Las Vegas guide and MSE thread 2013

Iwork2shop

We had 5 nights at the Flamingo and as we were a party of 6 we had 3 rooms. We were placed in the same tower but different floors (floors 7, 8 and 9). We could hear the construction work in all 3 rooms. I asked if I could move rooms and the staff at the reception were very helpful and moved us to the 18th floor where we overlooked the garden. We could still hear the construction work though, but not as badly. The others in my party didn't want to go to the trouble of moving rooms (their choice) so stayed where they were.

Other problems include the fact that the room on the 9th floor didn't get cleaned until 6pm. Using the breakfast voucher was so difficult because of the long queues and the extremely unhelpful staff (I get particularly annoyed when staff look at each other and roll their eyes at one another when I am being served!)

I could hear everything that went on in the room next door due to the poor sound quality. I'll leave what I heard to your imagination....

A friend of mine arranged for 2 parcels to be delivered to the hotel by UPS for me to pick up and take back home for her. I went to the UPS desk and had to pay a $16 collection charge. When I told my friend this she checked with UPS who said that the $16 was down to the hotel adding an admin fee!

Having said all that though the buffet was very good, even though at nearly $30 it is very expensive (but if you buy a $2 ticket from the half price ticket booth this is knocked down to $20)

photome

Iwork2shop wrote: »

We had 5 nights at the Flamingo and as we were a party of 6 we had 3 rooms. We were placed in the same tower but different floors (floors 7, 8 and 9). We could hear the construction work in all 3 rooms. I asked if I could move rooms and the staff at the reception were very helpful and moved us to the 18th floor where we overlooked the garden. We could still hear the construction work though, but not as badly. The others in my party didn't want to go to the trouble of moving rooms (their choice) so stayed where they were.

Other problems include the fact that the room on the 9th floor didn't get cleaned until 6pm. Using the breakfast voucher was so difficult because of the long queues and the extremely unhelpful staff (I get particularly annoyed when staff look at each other and roll their eyes at one another when I am being served!)

I could hear everything that went on in the room next door due to the poor sound quality. I'll leave what I heard to your imagination....

A friend of mine arranged for 2 parcels to be delivered to the hotel by UPS for me to pick up and take back home for her. I went to the UPS desk and had to pay a $16 collection charge. When I told my friend this she checked with UPS who said that the $16 was down to the hotel adding an admin fee!

Having said all that though the buffet was very good, even though at nearly $30 it is very expensive (but if you buy a $2 ticket from the half price ticket booth this is knocked down to $20)

Sorry not trying to be awkward but there doesnt seem much to complain about there, and thanks for replying

They let you move rooms to escape the noise.

Its very hard to get 3 rooms on the same floor when you want 3 rooms we have not managed it at either CC or MGM.

Lots of hotels have thin walls, most hotels I have stayed in in Vegas I have heard "noises" from next door

You could have expected the room to be cleaned earlier than that and they probably would if you had asked. Our room at Pallazzo wasnt cleaned till very late in the day.

If the breakfast voucher was for use at the buffet the lines at Flaming buffet are always very long, no excuse for ignorant staff though

As for the $16 charge maybe other hotels charge an admin fee, I wouldnt know have never had anything delivered to a hotel.

I wouldnt be knocking the Flamingo on those experiences

EDIT did you get a GO room

ratkarth

pebblesmax wrote: »

It doesn't put me off one bit. Bad things happen everywhere. I will be there in four weeks time too.

im not being funny
bad things happen all the time
but the general rule was the strip was safe and don't venture from this
recently though the past 12 months the strip has had many incidents of murders/deaths/shootings/assaults
im not being funny but put it into perspective top of my head i recal about 10 murders now in the past 4 months occouring on essentially one road!

Iwork2shop

Don't know if I got a GO room but the room on the 18th floor was exactly like the one we had on the lower floor. The whole hotel has a tired look about it.

