I only stayed here cause my parents were curious after eating at Baja Miguels one night.  I was pretty excited to get away since my pregnant girlfriend, 9 year old son, and myself never get time away from work.  We usually stay at the Hotel at Mandalay Bay and we love it, but we have an open mind so we tried you out.  \nThe one thing I noticed immediately was the overwhelming smell of cigarettes.  The other other hotels on the strip do not have this problem from what I have encountered.  The check in was effortless and we got our room in no time.  On our way to the room we checked out the pool and the smell of horse manure was overwhelming and we laughed cause it is so close to the barber and spa.  The upgrade of the room wasn't really worth it cause you are so far from the strip that the views are irrelevant.  The room was spacey and nice, but when we turned on the TV it was a terrible picture on just about every channel.  I tried to use the menu button on the remote but it didn't work.  \nWe decided to go downstairs and get this famous Baja Miguels.  I had my fun book and I couldn''t wait for my free margarita.  The old lady sort of greeted us at the host stand by just looking at us so I said we were here for dinner and that there were 3 of us.  She told me it would be a 20-30 minute wait so we said fine and sat in the lobby.  When we got buzzed we sat at our table and were greeted by what I thought was the waiter but it was the busser taking our drink orders.  we gave him our order and then our server (Vicente) showed up and asked us what we wanted to drink.  we told him our order as well and I noticed that the busser then told him what we wanted.  Vicente seemed to have a word with the busser and we received our drinks.  Everything was good, but we waited forever to order and so did the table next to us.  Both tables were Vicente's tables.  we ordered our meal and I thought it was okay but not great.  The chips and dip were pretty bland and I was surprised to find out that you only get one basket of chips and the trio of bean, salsa, and guacamole.  Another surprise was that we had to ask just to get water.  I work in a Mexican food restaurant, grew up in Los Angeles, and have never heard of such things in the hundreds of Mexican food restaurants I have visited.  Anyway, we finished our meal and before Vicente could give mee my bill he noticed I had a piece of paper in my hand.  He promptly and in a very upset tone asks me \"what is that in your hand?\"  I told him it was a coupon for a margarita from the fun book and he gets even more mad and asks me \"why didn't you show me that in the beginning?\"  Now I am stunned and I start laughing because I thought he was joking, but unfortunately he wasn't.  He takes the coupon from me and waves it at the old woman who was at the host stand and he asks her \"what am I suppossed to do with this?\"  Magically she must have comped my drink cause it wasn't on the bill.  We got our bill and it was around $43.00 so I tipped Vicente $5.00 which is very low for me.  I only did it for the busser because he was very friendly and I know he gets a percentage of either total sales or waiters tips.  I should have left nothing for that bastard because his attitude not only took me by surprise but also my pregnant girlfriend and her 9 year old son.  I was going to leave and not say anything but I had to tell that little old woman what I thought of him and she said \"I will have a talk with him.\" She told me that people give her the coupon at the end all of the time.  I was dumbfounded because I obviously wasn't the first one to do this.  I won't give him the coupon next time because there won't be a next time.  My girlfriend and I are getting married in July and we were all going to have dinner here but not now.  \nWe decided to go bowling and wouldn't you know it there is a tournament going on and then there are leagues after that, so they tell us we need to come back at 8:15pm to pick up a ticket like I am at some damn deli waiting for meat.  We said fine and came back to get our ticket, but we were so annoyed that we decided to just skip it.\nThe next day we woke up and got breakfast at the deli and they were very nice but I was surprised to find out that I couldn't use my debit card for orders under $10.  That would be nice to know before I ordered.  I noticed there were no signs stating this, so I ended buying something I didn't even want because I already had my coffee from Seattles Best.  \nWe did go to the pool and that was okay, but the water was pretty cold.  Even our 9 year old couldn't stand it and the little girl next to us was turning purple.  So much for the 16 and over sign at the jacuzzi cause there were kids 12 and under going in while the 16 year old lifeguard looked on.  The bartender was nice, but I noticed that when I got a pina colada he put only Malibu Rum in it and not Bacardi Silver.  What a rip off that I have to pay all that money for what is a cordial.