Vdara Hotel & Spa

This is a really nice property. Hotel personnel are friendly, professional, and efficient. The property and rooms are in excellent shape. For those of you really hung up on housekeeping (like me), this was the best experience I've had in a long time. Our room was thoroughly cleaned each day and the housekeeper tidied up everything (like she was OCD - in a good way). Vice Versa is a very nice bar/restaurant, and the market is well stocked and reasonably priced (for Vegas). We wanted a more relaxed atmosphere than staying at a casino hotel and the Vdara delivered in spades (irony intended). Plus, no cigarette smoke! And if you need a gambling (and/or cigarette) fix, the Aria and Bellagio are a very short walk away, as is The Strip. The Vdara is an oasis among the Vegas craziness.

The Vdara hotel is a really great place to stay. It's beautiful, clean, great location, and has excellent food and drinks. There's no casino so that's a perk. There's easy check in kiosks where you can make your own key cards. The 5th floor king room we had was so spacious. The bed and pillows were comfortable! A/c was great. The room service breakfast and dinner were so quick and the most delicious room service we've ever had! The wagyu beef nachos, and philly cheese steak sliders were amazing! The one negative was the blackout drapes. So there's three electric drapes that you push a button and they go up or down. Well there are gaps in between each drape and outside there are lots of lights and screens always on and it made the room really hard to sleep in. That's a big negative for me. It was cool the hotel was connected to Aria and then Bellagio so you can explore the other resorts and gardens they have and then walk out onto the strip and see the beautiful Bellagio fountains. Beware there are obnoxious street vendors ruining that experience for everyone though. I wish they could get them to stop being obnoxious while the fountains played. We were on the 5th floor so no great views of the strip or anything. Overall great stay just need to fix the blackout issue.

Traveling with a toddler and a dog vs solo or coupled has some very diff requirements and Vdara was the only hotel on the strip I could find that checked all the boxes. King bed - Check. Pet friendly - Check. Kitchen for cooking light meals - Check. Laundry in unit - Check. Bathtub for bathing little ones - Check Also a big plus that there’s a little market right downstairs by the elevators, as well as a Starbucks. There’s a close by mini regular park and dog park right outside the front entrance across from valet. We had a city corner suite -great view, high floor, just a few steps to the elevator, and 850+ sq ft (which is necessary when you have explosive toddler energy that can’t be contained). Would definitely recommend this hotel for families with littles!

Nice hotel in a great location. No smoking!!! Two problems we encountered: 1) The elevators were so backed up one morning we gave up after 20 minutes and had to walk down 31 flights of stairs to the lobby to make our tee time. Our bank of elevators covered floors 29-59 so by the time the elevators got to 31 they were completely full. We had at least a dozen people on our floor waiting and only saw one elevator in 20 minutes. There were 6 elevators available so not sure why only one stopped at our floor but heard a rumor several were not working that morning. I’m 71 so this was a challenge for me. 2) When we checked in we waived maid service for our stay but one day they cleaned up anyway. It looked nice when we walked in but realized they had moved things around, even to different rooms, so had a hard time locating some items. We were looking forward to having our coffee in the room but they had taken our coffee cups which we had requested the day before but did not replace them. Why???

Disappointed with many things: - valet staff did not help provide directions to self-parking - Two of the room key machines were unusable - poor quality in-room coffee - Kitchen utensils were difficult to get and then was missing many things - Housekeeping was very poor, always late and slow - Overcharged (have sent credit request) - As an exception, a security staff and front desk (during checkout) were helpful