When they booked me at the Alexis Resort I thought had I received a pretty good deal for $70 a night.  The hotel's web site showed a very pleasant hotel with several pools and nice rooms.

What they did not tell me was the hotel was undergoing renovation (and it really needed it.)  The front entrance and one of the pools was torn up.  We had to walk several hundred feet through a plywood makeshift walkway to get to our room.  The stray cats roaming the grounds were also not what we expected.  I think wildlife is good just not in my motel.

The rooms were old.  My boss had plaster falling off the ceiling in his bathroom.  The beds were like sleeping on a bunch of cement blocks.  This turned out to be not a big problem because the sound of jet aircraft taking off from McCarran airport kept us awake anyway.  They had absolutely no soundproofing.

The worst part was I found out before I got there that they were renovating and tried to get Priceline to do something and they would not.  When I complained to Priceline after I got back nothing happened.

Larry Day, lday@hillsboroaviation.com