Went to The Flamingo for wedding. First, valet took forever. When an attendant finally got to us (15 mins later), he called for a bell hop. The bell hop took another 15 minutes to show up to our car. Now, I'm standing outside of the car in 100 degree weather waiting for the bell hop to get to my car. I'm a good tipper and I tipped the valet attendant $10 hoping he'd get the bell hop quick but no luck. Anyways he finally shows up, gets our bag and I head to check in. I get to the check in area and the line is super long. For a second, I thought I was in line for a Disneyland ride. However, my wife and I ditched the line, got into the rewards line and filled out for a card. This allowed us to get into the rewards check in line. Turned out to be a 15 minute wait instead of 2 hours in the regular line. At the check in, I do the $20 sandwich trick and it worked! Got upgraded to a cosmopolitan suite!!\nSo we head to our room. Luckily the elevator in the spa tower worked unlike the other ones in the other towers. No elevator issues for us! Get to our suite and it is amazing. It was huge, great view and clean. Sort of...we open the mini fridge and there's a left over sandwich in there. Looks like the maids forgot something. Anyways we call the bell desk to bring up our luggage. Guess what? We had to wait over an hour to get our bags. No biggie, we can wait since we're inside the room now. My family meets us up in our suite and we order 2 buckets of beer to kick off the weekend. Surprisingly the beers came within half an hour. Not bad I thought. So we head to the buffet after we settled in and got our luggage. Buffet wasn't that great for the price they charge ($30) or something, but we wanted to dine as a family so we went. I tipped the cashier $20 and she gives us diamond access and complimentary wine for all of us (we had a party of 8). The food was very mediocre. For the price we paid, I figured we'd have more choices of food, but it was horrible. \nOverall the weekend was fun. We were forced to use the under 21 age pool since my niece was with us but it wasn't bad. They still served food and alcohol there and we didn't have to deal with the over packed \"adult\" pool. So I gave it a three star since I got a cool upgrade. If not it would be a 2 star review. \n\nBad things I experienced:\nLong valet and bell hop wait times\nBad buffet\nIce machine and soda machine didn't work on our floor\nElevator always had spilled beer or something in it\nLong check in line\n\nGood things I experienced:\nAwesome room upgrade. Shower had mid body jets and a TV in the mirror! \nFun pool area (non \"adult\" side). Great pool side food and drinks\nGood place for slots. Won a few times\nPizza place stays open late and it was good!\nFast room service
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