Back from our latest trip to Las Vegas. We stayed at the Aladdin, which in this day and age is kind of scary. Not because they recently filed for bankruptcy, but when surfing through the channel in your room you run across three Arabic-themed channels. Kind of strange.

Our trip was a rousing success, The Aladdin, often bashed in reviews served us extremely well. I made several attempts to contact a representative of the hotel to provide me a tour of the property with little success. The Aladdin is the latest and greatest Las Vegas has to offer, we found the casino very easy to navigate and access to the elevators was a breeze. It still took several days to get my bearings strait on the the overall layout of the casino in conjunction with the Desert Passage shopping mall that surrounds the Theatre of the Performing Arts and most of the casino floor.

Upon checking in service (as in most hospitality businesses) was less than accommodating, after waiting about an hour for our room to be cleaned we were finally given keys to room 1904. Our room was a a standard room with two double beds, about 40% of the room was dedicated to the bathroom. The bathroom contains a stand-up shower, a private toilet room, the deepest bathtub you have ever seen (no whirlpool jets) and a marble countertop with a single sink. Couple odd notes: The toilet room has a lock on the door, but the overall room is not lockable so any of your room mates could walk right in while enjoying a bath/shower. The tub, a monster is next to impossible to get in and out, especially for older folks.

The remainder of the room was just average, the windows were much too small and had a large table and chairs in front of them blocking the view (I like to stand in front of the window), we soon rearranged the room with the furniture to our liking. The internet access was ok, actually a little slow compared to my cable modem at home, here are the test results from DSL Reports:
** Speed 542(down)/2367(up) kbps **
(At least 10 times faster than a 56k modem)

The desk layout was a bit cramped with no mouse pad or proper operating area to move the mouse, the flat screen monitor was nice. The $9.95 per day charge is about average for hotel internet access.

We rented from Alamo, they are usually the cheapest and the Quicksilver service gets you in-and-out in minutes. We were issued the standard issue 2001 Chevrolet Lumina with 15k miles, a first in Las Vegas was the hunter green color, what happen to all the white ones? $95.00 for four days all-inclusive.

We chose Delta on this trek do to some great deals prior to September 11th. All flights were full (why are they reducing capacity?)