Originally Posted by
HoustonConsultant
Each time I'm in Vegas I think, "Hey, the Rio looks interesting. I should wander over there and look around.", and yet, I've never wandered over there.
I'm not sure globalist benefits would motivate me to stay away from the strip.
I don't even hop around from casino to casino very much, but I have some sort of psychological block with crossing 15.
Unless you can find a way to cross I-15 that also takes you ~15 years back in time, I wouldn't bother now, it's kind of a dump. Or was, the last time I set foot in there...
Originally Posted by
eponymous_coward
The Rio is a dump right now. I mean, it’s great to get a $19 room + tax and all, but the rooms I end up in for that $19, those rooms I get in the Masquerade Tower as a Caesars Diamond clearly haven’t been getting refurbished since the 1990’s- scratched furnishings, old plumbing, the look is really dated. The casino and pool are similar. I’m willing to put up with lot for a $19 room, so OK, but realize that’s what you’re getting, something that is very tired.
So if you want to go over and look at someplace that needed to be refurbished around 2005-2010, sure, go over. Otherwise I’d skip it until they fix the joint up.
... exactly. I stayed there a bunch in the early/mid 2000s and the base rooms were ok; the Masquerade Tower suites were really nice. I think maybe it went downhill when the Apollo bean counters took over? I needed to do a quick overnight stay once or twice in the 2009-2011 era and it was pretty sad, seemed like half the Ipanema Tower elevators were broken at any given time, etc.