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  • #16
    haha

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    • #17
      Originally posted by milehighj View Post
      Dude, just find yourself a good casino junket + a bag of cash, and get yourself comped at any highroller suite on the Strip. They'll even send the G5 for you if the bag is big enough.
      Like a G6? Might have to ask one of the other fellows to loan me one, oh wait - taipeiflyer did that already!

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Kyo View Post
        Again, I stress, I see no point in booking the Mandarin Oriental (heck, we don't want something 'oriental' this trip, which I mentioned...) if there's something different that's more American/'Vegas' available, especially when we won't be needing much 'service' being that we're not at the hotel much at all except likely (very) late at night. We live in Asia, we experience Asian hospitality every day, this is not what I'm after in Vegas. There must be somewhere with at least 'pleasant' Western-ised service standards in LAS.
        I'm just curious how you percieve Asian service to be different from western service ?!?

        Do I get Asian service if I stay in the MO London ? And western service if I happen to end up in the FS Singapore ?

        IMHO, it seems a bit strange to reject the MO merely because it has "Oriental" in its name. It's in LAS, the staff are presumably mostly American, the service will be American! Strongly recommended by the HUGE one too. What more do you want ?

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        • #19
          Re-reading Kyo's above post:

          * he has no budget - any price is fine!

          * he doesn't want "Asian" service (by which I assume he means "good") - he only wants "at least 'pleasant' Western-ised service standards" (i.e. sh.. service)

          * not somewhere which feels like "emptiness" but also "someplace large"

          * something "more American/'Vegas'" - perhaps something stereotypically bling / grand / tasteless ?

          I'm confused!

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          • #20
            No need for confusion, jhm. We're discussing a post about hotel recommendations, not a Gencon.

            I'll indulge you but I do wish you'd given suggestions about where to stay instead of pointedly dissecting my posts

            Originally posted by jhm View Post
            I'm just curious how you percieve Asian service to be different from western service ?!?

            Do I get Asian service if I stay in the MO London ? And western service if I happen to end up in the FS Singapore ?

            IMHO, it seems a bit strange to reject the MO merely because it has "Oriental" in its name. It's in LAS, the staff are presumably mostly American, the service will be American! Strongly recommended by the HUGE one too. What more do you want ?
            Where to begin? (and where did I reject the MO for having 'Oriental' in its name? I've taken great pains to show that I've even given this property a tertiary round of consideration! )
            -'Asian' hospitality does not have to equate to 'good'. 'Good' does not have to mean 'Asian/American/any other nationality' nor does 'sh.. service' trans late to 'Western-ised service standards'.
            What am I trying to get at? I expect a certain sincerity, hospitality, warmth and all-round pleasantness that is characteristic of hotels (airlines, anyone?) at the top of their game. What I aim to avoid is hospitality that's wooden, indifferent and aloof.

            -I'm sure you and I don't presume to know the cultural/nationalities that make up the staff at the MO (London's notwithstanding, perhaps you stay there often enough to know?), but I would certainly expect to find a higher proportion of genteel Asians manning the MO LAS (whether or not this is indeed the case doesn't address some of my main criteria, i.e. a hotel extraordinary enough that I have to go to LAS to get it being one of them)

            Originally posted by jhm View Post
            * he has no budget - any price is fine!

            * he doesn't want "Asian" service (by which I assume he means "good") - he only wants "at least 'pleasant' Western-ised service standards" (i.e. sh.. service)

            * not somewhere which feels like "emptiness" but also "someplace large"

            * something "more American/'Vegas'" - perhaps something stereotypically bling / grand / tasteless ?

            I'm confused!
            Budget - I'll come back to this at the bottom.

            -'Asian' service, discussed above
            -'empty' vs 'someplace large'; a layout that makes sensible use of space, with decor and furnishing to match. Again something subjective, but I found myself looking at picture after picture of 'not much/nothingness' upon reviewing the Skylofts TR recently. I don't presume to be an expert in interior design. IANAID.
            -If I wanted an Oriental-themed hotel, I wouldn't travel over 8000 miles to do it (perhaps others would, but I've made it abundantly clear that I'm not willing to do that). The whole point of going to Vegas, for us, is for the Vegas 'high-roller experience', without the compulsion to gamble (I'm sure many would agree that Vegas relies on its 'bling' to a large extent to attract the tourist crowd, unashamedly and without apologies - whether or not this is classified as "grand / tasteless" being purely subjective, and might I add in this case, purely of your own opinion). To draw a similar analogy, it's why I choose to stay at the Hotel 41 in London when I was there. Because it's quintessentially 'English'. By the same measure, in Vegas, I want something quintessentially 'bling-bling Vegas/American'.

