Hotel Review Thread

This is how cheap we are, going to Bellagio this Sunday so signed up for the MGM Rewards credit card, it came in the mail yesterday. Immediate upgrade to Pearl, free parking and a discount on the rooms I think, should have waited to reserve the rooms until after I got the card. I'll try the $20 trick and see what happens.

No but he was comparing room service to staying in the Paris hotel. I was quoting "civilian" prices, although with the room tax it would still be 900 bucks for 3 days.

There's always the Orleans, etc. I had only like 150 credits on my card, because I threw a hundred or two into their Megabucks machine and got 4 nights comped between last week and this week. The extra good thing about comped nights is they don't charge you resort fees.

FWIW, we stayed at Caesars in AC on the drive back from OBX last year and got Caesars Eats. I thought it was pretty cool.

For a comparison from Cosmo, I'd much rather have The Henry delivered to the room than pay $54 for a terrible omelet, breakfast potatoes, and blueberries.

Yes I have mgm rewards and I stayed 10 days at Vdara last year plus ate and played my cash at Aria and B exclusively. Albeit I did play 5 mtts elsewhere so cash was only about 40 hours and it was low stakes VP.

Didn’t seem to give me any status

Are you looking only at weekend stays? Those seem to always be much, much pricier in Vegas due to demand. I just checked rates through MGM Rewards. Rates are definitely high on weekends, but at Vdara I'm seeking COMP for the first Mon- Wed in September and rates as low as $69 or $79 for some weekday stretches in Sept/Oct.

I’m in Australia so am looking at 8 days with a Thurs to Fri stay. I’ll go on again today but the lowest I saw was $229 + resort as the ave price for 8 days

FountainBleu:

I had some business meetings in town and decided to check out this new hotel in the process for a couple of nights

In a word, DON'T, in two words, DON't BOTHER, in three words, NO F*CKING WAY" I'd go back.

The room was fine, and the staff were nice. However, NOTHING else about the property or the Customer Experience was remotely acceptable. Possibly the worst designed customer experience I have ever seen in Las Vegas in 50 years. The place had the charm and appeal of a typical airport, not a place to stay. Stay at any of the following, (Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, Paris, Cromwells, or even the Golden Nugget (downtown), and don't book the" FBLV".

That's the night club, not after hours club, correct? The latter was open Thursday to Sunday in the past. FWIW, "after hour" in Vegas means til 6AM because everything else already closes at 4AM.

Can you be more specific about what went wrong with the customer experience? It seems like it has a good pool complex for the summer, and I've been hearing good things about the restaurants, but have only been turned off from staying because of the distance from everything else on the strip. However, I may be going to a conference at the Venetian later this year and was thinking of giving it a shot.

Not positive, and not positive the exact hours, it was just quite loud in the early AM hours, and strongly recommend earplugs or sleep aids. I'm not a light sleeper and it was a lot.

We had dorm fridges all over the place in my office. I had one for ov r twenty years. Never asked for permission and numerous bosses knew about it. Several had their own.

Better to ask for forgiveness than to beg for permission.

I had the same issue at Aria facing Cosmo on a Sunday night. bass booming all night long

Yeah, in my recent stay at Vdara, I came back to my room late at night (~3am) and could clearly hear the Cosmo pool club. The downside of a fountain view, I guess. On the plus side, for whatever reason, it was only one night that I noticed it. I think it was Sunday, too.

One good thing about Orleans, can't hear Da Club anywhere nearby. 😀

This trip I stayed at Aria and Bellagio. I have a few notes (I have stayed at both properties a few times through the years)

Aria - I like their new food court. It's good for grabbing something and you can order on take out and go pick up on your phone. A great idea.
Poker room is nice and they expanded the numbers of tables for their poker tournaments during the summer. The poker room also gives fiji water. My big complaint about their poker room is having no diary free milk options. If someone gets a coffee, there should be oat milk, almond, or soy. It's not hard to have one option for people who are vegan/dairy free. When getting lattes in the poker room (with regular milk), I felt like I was given a bit of attitude at times by servers). Dealers are very good (especially in PLO with counting the pot).

Bellagio - Wow, the place has gone downhill. Room service is now brought up in to-go containers unless you order over a certain amount. A lot of restaurants in Bellagio now have reduced hours. There are minimal choices for breakfast/lunch at the hotel. It feels like a train station at times with how insanely busy the hotel is. Very long lines for a lot of places. I use to have 4 hotels in top tier (Aria, Wynn, Venetian, Bellagio) and now Bellagio has definitely dropped out of that top tier list. I did have a great meal at Michael Mina and a good lunch at Como (by the pool).

Please I’ve wheeled those coolers in at least half the nice hotels in Vegas. If you don’t have a couple cases of beer iced down for a party in the suite you are doing it wrong.

**** asses from here would take some tubing/hose and extension cord and drag the whole ice maker to there room.

Yeah, it's bizarre how limited the food options are at Bellagio earlier in the day. That might change with the remodel / expansion though.

On the flip side, at least their Starbucks allows you to order on the Starbucks app which isn't accepted at Vdara/Aria. If you have Starbucks points to cash, it's massively +EV to cash it in there. My regular mocha ran 16 bucks if I didn't redeem points.

Apparently they're remodeling rooms in the main tower? I know the Spa tower they were or are in the process of remodeling.

What did you order from room service where it only came in a to-go bag?

$16 for a mocha? surely not

In fairness, it's usually $10.20 at a regular Starbucks. (5 shots of espresso)

I talked to Cosmo yesterday. Identity benefits are still good as long as you book before the end of the month. I'm booking my airport transportation today.

Confirmed. RIP Identity.