Excalibur Vegas

Room Quality:

The rooms at Excalibur Hotel and Casino Vegas are clean, on the small side, furnished and have showers, but no tubs. Ask for one of the "wide screen" rooms and get newer furnishings, granite counter tops, better beds and a flat-screen TV. Excalibur Las Vegas might not be the height of luxury, but if you're on a family vacation where the kids won't care about the room anyway or you're just a hard-core bargain hunter, the rooms here will get the job done. Excalibur Vegas promo codes can also make these rooms hard to turn down for anyone looking to save some cash.

Service Quality:

If you're traveling with kids, Excalibur Hotel and Casino Vegas has tons of stuff for them to eat and do (at extra cost - this is Vegas, after all). Check-in can be time-consuming at just about any hour, but especially try to avoid Thursday and Friday afternoons.

What You Get Bottles of in the Bathroom:

Lotion, shampoo and conditioner - the basics. This is Excalibur Las Vegas, not the Bellagio.

Clientele:

If you have a family, you'll fit in at Excalibur Las Vegas.

How's the Pool?

The landscaped pool area at Excalibur Hotel and Casino Vegas has a few small pools so they can separate the kids from the adults more easily. There are also cabanas, if you feel inclined to splurge.

Resort Fee:

A daily resort fee of $16.80 includes wired high-speed internet, access to the fitness center, incoming faxes, daily newspaper and domestic and long distance phone calls. Boo for no wireless internet. And who the heck is going to send me a fax in Las Vegas?

Is it Worth It?

Bring the kids along on your Vegas trip and this place will enchant them. If you aren't traveling with kids this place is only worth it to hard core bargain hunters who don't mind little people and cheesy themes.

Table Games:

They have all of the usuals at Excalibur Hotel and Casino Vegas, and loads of tables crammed in. They even have the oddballs like Caribbean Stud, Let it Ride and 3-card poker. Craps are in line with the competition, but some blackjack only pays a 6:5 on blackjacks.

Bet Minimums:

$5 at some tables in the joint. For craps, you will usually find the minimum to be $5 with 3-4-5x odds. Roulette is $1 chips with a $5 minimum.

Machines:

Pennies on up. There are many video-poker machines and none of them are full-pay. There are thousands of slots to choose from at Excalibur Las Vegas, so you will easily find your game of choice in a denomination you want.

Cocktails?

Sometimes the cocktails tend to not come as frequently as we may like.

Who Gets Comps?

The M Life slot club serves several properties and pays a fair cash rebate on slots, and a half that on video poker. They also occasionally mail out free and discounted room offers or Excalibur Las Vegas coupons.

Number of TVs:

About 36, all flat and one of them is a giant screen for big events.

Number of Seats:

About 130 seats all told. None of them are reserved.  Race seats are uncfomfortable but sports are better. Twenty-six seats in racing have individual flat screens.

Number of Betting Windows:

At any given time there are about eight windows for taking race and sports bets.

Free Drinks?

Very rarely, if at all.  Boo.

Snack Bar?

No snack bar, but a Starbucks is there to make you feel invincible.

Other Notes:

They have race and sports facing different directions.  The room also serves as the keno lounge, which is becoming pretty common in the casinos.

Number of Tables:

There are twelve tables in the Excalibur, which has done away with its experiment with electronic tables.  It is now once again regular old poker dealt by real live human beings.  About four to six tables go most of the time.

Comfort of Chairs:

Decent chairs at average tables.  The chairs are slightly above average in comfort.

Closed Room or Open to Casino?

Open and right on the casino floor.

Game Spreads and Limits:

Hold-em, and hold'em only. Apparently that's the only thing the Knights of the Round Table played. They have $1-$2 no-limit and $2-$4 limit, both of which are pretty low-limit games.

Beginner Games or Classes:

The staff at Excalibur Las Vegas will teach you how to play each day at 11 am.  This is a good thing to do if you've never played in a casino before, if only so you know the etiquette of when it's appropriate to jump to your feet, shout an expletive and overturn the table.

How Crowded is the Room?

Not busy.  On a busy weekend you may have to wait up to a half hour, but usually there are enough dealers and tables to get you in right away, if you don't care which table you play at.

Comps?

One buck an hour plus other promos for players.

How Good Are the Players?

Not very good.

What Else Do I Need to Know?

Saturday night they have a "Strip" poker tournament where you don't take any clothes off, but a sexy woman does in increments, ending with her wearing underwear. This is obviously the not-kid-friendly part of Excalibur where King Arthur likes to hang out when Guenevere goes off with Lancelot again.

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