After a bad experience at a striip hotel ( no A/C ), we checked out of that hotel, and into the Holiday Inn, (we visited out friends the next day at the Westin, and they still had no A/C in the lobby, the restaurants, casino and lounge. We never noticed any airplane noise, but we always carry several pair of earplugs, anyway. We rested so well after the HOT room at the Westin. (the Westin employees said that it had been hot for about three days prior to our arrival, also) We had a lovely stay at the Holiday Inn and would now consider staying there next time.

We chose this hotel for its close location to the airport and car rental depot. We were going to start touring the next day and just wanted a convenient hotel where we could park easily outside. At the time of booking, we could have got a Strip hotel for fewer $, but who wants to park half a mile away from your room for just a one night stay?

The king size bed was divinely comfortable and very clean. We made full use of the free internet access, as, having flown from the UK with an 8 hour time difference, we were up a few hours before breakfast was served at 6 am!

The breakfast itself was good with all the usual fare of bagels, cereals, muffins etc plus some hot items.

If you are travelling from the UK a word of caution if you are taking SatNav with you and hiring a car. It took a long time for our new TomTom to kick in (next day in fact) and so I was glad I had printed out instructions of how to get to the hotel.

The next week when we returned to Las Vegas we were confronted by the traffic horrors afforded by the Strip area, but thankfully, this hotel saved us from that on our first night. We got exactly what we wanted.

Found this hotel to be just what we had hoped for. Speedy check in, pleasant staff, nice room, clean hotel, good pool and hot tub (virtually had it to ourselves). Breakfast was good, Freshly baked cookies at 16:00 hrs. Shuttle service was always on time, every 30 mins to Mandalay Bay and every hour to MGM. The only problem with this service is at night when the shuttle may have to make more than one journey due to numbers so expect to have to wait sometimes. If you don't have a car as we didn't then you have to go to the strip to eat as there is nothing close. There is a gas station near which sells drinks and snacks though. There was some plane noise but it never bothered us. Would recommend this hotel if you want to be away from the strip.

On the day of my arrival I called to request an early check in for my 2 rooms, I was told I could check in @ 10:30 am! I was really happy and didn't expect such an early check in, I was thinking I would be able to check in around 1pm. We arrived at 11:30 am, and got all of our luggage out of the car. The woman at the desk just stared at us, didn't even greet us or wlecomed us. We told her we were checking in, she immediately responded by saying "Oh no, we don't have any rooms available right now!" I told her that I had called earlier that moring and was given an early check in, she did not believe me and asked who I spoke to. I told her I spoke to a man around 8:30am, she looked to her sides and said, "NO, I have no rooms available right now, give me 20 minutes and I'll check you in!" We sat in the lobby for 30 minutes. After waiting, we got all of our luggage out of the car and walked towards the front desk again. The man who promised me an early check was there, and we asked why did he guaranteed an early check in? His response was, "Maybe, I said you would get an early check in." I asked again what time we could I check into my rooms. The man in the front desk replied, "45 mintues to an hour!" So then, I walked around for about 2 1/2 hours in the scorching sun, after a 5 hour drive, which wore out my 5 year old son. We went back to the hotel again and they told us the same thing, "may be in an hour!" At this point my entire family decided to change our reservations to another hotel which was much more friendlier and proffesional. The sad part out of all of this is that it wasn't just us that they were rude to. We witnessed how a couple tried to check out but the man at the desk would not give them a receipt because they had checked in earlier that morning. The front desk clerk kept telling the guest that he didn't have to check out until the next morning, that there was no way he could get a receipt. But as soon as the guest that wanted to check out said I'm paying cash, the clerk said Ohh, OK let me check you out!!! What was that about? CASH ONLY?! Management needs to have a talk to the employees about their customer service skills. I mean this man was talking on his cell phone in a loud voice at the front desk! I AM NEVER GOING BACK TO THAT PLACE, NEITHER ARE MY CUSTOMERS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS!