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Westward Ho Room 3207 posted 12/17/03
Dates:           Dec 12-13, 2003
Rate:            40/48
Recommend:       Yes
Agency: Call hotel directly
Amenities: Nothing much just towels, soap, shampoo, and plastic cups.
View: Parking lot and the next building.
Other: The room is clean, but old. I like the way that I can park my car in front of the motel style building and just go up one stair to my room. Index

Westward Ho Room 5292 posted 10/11/04

Room 5292 (I think, I can walk right to it, but I'm not 100% sure of the
number). It's the very last row back, all the way to the left (south)
end, top level, right ahead of the stairs as you walk up.

Check in had a LONG line which overflowed out of the small queue in the
back of the casino. Took about 1/2 hour waiting. :( We drove all the way
back to the room, and there was quite a bit of parking even though the
place looked very full. They do have a shuttle van on call, just phone
the desk and they will send it out to your room, but it's not that bad a
walk. The whole area is lit and well patroled, they have one guard kind
of walking a beat and another out at the entrance to the main parking
area. He did check our parking slip which they give you at the desk.

As for the room, I was pleasantly surprised, actually, or rather the
best surprise was no surprise, as somebody's commercial used to say. :)

Room description, well, let's see ... 2 double beds, TV, good reception
for the time we were in there, small tub/shower combo. I like a tub, and
I was expecting shower only. I swear the last time we stayed here it was
shower only. Nice vanity toward the rear of the room outside the bath.
Not really much room in the room, but enough for sleeping, changing,
getting ready, etc.

What you get bottles of, well ... generic shampoo and kind of a generic
lotion, along with bar soap, that's it. :)

As for decor ... uh, plain-label generic, white box all the way.
El-cheapo dresser, but no chips or gouges or legs missing. :) Mattress
was comfortable and semi-firm. Pillows were OK, white box special I'm
sure, and it took 2 of them to get comfortable.

The curtains on the window didn't really close all the way unless you
gave them a good tug. Some of the rooms up front had very nice privacy
screens on them, and I kind of assume they are gonna do all the rooms
that way eventually. I think this is about the only place in Las Vegas
that still has metal keys. Fortunately they don't have the room numbers
on them. Last time we stayed there, there were all kinds of scratches
and gouges around the doorknob, showing that somebody had once broken
in or at least tried it. This room had no marks like that, and the door
closed tightly and securely. This room was nicer overall.

I don't know if this was supposed to be nonsmoking or not. I don't
remember an ash tray in there, but I don't remember any circle-slash no
smoking icons either. We kinda figured checking in this late we would
get just anything they had. It didn't smell at all, either of stale
smoke or of cleaning/deodorizing stuff. One word description, spartan.

Only problem was on Saturday nite, actually early Sunday morning at who
knows what hour, I guess maybe 4:30 or so, somebody, maybe more than
one, stumbled up the stairs and ran right into our room door with a
thud, and then stumbled down the balcony to his room with a lot of
cursing. :) I hope he wasn't driving. :(

Overall, not bad for the price. If you're the kind who needs turn-down
service with a mint on the pillow, this is not for you. If you need all
kinds of space, this isn't for you. Definite step down from the newer
Stardust or Sahara towers, but a semi-step up from the old "dorm rooms"
out back at the Stardust years ago, which really were not that bad,
actually. If you want a clean and comfortable place just to sleep,
change, and clean up, this will do it. Index
 

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