Expectations in hotels is a personal thing. For the price I paid I didn't expect absolute luxury but I think from the building noise alone (which starts at 5.30am on the dot) this is NOT a hotel I would recommend or consider revisiting.

neobis

ratkarth wrote: »

im not being funny
bad things happen all the time
but the general rule was the strip was safe and don't venture from this
recently though the past 12 months the strip has had many incidents of murders/deaths/shootings/assaults
im not being funny but put it into perspective top of my head i recal about 10 murders now in the past 4 months occouring on essentially one road!

You are being paranoid.

In any large city this happens all the time.

P.S - In fact you should stay at home and transfer your Vegas booking to me

photome

ratkarth wrote: »

im not being funny
bad things happen all the time
but the general rule was the strip was safe and don't venture from this
recently though the past 12 months the strip has had many incidents of murders/deaths/shootings/assaults
im not being funny but put it into perspective top of my head i recal about 10 murders now in the past 4 months occouring on essentially one road!

One road that is miles long and averaged 110000 visitors every day in 2011 so not your typical street, and most of those incidents happened very late at night.

neobis

Iwork2shop wrote: »

Don't know if I got a GO room but the room on the 18th floor was exactly like the one we had on the lower floor. The whole hotel has a tired look about it.

Expectations in hotels is a personal thing. For the price I paid I didn't expect absolute luxury but I think from the building noise alone (which starts at 5.30am on the dot) this is NOT a hotel I would recommend or consider revisiting.

By the sounds of it you were not in a GO room however I also agree with photome.

You asked to move away from the noise and you were.

I have stayed at the Flamingo numerous times and never had a problem with any of the staff or rooms (that said I have always stayed in a GO room or better - strip view).

photome

Iwork2shop wrote: »

Don't know if I got a GO room but the room on the 18th floor was exactly like the one we had on the lower floor. The whole hotel has a tired look about it.

Expectations in hotels is a personal thing. For the price I paid I didn't expect absolute luxury but I think from the building noise alone (which starts at 5.30am on the dot) this is NOT a hotel I would recommend or consider revisiting.

A GO room is very pink and are the nicer rooms, with a TV in the bathroom mirror , they can be got with the $20 trick if you are lucky.

I agree that the communal areas do look a bit tired and also agree about the construction noise.

Location is still impossible to beat for the price unless you go to IP/Quad and if you think Flamingo was bad you really dont want to go there

ferf1223

Iwork2shop wrote: »

A friend of mine arranged for 2 parcels to be delivered to the hotel by UPS for me to pick up and take back home for her. I went to the UPS desk and had to pay a $16 collection charge. When I told my friend this she checked with UPS who said that the $16 was down to the hotel adding an admin fee!

That's standard for hotel business centres in Vegas...prices are available online or by calling...they also charge an admin fee for posting from the business centre...we've done it before at Paris/Bally's and Caesars when we couldn't be bothered to go to a post office - maybe lazy and not very MSE, but usually we post pretty big boxes of stuff and if we're walking by the business centre to get to the car anyway - and we're saving so much by posting to the US from the US and not from the UK anyway...we sometimes decide it's worth it to pay $10 or $20 (price is usually based on weight) to not have to go to the post office.

rooms being cleaned late is usually down to a busy check-out day and/or being late out of the room...we've stayed places where if we're up and out early the room is cleaned early...but if we're lazying about until midday then go out - it's much later when they make their way back to us (I'm sure at Wynn or Encore once we went out about noon, got back about 6 and thought we had missed our slot as the room had not been made up - but we left again and got back about midnight and the room had been cleaned in the interim)...to be honest, I wouldn't be that fussed if our room wasn't cleaned until 6pm...it wouldn't really make a difference to our day at all - but maybe it would for some.

traveller

Hi,
has anyone stayed at the Golden nugget? I'm considering staying here for a night for the novelty of the shark pool and also they do cabanas that are well priced. We will be staying at the signature, but as it's me and 3 children, we cannot get a cabana at mgm as rather than charge a fee, they want a big spend on drinks ect (i've been told approx $300) which we would never reach. I have a Landry select card, so apparently i should get an upgrade, but really we only want the room as a changing room, so not bothered about the best digs, or anything,lol. I want the cabana as a birthday treat in August.Thanks.