Review of the Western Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

The Western Hotel features a mere 50 guest rooms and suites. The hotel has room service and other amenities, such as TVs in the rooms, but it is rundown and smells moldy. The casino is mostly machines, and the games are cheap. The snacks are available but greasy and stale, and the dining options forgettable. The drinks are cheap, and the entertainment mocks Westerns with performances by American Indian wannabes. The hotel offers transport to downtown Vegas and to the Strip, and that is about it. The reliability of tours offered here is anybody's guess, since the staff is quite unhelpful.

There are very few pros where this hotel is concerned. If guests are feeling generous, they might say that the hotel evokes memories of the past: what Vegas was, and what we do not want it to become ... ever again. The hotel is shabby and disagreeable. The service, the food and the entertainment is all quite cheap, but spending even a dollar on any of it seems unacceptable to sensible people. The staff is usually unavailable, and the whole atmosphere makes one want to hide his wallet. The people who come here are mostly locals; any outsiders usually come to get a feel of what Vegas used to be.

The best one can say about the Western is that it is a monument of how far Vegas has come. When compared to the spectacular hotels on the Strip, the Western is a mere speck of dirt, and speculation has it that it will become dust pretty soon. The management seems non-existent, and the only patronage is the local color. The people coming here are like characters out of a seedy Western novel, and one would hope the hotel will be removed from the developing landscape of the Vegas territory, allowing the area to become more than what it is currently and aptly called: Crack City.