SECKART

Do NOT stay at this place. I stayed there for a weekend on a vacation, was "upgraded" to a suite according to front desk, had a cheesy, smelly room with mirrors on ceiling and all walls, circular bed and giant roman pillars in middle of room. Shower and bed appeared to be recently used-when I called to complain a maid came up with clean linens-who would stay in a room that looked like it had been used as a no-tell motel just hours before? Insisted on different room and ended up in basic room, which was fine, but airport is next door so it was hard to sleep at all. In addition, it is in a bad part of town, prostitution going on outside of the place, strip joints all around it and airplanes flying over your head all night. Stay at the Flamingo Hilton on the strip-there is a reason the Reno Hilton has $20 rooms, no one in their right mind would pay more for them!!!

AndrewM

The Flamingo Hilton is in Las Vegas.

AndrewM

BL1KITW

And I think the minimum bet to get basic comps is something like four hours of slot play per day at a 25 cent machine or four hours of blackjack at a $25 table. That makes buying the breakfast buffet for $6.99 not look so bad.



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BL1KITW

If you mean the Flamingo Hilton Reno (downtown), which became the Flamingo Reno, it is now the Golden Phoenix. The casino is closed for renovations (which means they're trying to find an operator who can get a gaming license).

The new owner is apparently operating on a shoe string. The electric "Flamingo" signs on the building have been covered with bed sheets and there is no signage with the Golden Phoenix name except over the entrance. They must be depending on bus traffic and not drive-ins. You can't find the place.

Either they are making the upgrades needed to turn the hotel into a Sheraton Four Points (so why invest in new electric signage in the interim), or the $19 room rates will remain their marketing tool on this eternal fix-er-upper.

Hilton (Park Place) must have really wanted out of this property. A $24 million sale fell through in 2000, and the new owner paid just $4 million for the place in 2001.

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QFAA

Thank you, thank you, thank you all.

I haven't lived in Reno since the early 1980s, when it was the MGM Grand -- a reasonable place back then.

I will SURELY stay at the Peppermill now, a nice little motel I remember from the 70s, with a great little coffee shop and about a dozen slot machines from memory.

Or has it changed?!

Really, just want to be close to Hubbard Field Airport and go jogging at Virginia lake!

Cheers!

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hedoman

You will not recgonize the Peppermill. It is in the same location, however.

And the Hilton isn't all that bad if you can book a cheap rate.

W-N

I'm not a fan of the hotel, but let's do a reality check. There is one small strip joint across the street. It's not even that easy to notice. Where did you see them all around? With regards to your comments about prostitution, I have never seen anything obvious at the hotel. How do you know all about it? Were you propositioned? Finally, there are only a couple of flights after midnight out of RNO. One is AA to DFW and FedEx is the other. Unless there was a late night military movement of personnel and equipment, such as after 9/11, which lasted for a week with a dozen extra flights, you could not have experienced what you stated.

I did not write this to offend, but exaggeration is not what we need on the board, IMHO.



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JoeDoakes

But those two advantages don't outweigh all the other disadvantages.

SECKART

It is interesting to note that someone stated that there are no flights after midnight out of Reno, my flight booked for next month gets in at 1:06 am on America West. My hotel experience priorly reported was in August 2000, so it is possible things have improved, I do encourage people to stay elsewhere though, but I guess there is no Hilton left there if the one on the strip closed down. I have decided to go with Embassy Suites in Lake Tahoe personally.

nako

Flights leaving an airport aren't the same thing as flights arriving. The HP flight you refer to (arriving after 1am from LAS) does not leave again until the morning. Even so, it's entirely possible that air traffic may arrive from the south, meaning that Hilton patrons may never see a plane land, let alone hear it.

Furthermore, even though the building is located next to the airport and to the right of the takeoff/landing path, I've heard less plane noise there than I have at some of the properties several miles from SFO.

Which is fine, if you're up for the 60-75 minute drive each way.

The point is - Reno Hilton is not the shining crown jewel in the Hilton family. It's not even the best place to stay in Reno. But to sit and say it's in a horrible neighborhood (it's not) full of hookers and strip joints (there is one strip joint across the street on the Glendale side, but that's about it) paints a picture which not only gives undue credit to this property, but, of more significance, to the city of Reno as a whole.

If you don't like it here, that's fine. Don't paint it to be the nasty place it isn't, though.

Mike

nako

I was downtown a couple of nights ago, and the sheets are now off of it. The ugly Flamingo pink lights aren't pink anymore - but that's the only real improvement to it.

They'd better get their casino open soon - I've got a feeling they won't last long without it.

Mike

aredtsg

I have stayed at the Siena, nice hotel with nice, but small, rooms. I recommend it - although you may pay a little more. Great restaurant too!
However, you may feel like you are buying a car when you check in because you have to sit down at a desk... wierd.

Jakester

"my flight arrives at 1:06am on America West."

I thought last call was 4am.

Eastbay1K

There's no such thing as "last call" in Nevada.

NCRBILL

Ok. I stayed at the hotel and I wasn't that disappointed. I was upgraded to what they call a suite, just an oversized room with two queen beds, couch, and chair, but I didn't ask for it, they just did it.

They do tell you about the phone calls but upon checkout, since I was a Diamond member, they removed all the $1.00 charges.

I was there only one night, my rate was $59.00 and wasn't that bad. I didn't see the bad things that were posted here but to tell you the truth, I didn't look that hard for them. I was in the area on business for one night and then off to home. Nothing bad and I still got the points.

Would I stay there again, yes.