YELP! I really wish I could give 2.5 stars on this one. Let me start by saying that for the time period I was staying for work. Previous years for the same trip I had stayed at the Luxor (feel free to check out my review of that dump) but this year the Luxor was about $200 more than the Excalibur... so I had no choice. I have stayed at 5 various Vegas hotels and the clientele here is... interesting... dirty... smokey... not my type. Some great people watching for sure - but where in Vegas isn't!?\n\nOf all the casinos I've stayed in, walked through, gambled at... this was the smokiest I'd ever encountered. Grossed me out. Thankfully I got a non smoking room and the rooms were QUIET! This was a welcome surprise considering the walls were so thin at the Luxor I could hear EVERYTHING going on in the neighbors place. I got stuck with a 2 queen room rather than a king, so that was also a bummer. Oh and the view...or lack of a view I guess. I was looking right out into the rooftop airconditioning units. there was an old beat up chair on the rooftop that moved every night. I started to wonder if they were filming the next installment of the Hangover there. \n\nMostly everything in the hotel is outdated (rooms, games, carpet) and not anything that truly appealed to me restaurant wise. I did spend time at the pool which was fine. It was day 2 of pool season so might have been cold for some people but I was ready to feel some sun after a harsh midwest winter so I enjoyed a beer or 3 out there. \n\nOverall though, I mean, I got decent sleep, the hotel was easy to navigate, the staff was nice when I encountered them and I had no true problems, so I can't give less than 3 stars on this one.