On second thought, let me reconsider that!
If I really want to go to Las Vegas and stay at one of the hotels I've never stayed in before, the following would have to be my choices:
A. The Reserve way out there in Henderson. I've never stayed at this place before, but I liked what I saw when I visited the casino shortly after it opened.
Each and every little slot machine had a little tag on it informing me that "This slot machine pays off real good!" And all the good folks who yacked about Las Vegas on this here Internet assured me that those little tags weren't lieing in the least.
So the day I was there to play, they must have been "exaggerating" just a little bit.
I think I'd like to stay at The Reserve if I was trying to hide from the FBI or American Express or my pretty famous mother-in-law.
It's way out there where good folks seldom seem to go!
B. The Hyatt Lake Las Vegas way out there beyond Henderson. I visited here but I did not stay. It's just not my type of place to whoop it up and raise some "heck". It's the kind of place where all the guests walk around with library books in their hands. And the casino is very small.
I hear they eat good here, but I think I'd fall asleep on the way to the restaurant.
I guess I'd like it here if I was really, really tired and wanted to catch up on my reading in a quiet casino atmosphere.
C. The Regent (Regency ?) Las Vegas. This place is no-where near Henderson but I don't think I'll be staying here neither. It tried to make an impression on me once by being way-way to expensive. And that never works at all.
I check in with a Safeway bag and the only room they had to offer was $325 a night. I informed them that I didn't want to buy the room. I just wanted to use it over night. But I guess they didn't believe me, so I proceeded elsewhere.
I guess there are lots of us Safeway luggage travelers in Las Vegas because that place seemed to just go downhill ever since.
D. Those little motels just east of Fremont Street, just on past the El Cortez.
Now I'm not a fancy guy by any means. I mean I've spent some wonderful nights in the Gold Spike and even less trendier places. So don't get me wrong, but I just have a difficult time selecting a motel where you can get hit by a passing truck one step outside the doorway.
Now it appears that these places have hired lots of homeless folks to stand at your front door and for a tip or two, they'll insure you are well protected every moment of the day, but it's still not the type of place I'd consider home for any period over a couple of hours or so.
E. Believe it or not but I've never checked into the Frontier on the Strip. Old or New or any name in between. And for the life of me, I don't know why.
I went there once to see Sigfried and Roy. They must have been teenagers then and I haven't gone back since.
F. The Debbie Rynolds Hotel/Casino. I regret I never stayed at this former place, but I never had the pleasure of seeing a room in Debbie's place with my eyes shut.
But I have to admit that I did see the casino. It was full of little gray haired ladies sitting at motionless slot machines waiting for Debbie or Rip to dance on by with handfuls of rolled up nickles, but that seldom happened, so I've been told.
Debbie's was the kind of place where you could look at a dress in a glass display that Debbie wore in a long gone movie. Not exactly a Picasso show by any means.
It was not much of a hotel/casino. Nothing really to brag about. Nothing spectacular happening. One of her X-husbands probably off-loaded it in a divorce settlement that she lost.
I never stayed there, but I wish I could admit otherwise just to say that I stayed there once upon a time while Debbie and Rip were stars.
G. And I've never stayed at the Westward Ho. My loss, I guess!
H. And let's include the Wild Wild West. I tried to check in once but the hotel receptionist was on a break or elsewhere holding up a stage!
I guess there's many more, but not too many "many more". I've been seeing hotel rooms in Las Vegas with my eyes tight shut for many, many years and the best and the worse all blend together and add to many nights and days of enjoyment in a town of many different abodes.
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