Ultimately, I REALLY enjoyed my stay here! The place is comfortable, cool, and the amenities can't be beat. I absolutely LOVED the vintage phonograph console and only wish I could have stayed longer to play more of the albums that were there. (The Clash was the first and last album I played, but in between was plenty of Queen, Rolling Stones, Blondie, as well as more recent fare such as White Stripes, Foo Fighters, etc. etc.!) After a few issues with the housekeeping were dealt with within my first 24 hours (and many, many thanks to Morgan for being SO responsive around all of that, and just being awesome, in general!), I was pretty much as happy as could be. PublicUs, just a few blocks north, was a great spot for coffee and light eats, Atomic Liquors a few blocks further west from there became my dive bar home-away-from-home, and 11th Street Records, about halfway between the two, afforded me an opportunity to bring home a couple of LPs of my own that weren't part of the collection they had back at the "pad"! (In a burst of energy during that first 24 hours, I DID put the albums in some semblance of order - just my own OCD tendencies at work, there!) As others have noted, the whole Fremont Street experience is just a few minutes away, and a quick Uber or Lyft will get you to the Strip within 15 or 20 minutes, most of the time. A few blocks south you'll find a huge 99 cent store, a laundromat, a liquor store, a TERRIFIC thrift store ("Savers," and here's a tip: Mondays are half-price days, as I was happy to accidentally discover!), and other businesses, as well. I was in Las Vegas to celebrate my mother's birthday, and one of the things I was able to do in the apartment was to actually bake her a dairy-free cake (!) in the full kitchen of the "Pad," which really helped make her birthday pop! Let's just say that the next time I'm in Vegas, I know where I'm staying!
(It WOULD be nice if the pinball machine was working - and not just lighting up - next time I'm there - jus' sayin'! ;-) )