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    If the LINQ smells like...

    piss, then what does the Flamingo smell like? What a POS. Never been there, went there, never going back. I wanted to try the LINQ too...is that worse? Dear God. All the low-lives stay at the Flamingo it seems like. That piss smell in the hallway is, as I found out on my first encounter with a guest exiting his room, most likely stale marijuana smoke. By the look of the littered hallway, I had assumed it was piss and vomit, how silly of me.

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    Hearken back to the days of the ol' Imperial Palace/Quad....Q

    Boz, you brought up bad olfactory senses from years ago when I had friends stay there when we had a big group in Vegas for a wedding. The main group stayed at the Aladdin (in process of converting to PH) and the cheap bastards stayed at the IP. The rooms/public areas were in bad shape from lack of deferred maintenance or perhaps ANY maintenance. And flooding by Febreeze may have been in order.

    Think Wizard spot on in his review of The Linq: http://wizardofvegas.com/hotels/Linq/


    But I thought it had been remodeled and cleaned up the past couple years or so. Is it really that bad? I'm sure Ceasars regrets their investment in the LinQ and High Roller overall but seems to me the area isn't that bad a place to visit and have a little non-gambling fun...............gambling at Flamingo and Linq don't seem very AP friendly though.......more the party crowd.
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    Flamingo and Bally's have surrender on their DAS 8-deck monster. LINQ has only one 3-2 table that I found. When I went in there, it actually seemed like a nicer place. But I didn't see the rooms, just the casino. Flamingo is a POS and I assume the LINQ is just as bad. I've always been happy with Ballys and Rio, but it seemed like Flamingo was rated as a higher end property based on their pricing, so I wanted to try it out. Wrong. Even Harrahs was decent. Flamingos rooms blow and are tiny, and walls are paper thin. Remind me of the Monte Carlo. Overpriced piece of garbage.

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    What amazes me is how many people have really good stinky weed on them that you can smell 20 feet away. I was playing at one table with a guy that reeked of good skunk weed. He smelled like the weed not the smoke. Then a lady sat down and commented that someone must have some good weed on them. The guy promptly got up and left the table. It occurred to me then that it might be a good way to get people to leave the table in a big count. Then it occurred to me it might also be a good way to get ambushed later that day. Every day multiple times a day and in hallways and elevators the air is permitted with the stink of primo bud. Nobody tried to bet their weed yet though. LoL

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    I've stayed at the LINQ. The casino floor is small with only about 2 playable blackjack games. Small casino as well. The rooms aren't that bad, I didn't mind it at all. For the price and location of LINQ I thought it was worth it as its located right in the center of the strip

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    The Flamingo is a such a POS I'm still stunned. I'm thinking the LINQ has to be better.

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    I never had a problem with the gaming area of the Flamingo. Nothing stands out to me as particularly crappy. My sister is staying there in a couple months, I'm interested to see what she thinks.

    T3 - The weed is everywhere. I've seen fools smoking J's walking down the strip.

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    Unless your sister is going there to party, be loud, and use drugs in a severely undersized room, I seriously suggest she stay somewhere else. The lowest end property on the strip is a hell of a lot nicer than that garbage dump. And there are a number of on or near strip strip casinos that are cheaper and very nice resorts. This place is no resort. If you are a bad person, the Flamingo is where you go when you die.

    Never had a problem with the gaming area? I had to scour the floor. Table after table is 6:5. Finally I found 3 tables of 3:2 shoes, and 1 3:2 pitch. I'd call that a problem. I didn't have a problem with dealers (unless you count that dealer who was blatantly cheating a problem, which I don't), but in general, employees in every position are rude. From check-in desk to host to PB. When your clientele is mostly scum, you don't get the high-end, enthusiastic treatment from the employees you might expect from a resort.

    If you haven't stayed there, then you don't know the half of it.
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    Boz, now you and 4 of your closest friends can stay in one room.......LOL If this doesn't start cheapening the Linq, don't know what will.

    http://www.latimes.com/travel/lasveg...nap-story.html
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    I haven't been in any of the LINQ rooms, but the rooms at the Flamingo and old Imperial Palace were god awful. About the only thig worse is the Circus Circus and the constant smell of dirty diapers, EVERYWHERE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MJGolf View Post
    Boz, now you and 4 of your closest friends can stay in one room.......LOL If this doesn't start cheapening the Linq, don't know what will.

    http://www.latimes.com/travel/lasveg...nap-story.html
    Yeah, I saw those as room choices when I checked the place out. After my experience at Flamingo, I have decided to not even test the LINQ. I'm still in awe of how terrible Flamingo is. I would have been happier at a motel 6.

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