09/13/08

Cheap price - you pay for what you get.

by Squid42

It's been a while since I stayed here and I realize this review is a bit late, but it was my one and only stay. Although the prices are fairly cheap, you can find better places to stay price to price (IE Excalibur). The rooms when I was there (2002) were fairly dated. We were awoken to someone on the emergency P.A. system with a speaker in the room at 6:00am that lasted at least an hour. I am not even sure they realized they were on the P.A. system with the manner they were talking. The rooms were basic and bland, and the hotel had very little to offer as far as entertainment, food, or casino. If you are looking for a cheap place to stay that is almost dead center of the Strip with cheap prices and little extras to offer then this place is for you.

• Pros: Cheap prices
• Cons: Cheap everything else.

03/21/08

Poor quality hotel, not worth the price

by areafire

I stayed here on a family vacation with my parents and sisters. A month in advance my father booked a room for him and my mother and a seperate room for myself and my sisters that was supposed to be 1 non-smoking room with a king bed and 1 non-smoking with 2 queen beds. The hotel required that he prepay for them. When we got there, the hotel instead gave us 2 rooms with 1 queen bed each without informing us that they had changed our reservations. When we got to our rooms and discovered they were wrong, we went to request a change for the second room. At first, they refused to change the rooms claiming they had no rooms left, and wouldn't explain why they hadn't upheld our earlier request. After half an hour of arguing with them they gave us another room with 2 queen beds only to have us discover it was a smoking room. Since I have asthma, this was an unacceptable solution. We had to argue with them again about what we had requested and for a $100 fee, they allowed us to change rooms again. The whole process took over three hours, keeping us up until 4:00 AM, we never received an apology, or any componsation for the trouble they caused. The rooms were dingy, the wall paper was peeling, and the restaurants were fairly expensive for poor quality food we received (at one restaurant there was hair in my food). I would not recommend staying here

02/28/08

Never Again

by casinodogg

i've stayed at the IP throughout the years but the last time I stayed there it was the worst experience ever. It seems it gets worse and worse everytime I'd go but I would grin and bear it because of the great rates. The rooms seem dirtier than ever. They need to remodel the entire joint. The worst part is the staff. the dealers are mean, the bartenders are mean and the cab guy is well an.... let me tell you what happened. I waited in the cab line to catch a cab with two other friends. the guy that opens the door and lets you in the cab hails a cab for us. as my party and I are boarding the taxi, i am reaching in my pocket to pull out a few bucks to give to this guy for his "service." well the guy has the nerve to close the door and stick his head through the passenger window, where im sitting, and sarcastically tell the taxi driver, "thanks for the tip, man. i appreciate it, thanks alot." obviously directed at me. well, i put those 2 bucks back into my pocket and told the driver to drive off. i couldnt believe this guy. im sure he is still there, white guys, very white kinda funny looking.

• Pros: cheap rates
• Cons: service, atmosphere