Mandalay Bay Hotel has been one of my long time favourite casinos to stay at in Las Vegas. The rooms are nice, the casino is clean and relatively smoke-free, and the restaurants are all good; or, at least that is what I used to think.\n\nThe Bayside Buffet does NOT stand up to the reputation of the Mandalay Bay experience. For a group of twenty-one people, they required an eighteen percent gratuity to seat the party together. However, we were not seated together. They were going to seat us in one of the main rooms spread out over six tables. Mind you, we arrived early enough that they only had maybe three other parties in the restaurant. When we complained, they refused to even push some of the tables together; we pushed them together, to consolidate the group into four separate tables. That was the best that we could manage.\n\nThe service was slow. And, mind you, this was a buffet. So, slow service was kind of puzzling. All they had to do was provide us with drinks, at an almost empty buffet. \n\nAnd the food, well I guess that's what we get for going so early. It tasted like they served us yesterday's food. A lot of it was hard and chewy, stale. And avoid the weekend omlette cook, he could only manage two omlettes at a time, barely.\n\nThe Bayside Buffet service belongs at someplace like the Tropicana.
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