- A video review of the Waldorf Astoria hotel
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I'm Chris, this is Topher, this is special guest Monaco
and this is Yellow Productions.
We do travel guides that are fun,
in form of entertaining
and in this video, it's part of our series on Las Vegas.
We're gonna be telling you everything you need to know
if you're considering staying in this hotel,
including the common areas of the hotel,
with a ride around the hotel,
and the inside of one of the rooms.
The king room, this one right here.
The Waldorf Astoria is located in the city center complex,
sort of an interesting situation.
You enter here at this ground floor lobby
and then you go through the real lobby on the 23rd floor.
All this lobby has is basically a little desk, a sign,
and some elevators.
Up on the 23rd floor, there's the check-in desks,
there's a tea room, there's a bar,
there's a restaurant up there.
But being in the city center complex,
there's lots of stuff around here.
It's right next to the ARIA Hotel.
You can see ARIA right up there.
Vdara is just in the back.
If you want to do self-parking,
the closest self-parking is at ARIA,
though that's at the ARIA rates.
All the parking here is valet parking.
It's $30 a day for valet parking
right in front of the hotel.
There's another restaurant if you head down
to the third floor, that's the cafe.
It's the Zen Cafe.
It's a restaurant,
this is where you can get breakfast in the morning,
particularly if you got the dining credit.
There's also a little coffee shop right next to it.
They have complimentary coffee and tea in the morning
but they seem to get rid of that by about 10 a.m..
The eighth floor is home to the spa, pool,
and the fitness center.
The pool, it's an outdoor pool, open air.
On the rooftop, there are two pools:
the lower pool and the upper pool.
The upper pool is adult only.
There's also a cafe out here
which I assumed would be opened in the summer time.
The gym is a pretty nice gym.
Open, airy, with impressive views of The Strip down below
from the workout equipment.
I did not try any of the spa offerings,
though I found it interesting there is a Chinese foot spa.
And of course, you can get all of your spa gifts
at the little spa gift shop.
This is room 1002, a king room on the 10th floor.
Come on in, let me show you around.
You passed the closet, you passed the bathroom.
We'll check in on those in a little bit.
Opens up into the main part of the room.
One king bed here.
This hotel used to be The Mandarin Oriental
and so there's a lot of oriental theming in it.
A couple of interesting lights on the wall,
very dark theming.
Over here, there's a nice little sofa.
In the corner, a chase where I can tell my psychiatrist
all of my problems or perhaps
it has a foot stool right here.
We're on the 10th floor and so if we come over here,
this looks out on the Las Vegas Strip
and what you can see at night is The MGM Grand,
The New York-New York, The Park MGM, The Mandalay Bay,
all on that direction.
That is the south part of The Strip.
And there's a CVS Pharmacy right down below.
Just to the other side of that window,
there's a desk.
I almost wish this desk would face the other way.
I guess I could move this chair over to this side
because it seems like if I was working on this desk,
I'd wanna sit here and look out the window.
Some more interesting oriental-type art.
I think the Waldorf Astoria has said
they're gonna remodel the hotel
but this is what the rooms look like
right as they took it over.
They took it over about two months ago,
October, November, something like that.
There's a flat-panel television,
there's some Fiji water that costs $10.
I don't think I'll be having any of those.
If we come over here
and take a look inside this set of stuff,
this one's just a drawer.
Down here is the in-room minibar
that has lots of fancy things.
Ah, some cham-pag-ne, some champagne.
In here, we have a little box
that says complimentary tea and coffee.
This is for the tea and coffee in the room.
English breakfast, peppermint leaves,
steeped coffee, creamers all in there.
And then in this drawer is the teapot, some cups,
and then over here in this little pullout,
there's the various glasses.
They hide all this stuff away.
And then another part of the minibar,
all of the dried goods are right here.
Now, if we look over this way,
you can actually see the bathroom through here
and this is really kind of interesting.
I'm like, hmm, that's strange.
And this slides to kinda close that up.
And then it's also funny that it reveals
this little piece of artwork underneath that.
But I think really more interesting to leave this open
as we go into the bathroom
so let's head in to the bathroom this way!
I'll show it to you.
This wall on this side, it's kind of see through
but not as see through as the other side.
You just see shadows and things like that through here.
So the first thing you'll notice in the bathroom
is the big soaking tub.
It has a big soaking tub that also has a shower on it.
One of the things I think is cool,
there's this little dish right here.
It looks like you might eat out of this
or something like that but what is it?
It's the bath salts with the little spoon
to spoon the bath salts into the bathtub.
And the soaps and everything in the room
is Salvatore Ferragamo soaps.
That smells pretty good.
Alright, there's a big sink in the room.
There's two big sinks in the room
and there's a little stool over here
that you could sit on if you were doing make up.
There's this extra mirror.
And in this drawer, there's a hairdryer.
But something I've actually never seen in a hotel before.
In this silver case, there is a Conair curling iron.
Very interesting!
Other parts of the bathroom to take a look at over here
is the in-room toilet behind this little translucent door.
Just a normal toilet, nothing to speak up.
I would expect like a fancy Toto toilet or something.
Maybe when they do the remodel, they'll listen to that.
And here is the shower.
It's a big walk-in shower.
It has a fixed head up on top,
it also has a handheld unit down here.
There's no rain head on the top, just a light,
and then it also has the Salvatore Ferragamo body wash
and things like that.
The final part of the room I'm gonna show you is the closet
so follow me as we go this way back to the beginning.
