This hotel is just off the strip but actually pretty quiet. Located on Convention Center drive, it is a small hotel surrounded by asphalt. Our first stay there was great. We were traveling with a pet and my husband is handicapped, so we don't get the best rooms, but they were clean. Breakfast is pretty lean, but it only cost $26 per night +tax. Three weeks later it was $39 per night, still not horrible, but the internet no longer worked in the room. Because of my husband's handicap and because I continue to work at my business while away from home, this was very frustrating. It was blamed on the provider and the two large hotels nearby, but if you advertise internet, I want internet in the room, not in the lobby.

I booked this trip through Hotwire for 7 nights with my adult daughter. I'm a big fan of Hotwire and have always been pleased with my hotel stays in the past through them. This place, however, was a different story. Hotwire described this hotel as "North Strip". Well, it is not on the official strip. It is well north of the Stratosphere. It is actually between downtown and the strip in a very seedy area of Las Vegas. There is an Adult Bookstore across the street and many strip clubs within walking distant of this Econo Lodge. There were homeless and perverted looking people walking around. My daughter and I tried laying out by their tiny pool one afternoon and weird-looking men actually stopped and stared at us. One man (with his beer can in hand) even walked into the parking lot and stood and stared at us and another homeless man pushed his shopping cart onto the hotel property to stare at us. This made us very uncomfortable, so we left the pool area. The hotel is old and broken down. The room was old and dirty with mold in the tile. Our facet was broken. Two days in a row the maid failed to clean our room and we had to call and complain. The ice machine on our side of the hotel never worked. I had to walk across the parking lot to get ice. One night this ice machine would not turn off and ice poured out to the ground. I let the hotel clerk know this and she turned it off. The next night it was doing it again. There was a hugh pile of ice on the parking lot ground. So, they failed to have the ice machine fixed.

When I have booked through Hotwire In the past, when I have traveled with my daughter, the hotels we stayed at always let us have two beds at no extra charge. All we had to do was ask. This was not the case with this hotel. The rude hotel clerk stated "if you want two beds that will be an extra $20 a night." Well with this added cost I could of booked a room in Vegas direct at many hotels that were a lot nicer than this place, and with two beds. This would no longer have been a good deal, and isn't that what Hotwire is all about? It would have been different if the hotel was full, but I don't think this place was ever more than 25% full the whole week. It would of just been good business to have given us the room with two beds at no extra charge. Also, the one bed we did get creaked every time we moved and the mattress was old and sagging. They advertised this as a queen bed, but it was definately a double bed.

The weird thing about this place is that the hotel lobby was really nice. It was filled with nice furniture and two big flatscreen TV's. This certainly gives off the wrong image because the rooms are horrible. They have a AAA rating on their sign. I think AAA must have really lowered their standards lately. Hotwire rated this place as a two-star. Well it was not a two-star. I would not even consider this as a one-star. In my opinon it was a "minus one", and I am not a picky person, I even think Motel 6 is o.k.

There was one good thing at this place and that was the free use of their internet in the lobby. They also supplied a printer for guests to print off their information.

We did manage to have a good time on this trip since we only spent enough time to sleep and shower at this place. My advice to anyone considering booking a hotel through Hotwire to Las Vegas is "Don't do it". Hotwire is great for probably any other place on earth. But there are just too many other good hotel deals going on in Vegas right now and you can book direct and know what you are getting into. If you are considering booking direct at this Econo Lodge, please don't do it, there are many other places to stay that are a lot nicer and are still at a bargin rate in Las Vegas.

Ok hotel, but the carpeting needs to be cleaned or removed. I was in room 203 which allowed me to have a large porch with some sitting chairs. A good view of Las Vegas Blvd. It's in the area where the wedding chapels are. It's best to have a car, as I always do in Vegas

Overall, this is an OK motel with decent rooms- but you get what you pay for.

I stayed at this motel for five nights during the annual CES trade show.

This budget chain is located in a shady-looking part of town, about a mile north of the strip, next to a few adult stores. It's definitely not a good area, but doesn't look too unsafe either.

I saw three different rooms during this trip. The rooms are sized acceptably, clean, and neat. However, the beds aren't the most comfortable; the air is dry, and the heater is loud.

Free continental breakfast and daily newspaper was a nice touch for a cheap motel. However, the advertised free wireless internet is located only near the office. Based on the three rooms I moved around in to find wireless, I estimate less than a third of the rooms will have wi-fi signal. However, the staff were always friendly and willing to help (in switching rooms), and internet is also available at the computers in the office.

For the price, I would stay there again. Still, this is not a hotel to vacation at.