We arrived early for our weeks stay at the DRI Polo Towers, 11/1 thru 11/8, Resort in Las Vegas. Our room was ready, woo hoo.. Although it was on the fourth floor it still had a view of the strip, along with the Center City Construction site across the street, We’re tired and try and rest a bit. It was the only pool day for our week, according to the weather forecast. So we hit the pool and hot tub for a few hours.. Because if the Legionnaire disease scare, the concierge moved over to the Marriott. We arranged our Hoover Dam Discovery tour with the Air ride over the Grand Canyon and bought tickets for “Jersey Boys”. They offer you nice incentive, tickets to “Phantom” for a 90 minute sales pitch for the Marriott Time-share. It wasn’t a hard sale, but they did tag-team us.. We said NO, but the Marriott was very nice.

Opinion of the 1 Bedroom suites:
For the amount of time we spent in the room.. Basically from 10:00 pm until about 9:00 am, the rooms were very nice.. Adequate is the word I’d like to use, but I’ll use nice instead. Plenty of electrical outlets, two nice TV’s and a very comfortable bed. Upon check-in, the front desk gives you a room inventory sheet to check off.. Please make sure you do as there were discrepancies from what is on the sheet compared to what was actually in our room. What’s missing, in my opinion, is the Weather Channel on the TV. The only complaint was that we had asked for more soap and shampoo from the daily housekeeping service, but it was never left.. We had to call down to front desk when we were completely out… Also, check out the folder of information they give you.. The rooms are not cleaned everyday, only replace towels and make bed. That schedule is in the information folder given at check-in.

OK, chicken littles, the sky is not falling! We received a phone call a few days before arriving at Polo Towers informing us of the 4 cases of Legionnaire's disease over the past 12 months. Educated ourselves via the internet about the disease. Phoned the doctor for recommendation. All systems are go. We stayed at Polo Towers, loved the staff, the room, the location, the amenities. Have been to Vegas numerous times, will go many more times and hope to stay at Polo again.

We stayed in the studio suite. The room was nice! It was just enough room for my husband and me. It is right behind a few stores so you can just walk to the strip and get in all the action! This is our 4Th time to Vegas and we will definitely stay at Polo Towers again. The pool is so nice. They have these nice cabanas there but they are first come for serve. We really loved the extra security that they had... you have to use your room key to use the elevator.

My husband and I belong to Diamond Resorts Intl. Timeshares and made this reservation through them many months ago for a 1-bedroom suite for 10-23-08 thru 10-28-08 for my husband's birthday. The Polo Towers was one of their top-rated resorts. The day before we were to fly out, we received a phone call from the Polo Towers telling us about the Legionnaire problem. They did not volunteer to put us in another hotel, but they did say that we may want to get on the web and read about Legionnaire's and if we fell into any of the "high risk" categories of possibly getting it, we may want to postpone our trip to a future date. When I got on the web, it said people who are at high risk are the elderly (which we don't consider us that yet - we are in our early 40's), people who smoke (neither one of us have ever smoked), or people with a low-immune system (and neither one of us as far as we know have that), so we decided to go ahead and still go. We also doubted if the airline would let us change our flights to a future date without a huge penalty and we didn't know if Diamond Resorts Intl. would give us our timeshare points back if we didn't go and even if they did, we would have had to have used them before the end of the year or lose them, and both my husband and I have jobs that are not very easy to get time off of, so these were also reasons we decided to go ahead and go. We decided that when we got there and talked with the Polo Towers directly, if we thought it was too bad, we would ask them to move us or we would just go somewhere else on our own. When we got there, we were pleasantly surprised. It looked very clean and there were all kinds of young and old people wandering about the lobby and going in and out of rooms and the desk clerks were very calm and laid back. The only thing was that they were not very informative about the Legionnaire's scare. I tried to ask them specific questions and they just kept telling me to read the info packet they handed to me. It didn't really say too much except for that 4 cases had been reported to them of people who had stayed there that had contracted Legionnaire's - 2 from last year, and 2 from Sept/Oct. of this year. They said that Nevada Health & Environment were aware of it and that the Polo Towers had started treatment for it. Well, we decided to go ahead and stay. We checked into our room which was very nice. It had a king-size bed in the bedroom which was very comfortable along with a TV, closet with safe, and a small balcony (if you could call it that). It was just a very small 6 x 10 concrete area - room for one chair - if you sat in the chair, you couldn't see over the concrete. We had a view of the parking lot. The only noise we heard was the trash truck that came by early in the morning and I can't remember now, but I don't think it was every morning, just a couple of days during our 5-night stay. The bathroom was large with just a regular tub/shower combination and single sink, but with a large countertop. We did take short showers and left the doors to the bathroom open while showering so as not to make steam (don't know if this really helped with the Legionnaire's or not). There was also a very strong chemical smell coming from the water, which we assumed was the chemicals they were using to treat it. It smelled something like chlorine. The living room had a TV, stereo, couch, and chair and the kitchen had a full-size frig, stove, and microwave. Our TV wasn't working right when we got there, so we called Maintenance and they had it fixed immediately. We had rented a car also and talked to the valets a lot when we would drop off or pick up the car. They were very helpful and nice. The store they have inside the hotel is small, but has everything you might need - bottled water (which we drank instead of the faucet water), aspirin, eyeglass screwdriver, snacks, etc. (some of the things we purchased) and the people working in it were very nice too. We went up to the roof-top pool/hot tub one day just to see what it was like. It looked nice - kind of small, but nice. All in all, it was a good trip, as long as we don't end up getting the Legionnaire's. The web said you should see signs of it within 2-14 days after exposure to the bacteria and we have been home now for 13 days and so far, we are both fine. I would have strongly recommended this hotel to anyone if Legionnaire's wasn't a factor, but it is really up to you personally if you want to stay here until they get the problem fixed.