I will point out here,
this room has the copiest amount of light switches.
There's so many lights and so many things to turn on.
I think to turn on all the lights in the room,
we had to flip like 10 switches or buttons
and it wasn't obvious what all of them do.
I won't touch it 'cause I don't want to turn the lights off.
Okay, the first notable closet that I wanna point out
is this thing, it's the valet closet.
What's the valet closet?
Well, you can open it from inside
and they can open it from outside.
You'll notice there's one hook in here
so that if they were gonna put like your dry cleaning
or your newspaper, they'd put it in from the outside
then you can get it in from here.
Up here, ooh, there's a gift box!
What's in the gift box?
What do you think?
What do you think is in here?
No really, what do you think is in here?
I want to know.
I'm gonna show you what's in here
but leave me a comment below
and tell me what you think
or what you thought was in this box.
Well, it is a pillow!
That's where they hide the extra pillow in the room.
I've never had a pillow in a fancy box like that.
That's kinda cute.
What else is in these drawers?
These drawers are empty, this drawer has the safe.
Down here was the iron and interesting,
it comes with a bottle of water
so that you can put not tap water
but fancy purified water in the iron.
And then finally, there's another big portion of the closet
where you can hang all the stuff.
They'd give you a couple of slippers
and this little box to let you know
that they have complimentary shoe shine service.
Shoe shine service, try to say that three times fast.
And they got a little brush and this is a fancy thing
to put your shoes on with black leather.
That's it, that's the room!
Wait, not so fast!
I did miss one thing.
Topher stopped me in the bathroom there, some bamboo!
Okay, Topher, you know what time it is?
- [Topher] Topher Review Time!
- It's time review the hotel
and we review hotels on a scale of one to five Topher.
So Topher, how many Tophers does this hotel get?
- [Topher] Four Tophers!
- It gets Tophers!
Alright, so let's talk about how why it got four Tophers.
We'll talk about the pros and the cons
and why it didn't get five Tophers.
But first of all, just for a number,
it's currently four Tophers.
It might be going to 4 1/2 because the Waldorf Astoria
is planning to do a full property remodel
within the next couple of years
and so that might bring it up a little bit
but right now, it's four Tophers.
But we'll start with the pros.
The pros: it's a great location in the city center complex.
It's right on The Strip.
The rooms are big and comfortable.
I could live in this room for a long time
'cause there's a lot of space.
Sofa, desk, bed, the bathroom is big,
separate bathtub, separate shower, beaded closet,
the room was quiet, the air conditioning was cold,
the views are great, the service was great.
I also liked that it's a non-gaming and non-smoking property
so you don't have to walk through smoke.
You walk right in to the lobby
and you're just to your room pretty quickly.
I mean, you do have to take those two elevators.
You take one up to the lobby
and then one to your room
but that's still a lot faster than slipping
through the casinos of most Las Vegas Strip hotels.
Other pros: being right in The Strip,
there's a CVS right out front
so you can get all your necessities from CVS.
You don't have to buy them
from some overpriced hotel gift shop.
So on to the cons.
The cons, why didn't it get five Tophers?
Well first of all, this hotel being built in 2009,
everything looks pretty original from 2009
and while it doesn't look awful,
there are some things that are starting to get tired.
The wood is starting to get nicked,
there's cracks and things like that.
The minibar in our room actually wasn't cold.
I think the refrigerator doesn't work.
So the property's starting to show some of this age.
As I say, with that property remodel,
I think that will be helped.
The breakfast situation, Hilton Gold and above members
get a $50 dining credit per day
which is good for maybe one person but not for two people.
The prices in the restaurant are much higher than that.
I would love to see some sort of an executive lounge,
concierge lounge, or just a benefit
that says breakfast for two people.
I would prefer that as opposed to the dining credit
which you'll often end up just breaking the bank
and breaking the budget.
And Topher, he really likes a nice bedding
and it's an okay comforter
but I would expect a nicer comforter.
Two nights ago, three nights ago,
we were in the NoMad Hotel
and that one had a fabulous comforter on the bed.
So we'd look for a better comforter.
We'd look for more bathroom amenities,
things like toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash.
Maybe those are all things you can request
but typically at hotels, they get 4 1/2 or five Tophers,
all those things are just right there.
Also, the toilet.
For a hotel that tonight is going for $700 tonight,
we are two days before New Year's Eve but it's $700 tonight,
we'd expect a fancier toilet,
maybe like a Toto Toilet, those sorts of things.
And people always ask, so Chris,
how much did you pay for this hotel?
We booked it on Hilton Honors Point.
It was 80,000 Hilton's Honors Points.
I mentioned that it was going for $700 tonight
but you can find this hotel as low as $200 in the low season
but if you look on New Year's Eve, it's $1,000.
So it ranges quite a bit.
So depending upon when you're coming,
if you find this hotel in the $200 to $300 night range,
I think it's a pretty reasonable place to stay.
$700, $800, $1,000, we would expect just a little bit more.
Well hey, we hoped you enjoyed this video.
Definitely consider this if you're staying on The Strip
and you find it for cheap.
If you're coming to Vegas,
you might enjoy some more of our Las Vegas videos.
Maybe a review of that NoMad Hotel that I just mentioned
which is The Park MGM, that's a new hotel as well
or we've got a video on the five best luxury hotels
on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Well, we won't say goodbye
because we'll see you in the next video.
- [Topher] See you soon!