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Lately I have been reading complaints about noise at high end and expensive places. Here is a summary of my own experience with noise at the low end places.
But quiet is the most important amrnity for me. And I want it all day and night. I often try to be in bed at 5 PM so I can get up at midnight and be fresh for late night live poker games that might go until 6 AM.
That is the smartest way to get good table selection. I am wide awake and rested. Everyone else is tried or drunk or both.
That next day I will have breakfast and then probably nap in the early morning. I skip most room service.
Once at the Quad (Imperial Palace) I asked for a quiet room and the clerk said those were all gone unless I wanted to pay to upgrade. Without an upgrade the music would go on half the night. The upgrade was more than my nightly charge.
I stayed noisy one night and the next day, very early in the morning, I went down to gently complain. I can play the old guy card and the sleep apnea card.
Since she was not busy, the very cute and accommodating clerk was sympathetic, unlike the old uptight hag at check in. The girl promised to move me later in the day.
Perhaps because I had two more bookings that trip and so my next question was about what strategy might insure a quiet room for the other two future bookings. That was when she moved me right away.
She also gave me the manager's name and personal number and told me to call a day ahead and tell him my difficulty. I called him on the next booking. I got quiet the second booking. I cancelled the last booking because I got a better deal elsewhere. I only played poker at the old IP so I was not a high roller, but I did have a nice low rate so perhaps I looked better than I was.
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At theRio it was those drums from the pool that drove me nuts, and then they tested them at 2 AM and woke me up. The second night I put on my noise reduction earphones. I never stayed there again, even for free.
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Most of my experience has been at off strip and downtown places. Downtown has the problem of the Freemont Experience but most of the time that does not affect daytime naps. Sometimes the band can be practicing in the daytime in an ally near the room.
Main Street Station has the train noises. High up and faced away helps. I think the California is quiet. The quietest rooms were once at the closed Gold Spike. I miss it.
Only once at the Four Queens I could not get my comped weekend rooms in the South Tower, but even there they put me in a room that ended up being quiet enough for my needs. I get 3 to 6 nights free a month. I may look like a better player than I am when I check in, but that Four Queens is my favorite place downtown.
My rooms at the D have always been quiet and I think that is pretty predictable because they are all in one tower.
Cabana at El Cortez have always been quiet for me. I read one post two trips back that there was some bar noise on a weekend night, but I stay on weekdays with theACG coupon and do the weekends nights free at Four Queens.
Tower rooms are quiet.
Vintage rooms are noisy due to thin walls, and once I had the worst night's sleep with dueling televisions playing on each side of me. Pavillion are very noisy for naps because the cleaners run those carts on the cement walkarounds and they sound like small trains, and then they shout at one another about nothing. But I think it is against casino rules to push them over the railings.
If quiet was more important than frugality or I wanted to be near the strip, and I was paying for the rooms, I'd opt for the Orleans. I've never had a noisy room there. I'd get a good day's sleep and be able to party all night The cab fare back from wherever I was on the main strip would still keep the room cost under those fancy upscale places. It is really cheap fromNYNY circle right on Tropicana. For a consistently nice, very clean, standard room the Orleans is my favorite. But downtown draws me because of the good VP pay tables.
I am betting Rumor Suites would be quiet.
I"ve always found quiet at Super 8 near Ellis and quiet at Gold Coast.
Out Boulder the Eastside Cannery is quiet and beautiful wall to ceiling glass offers great views. That whole casino is quiet. Except for Claudine Castro's show, however. That rocks. ¡Eso mola! But you don't hear it from the rooms.
At Sam's Town there are some rooms facing some noise from the light show, but I ask for quiet rooms faced away from that and an end room if they have it. End rooms are the best of both worlds. It is quiet even through the wall and yet I can play my television in the middle of the night because I won't disturb anyone on the other side of the wall.
I remember that Fiesta casinos used to be very quiet and I expect most Station casinos are quiet as well. And they have the best buffet prices.
Laughlin, when there is not a motorcycle rally, is very quiet.
In another venue I just got back from my first stay at Turning Stone.
New York's Turning Stone was very, very quiet and yet on Friday night there was a lounge that was rocking and packed with dancers. It was more like a nightclub with no cover and no drink minimum, and an area where an old guy could watch for a while without feeling out of place.
