Comped and upgraded hotel rooms are not always all they're cracked up to be

Tweet

On our vacation the last two weeks, we stayed at two different hotels in Las Vegas. Our first stay was at what I thought would be a fairly nice hotel because it was relatively new. The second stay was at a place I had stayed before. Our first 2 nights were actually free because I used up some Comps on my casino card. We stayed at a fairly expensive place - they tried to get me to upgrade to a room that's normally $1,000/night and I'd only have to pay $130/night for it. I said no thank you, free works for me. So when we got to our room I noticed that the toilet wobbled. When you sat on it, you almost felt like it was going to fall over. And the toilet paper holder was halfway off the wall. I really thought that was kinda cheesy because it was supposed to be a nice hotel. I most likely wont stay there again. The second 2 nights we were in Vegas, we were at a place I had stayed before and was relatively happy with. As we were checking in they wanted to see if they could find us a "nice" room. The woman checking us in really seemed pleased with herself because she got us a really good room, it was actually a "suite". Well, when we got up to it, it was nice - a suite means there's an extra little side-room with a writing desk and a reading chair. I was kinda disappointed though because the view was of the back end of the hotel. If I crained my neck I could see a little bit of the old strip, but mostly the view wasn't that great. It was a decent room though, better than the free one we got! What's been your experience with comped/upgraded hotel rooms?