get someone to come pack me up and force me to leave, assuming I have the same type room booked for both reservations. You'd have a hard time getting me to willingly participate in that brand of stupidity.

They have Graton in the north part of the SF Bay area. I figure if they have one there, they must be in a lot of places.

unless you are a high roller big spender, Stations is only going to give you good offers at the specific property you play.
other than like $20 off full price everywhere else

Google tells me that Graton is the only Station property outside NV. Thanks though.

Weird. That's an odd place to build a casino and then not build any other ones.

South Point is the clear winner if you want a really nice, large "regular" room, low room rates (generally), decent restaurants, easy access parking, live comedy show on weekends sometimes, and a very good poker room.

(I also highly recommend it during December when the NFR is in town.)

read up that circus circus still as 2$ hot dogs and 7.99$ food combos options coupling with the face they are still cheaper than the strat and others to say on.

I wouldn't stay there but honestly if the location wasnt so far up wouldn't have been a bad place to stay for those with a car since its FREE parking and uber cheap compared to others. ive number crunched and its 40-50% cheaper than linq on usual

Circus Circus would have to pay me to stay there. A lot.

Venetian rooms have been remodeled, here are some pictures:

The new rooms have refrigerators:

They look nice - I see the carpets remain!

I loved the Palazzo room decor a little more than Venetian but I really like both properties and the rooms are so huge and well laid out. Shame that really, they’re out of the budget range I can justify for a poker trip because I like the restaurants and vibe there too

I agree. I really enjoy playing at Venetian and would have loved to stay there a couple of days for upcoming trips. But it's just too expensive from what I have seen, and I doubt that my very low/moderate volume of Video Poker and slots would have made much of a difference even if I gave them some action.

(although I guess it couldn't hurt to try).

Same, until this upcoming trip. Let’s just say I went a bit crazy during my WSOP trip at the Venetian and I have a LOT of comped suite offers with free play. Staying there for 6 days in March for the first time

Maybe I'm still just in teaser offer territory with them, but I haven't found it that hard to get comped base rooms at Venetian/Palazzo. First time I used my card there in 10+ years, I played not very much video poker there while staying somewhere else (maybe a couple hours of 25c three-line UX) and they sent me an offer for 3 nights comped (resort fee not included). I booked at that stay and they're still sending me comped room offers. As a data point, I have about $21k coin in YTD (so that's total coin-in between what I played earlier this year to get back in the system and what I played during my three-night stay there). That might seem like a lot to some, but that's just about $500 in total theo loss, and just $166 in theo loss per comped night.

Short story - with some limited play you can probably get at least a teaser offer. Might not be able to sustain it if you're really just playing poker and maybe like 30mins of VP per day. Also, if you've been using your player's card to play at the poker room there, your ADT could be trashed. I'm not sure whether scanning your player's card at the poker table is linked to their overall system, but I assume it is and playing poker there counts as a day against you for ADT purposes.

$21k coin in, $166 theo loss per night... sounds like a free stay is pretty expensive

I keep getting comp offers for Treasure Island and I've had very minimal play there. probably just teasers. but stay there and poker/eat at V or W

even without marketing offers the rooms are usually pretty cheap especially for Strip, and they are absolutely decent and clean

Yeah but in comparison rooms are $600 a night plus resort fees without comp

Yeah I’d be delighted to stay at the V for $166 per night

Right, plus the entertainment value of the gambling which is built into that $166 theo loss.

The real issue is, as we all now, that actual results can vary wildly from your theo. You could easily end up down several thousand trying to earn comps. Which is among other reasons why you shouldn't really chase comps. But my point is that getting a comped room might not be as hard as BigWhale (and maybe feel wrath) might think, so if they're willing to do some -ev gambling, at least a couple short-term comps might be available to them for less than they might think.

But yeah, V/P is by no means a low-roller property and, besides, I'd never pay rack rate to stay there.

Or just be a ***** idiot like me, go on super monkey tilt and lose $9000 in like 45 minutes. Now I’m getting 5 night comps with $0 resort fees, $300 f&b and $300 free play. Idiot tax, do not recommend!

At least you can use those comps and get something back! Even if you just burn V/P and take the stay/credit and give them zero gamble.