Excalibur Casino and Hotel Las Vegas - Reviews - Las Vegas

We stayed here for 1 night in June 2008 - we were on the 18th floor of Tower II overlooking the new and fabulous pool! after passing thru the casino, we smelled of smoke! Our room was one of the new updated widescreen rooms and the beds were updated but they only updated half of the bath...they put in new marble countertops and a new toliet but left the old tile floor and shower - very disappointing. They should have replaced them as well as they were showing age.

I was impressed with the security - each time we had to show our room key before we could enter the elevator lobby area to catch an elevator. Valet was great and so was check-in and pool staff. Overall a nice place but for the price, a better deal can be found!

The Excalibur Hotel in Las Vagas Neveda needs help.
The check in policies are not the same for each day. We went to check in on Tuesday at 10:30am and were told that we couldn't do so. They left us standing there in line along with at least 15 other people and no one even bothered to tell us they would not open the counter until 11am. When we went and asked a person at the check out counter they had an attitude [a nasty one] with us. Then when we checked out Friday at 10am the check in line was open and busy.
The evelvators to the 18th thru the 28th floor were not working properly. At one point only one of the three worked and it took 10 minutes to get it to the 27th floor.
Security for the hotelrooms is also lacking. They are suppost tocheck to make sure that the people going to the elevators to the hotel rooms have a room key. In the four days and three nights that we stayed there [and the many times we weent to our room for something] they only asked to see our roomkey twice. As well as the fact that my door key did not work correctly. There was also no non key lock on the inside to keep you safe while you are in your room that the other hotelsthat I have stayed at have. And there wasn't any kind of safe in our room.
The decore needs major upgrading.
The things my friends and I liked were:
The restaurants were nice and the food good.
The show we saw there was excelant. Thunder Down Under was GREAT!!!!!!!
The hotel's location was right on the strip with access to various entertainment and attractions.

I had way too much fun here! The place is shaped like a castle! I'm not gonna lie, i think getting around it was a little confusing tower I vs tower II, the pool...I couldnt get anywhere if i was alone but then again i might have had that problem in any hotel..

Let's face it. Vegas is all about tack. Tack-tack-tacky. And surely we all come to Vegas to embrace it in all its tackiness? We did and we weren't disappointed with Excalibur. Its revolting Castle theme is just brilliant given the context. I mean, where else in the world would this make sense?? The rooms were fine, the pool was fine, it was all fine. The great thing about this place is that it is cheap and central to everything. It links to MGM with a walkway so it's just a hop and a skip to more tackiness and good times.