Aria Hotel nice standard room tour + inside scoop
Aria calls all their standard rooms ‘deluxe’ but some are much better than others & here’s the scoop on how to get a great standard room at Aria. I learned about this the hard way because the front desk put me in an awful room on the 21st floor that was a 5 minute walk from the elevator! At check-in, they’d told me that no Strip View rooms were available (Aria calls them City Views) so they gave me a Mountain View room – yeah right. After walking along too many branching hallways, I finally got to the room & the only view was of 2 ugly skyscrapers! So I called the front desk & told the clerk I wanted a better room but she rudely said that’s not possible today & a City View will cost $30 extra per night so I said transfer me to the front desk manager. The manager was much nicer & I told him how I made the reservation on the phone & requested a strip view & was not told that would cost extra. I also said at Encore, the newest 5 star hotel, they don’t charge extra for a strip view and that’s when the manager told me “Your room change is free” . My new room was on the 34th floor which is a nice compact floor with elevators & ice machine close to all – completely different than the endless 21st floor! So I explored the hotel & discovered this ugly truth: From the 3rd thru 25th floors, Aria is one massive building with too many rooms per floor serviced by just one elevator bank. Above the 25th floor, Aria splits into 2 towers: one for Aria & the other for the pricey Sky Suites …
sw33tgurl77 on May 26, 2010 Said:
Whew I am sooooo glad I watched this! I think I will be going back to the Encore or Venetian. Thank so much for the video.