I recently, (May 05) spent 7 nights at Summerbay in las vegas. easy to find, check in was easy, i looked around the resort and ask for a particular location, they punched a bunch of buttons on the computer and managed to do it.
The resort, not really what I think of when the word resort comes up but I guess it does qualify. I think it is and older motel this is where the lobby, main pool and work out center is, I think a 4 story building with jr. 1 bedroom suites, 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom suites, stairs and an elevator, stairs are just a fast.
the main building they called the "towers" was clean, the lobby could have belonged to a 5 star hotel. very nice, lots of fancy tile, lots of sitting room, many tv's, a card table, activities room and a friendly staff. access to the main (outside) pool through the lobby. there is a game room with 4 or 5 video games, a work out room with a universal type machine a treadmill, some dumbells and a few other machines, very adaquate for this quality of stay. the pool is curvy shaped, very clean, goes to 6 ft. the hot tub is round seats about 6-10 depending how close you want, but good size and not too hot. towells are plentiful in a platic bin by the pool. the best part is 24 hour pool access.
my 1 bedroom Jr suite was clean . full size fridge, small stove with oven small microwave, coffee pot , double sink. bedroom queen size bed, alarm clock radio, 26inch tv,closet with mirrored doors inside an ironing board, iron, mop dust pan broom and a laundry basket. I thinkthe laundry machines are free, located on every level. bedroom was very small.
living room had a coffee table, sofa sleeper, leather feel kind of covering, a couple of chairs, not so comfirtable and a dinng table with 4 chairs. 26 in tv with dvd.
bathroom was small, hair dryer and plenty of towells and soaps. the bathroom was the low point of the room, it was old and while it was clean it is time to replace fictures.
I had a huge patio off of my room, 1st floor about 15 x 15 feet with 2 lounge chairs a table with 4 chairs and an umbrella. it was great to sit out and watch all the traffic and people going to harras, flamingo etc,
the rest of the resort, not connected with the towers are stand alone building with maybe 20 rooms each and between every set of buildings there was a pool, I guess there are 30 such buildings, thats how the say we have 12 pools on property. if you stay at some of the building,they all look nice and I hear some have been rennovated insidebut it would be a long walk 1/4 mile to the main, best pool at the lobby,
I would stay here again, but I would not pay what I was hearing the receptionist telling some customers, $100 per night is too much for this place. the location is directly 1/2 block behind Harras, which is accoss the street from Ceasers Palace and all the good stuff. the monorail practically sits on top of summer bay, I had read that it is noisy but I could not hear it go by, or over head. the monorail stops right in back of Harras so it is very, no, the most convieniant place to stay if you ride the monrail

We previously stayed at the Summer Bay Property in Orlando and were somewhat expecting something to that standard and we were disappointed. The place has seen better days. We had new furniture and appliances but it was like putting new seat covers and sound equipment in an old jalopy. The only thing that made it bearable was that we probably were in our apartment for a total of 10 waking hours during our week in Vegas. The good part of the place was price and location. It cost us $249.00 for the week, and the Flamingo and other casinos were out our front door. Would we stay there again?? Probably, but a weak probably.

5/12/2005- We recently spent a week in Las Vegas at the Summer Bay Resort. This resort is located within easy walking distance to middle of The Strip. The remodeled rooms are comfortable enough with nice furniture and appliances.

I reserved two one bedroom units for two people in each room. However, I requested no stairs, for the rooms to be near each other, and a roll away for each room. None of these requests were honored when I got there. I was told by the person at the desk just because I made that requests did not mean that these facilites were available. We were given rooms on the second floor, on opposite sides of the building, and the rollaways never materialized the entire week.

My husband and I were interested in information about the RCI Points System, so we attended their timeshare presentation. The reward were tickets to a magic show at the Greek Isles. The tickets and show were not worth the time. The Greek Isles is a very run down place. If you attend the presentation, I would take their option for a show at the Sahara instead. The sales presentation was not high pressure, however.

Two things that we did during the week that were really oustanding were going to the show, KA at the MGM. It is pricey, but worth it. Also, we spent a day at the Valley of Fire State Park and the red rocks were just incredible. The park is an easy drive to get to, and worth a visit on your own, or taking a tour if you don't have a car.

We have stayed in Las Vegas many times, and this time we used RCI timeshare and stayed at Summer Bay. We had requested a 2 bedroom in the main building, which they kindly granted.

The location was excellent. Just behind the Imperial Palace, walking through IP's garage. At the most a 5 min walk off the strip. When we have stayed in hotels on the strip it takes at least a 5 min walk to get to your room from the front entrance!

Our room was good. Two large bedrooms, kitchen, one and a half bathrooms, lounge and balcony. The room only got cleaned once during our one week stay, and they did not empty the bins or change the bed linen. This is the only negative thing I can say about Summer Bay.

When we return to Las Vegas we will certainly stay at Summer Bay again, however we would request a room in the main building again, as the buildings are quite spread out and you could end up having to walk quite a bit further to the strip. They do have a buggy service available from the rooms to the main reception, and they have a shuttle service to the casinos but we never needed to use these.

The location overall is excellent, once you have walked through Imperial Palace's garage, you are slap bang on the centre of the Strip.

Would definitely recommend Summer Bay.