            Which brings us to conclude with the 'all-important' 'budget' criteria.

            My stance? Simple. I'll give anything a second glance, and make my decision about where to stay when all the aforementioned factors have been taken into account. I've pointed out that I don't consider any price to be simply 'fine'. Rather, each proposal will be compared with the above/previous criteria and I'll make the choice accordingly taking into consideration the positives/negatives of each property TOGETHER with the suggestions of others...


            ...whether or not the HUGE one puts his stamp of approval on it or not (shock horror!)

            Ain't that the beauty of being an individual? Not all of us are HUGE. And let's not forget even the esteemed milehighj found himself feeling differently than the HUGE one on at least one occasion

            Disclaimer: HUGE AL is a bro, and I also didn't enjoy being dissed.
            Last edited by Kyo; 8 March 2011, 10:28 PM.

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            • #21
              Kyo, thank you for indulging me!

              My last post was a bit tongue in cheek but the one before that was a genuine question - how is Asian hotel service/hospitality different from Western hotel service/hospitality ?

              The only difference I can see that you mentioned (after reading your post twice) is that you expect to find a "higher proportion of genteel Asians manning the MO LAS" ... which means ?

              Does that mean that there are a higher proportion of (more or less ?) genteel Westerners manning the FS SIN then ?

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              • #22
                Oh, you naughty boy! I'm not indulging you twice in one night. Feel free to deconstruct this post, too! I have more important things to do like imagine I'm finishing the OSL TR...

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                  ........
                  I have more important things to do like imagine I'm finishing the OSL TR...
                  Ohhh... It hasn't finished yet??

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                    Ain't that the beauty of being an individual? Not all of us are HUGE. And let's not forget even the esteemed milehighj found himself feeling differently than the HUGE one on at least one occasion

                    Disclaimer: HUGE AL is a bro, and I also didn't enjoy being dissed.
                    "also"?

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                      ......

                      Now I'm doing research about which is the best Cirque Du Soleil show there is in LAS.
                      Have seen KA, Zumanity and O while I was in Vegas.... I like KA the most... the one at MGM Grand....

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                      • #26
                        Thanks everyone - we've booked a Tower Suite at the Aria for two nights on their promo which is available on the nights we want (unlike all the other promos). It *is* cancellable, so if something else comes along, we've got flexibility! Looks good and does hit the 1,000 sqft soft criteria

                        Looks 'different' enough, and hopefully is up to par. Annoyingly, it forces the use of a an American or Canadian address to secure the reservation. So someone's gonna get confused by a random Californian postcode with a city called 'Singapore'

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                          Thanks everyone - we've booked a Tower Suite at the Aria for two nights on their promo which is available on the nights we want (unlike all the other promos). It *is* cancellable, so if something else comes along, we've got flexibility! Looks good and does hit the 1,000 sqft soft criteria

                          Looks 'different' enough, and hopefully is up to par. Annoyingly, it forces the use of a an American or Canadian address to secure the reservation. So someone's gonna get confused by a random Californian postcode with a city called 'Singapore'
                          Nice, I stayed there about a year ago and loved it! It is still moving up the rankings on Tripadvisor

                          Not sure about forcing the use of the USA/Canadian address, as there is a dropdown box for Country selection and I have booked there before with an Australian address.

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                            ...if we can get a 1,400sqft suite...that suits us fine...
                            Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                            Looks good and does hit the 1,000 sqft soft criteria...
                            HUGE AL

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                            • #29
                              You've deliberately chosen to take that first quote out of context.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Kyo View Post
                                You've deliberately chosen to take that first quote out of context.
                                It was the only other place where "sqft" was referenced.

                                Let's not even get into the other 15+ contradictions that make this thread so humorous to read! It was this 1,000 sqft "criteria" that had me reeling.
                                HUGE AL

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