4 years ago
Stayed here for 5 days as part of a work conferenc...
Stayed here for 5 days as part of a work conference. The resort itself is very nice. Is clean and very modern, which i appreciate as I really don't like the older run down hotels on the strip.
The rooms are large and comfortable. The beds are great and the curtains actually make the room dark, even in the middle of the day. The bathroom was large and clean. The room was also really quiet, which in Vegas is something you definitely grow to appreciate as there are not a lot of places you can go for peace other than your room.
The conference facilities are good as well. Although you need to prepare yourself to walk a lot if you're attending a conference here. Our conference was very large and i used the entire conference centre. It meant there was a lot of walking between floors and the east and west conference centre. Over the course of the day it wasn't uncommon for me to hit 10,00 steps and walk about 6kms just within the conference hall itself.
As beautiful as this resort is there are a few little things that bugged me:
1) The hotel brags about how you can control the hotel room using a tablet that is on the bedside table of every room. As a bit of a tech nerd i love these touches. However, in my room at least, the tablet rarely worked. It would turn itself off constantly and when you tried to turn it back on it would need to reboot about 5 times before it would stay on. When you go to sleep at night and turn the screen off the screen would light up about once an hour and light up the whole room. I don't understand how a tablet that i can't get to turn on properly in the day could turn itself on in the night repeatedly.
2) There is a serious dust issue, at least in my room that is. I believe the issue is coming from the AC unit as it looks like they tried to stuff a big filter into it. I can't image what it would have been like before they did this. The bedside tables, desk, lamps, etc were all covered with a layer of dust each day.
3) There are not a lot of options if you just want a quick small meal or fast food. There is one burger place in the hotel. Otherwise you're going to be walking over to the strip to grab something.
All in all I would definitely stay here again. I'd like to think issues 1 & 2 listed above were just in my room and that if i were to stay again i would not experience them again. I've stayed at a lot of hotels in Vegas and I think this is one of the better ones. Its certainly one of the best, if not the best, of all the MGM properties in Vegas.