Hey there world travelers. Hey there. I'm Tanya, and I'm Dave, and we are
Turn It Up World. Welcome to . . . Las Vegas!
Last time we were in Las Vegas, we stayed on the
Las Vegas Strip at the beautiful and grand Venetian Hotel in an upgraded
suite and, let me tell you, it was gorgeous but certainly not cheap.
We paid roughly $179 per night plus their $45
per night mandatory resort fee plus taxes, so it roughly cost us about $720 for three nights, cha-ching
Now as much as we love Vegas we certainly can't spend that kind of money
every time we're in Vegas so we did some research to find cheaper accommodations
on the Las Vegas Strip but during that research we found a few that made cheap
seem cheap, some of the reviews and the ratings were horrible and a bit scary so
we figured we'd visit a few of these places and share with you some of the
worst hotels and motels on the Las Vegas Strip, so grab a
notebook pen and a bottle of sanitizer and let's get into it.
To kick things off, wait this is not the right one
Ah, much better, so we're gonna kick things off here, the OYO Hotel & Casino, now it was formerly the
Hooters Hotel & Casino until OYO bought them out. Now apparently Hooters Hotel
was one of the worst hotels on the Las Vegas Strip but with the new ownership
maybe that'll change. Right, OYO is a large Indian company that has a lot of
hotels around the world and they promise a lot of renovations here to the
old Hooters, but I know they just announced, right, a third layoff of
basically of the U.S. employees so we're concerned about are they gonna make all
those renovations and so it definitely is still on our list. I don't know maybe
we should just go inside and see if we can check things out. What do you think?
Sure, let's do it. Let's check it out. Now we did check many current reviews on various sites
and this place seemed to get a 3.7
out of 5 with many of those reviewers saying not so nice things about
this hotel and as of February 2020 rates were about $37 per night
and that did not include the $40 per night resort fee plus tax. The gift shop
still sells basically Hooters gear here so they haven't changed that over yet,
get all your Hooters gear
Alright, we got a Steak N Shake, oh boy here we are
check it out still have the Hooters here that's for sure, the
largest Hooters in the world, yes, now what we were told by several of the staff
members, OYO is in the process of updating their rooms so if you're
planning on staying there you might want to request one of those, as many
reviewers have said the old rooms are dated and not in great shape, it's so dark in here, I can't see, it's very dark
It was dark, it was really smoky, the Hooters was still there they even had a Hooters store
that was still there so nothing's really changed thus far, unfortunately we couldn't
get into the rooms but nothing's changed thus far, exactly, should we go to the next
one, yeah let's head to the next one
Travelodge Las Vegas Center Strip, yeah and if you want a great location this is
it you're right in the center of the Strip, but let's face it, it's a motel, and
it, it's a motel, oh yes I mean it's interesting because right across the
street you have like Tom Ford and Louis Vuitton and all these high-end
name-brand shops, but the moment you walk through this little enclave it feels
very different yes and the reviews are quite terrible overall 3.7
stars out of 5, which is not good at all and they say if you want a shower
you know don't come here, the rooms are dingy dirty yes right some of the
toilets don't work things like that, exactly, I mean it's
exactly like a motel, it's like the Bates Motel
smack in the center of Vegas
now we checked online for room rates middle of the week in February off-peak
$55 a night now the good news is there is no resort fee
Excalibur, yeah and I will say this though if you the exterior of Excalibur
looks quite interesting, it almost reminds you of that medieval castle, of
course with the famous Excalibur sword, right, if you love Camelot maybe it is for you
but the place itself has not been renovated, the rooms sound pretty
awful, yeah, right, and we did see some reviews 45,000 reviews now overall 4
stars, which doesn't sound terrible, but if you read those reviews it's pretty
scary, yeah now according to the Las Vegas Strip obviously those are pretty
low because some of those really big ones can be close to 5 stars now I
will say this we did speak to an individual that was actually working
here in Las Vegas so she kind of told us that the, she had a story and it was
kind of interesting that she stayed there with one of her friends she ended up
leaving the room because they got into a fight and then of course the whatever
room upstairs the toilet overflowed and all the poopers came down to the next level so
but of course we heard other reviews as well from things like there's been blood
on the walls, which actually sounds like a scary horror movie, hair on the floor and
many many folks have said that there's the cold water effect and what I mean by
that is the cold water the showers it's cold you run the hot
water it's cold there is no hot water and that's kind of interesting but I
guess you kind of get what you pay for, well it's also an authentic experience you go back in
the day of Camelot, you get cold showers a lot you know anyway maybe, exactly, now we also
