Outside is the rude Aria pool security and the staff and the air not working in my room it was pleasant! The week I visited was the hottest week and the air jus wasn’t working like it should’ve been. The restaurant need to stay open to midnight weekly.

I have had the opportunity to stay three times at the new Virgin Las Vegas. Here are my thoughts:

I absolutely love this hotel!

The rooms in the Ruby Tower are cool, sharp, and even edgy. I love the connectivity, particularly the power located at the base of the sofas. The bathrooms are more than adequate, and I was lucky enough to get a suite twice, where the bathtubs are unbelievable (fantastic, truth be told)!!! The amenities are excellent (I wish that they had robes, though). WOW!

My mate visited me there, checked out the room and she compared it to the rooms that I had been given at the Las Vegas Waldorf Astoria. She used to be one of the VIP employees at another hotel, and has seen a heap of hotel rooms in Vegas and other cities. That’s some very high praise.

I was there during the soft opening, over Memorial Day weekend, and in June, and service was superb. The staff was friendly, efficient, and very customer service oriented. Those are three pretty fair tests of a new hotel and how it is handling things.

Restaurants were just opening, so I could only experience the Kitchen, but breakie there was excellent, and the wait staff friendly (the French toast and eggs bennies are yummy). I already had dinner res, so I was unable to eat at Nobu, but plan to when I return.

The casino is smaller, more intimate, and not as noisy as some of the larger hotels, but it was clean and well-tended. Free parking and no resort fees…what a way to win over the business traveler!

I really look forward to returning there again (the heck with the maddening crowd and long check in lines at Resort World!).