For my first trip to Vegas, I stayed at the Mirage. I was very pleasantly surprised! We had a really nice room... newly renovated with a nice flat screen TV. (Although I will have to say that the bathroom was just OK.) And the had a gorgeous pool... too bad it was still too cold to lay out. One thing, though, is the pool/hot tub was only open from 9 am- 4 pm. I thought that was kind of odd. And, I thought the location was perfect! It was close to many of the nice hotels and not too inconvenient to go anywhere on the strip. Plus, I love that in the casino they had a video roulette machine right when you walk downstairs... and it even had a double chair!