[vpFREE] Re: MGM City Center and Aria--VPO

We went there last week after parking in the Bellagio parking garage. I was surprised how far it was to walk from that garage to the Aria casino (even taking the tram). And the casino was way too dark the day we were there. A friend with us has very weak vision and could barely make out anything inside the casino ... we had read there where skylights ... where were they? But its hard not to be impressed by the huge scale of everything as you walk from space to space. Later, after sunset, I walked alone back to Bellagio to get my car and drove to the Aria valet area on the second level. As I left, knowing I needed to go down one level, I drove down the nearest ramp ... wrong! That is the entry to the valet lot. Backing up, I circled around and exited down the next down ramp. Wrong again! That left me going west away from the strip. I still don't know if there is a way to exit Aria and go east. The signage was poor I thought.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mikeymic" <mikeymic@...> wrote:
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, gmblnmn <nktalbrch@> wrote:
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> > I agree completely. The parking garage entrance is an accident waiting to
> > happen. The casino is a dark cave/maze with glowing monitors and poor
> > layout. The volume on some of the slots is set to "stun." Made me want to
> > get out of the building ASAP. I really hate that the development was
> > allowed to hijack the sidewalk on the west side of LV Blvd in the same way
> > that Harrah's did between Harrah's and IP. Perhaps the rooms make up for
> > the disappointment on the casino floor, but then people wouldn't want to
> > leave the room! Thumbs down on Aria.
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> I don't know much about architecture, parking garages or sidewalks.
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> But I do know a little something about video poker.
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> And what I know is that Aria missed out on a golden opportunity to actually change the image of the Strip as a VP wasteland.
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> Instead, our opening night stay was greeted by far less VP selection and higher prices than other nearby properties. Instead of saying "wow" and seeing many of the newest VP games we felt almost bored. So our stay ended up being a typical monotonous $5 single line 9/6 Jacks session where I ended up slightly ahead at checkout but not the least bit entertained.
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> Frankly, I anticipated the VP mix that Wynn/Encore or Venetian had when thay first opened. And the rooms at those three properties are older but superior to the one we had at Aria. I will admit the food was good, and the perpetual line at Jean Phillippe was worth the wait for fine dessert and coffee.
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> An ARIA Super Bowl weekend invitation in a giant box arrived today. Sorry, but there's just no enthusiasm to return any time soon, if at all.
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