I had managed to book a standard room at the Borgata few weeks prior to our arrival. It wasn't the best price I'd seen but for $169 it was also not the worst. August is still a high tourist season and we stayed on a weeknight so this is pretty much as low as it was going to get with such short notice. Taxes and such brought the total to $192.
We drove up from Stone Harbor where we were on a week long extended family & friends vacation in a beach house rental. It was really nice to get away from the kids and house-mates for the night and spend some time together taking in the atmosphere of the AC Boardwalk. It was about a 45 minute drive and we used GPS to head straight to the parking garage in our rental car. Parking is a flat $5 upon every exit! I tucked that bit of information away for later.
We checked in around 5pm. There was a short line and the wait was about 5 minutes. The check in process was not what I was used to compared to Las Vegas checking in! I'm used to having a genuine friendly interaction checking in at Vegas; here, the prevailing attitude is that the employee is at work today to do Me a favor. I asked if there were any complimentary room upgrades available and was told no. Ok, no problem. How much would the cost be to upgrade? This is when things got weird for me. The clerk spent 5 minutes typing then told me, she didn't know and I would have to talk to central reservation. Uh ok. She called on her desk phone and handed it to me once she explained that I wanted to know the cost for a room upgrade. I needed to verify my name and address before she could quote me an upgrade fee? It was all for naught as the "upgrade fee" was the difference between my room cost and the current rack rate for the evening. Right. No thank you.
It was just as well that the room upgrade didn't happen as our standard King room turned out to be quite lovely! I was pleased with the cleanliness and décor choices of both our room and the hotel. Everything seems fairly new and in very good condition.
The bathroom was good sized and came stocked with upscale toiletries from "lather". I quite liked the oatmeal bath soap which had a citrus scent. One thing to note is that there is no tub accommodation - only a large shower. So if you were hoping for a nice relaxing soak, you're out of luck.
Our one night was spent out on the Boardwalk taking in the night air and atmosphere and we didn't spend a lot of time in our room. The bed and pillows were comfortable and the sheets were quite nice. Sheet sets are available as a point reward on the MyVegas casino Facebook/mobile game if this is something you'd like for use at home. I'd like to note that The Borgata became a MyVegas reward partner after my stay happened. At the time of this writing, there are discounted $89 rooms available as a MyVegas reward for 5000 loyalty points and if you are lucky they will bring back free rooms for 50,000 loyalty points. Discounted and free rooms are for Sunday through Thursday stays only and not available to be used on weekend (Fri-Sat) nights.
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