There is a bar next to one side of the motel that plays loud music until 12:30 am (or it did so when we stayed there Saturday night 3/24/07). Their AC was down on the third floor we reserved; we had the option of 1st floor AC or 3rd floor no AC - we chose 3rd floor to avoid upstairs noise but no one mentioned the bar with the music next door. The area is a little creepy. When we checked out the attendant must have taken offense when I said "We're checking out and we're here to pick up the $10 deposit for the key" b/c she made several rude comments about how she knew that and "here's your oh so important $10." Geez. For one night in Vegas it's not worth saving $40 for terrible service in a questionable area. Look on Paradise Avenue - it's just a few blocks and much nicer places.

Excellent value we stayed for one night which being a Saturday was very expensive on the Strip but cheap here. It is just off the Strip along from Wynns and overlooks the Hilton. Lovely clean room with kitchenette which would have been excellent had we stayed longer.

So it's not the Wynn, I still loved it and will stay at the Somerset again. The rooms were large and clean. I never expected to find a room with a built-in kitchen with stove and oven, or the incredible in-room details of vintage, yet simple, space-age light fixtures. Perhaps I'm too easily amused by old-Vegas detail, like the bottle opener installed beneath the bathroom doorknob, but I really enjoyed this place. It's a time warp and very well-maintained which is evident from the roadside and the motel's incredible, enormous, and impeccably-maintained neon signage. There is a bit of owner-pride at this establishment. Sure it's rough around the edges, but you can't beat the price or that old-Vegas style.

There is no thermostat, meaning that your room is either too hot or too cold. The motel's cheap idea must be to force you to turn off the heat or AC so as to save electricity. The hallway carpets and stairwell emitted a mild odor; the sink drain was rusting; footsteps above my room thundered through a poorly-constructed ceiling; 6:00 A.M. garbage trucks rousted me in my sleep; and the management lost my reservation (bad news during a convention). While the price and location compare favorably with that of other hotels near the LVCC, your experience there will not. Get this: owner Irwin Kishner is a board member of the Nevada Hotel and Lodging Association, which must have an "anything goes" policy. Las Vegas is a city of a wide choice of hotels, and there is no reason for you to be at the low end of the scale.