I've stayed almost everywhere on the strip and made arrangements this past weekend with one of the priorities being checking out the new City Center and Aria...\n\n1) Driving in - the place looks amazing.  From both the strip and highway views.\n\n2) If you're trying to self-park, it's impossible to find.  It's like guess and check.  For as large as the parking complex is, It takes are really long time to find a spot too.\n\n3) We got to the front desk at 530pm on Friday and was told that our room had yet to be cleaned --- what?!?!  They comped us $30 (two drinks) and told us to go up to the room in an hour.  We went up at 640pm and the maid had JUST ARRIVED!  I sat out in the hall for a 1/2 hour as I was too exhausted to go all the way back downstairs\n\n4) The rooms are nice, but a far cry from Venetian/Wynn properties STILL...why arent all hotels becoming all-suites these days?\n\n5) We ate at Lemongrass on Friday night.  Service was horrible.  I think they transferred all the help from Mirage's buffet line!\n\n6) We ventured into Crystals --- place is almost completely empty!  There are like four stores open.  Why even open it?                                                                                                                        \n\n7) The casino floor is really dark and very convoluted.  I was at the pallazzo on Saturday night and thought to myself how much more inviting it was to spend my money there...\n\n8) We ate at BarMasa on Saturday night (I heard that Shaboo is $500pp/minimum!??!).  Food was OKAY.  Sushi/sashimi are $8-11 apiece.  Are you kidding me?  The servers were actually apologizing for how overpriced the menu was for what it was.  For two, we had two drinks apiece, a salad, kobe sukiyaki, mushroom fried rice, three rolls and three pieces of sushi...$325 --- hard to understand why this place costs more than, say, Nobu\n\nOverall, I'd never stay here again unless they comped really large.  Back to Venetian