The Hilton is adjacent (not connected, but like 50 paces) to the convention center. If you're going here for a convention, I'd HIGHLY recommend this place. By the end of a long working day, the last thing you wanna do is stand in an hour-long line waiting for a cab to take your tired butt back to your hotel way over on The Strip.
The Hilton itself is undergoing a massive redecorating/remodeling process. The place is outdated; but in Vegas, anything 10-minutes-ago is "outdated". The rooms are 'roomy' and a home-away-from home. I liked the big ol bathtubs (jacuzzi-style!) and the AWESOME view of The Strip & the red mountains in the background!!!
The hotel chics will give you a map of the Hilton if ya ask for it; ask for it, but beware. It's like looking at a post-it note sized thingy with little colored blocks. The restaurants & bars INSIDE the Hilton are really something else. The casino? It's sorta smack-square in the center. And, freaking huge. If you don't lose your mind from all the flashing lights, you'll get lost and then lose your mind trying to find yourself and your path again.
I ordered so much room service there, it was unreal. Breakfast, delivered promptly and with a smile; they poured my coffee FOR me. So I was mighty impressed. Lunch came very quickly, while 1,000's of other Pack Expo grunts like myself were jam-packing into all the Hilton restaurants & the convention center restaurants, I went up to my room, high in the sky, & ordered the prompt, yummy, and very private room service!
The only downfall of the Hilton is... (and I hate to say this cuz normally I'm not picky about this), the BED. I talked to the other 9 people who stayed in the Hilton with me, and well everyone said the same thing; great service, great food, great PRICE ($179 a night!), but good GAWD those beds. If sleeping on a rock like Fred Flintstone used to do is your thing, then ok fine. Overtop of the rock-hard bed, there's a mirror; so you can make faces at yourself as you adjust to the rock-bed.
Unique Qualities: The single-most important and reason-to-visit, reason-to-live thing about the Hilton is the Star Trek "area". It takes up a huge chunk of that one wing of the Hilton. It's on the map!
The restaurant (called "Quark's Bar & Restaurant") is just AWESOME. You'll be seated by a Starfleet cadet & waited on by other uniformed Trek faces. And, while you sit there eating the plentiful food (all named after something from the show or movies), you can watch scenes from the TV series, or bits & pieces of the many wonderful Star Trek big-screen flicks.
And, while you're eating, Quark himself will come by, in full character. He'll tell you all about how Ferengi are the opportunists of the universe. Quark might hit on the females (all females) of your group, because let's face it; as he says, human females are highly prized in the universe. (The Klingons think us human females are ugly, though).
I'll say this much about the bar-portion (which I visited just as much as the restaurant): the drinks are saucer-sized!!! The prices are just as blown-up as the rest of Vegas, so that's that as far as the price.
Star Trek also hosts weddings there; the Klingon warrior I hugged & discussed the finer things about the universe with while downing the rest of my saucer-sized Cosmo, he told me many humans get married on the deck of the Enterprise. A dream come true for those of us who are geeks and proud of it!
Okay other things about the Hilton that I guess are nice: Rob visited the 3rd floor spa/health club. He said it was 'so freaking nice' to lay around in the sauna & the place wasn't crowded. Also the taxi-cab service, taking you either to The Strip or to the airport or just out to eat at somewhere other than Quark's (heaven forbid), is VERY PROMPT.
All in all once the Hilton gets remodeled, and once they consider replacing those Flintstone mattresses? It'll be the only place I'll ever stay in Vegas!
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Prices: US$120-180
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Phone: 702-732-5111
Address: 3000 S. Paradise Road, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Directions: Next to the convention center... look for the big H
Website: http://www.lvhilton.com/
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