Cheap. Positives end here.
Monday, July 03, 2006
I got the room in Tropicana much cheaper than any other place on the Strip would offer... But the place had ups and downs.
Ups:
- good price;
- convenient location;
- clean room, lotsa mirrors all around (above the bed too);
- oversize bath;
Downs:
- The line for check-in is long. No, Lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-on-n-n-ngg-g-g-g. If it takes you less than 45 minutes to check in, you're lucky (and you're probably checking in at 4am).
- they charge $2 on top of the room price for 'any in-room calls'. I showed them my cell phone with a national plan and told them they can take the phone out of my room, for all I cared. They still made me pay $2. WHY?!?!
- no coffeemaker in the room.
- gym isn't free (that's the first hotel that did that to me!)
- In order to get to your room, you have to navigate through a casino floor, which requires the dead reckoning skill of ancient polynesians: nothing indicates where anything is, and there's a heavy smoke all around.