I've just landed back from a week in Vegas where we stayed at the Mardi Gras...had a very enjoyable stay.
The staff are friendly (although reception is normally manned by 1 person so can take time for you to to be seen) and food was very nice. Jerry, Jason and William provided us with an excellent, friendly service!
Location wasnt great but the shuttle took you to strip between 8am-11pm and the mono rail is $13 dollars per day which is handy.
The only thing I'd say which is a negative is about the surrounding area is slightly dodgy so just make sure if you miss the shuttle at night, you pay around $4 for a taxi as it's worth it.
Room was clean and cleaned for us daily, they have a handy man who cleans the pool each day and although the pool was a wee bit on the cold side, it was a blessing in the 100 degrees plus heat!
Would recommend to all that are looking for a budget hotel, don't have too many aires and graces and are prepared to stay around a mile off the strip

Where do I start? First, the hotel is in a poor location, meaning that you'd rather not stand outside more than necessary. Some of the other guests gave me the creeps as well. They said they were running a "free breakfast" promotion, but they only gave us two vouchers per room (we had two rooms) and there were five in our party. Extra people were $10, they said, so we just ate cold cereal in our rooms.

Continuing...the rooms didn't feel "level" (like a ball placed on the floor might roll off on its own), the AC and fridge were off when we got there, and their "energy saving" system where you have to leave your room key in a slot in the wall was a royal pain.

Worst of all, our room was on the 3rd floor and the only elevator (which was completely on the other side of the property) felt like a death trap. It was about 110 degrees in there (at 9pm), and the floor numbers didn't light up as we ascended, so we seriously started to worry if we were going to die of heat exhaustion before we got there. We ended up hauling the rest of our luggage up the stairs.

This was our first trip to vegas and like many others was a bit aprehensive after reading some of the other reviews.HOW WRONG THEY ARE. This is a great value for money hotel.The rooms are clean,tidy and spacious and all the staff are very friendly.(especially JERRY who works the bar and was so nice to us and JASON don't sit at his tables until he seats you...he goes nuts.but is a great bloke.) We travelled with family who had 2 small kids and nothing was a problem. The pool is freezing but once you get in out of the sun it's a blessing.We got married on the Monday and went back to the hotel later with family for drinks and looked after by all the staff very well.The only down side is the location to the strip,(monorail is $5 each per trip no matter how many stops),free bus to the strip is great. but only stops at Bally's and goes once an hour.Menu fine for evening meals but not enough choice for a light lunch.All in all a very enjoyable trip.Thanks to you all at the hotel.

After six trips to Las vegas this was the first one we stayed at several years ago. We got a good deal in April so went back for another week. Apart from the first trip all the hotels we have stayed at have been on the strip whereas this one is not. It is a small motel style hotel just off the strip with a shuttle bus every hour to one of the strip hotels. This is good and if the bus is filled the driver will return. It is also handy for the new monorail but this is extremely expensive and should be avoided until they see sense and drop the price. The hotel has good largew clean rooms with fridge and kitchen worktops. A small casino and an excellent swimming pool with sun loungers. The bar is cosy and the food first class. Turn left out of the door and it is a short walk to the excellent Encore and Wynne hotels and then onwards up the strip. Getting around is easy on foot or using the excellent and cheap 'The Deuce' double deckers. All in all Las Vegas is brilliant and the Mardi Gras is a great place to start.