text: The MGM Grand is just slightly smaller than the Andromeda galaxy and hospitality is as alien to them as recycling There are about million people in the hotel at any given time so your odds of experiencing hospitality are which are better odds than getting an even breaknnThe lobby at the MGM Grand is an acre of bare marble with a big golden lion standing in a flower pot at the center of it It is a Beverly Hillbillies bus station without the benches you will sit in the casino porcupine nnI tried standing in the lobby leaning up against the lion and reading the daily news but tourists kept bothering me with request to take their picture with the lion I tried sitting on the floor in the lotus position but a guy with a mop arrived immediately to mop exactly where I was sitting If you like sitting in hotel lobbies like I do I recommend you bring some camp chairs with you nnThe casino stretches from Tropicana on one corner of the hotel to Las Vegas Bl on the opposite corner It is a king hell big money pit It is noisy smoke filled and it took my money I hate it I played the penny machines After loosing in transaction fees to the ATM I lost the rest to that heartless mechanical onearmed bastardnnThe rooms were basic Wall Street meets the Poster Shop a vending machine full of overpriced drinks and lousy mass produced hotel art I worked in the hotel art industry for a few years and let me tell you there is a boatload of money to be had selling these pathetic finger paintings to hotels but in the end some poor bastard from Hoboken has to sleep with the damn things or maybe watch payperview while sipping a bottle of vendomatic water The bed was comfortable though and the electric blackout curtain kept the room nice and darknnThe Grand Buffett was but a hell of a spread They had breakfast and lunch going simultaneously I usually shopped the breakfast aisle for eggs and homefries then hit the lunch aisle for some salmon to make salmon hash and eggs The price really is not too bad considering all of the orange juice I ordered nnThere is a constant pounding drone of highenergy uptempo technoelectronica bassthumping overly mixed music being extruded from strategically placed stealth speakers to create an ambient universal ubiquitous umbrella of sound no matter where you go It is in the casino the restrooms the lobby the sidewalk and at the pool they really crank it at the pool nnThe Lazy Rivers pool is the best thing at the MGM Grand I flipped onto my back let my ears fill with water ahhh the racket is gone and float away in the current