Here, you get the unedited room tour.
This is exactly how it happened as we walked off the elevator at New York-New York on St. Patrick’s Day 2026.
I’ve been trying to show these budget-ish Vegas properties the way they actually hit, not cleaned up later, not softened, and definitely not run through the usual fake-ass “everything is amazing” Vegas filter.
If you remember Excalibur, that room came with the previous guest’s dirty flip-flops. I assumed that was a weird one-off.
Apparently not.
Because once again, I got some free bonus items from people who had already checked out.
I booked this as a comp night through MyVegas. Gold, so no resort fee.
We just wanted somewhere easy to crash during the St. Paddy’s Day madness and before the VGK game that night without having to walk all the way back to Vdara.
For that, it did the job.
But it also came with a few problems.
At this point I’m starting to think I’m either incredibly unlucky or Vegas housekeeping has decided I’m the official curator of abandoned guest artifacts.
I’ll also show below how easy it was to print our own key cards from the MGM app. We skipped the long line downstairs, and there definitely was one, and got upstairs in a few minutes. That part was smooth, exactly what you’d expect from MGM when the tech actually behaves.
Then the room happened.
NYNY is older, sure, but it’s still one of my favorite places to hang before and after VGK games.
The property itself? Totally workable.
The room? That’s where things got interesting.
At the time, it didn’t really bother me. After the video, I noticed it looked like someone had ripped out the fridge.
I called down to mention it (mostly so I didn’t get charged), and was told they would send up housekeeping to collect the neck pillow for lost and found and replace the fridge, but that never happened. What surprised me the most was the difference in customer service at Vdara vs. NYNY.
After thinking about it, for a night, or what we were using it for, this would be fine, but for a few days? No way, and frankly, no one should be ok with this…
-Jason
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