I had a slightly different experience at the Trump in Las Vegas. I read the previous post prior to bidding so I was not disappointed when Trump won with a bid of $165 a night for July 25th and 26th. There was a decent boxing match for the weekend, so $165 was a pretty good price even though it was middle of summer. Before I review the good and bad of the Trump, I want to put it in the perspective that it was based upon my only stay there and it's in comparison to 4-5 recent stays at the Palazzo and Venetian properties. Starting from the beginning, I thought the lobby was very nice with a large sitting area to the right with plenty of room to read, wait for others or relax. Also a nice little bar there. Checkin was a little disappointing as I got there a little before 2 pm and they said the room they had reserved for me was not ready yet. I replied that since it was just me that any room would do and they didn't offer up any others. I left my number with them and they said they'd call when it was ready. A nice little feature of the Trump is that it is a stones throw from the high end stores of the local mall...I'm sure there was planning in that. I didn't get a call so I went back at about 3:15 to checkin. I got my room and they brought my bag up and explained the features of the room. Room isn't quite as big as the suites at venetian or palazzo, but nice. Bathroom is beautiful with deep sauna tub, great roomy shower (even for someone 6'5" or so) and a builtin LCD tv in the mirror. The other nice part of the room was that you had your own fridge, stove top, blender, etc compared to the fridges of $5 water at the palazzo. tv's were HD and comparable to palazzo. Bed was comfy and fine. Some of the little things that may just have been quirks that needed to be worked out for a new hotel were the stereo (ipod player) did not work, and there weren't any tissues in the room (just an empty box). No big deal though. The pool was small but there were plenty of chairs (almost personal type cabana chairs) and very prompt service. Spa was $22 and was on par with venetian (which I think is $35 a day)...Almost same setup with showers, sauna, steamroom, lockers, etc. Gym was fairly small with no free weights, but was plenty good for a quick workout. The pool atmospere is low key, not like "sights" at the venetian or palazzo. One of the neat features of the room was a button on the inside of the wall which either can be pushed for housekeeping or privacy, so you don't have to bother with the little tags on the door. The aspect that was disappointing was the service. Check in was slow even though there were only about 6 people checking in. They had 4 workers checking people in and when I left for dinner the check in line was 30 or so deep. Almost all other hotels I have stayed at in vegas will check you in early unless sold out. I don't know how many were staying at the trump, but it was not busy, so I was a little putoff that they didn't even attempt to look for another room for early check-in. That's fine as that's the policy. But when I left to gamble for the day (and night) and requested housekeeping, I was a little miffed that when I got back to the room at midnight, they had not serviced the room at all. That's fine maybe it was an oversight. When I checked out and they asked how things were and I said the room was never serviced they just said thanks for telling us. I don't expect a chocolate on the pillow every night, but I do expect a little more out of the service from a 5* Hotel. Again, this may have been a "one off" and other than the checkin wait, non service of the room and the nonchalant response, the room, facilities and stay were nice. Bottom line, the palazzo or venetian have nicer rooms, a better location and at least from my experience better service. Hope this review is helpful for those bidding and I hope the few quirks above for the trump were anomalies