But quiet is the most important amrnity for me. And I want it all day and night. I often try to be in bed at 5 PM so I can get up at midnight and be fresh for late night live poker games that might go until 6 AM.
That is the smartest way to get good table selection. I am wide awake and rested. Everyone else is tried or drunk or both.
That next day I will have breakfast and then probably nap in the early morning. I skip most room service.
Once at the Quad (Imperial Palace) I asked for a quiet room and the clerk said those were all gone unless I wanted to pay to upgrade. Without an upgrade the music would go on half the night. The upgrade was more than my nightly charge.
I stayed noisy one night and the next day, very early in the morning, I went down to gently complain. I can play the old guy card and the sleep apnea card.
Since she was not busy, the very cute and accommodating clerk was sympathetic, unlike the old uptight hag at check in. The girl promised to move me later in the day.
Perhaps because I had two more bookings that trip and so my next question was about what strategy might insure a quiet room for the other two future bookings. That was when she moved me right away.
She also gave me the manager's name and personal number and told me to call a day ahead and tell him my difficulty. I called him on the next booking. I got quiet the second booking. I cancelled the last booking because I got a better deal elsewhere. I only played poker at the old IP so I was not a high roller, but I did have a nice low rate so perhaps I looked better than I was.
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At theRio it was those drums from the pool that drove me nuts, and then they tested them at 2 AM and woke me up. The second night I put on my noise reduction earphones. I never stayed there again, even for free.
**************
Most of my experience has been at off strip and downtown places. Downtown has the problem of the Freemont Experience but most of the time that does not affect daytime naps. Sometimes the band can be practicing in the daytime in an ally near the room.
Main Street Station has the train noises. High up and faced away helps. I think the California is quiet. The quietest rooms were once at the closed Gold Spike. I miss it.
Only once at the Four Queens I could not get my comped weekend rooms in the South Tower, but even there they put me in a room that ended up being quiet enough for my needs. I get 3 to 6 nights free a month. I may look like a better player than I am when I check in, but that Four Queens is my favorite place downtown.
My rooms at the D have always been quiet and I think that is pretty predictable because they are all in one tower.
Cabana at El Cortez have always been quiet for me. I read one post two trips back that there was some bar noise on a weekend night, but I stay on weekdays with theACG coupon and do the weekends nights free at Four Queens.
Tower rooms are quiet.
Vintage rooms are noisy due to thin walls, and once I had the worst night's sleep with dueling televisions playing on each side of me. Pavillion are very noisy for naps because the cleaners run those carts on the cement walkarounds and they sound like small trains, and then they shout at one another about nothing. But I think it is against casino rules to push them over the railings.
If quiet was more important than frugality or I wanted to be near the strip, and I was paying for the rooms, I'd opt for the Orleans. I've never had a noisy room there. I'd get a good day's sleep and be able to party all night The cab fare back from wherever I was on the main strip would still keep the room cost under those fancy upscale places. It is really cheap fromNYNY circle right on Tropicana. For a consistently nice, very clean, standard room the Orleans is my favorite. But downtown draws me because of the good VP pay tables.
I am betting Rumor Suites would be quiet.
I"ve always found quiet at Super 8 near Ellis and quiet at Gold Coast.
Out Boulder the Eastside Cannery is quiet and beautiful wall to ceiling glass offers great views. That whole casino is quiet. Except for Claudine Castro's show, however. That rocks. ¡Eso mola! But you don't hear it from the rooms.
At Sam's Town there are some rooms facing some noise from the light show, but I ask for quiet rooms faced away from that and an end room if they have it. End rooms are the best of both worlds. It is quiet even through the wall and yet I can play my television in the middle of the night because I won't disturb anyone on the other side of the wall.
I remember that Fiesta casinos used to be very quiet and I expect most Station casinos are quiet as well. And they have the best buffet prices.
Laughlin, when there is not a motorcycle rally, is very quiet.
In another venue I just got back from my first stay at Turning Stone.
New York's Turning Stone was very, very quiet and yet on Friday night there was a lounge that was rocking and packed with dancers. It was more like a nightclub with no cover and no drink minimum, and an area where an old guy could watch for a while without feeling out of place.