Just came back from my fourth trip to Vegas and sadly it was my worst. And I blame that largely on the Palms. \n\nFirst off, the Palms is sooooo far away from the strip. Now I can't really blame the hotel for this one. My friends and I should have done some better research before booking. I knew it was off the strip but didn't realize just how far off the strip it actually is. I don't even want to know how much money I spent on cabs going to and from the hotel. \n\nWhile I can't really fault the hotel on their location, I can fault them for having absolutely nothing to do during the day. The casino is small and nothing spectacular. The pool is OK but completely average. The food choices suck. I didn't sample every restaurant but the ones that I did were average at best. We had no choice but to cab it to the strip unless we wanted to sit around all day. If you're going to Vegas and want to enjoy the strip and actually do things, DO NOT stay at the Palms. You will regret it! Trust me! Even if the other hotels are a little more pricey stay there instead. I've stayed at the Flamingo before and liked it more than the Palms. \n\nFour years ago when I was in Vegas, I loved the Palms. That's probably the main reason we stayed here. Well it sure ain't what it used to be. Or I'm just older and know better. Either way I was incredibly unimpressed with the clubs at the hotel. Sure Ghostbar has an awesome view but that's about it. I won't go into detail about the clubs here though. I'll save that for their own review. \n\nIF YOU READ ANY PART OF THIS REVIEW THAN AT LEAST READ THE FOLLOW PARAGRAPHS. IF YOU STILL DECIDE TO STAY AT THE PALMS, IT'S YOUR CALL BUT YOU WERE WARNED. \n\nWhen I first saw our room, I was impressed. It was clean and spacious. The bathroom was big and nice. It seemed like a decent place to spend a week. Little did I know. \n\nThe lighting is horrendous. It was so dark in our room which was especially annoying at night when we were all trying to get ready. Then to make the lighting even worse the light in the entryway (right where the only full length mirror was) went out. So four girls had to cram into the bathroom every night to do our hair and makeup. \n\nThings breaking/not working was the theme of the week. Someone had to come up three times because our safe wasn't working. One time the guy came up and got nasty with me like it was my fault. I gave him our code and he was like, \"it needs to be six digits.\" Oh really? That's why it was working fine previously with our four digit code and on the safe it says use a 4-6 digit code??? I wanted to smack him. \n\nThen our keys kept deciding not to work randomly. One night they wouldn't work, the next night they would. It was soooo annoying. You come back to your hotel at 4-5 in the morning and you just want to go to bed. You don't want to have to deal with a key that doesn't work!! \n\nThe cleaning ladies do a crappy job at cleaning. Their was dust accumulating everywhere in our room. My friend left her sunglasses on the nightstand for a day. When she went to get them, they were covered in dust. And yes, this was after the room was supposedly cleaned. \n\nNow, to the most horrible part of my stay. There was a leak in our bathroom right under the sink. The leak started about Friday night. Then by Sunday it was so bad that our bathroom smelt like a dirty sewer. It was disgusting!! \n\nWe called to complain to the front who acted like it wasn't even that big of a deal. They took away the resort fee for our whole stay which of course just proved to be another problem. We stayed at the Palms for 6 nights. When we went to do the self checkout through the TV, the hotel was still charging resort fees for three nights. When I called the front desk, she told me that I would have to wait until the manager came in. I had a flight to catch and just wanted to get the hell out of that hotel already. I packed up my stuff and went downstairs ready to throw a fit if the front desk didn't resolve my issue ASAP. Luckily it took less than five minutes to check out. That's about the only thing the hotel did that didn't make me want to smack them. \n\nI don't think I'd stay here again even if they gave me a free room.