Not a great value
First off I had a great time Gambling, The casino itself is VERY nice, quite elegant - but when it came time to go to my hotel room, things changed. I stayed in a smoking room with two queen sized beds for $149.95.
This room was far from comfortable - I don't know what the other guys are talking about!
The first thing I noticed is that the lighting was absolutely terrible. They used 25 watt Florissant light bulbs in all the lamps, except the bathroom which was lit better, but still lacking. Even over the coffee pot area there was zero light as it was in it’s own dark corner, it was terrible. Why there would be zero light where there is water and electricity involved is beyond me. The room was dark enough that I couldn’t really tell if the room was really clean or not. It looked clean, but in that lighting who could really tell. There was no microwave, nor refrigerator. When I called to the front desk to ask where they were, I was told “I can bring you a little refrigerator for $15 a night, but we have no microwaves, as we expect you to eat in our restaurants”. Well, sounds like these guys are pretty smart, I can’t argue with that. Right away I noticed that not one of the metal trash cans had bags in them, so I was subject to other people germs and such. Nothing is as gross as a snotty trash can! Actually, this was the very first time I had encountered this little issue – EVER! I have traveled the world, and wow - even hostiles even have trash can liners! These trash cans looked pretty skanky to say the least. Cigarette ash residue and all kinds of other unknown goodies were there to be had. When I opened up the TV cabinet, the doors would not even open up all the way, so you had to be almost directly in front of the TV. The problem with that is that the good viewing area was “in-between” the beds! I have never been in a room so poorly designed in my life. You had to lay on the edge of the beds to see the whole TV properly. Anyone laying in the middle or the other side of the bed would have a door in the way of their view. Then comes the size of the TV, it might have been a 25” set on a good day, but it was more like a 20”. The TV was old school and not even a flat screen, this TV was ghetto! However, they at least had a bunch of great movie channels. I had to move the easy chair in-between the beds to really watch TV like a normal person. Now on to the one easy chair in the room, (a room supposedly meant to sleep four people, thank heavens I was by myself). It was the cheapest most uncomfortable chair I have ever experienced in a hotel room. Even $50 rooms have better chairs than this. I had to take a pillow and put it in my lower back to make it even livable. The alarm clock was an absolute joke. And in keeping with the low light policy, I couldn’t see the clock even in the dark as the back lighting was so dim. I woke up at 3:00 a.m. and looked at the alarm clock and had to get up and get about four feet in front of it to even see the time. Just pathetic! The air conditioner was screwed up, and would not work properly. It would start up, and then turn off all the time before it got down to the set temperature. I actually slept with only the sheet because I was sweating so much. I slept in the bed closet to the windows so that I would be able to be a little cooler with an open window. By far the nicest part of this room was the bathroom area. It had much better lighting, but the vent did not work - and for a smoking room, this was not cool. However, the towels were extremely plush and nice. The shampoo and soap were also very nice. They even had four glasses for everything, letting me know that one could expect to have four people in this room (still a mystery as to why there was only one chair in the room). It had a very nice shower curtain. I was really surprised that there was a light in the shower above you, and that is rare. So nice to take a shower in real light. This room was a bad deal for $149.95!