Not bad for the price
- July 13, 2009
- Rated 4 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
We (2 adults & a child) stayed at the hotel for 8 days. It was a nice room. Channel selection wasn't the best. AC worked very well and we were cool the entire stay. This was great because it was 100+ deg our entire trip. However, there is no refrigerator or microwave in the skytower rooms. Refrigerator was available for an extra fee. I would recommend stopping by CVS or Walgreens and get a cooler. There is a general store near the pool. Reasonably priced. Has everything. Adventuredome was absolutely wonderful! The food at the buffet was great but Excalibur has an all day buffet for a better price. Circus acts were topnotch, especially African Acrobats! We saw their show about three times- gotta see the guy libo a foot off the floor! OMG! All in all, the hotel was good. I would stay there again.
Needs a renovation but great for familys
- July 13, 2009
- Rated 3 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
We went there with my wife's brother and sister-in-law. We weren't with kids, so it was obvious we missed out on the entire point of staying at Circus Circus. My wife and I paid for a suite, it was dingy and tired. Looked like there was a mirror on the wall at one point near the bathroom that had fallen or was torn off. Small tub, 1 sink, cruddy view, no coffee maker, 3 pillows, screaming loud refrigerator and AC, cheap tv, bare minimum of channels. Buffet was 11.99, very standard fare. Our relatives said their room was renovated and nice, we didn't have time to see it.
Our relatives picked the hotel, and it was their first time in Vegas so they were budget shopping. As two couples with no kids, we could have stayed at Harrah's on the strip and that would have been more appropriate for us and still been budget minded. Those with kids, just make sure you ask for a renovated room at the Circus Circus.
Good family points? They had a really fun looking Adventure dome, a midway like at the fair, clowns, which is bad for me since I hate clowns and couldn't sleep knowing they trying to get in my room (joking!), face painting, just a ton of kid themed stuff for sure.
The service people I encountered were great for the most part. A very sweet housecleaning lady who asked if she could at least give us some fresh towels when I told her we didn't need service, a really nice valet who went out of his way for us.
Again, when we have kids one day, I'm taking them. Until then, something closer to strip.
Aussie Family with Teenagers
- July 13, 2009
- Rated 1 of 5 by
a traveler from Travelocity.com
When we checked in we had booked two rooms being there were 5 of us & rather then be squashed we decided to spread out, initially after a long check in process by a guy who should of retired a while ago we set off to the rooms which were off site to the hotel and a long walk to the lobby they gave us two rooms on opposite sides of the corridor each with two queen size beds, then after going back over to the lobby we got 2 interconnecting rooms with one king bed and two queen beds, back to the lobby it was, we asked for a roll out bed instead of changing rooms for the 3rd time & the staff member said we had to pay for it or speak to management. Management was delightful she said she would send a roll out over straight away, finally after nearly two hours we get each teenager somewhere on their own to sleep. We soon realised that the powerpoints were hanging out of the walls extremely dangerous, some of the lights worked some of the time if they wanted to & the fridge which was a bonus in each of the rooms only worked in one of the rooms, the other fridge did not work. The bathrooms were clean as was the linen and the cleaning staff do wonders with what they have to work with. The manor rooms really need to be refurbished big time, they are completely run down, the hotel is too far from the strip itself if I had to pick again I would not stay here. The pools however are supervised by staff and are terrific, the hours are riduculos close to early 7pm!!!!!!!!!!! The kids had a fabulous time in the adventurdome.