Lynne B

Review of Paris Las Vegas

I was recently in Vegas for a convention and day t...

I was recently in Vegas for a convention and day trip excursions with my family. We planned to stay for an entire week, but ended up checking out early because we hated it so much.

1) Rooms: We were offered upgraded rooms at check-in for $50/night extra so we agreed. I would hate to see what the standard rooms looked like. There were two beds and a dresser, then all this space near the window, but not even a single chair. Really weird. Then there was an odd draft-like sound at the door, that would only stop if we placed a towel at the base of the door. Very annoying. My husband found an upright safety pin on the floor, and I found a long hair on the side of the lamp, very disgusting. Did not look like it had been cleaned recently. The alarm clock malfunctioned as well. There were dirty dishes lined up outside of the room across from ours . . . and were still there two days later. I finally notified the front desk about that issue when we requested the early check-out and they wanted to charge us for that. Luckily after informing them of all of the issues with the room they did not charge us.

2) Pool: The pool was very crowded and rather small for the amount of people. What really pissed me off was the fact that there were dozens of broken lounge chairs just sitting there. You could not raise them to an upright sitting position. Throw them away! The vinyl was peeling. They were really beat up. I wouldn't have something like that at my home, and this is supposed to be a resort? What is the high resort fee for?

3) Restaurants: This is probably the case with most hotels on the strip, but it was so expensive. We went for some late appetizers our first night there. We went to Hexx (will be doing a detailed separate review). The food was good, but it was $11 for a beer! I couldn't believe it. Me, my husband and son had lunch there the next day -- lunch for three of us was $100, and service was poor.

4) Poor service: We found similar service issues at the other restaurants in Paris/Bally corridor. Brassier Burger -- very rude. We sat at the side table in the bar area, and it took 15 minutes for a rude waitress to walk by and say "There's no service at these tables." No one else said anything, bartender included. Just let us sit there. We left of course.

My husband tried to order a special at a pizza shop at Paris. It was $14.99 for two slices and a beer. When he got up to the front of the very long line, they told him they didn't have any beer, so the special was no longer available. Great, well then why have the sign out?

5) Elevator issue: On our second day we purchased some items from the CVS which is not far from the hotel -- bottled water, snacks and beer, so we had a few bags we were carrying. All of the elevators malfunctioned, so we had to stand there for quite a while before they began working again. No employees were around. The place seems extremely understaffed.

6) Alternate plan: We ended up checking into Ellis Island hotel, just around the corner from Paris. So reasonably priced at $50 for an upgraded room on weeknights. I will be writing a separate detailed review about that visit. Much happier though. I would never stay on the strip again -- if we would even go back, which I doubt. It was so incredibly crowded all day and night. You could barely walk along the sidewalk. It was not pleasant.

7) Ambiance: It was very smoky and stale throughout Paris. Not just from smoke, but some stale bad food odors. It was gross.

8) Finally, if you are staying there, be prepared for a very long wait at check-in.