text: When we have spent time in Las Vegas we have stayed at various hotels for various reasons I am not one to be willing to pay large amounts of money to stay in a fancy hotel if I am not going to be doing much more than using the room for sleeping If I am going to be spending time in the hotel or using their amenities then that is a different situation but to me it does not make sense to pay for a multitude of luxuries that you are never going to usennOn our recent trip over Easter weekend we decided we did not want to stay at one of the nicer hotels because we were going to be busy and not spending much time in the hotel With the holiday weekend and spring break and the NCAA tournament prices were higher than normal However we knew that we wanted to be near Las Vegas Blvd and Tropicana since that area was where we would be spending a lot of time so after finding a good deal on a room at the Tropicana we decided to stay there The hotel is on the fourth corner that includes MGM New York New York and Excalibur so it is a terrific locationnnWe drove from the airport to the hotel and immediately you could tell it was an older hotel which in and of itself was not a problem However a lot of the escalators in the hotel were not working and from the looks of it they had not been running for some time There was a lot about the place that also seemed very rundown Down one hallway on the way to the parking area there were some nice blackandwhite photos of Las Vegas early days which were interesting to look at I understand that the Tropicana is one of the oldest hotels on the strip I am just not sure it should look so obviously like one of the oldest hotels on the stripnnThe decor of our room was bamboothemed but the theming extended to everything including the dresser and the walls so that was a bit much Our room ended up being in a wing at the far end of the hotel so we had to walk the gauntlet of merchandising cartskiosks every time we went back and forth to the room and it was also fairly far away from the parkingnnThe view out the window of our room gave us the Hooters Hotel and Casino on one side and a nearby church on the other side so I thought that was pretty funny When in hotels we have become accustomed to having some kind of refrigerator so that we can get some water and other drinks and keep them cold Since the room did not already have a refrigerator the husband called the front desk to ask for one What do you want it for was the question he was asked Ummm to put things inside to keep cold What do most people want a refrigerator for To make toast To put their shoes in The person asked if we needed it for medication and we said no so he said ok they are going to have to charge us Ummm ok From that part of the conversation I am presuming that if we had wanted it for medication then they would not have charged us but since we just wanted it for normal ordinary refrigeratory stuff they would charge us OknnOne of the worst parts of our stay was that at the bottom of the stairs leading to and from the casino floor were people working for Tahiti Village and they were VERY AGGRESSIVE every time you walked by They were very intrusive and on several occasions even belligerent if you did not stop and talk to them all the while playing the but I am just trying to give you something nice for free card No actually you are verbally assaulting me several times a day It is one thing to get that on the street not to mention the other bank of Tahiti Village people right outside the hotel when so many people are handing our flyers and trying to get you into their show but I did not expect to have to deal with that in my hotel I guess it is worth whatever money Tahiti Village pays the Tropicana for them to allow the people to assault their own customers If I had ever wanted to even consider looking at Tahiti Village the behaviour of their reps would turn me away Besides why would I do something Tanya Roberts wants me to donnI do not envision ever staying there again given the combination of the state of the hotel the long walk to and from the room and the obnoxious Tahiti Village people assaulting you at every turn making a bad start and end to your day If we need to stay in that part of the city we will spend the little bit more to stay at one of the other hotelsnnOf course then there is the question of how much longer the hotel might be there I happened upon this news story httpnewsyahoocomsapapenbutropicanabankruptcyyltAjuaEieTLQPkcOisADNxFbC last week that the owner of the Tropicana Hotels in Las Vegas and Atlantic City has filed for bankruptcy It is a bit interesting that the branch in Atlantic City lost their gaming license several months ago and so the property is in the process of being soldnnMaybe someone can come in and buy the place and renovate it so that it is classic and not just old