Las Vegas for kids - My Excalibur Experience

I've stayed at the Excalibur exactly once. The reason that I'm not staying there again is that I like my location to be more central-strip. The place itself is actually pretty decent. I had a standard room, which is located on the inside-facing side of the towers, so I did NOT have a view of the Las Vegas strip. That was a pity, since I like a good view, but the room itself surprised me pleasantly. It was big!

Actually, when I booked that place, I did not even know it was a "family hotel", aimed at parents with kids. I chose it because of the low price (then). The reason for the big rooms is so that you can set up cribs and extra beds. There you go! The main bed itself was pretty big, too. I had one king size, and it was very comfortable. Later on I'll tell you about the Tropicana, too, but their beds are not as good as those in the Excalibur.

One thing I definitely do like about the Excalibur is the food court. It's not very big, but it has a Pizza Hut Express, and I love those 7-inch peperoni pizzas. There's a donut shop, and a McDonalds, too. But the little pizzas do it for me. You can have 2 pizzas and not feel (all too) guilty! It's called vacationing, I guess.

On a sadder note - a taxidriver told me that the Excalibur is one of the next on the list to be ex/imploded. Even though it's doing pretty well, it was designed with kids in mind some 15+ years ago. During those 15 years, Las Vegas has figured out that it's not a good idea to have kids in town. First they thought that, if they make a kids-friendly casino, more people with kids would come because they did not have to arrange for babysitters. But the kids apparently are still too much of a burden for mom and dad to let them gamble for hours and hours on end. So the trend now is to make Vegas more and more kids-unfriendly (is that a word?). This includes raising room prices by double digit percentages. The Excalibur is not as cheap as it used to be.

I guess all this means that if you like to stay at the Excalibur, you better hurry - it may not be there anymore next time you come to Las Vegas.