Date of trip: October 2010 \nPurpose: In town for a wedding \nStatus: Vegas Virgin \n\nI was sucked in by the price for a room \"on the strip\". I found a deal on a room and could have spent another $20 for a room in a NICE hotel that was ACTUALLY on the strip, so once I knew this, I kicked myself. Hard. \n\nThe decor and condition of the room is on par with tired, dingy $25 rooms on the side of Route 66 in the middle of nowhere, I just WAAY overpaid. The bathtub spout wouldn't stop dripping loudly. The alarm clock was broken - didn't just not work, but some prior guest had smashed it to smitherines. There was actually a list of 6 things wrong with the room, which I called downstairs to tell them about. They just said ok, that they wrote it down, and suggested I order a wake-up call. SMH \n\nI also didn't appreciate them saying they're on the strip without a disclaimer, \"TECHNICALLY we are on the strip, but you will be so far away from everything else on the strip that you will have to pay through the nose to get back and forth from your destinations and your room throughout your stay\". \n\nMeanwhile, my friends on the trip were staying at nice hotels on the strip at or near The Venetian, where the wedding was held. They were sending pics of their rooms to FaceBook - gorgeous rooms, drapes with remote controls, etc. Then after I visited my friend in her Venetian room, my Circus Circus room looked like a total &*$# hole. I asked why nobody told me, they said nobody told them, either, that it seems to be the way of Vegas, Vegas Virgins stay in Circus Circus their first trip, hate it, and go to the nice spots every trip after.