Circus Circus breakfast buffet. I know what some of you are thinking (all right, most of you), that who goes to the CC bb anyway?
Well, I used to like this hotel. I've had widely varying experiences in the last two visits, but there is some residual affection from years past, when it was IMO pleasant.
On this past visit, at the breakfast buffet, all the glasses put out in racks by the juice/soft drink dispensers had greasy smudges on them and many had food particles still under the rim. I'm not talking about a fingerprint here or there. I'm talking about broad streaks of thick greasiness. Every single glass that I checked was dirty.
When I saw the greasiness on the sides of the glasses and the food particles under the rim of the glasses, and that every glass that I had checked had the problem, I mentioned to a busboy going by that all the glasses were dirty, and he, um, gave me a dirty look and said, "I know."
Finally I found a stack of styrofoam cups and poured juice into a styrofoam cup. The "juice" was almost the color of water, but I found a use for it anyway. Back at the table, I used the watery juice (which looked like water except somewhat discolored) not to drink but to wipe my fork.
Surprisingly, none of the other diners appeared to notice the greasy glasses. There were even some business types, or at least well-dressed middle-class people, there, taking the glasses without noticing.
If you "dine" here, be prepared to wipe the cutlery--and use the styrofoam cups. (About the sanitation of the food itself, who can say? Probably much better, y'know.
) I heard one complaint days later, as we waited for a plan home, that the food at the CC buffet was cold. I suppose it was, but that is a much lesser complaint, IMO.