text: The Sahara Hotel ruined our wedding anniversarynnOur wedding anniversary is on Halloween We chose the Sahara based on its price and the room looked really nice on their site I had made an advanced reservation over the phone and requested a view of the strip a king size bed and wifi for the roomnnWe arrived in Vegas yesterday on Halloween our th wedding anniversary After hours in the car driving from Orange County and standing in a minute guest employee checkin line I was furious to find out that they gave away our room Plus we had checked in early We were pretty upset and I asked why they did that and the woman told me that they ran out of rooms Whatever So she gave us a new room with double beds and a view of the strip on the st floor They also had not added on the wifi like I had asked and we needed to fill out a card for incidentals which would be a day We got our keys and as we headed up to look at the room we were ambushed by an employee trying to get us to go to a minute presentation at Planet Hollywood for some condotimeshares they have He said he would give us cash and tickets to a show After wasting minutes of our time I explained that we had just checked in and we had not even seen our room yet So to get away from him I told him we would come back later He said he would not be there but because it is our anniversary he was going to treat us to a magic show at Planet Hollywood and he handed us a coupon to the show The coupon expired days agonnWe headed up to the room and the view of the strip was nonexistent All we saw were tall hotels blocking the view and a lot of construction The double beds were not very inviting and my wife was not too happy about being up so high We headed back downstairs to stand in another long line to be greeted by the same woman who checked us in beforennWe told her the situation and she offered us a room on the th floor How is that any better than the st She said if we wanted a king size bed it would need to be a smoking room We reluctantly agreed and she put us on the th floor We got the room at about pm and the housekeepers were just walking out of it There was no view of anything except the parking garage and the Hilton down the street where we had spent our honeymoon years ago where we had a fantastic time We figured this was the best it was going to be so we headed to the disgusting parking garage and got our bagsnnWe got back to the room and I took out my Macbook and tried to get online Everything in the room was unplugged including the lamp the TV and the modem I plugged everything in and still could not get a signal So I called the front desk where I spoke to a really rude employee who told me I did not ask for wifi and told me it was for hours He then asked me for a credit or debit card I told him I had already requested it and he said I did not I told him I had requested it and it was for Saturday Sunday and Monday He told me he did not know anything about that and then he said Do you want it turned on or not WTF is this attitude from all the employees here I told him to turn it on and after more phone calls and more attempts it finally was up and runningnnThe more we sat in the room the more we could smell that nasty cigarette stink Almost everything we had in the room was instantly tainted with that stink bags clothes even our pillows we brought from home How could a room that was just cleaned by the housekeeping staff stink so bad I was beyond enraged by now and we had only been there about a few hours We were both miserable because of all of this and I had enough I told my wife pack up our stuff we are going homennWe once again got back in a long line and I told the woman there that we wanted to speak to the manager but he was walking the floor I guess a guest requesting the manager is not too important to even ask why I told the woman I was checking out and I wanted every single penny back that I had spent in their hotel After I explained to her everything she was not too receptive but I managed to get back all the money and have it all put back on my card Also no apology from her at allnnHeading back to the car we had to carry all our luggage up flights of stairs because both elevators were now brokennnI will never go back to the Sahara Hotel I hope after reading this review it helps you make an informed decision on where to stay when you go to Vegas