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Mandalay Bay Resort: Live, In Room, Stream of Consciousness HoTell All

Where: 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], Las Vegas, nv, United States, 89119

Standard Mandalay Bay Resort Room :: Post 2007 Renovations

If you are going to Las Vegas for a conference it is almost impossible to avoid the Mandalay Bay. While that doesn't mean you have to stay there, when we were offered a $169 conference rate we suspended our better judgment and decided to stay at Mandalay. You see, back in 2005 we had one of our worst ever hotel experiences at Mandalay Bay. Needless to say we had low expectations this go round. So what happened? The Mandalay Bay Resort renovated! Our full report along with a some before and after room shots is your reward for clicking more.

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Anti View: THEhotel's Tantalizing Early Morning Full Frontal

Where: 3950 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], Las Vegas, nv, United States, 89119

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

Sure their are plenty of roof-filled anti-views in Vegas, but this view from room 3129 is an Anti View for a different reason.

As you stare out your window into the early morning Vegas sun, you see a glimmering tower in front of you. That tower is THEhotel (or is The Hotel? Or theHOTEL?), far and away the superior of the two Mandalay towers, and you are in the old, tired Mandalay original. Furthermore the folks at Mix can peer down at you, and all you can do is look up at them longingly, wishing you stayed at THEhotel.

Well not so fast, while all the above is certainly true, and lord knows we had a terrible experience with the Mandalay flagship a couple years ago, the great thing about hotels is they can renovate and reinvent!

Tomorrow we will bring you details on the recent renovations at Mandalay Bay, though we are still a bit jealous of the folks in the glimmering gold tower.

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Hotel Pools Face Massive Chair Shortage

Smart Money runs the numbers at five big resorts--and it's not a pretty picture.

You know the scene. You sleep in late since it's vacation, eating a leisurely breakfast and then sauntering out to the hotel pool to relax and read a book. Only one problem: there's not a lounge chair to be found.

At far too many resorts, this is the norm, not an exception. The January issue of Smart Money, which is not online yet, runs a whole feature story called "Musical Chairs," with tales of guests at $600 resorts not being able to find a place to lounge and stories of people lining up at Mandalay Bay in Vegas before 8:00 a.m. so they can get through the gate at opening time to snag a good spot for the day. (Story is not online yet.) At the Westin in Aruba, the hotel hands out free coffee to those in line and the first one through gets a t-shirt that says, "First in Line." (No, it doesn't say "I'm still a loser" on the back.)

More on the hotel lounge chair crisis after the jump.

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