I needed to stay in a local hotel the night prior to a scheduled five-day stay at Luxor. I looked online for the nearest hotel to the Luxor, big mistake!!! I called and should have realized this place had problems when the reservations clerk kept putting me on hold to answer the phone where I would hear her say "hey girlfriend, no I'm not busy what's happening.." before I'd be cut out. I figured she was just one employee with bad habits and eventually after 20 minutes of back-and-forth on hold repeatedly I was given a single room price of $174.40 for a Saturday night. Figuring it was near the Strip, I didn't collapse at hearing the price for a standard king bed room as most any hotel near or on the Strip will cost far more (or so I thought).

When I arrived on a Saturday, the room had a safe with no key, there was no toilet paper in the bathroom, the curtains were halfway ripped off the rod (literally ripped, not just fell off the metal clips) and the nonsmoking room reeked of tobacco. I went over to the office (separate building) and got another room and ended up having to sneak over the luggage holder and coffee supplies from the other room because the room I transferred to was missing those.

I didn't sleep very well as some drunk driver went up the curb at 2 a.m. and slammed into a few cars somewhere on the other side of the office building, never did find out if it was in the hotel parking lot or some other business nearby, but cops were everywhere. Later around 4 a.m. the police were in the parking lot below my door with their lights on and apparently pursuing/arresting someone below my window. They were parked behind my rental car, which made me nervous so I made sure to go down after they left to make sure it wasn't some sort of parking lot vandalism problem but nothing seemed to be amiss.

The next day, after 2 hours of solid sleep finally, I left and went to Luxor where I had a wonderful time for the rest of my vacation.

The thing that REALLY upset me about this Travelodge is that I found out later the following day there were two more Travelodge hotels on the Strip that had room prices for much less for a weekend night and had better security and were smack dab ON the Strip, one in the middle of the Strip even, with easy access to see things. The Travelodge I stayed at on Koval was a long walk to the Strip and had horrific security, bad rooms, police there constantly, hookers parading up and down Koval at all hours, and it cost $50 more per night compared to the other Travelodge hotels on the Strip. I think this Travelodge is a rip off also in that when I booked a standard room I was told flat out NO REFUNDS FOR ANY REASON after booking, even though I didn't reserve through an online packages site such as Expedia, etc., which now I realize means that many customers in the past have demanded a refund or credit, and I can certainly see why!!! I can't imagine that no refund would be given if someone were to cancel well in advance, but the reservation clerk told me it was this particular property's "policy."

All in all, do NOT make a reservation at this hotel. There are two other Travelodge hotels ON the Strip that are much better, cost far less on a weekend night (or any night for that matter, between $119 and $129 on a weekend night, way less than the $174 the Koval Travelodge charged me for a Saturday night) and don't have an insane "no refund" policy if you need to cancel in advance.

Let the buyer beware!