checked the room rates so in February, mid-February midweek you know kind of an off
peak time $30 a night now there's a resort fee too on top of that $35 so
really it's not super cheap, say what? exactly but I think we need to go inside
and see if we can check this for ourselves, now we'll see sometimes they're a
little strict about that, but we'll see what we can do, let's go
look dated, yes for sure, we were actually able to get up here without a key, yes, and it's interesting
because you kind of overlook the rooms
will kind of overlook the courtyard which doesn't look really appealing but that's your view
looks like they're cleaning some rooms up this way, yeah it's not terrible, right
see if we can get a shot of a room here
that was a busy one, what what year were these rugs put in? I think during the medieval times, yes very dark
ominous, I didn't notice it really, it wasn't as smokey, no not a smokiness yeah OYO is
definitely smokier extremely yeah whoo so apparently this place those are
really cool aren't you now Roman said it was designed for kids
but that's kind of interesting because of his legacy no design for kids maybe
big kids like us
what do you think Tanya well I will say this I think we did get a chance look at
the rooms up walking through the hallways is really dark and definitely
certain floors had an odor of like poop that's true it is quite dark inside it
yeah it seems like they may have a freshen up some of the rugs so they
weren't so dirty yes on the rugs were newer yeah Bobby was so so bad I ain't
really smell the smoke too much it wasn't as smoky as oil was yeah
definitely ones probably hit or miss you for wanna roll the dice yeah roll a
seven it could be okay for you yeah alright so the one thing I will tell you
it's always a fun maze to kind of get around there's not really like
crosswalks not many you know you got to find your way to the cross like a maze
together the cross rider way to the bridges across the straight exactly
on our list is the worst motel on the Las Vegas Strip and that is a Travel
Lodge Las Vegas yes it is definitely a very seedy spot when you come by here
now we did hear a lot of reviews with this one as well in terms of the rooms
themselves we've heard there's been issue with roaches has been an issue
with the carpeting the smoking everything had a yeah unclean feeling it
actually someone actually says they had to go to a store to buy disinfectant
just to use the bathroom right overall ratings were three point two out of five
the lowest of all the ones we've reviewed today so probably a place to
avoid yes if you can avoid the worst hotel on the Las Vegas Strip has to go
to Circus Circus yes and this is really if you talk to a lot of people live in
the Vegas a lot this comes up all the time yeah the worst hotel I'm strip in
Vegas yeah I think for one when you walk into the lobbies it's check-in is
probably really really hard the lines can get really long as a matter of fact
when you go in there's ropes that would kind of line around as if you're waiting
for a ride I'd like Walt Disney World exactly bad service yeah you hear that a
lot to read the reviews the service is terrible just like you said
long lines I mean the rooms are not clean yeah all dirty
exactly they've not been renovated in years now that could change yes that
could very well change that we do know that it has been recently acquired by
Treasure Island yeah so it's it's it may be a lot of things coming in the works
now there is a Manor there's like a circus circus Manor which is kind of
their mold version and we looked online and we
could not seem to find when you can broke it which means it may be closed it
may be something that baby is getting renovated renovated as a matter was
really the worst of the worst circus got a rating about three point seven out of
five and the manner I think was about three point two out of five and that was
kind of in the back of circus yes in the front right there check it in the front
but then you had to make your way back to the motel version of the circus
circus now what is the price so we checked the price for the middle of
February midweek so it's off-peak twenty two dollars a night that does not
include the resort fee so yeah it's worth about $32 a nice all right
something you definitely wrong when you step in an elevator and your Mac PC is a
number thirteen looks well used just think I we're not staying on that floor
alright so we made it up and right off the back it is definitely eerie feeling
the ceilings are really really low right Dave oh they are very low they are it
almost sounds like this oh oh it feels narrow yeah like to at least ice machine
to selfish you know you're exactly full service that's the only service
apparently yeah may not be bad
that maybe one on one and here's the buffet in the circus circus' looks like
it's pretty open jump right in there I get the good food
the road behind look at the red balloon red balloon no I think the movie it
destroyed displays so that about does it for us we just want to mention the
reason we chose to add the two travel lodges is because they are definitely
some of the worst places to stay on the Las Vegas Strip and we obviously
recognize that motels are very different from casino hotels but we thought you
should be aware of them nonetheless absolutely and if you made it this far
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