content: Oh dear.  I can't vouch for the renovated section of the hotel - it was sold out.  I can say I stayed in the un-renovated part of the hotel and it was pretty much the worst.  It bears mentioning that probably 10% of the hotel rooms are renovated.  The Spa Tower, the Habitat Tower and the Shite tower or whatever it was called are not renovated. \n\nThe hotels in Las Vegas have themes: Paris is done in a French motif, Bellagio is some kind of balloon motif, and the Flamingo is done in the stain motif.\n\nWhere to begin?  The heavily stained carpet?  The wallpaper & paint peeling off the bathroom wall?  Yuck.  P.U.   When I was trying to come up with positives for the room, I noted that there was hot & cold running water and also an electrical outlet.  And a window. The outlet turned out to be one of those stretched out ones that your plug just falls out of.  (Insert dirty joke here).\n\nMy friend had a somewhat more cheerful yet un-renovated room, and, I'm not exaggerating here, we had to step over strange, gigantic, sullen-teens to get into and out of her room.  Weird, overfed she-teens converged and just hung out in the door-well of her room.  Was there a Beiber impersonator rumored to be there?  It is a mystery that will remain unexplained forever.\n\nThe pool is lovely.  When the temperature drops to a balmy 104 in the late afternoon, that's when to head over.  The security guards wouldn't let us in - it closes at 6pm.  6pm!!!!  Total BS.  6pm. How bout closing when it gets dark?  Go crazy, Flamingo - stay open til aaaah, 8pm in the summertime.\n\nOH I did give it two stars instead of one because a) the people at the counter really really tried to help and were very very nice.  b) the room for all it's beige-stainness thankfully didn't smell.  I'm curious about the renovated rooms tho, reading the wholly other types of experiences other yelpers had.