Las Vegas Hotel Review - Four Seasons Hotel Review by Madelyn Pollock

Pro: no casino, 5 star luxury, access to Mandalay Bay pool

Con: price, south end of strip

A bit of a secret, the Four Seasons rooms are at the top of Mandalay Bay, but are all Four Seasons with the usual over the top service and amenities. If you don't want to walk through a casino to navigate your hotel, this is the place for you. A traditional 5 star hotel lobby (no slots, no smoking, etc), a soothing, quiet, luxurious ambiance. The staff are not just eager to serve, but make you feel like you are the only one in the place.

Rooms are top notch -- 42 in plasma with DVD, VCR. Huge bathrooms with soaking tubs. Fabulous beds with down pillows and comforters. Floor to ceiling windows with views of the mountains or the Strip (since the 4S is at the extreme south end, you get a great view!). In room coffee, tea, fridge and apples at the front and spa desk everyday. Complimentary bottled water.

Top notch spa on site. The pool is not huge, but has two whirlpools and is attached via a card access gate to the 11+ acres of Mandalay Bay's "water park" like pool area. So, you get the best of both worlds.

Slip on your suit, meet the pool staff at the entrance to the pool and they will set up the chaise of your choice (shade or no?) with a cushy terry chair cover, give you a huge fluffy towel and bring you a pitcher of ice water. Need a spritz of over you to keep cool? Cucumber slices for your eyes? No problem and on the house.

Poolside bar and food service available and not at bad prices either. When you tire of the calm classic music and the pampering, just take your 4S card key with you and go down the path to the adjacent Mandalay Bay pool complex where rock music blares and you have access to lazy river, wave pool, sandy beach, etc. Bring your blow-up tube from home to avoid the $20 per day charge for renting tubes and you're all set.

Need some choices for eating out, again, you've got the best steakhouse in Vegas in the Charlie Palmer right there at the Four Seasons or a raft of restaurants in the adjacent M. Bay hotel. If you want gambling, that's there too. But, back in the Four Seasons cocoon, you can forget about the smoking, loud, bright side of Vegas...until you're ready for the night on town. And then, you can hop a cab, or from the Mandalay Bay, take the free tram as far as the Excalibur.

Then, you are in the heart of the south strip with everything at your fingertips. My only wish was that they would keep the pool open after dark.

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