First of all... let me begin by addressing a common complaint I'm seeing on here: the massive abundance of children. For those of you complaining that this place is packed with kids - take hand, smack face. The name of the place is Circus Circus, for crying out loud! There is a circus and an amusement park inside of the place, and you're surprised that it's wall-to-wall kids? While I fully agree than The Strip is no place to bring your children, it's pretty obvious that everyone who's oblivious to that fact is most definitely going to bring their little screaming banshees to the giant indoor amusement park/circus. I mean, c'mon people!\n\nThat being said, the hotel is, in fact, terrible. It most definitely needs to be downgraded to a 2 star rating, because I have stayed in nicer motels than this supposed 3 star hotel. We chose it knowing that it wasn't the nicest hotel on The Strip, and because they were offering a promotion of 2 free Cirque Du Soleil tickets with a 3 night stay, but the experience was certainly not one that I would expect from a 3 star (above average) hotel.\n\nAfter dealing with airports, flights, luggage, rental cars, and traffic for the past 10 hours, we wearily entered the Circus Circus hotel lobby, wanting nothing more than sleep. What I saw made me want to cry: a line of at least 100 other people waiting to be checked in stretched across the entire length of the dark and dingy lobby. Rather than having someone at every desk position, there were only 5 or 6 check-in clerks on duty. We waited over an hour to be checked into our room. Once we were finally in our room, we immediately noticed that we had been given 2 double beds rather than the one king bed we had requested when we booked our trip several weeks prior. We didn't feel like dealing with the hassle of having it changed, nor did we expect that they would even be able to, so we decided to just deal with it and went to bed.\n\nWe weren't particularly close to the elevators, but somehow the mechanical whirring and banging of the elevator machinery traveled quite nicely through the walls to our room. Being a light sleeper, I knew that this would most certainly keep me from sleeping. Fortunately, using a combination of ear plugs and a white noise maker, I was able to drown the sound out well enough to sleep. The check-in process and front desk employees discouraged us so much right off the bat that we just didn't feel like bothering with trying to get our room changed. None of the employees we came across in any of the shops or the Adventuredome were particularly pleasant either.\n\nThe one good thing I can say about this hotel is that our room was clean. After reading some of the other negative reviews on here, I was pretty terrified of what the room would look like (smoke stained walls and sheets, funky odors, etc.), but the room we ended up in was perfectly acceptable in that regard. The sheets and blankets were clean (although I never ever use hotel comforters just as a general rule, since they don't get washed regularly), the bathroom was spotless, and the walls and carpet were perfectly acceptable. I think that may have been another reason we decided to stick with the room we got, after seeing some of the horror stories on here.\n\nOverall, I am giving Circus Circus the same rating I believe they deserve on the universal hotel rating scale: 2 sad little stars. If I ever return to Vegas, I will certainly not be staying here!
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