Resorts World - Nice place to stay?

I enjoy the property despite its reputation as a ghost town. Have never stayed there, though I have spent a lot of time there. They were surprisingly busy on the gaming floor in November during NAPT. Probably the busiest I have seen the place.

Restaurants on the slightly pricey side, but skew pretty good from a quality standpoint. I like Junior's for deli/diner food. The international food court is an option for cheap eats.

Poker room is great, just lacks traffic sometimes.

This is purely my own experience but I feel like the location is just horrible. Yes you can play at RW but if the games are bad then you have to taxi/Uber/walk to either Wynn or further down to the poker rooms like Aria or Bellagio or Horseshoe for that matter. Again I know it’s a simple thing but when you have a very long WSOP day it adds up and you don’t want to be stuck in traffic for ages on the way there or on the way back.

We just stayed there for two nights before Thanksgiving (Hilton, not Conrad). Nice rooms -- nothing too fancy. Don't touch the "sale" items (30 seconds you'll get charged) or use the mini bar 😉 There is a small fridge for guests. The resort is nice, and I like the area. The poker room is a little slow, though, but the $5 dealer's choice bomb pot game was fun! Another poster said Stubborn Seed has the best wagyu burger in Vegas ($28 but $19 during happy hour). I didn't get to try it.

Wynn is not a far walk -- it's an easy/nice walk, and Venetian isn't too bad, but Aria is a trek -- it is walkable, though. Walgreens and other restaurants basically across the street. It's just a different vibe.

We were on the 59th floor. Got two queens because we didn't want to wait for a king (we checked in at around 11 a.m.).

View -- mountains were nice to look at with snow.

I haven't stayed there, but can share a few considerations.

I've got to agree with the other poster who said the location is suboptimal. I just looked on Google maps, and the walk from RW to the Wynn is listed as 20 minutes and .8 miles.

The real problem is that you're walking almost entirely outdoors in the Vegas heat. Mid-strip you can walk from like the Venetian to the Horseshoe almost entirely through air-conditioned casinos, while walking from RW you're going to be outside. There are also many fewer pedestrians in that area so I don't know how safe it would feel to walk from like Wynn back to RW late night with a pocket full of cash. During the day it's fine but I'm not sure about walking at 2 am or something.

I wanted to highlight the location issue first as that is really the biggest downside. You'll likely end up ubering a lot if you stay there and want to play any WSOP events. Per Google maps RW to Horseshoe is 1.9 miles and trust me you make that walk and you'll end up sweaty and uncomfortable playing in the tournament on the other side.

Now for the more positive side. For like $400 and lower buy-in tournaments the action was pretty outstanding last year in the RW summer poker series. That same distance that inconveniences you also tends to keep out a lot of the grinders bouncing around on the strip. So the tournaments seemed to have a lot of recreational players and relatively soft fields compared to further south on the strip. The fields aren't huge but the poker room is nice, dealers seemed professional and it's overall a nice place to play.

While RW doesn't quite have that pulsating strip energy, it does have a pretty classy vibe and is enjoyable in a more low-key sort of way. When I was there I noticed a lot of business people as they have conventions and stuff there (good for the poker tournament fields!). They also seem to attract a fair amount of Asian tourists as I guess the RW brand is more well known in Asia.

Anyway that's my two cents. It's pretty much a nice place on an island that might as well be classified as off strip since it's so far from the most popular strip attractions.

Agree with a lot of that, but Wynn is very walkable to RW and vice versa. Wynn poker room is really in the Encore. All you have to do is exit through the Encore valet area and cross the street, and you are on the doorstep of RW. Venetian is not super, super far away either. Cross into Wynn, exit by the waterfall, cut across the bridge, and you are in the Palazzo.

I often stay at Harrah's and walk to these rooms. It's not terrible. I wouldn't want to go from RW to Aria or MGM. Horseshoe is a trek, but doable from RW depending on time and fitness. You can do most of that with minimal sun exposure. May not be worth the trouble though.

Agree w/ Dogface. The walk from RW to Wynn is nothing. I actually enjoy being outside, so I walk down the sidewalk to the butterfly entrance, but you can go inside. Plus, you get to walk right by Walgreens for essentials on the way there or back 😉 As I said, I like the area -- just a different vibe, but getting to the strip "proper" is nothing.

Anywhere you stay in Vegas, unless you are playing in your hotel, you are going to have a hike -- sometimes even if you are playing in your hotel 😉 I think the walk from Elara, where we usually stay, to Aria might be farther than RW to Wynn. And I like the "inexpensive" food choices near RW better -- if you want fancy, eat in RW.