This is our eighth stay here in the past 5 years. We have a 1 bedroom suite with a separate sleeping area and two TV's. This is one of the best hotels in Las Vegas if you want a quiet, casino-free hotel with spacious rooms, stove-top, microwave, dishwasher, and full-sized refrigerator. The hotel is 1 mile east of Las Vegas Blvd. The closest supermarket (Von's) is about 1 mile away at Twain and Maryland. There is a Super Walmart about 3 miles away on East Tropicana. There are numerous eating places a short walk away.

The location is good, especially at rush hour, as you can avoid a lot of the traffic in the area by going out through the Hughes Center rather than exiting directly onto Flamingo or Paradise. It takes less than 15 minutes to get to or from the central rental car facility using the Airport Connector via Paradise Road.

Breakfast is served daily but with the downturn in the economy the evening manager's reception has been reduced to Mondays and Tuesdays with a hamburger barbeque on alternating Wednesdays. They used to have all-day coffee and tea in the lobby but this has been reduced to mornings-only except when they have the evening reception. The evening food is still the best offered at any Residence Inn that we have stayed in with free beer and wine. The breakfast offerings were the same everyday.

One of the employees told me that with the current economic conditions in Las Vegas the hotel's management decided to cut back the free food offerings rather than reducing other services and laying off staff.

It is easy to get in and out of town from this hotel. The hotel is just about a mile from the strip, which is close enough. It is a quiet hotel with rooms typical of Residence Inns. The breakfast is better than most other RIs. Its proximity to several good restaurants is an added plus.

I liked our stay at this RI. It is a typical RI about a mile east of the strip. We were here just for one night and only spent about 5 hours sleeping after a night of gambling. Comfortable except for that it smelled a little funny at first but got used to it I guess. Stay there if you want to be close to the strip but do not want all the noise and craziness of the strip.

This hotel sits a mile or so from the strip off Paradise Road. The rooms are standard Residence Inn suites (nice and familiar to me). However, the hotel is much taller than most Residence Inn hotels and thus you are likely to have a good view from your room. I had a great view of the mountain ranges in the distance - beautiful.

The breakfast was the standard Residence Inn breakfast, with waffles, eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage, yogurt, cereals, toast, coffee, juices, etc...

My only complaint is that they keep leaving you messages asking you to join the Holiday Club, which I presume is a timeshare or something. I wouldn't expect to be bothered like that at a Residence Inn. I may have given 5 stars were it not for this.

One other thing, there is covered garage parking, which protects from the fierce desert sun (I visited in December so covered parking wasn't really a necessity.)

If I were visiting Vegas on vacation, there is no way I'd stay here, but for work it's perfectly suitable. It's too far from the strip that you need a car or need to cab it. Fortunately, there are plenty of cabs waiting right in front of the hotel at all hours ready to take you places.

By the way, the pool was unspectacular, but it was too cold to swim anyway.