text: We got a great deal on a room here and it was beautiful Spacious well decorated and a great bathroom The property itself is also gorgeous and it just smells so damn good nice and tropical nnHowever I mainly wanted to stay here for the poolbeach and was really disappointed to find that there are absolutely no umbrellas aside from the ones you can rent for or more per day Really Mandalay Bay You cannot even have a few that are free on a firstcome firstserve basis I mean I know it is Vegas but this is ridiculous even for Vegas Help a pale sister out There was no way I could hang in the hot Vegas sun without a little shadennThe other downer about Mandalay Bay is you do not realize how far down the strip it is until you stay there and plunk down per cab ride to get anywhere toward the middle of the strip On my last trip I stayed at Paris and while the rooms sucked by comparison we could be at almost any other casino in min or so of walking therennOne final bummer for me anyway this is not a card players casino I tried on several occasions to get into a limit Texas Hold Them game and they just were not happening at Mandalay Bay Overall gambling here seemed kind of slow compared to other casinos I visited on my tripnn I would definitely take these things into consideration before returning to Mandalay Bay