Okay, I (finally) checked out the new site. On the plus side I notice that some of the hotel rates are similar or actually lower than what I found on the kayak sites. This is a big plus as kayak uses different sites (like hotels.com, booking.com, orbitz, etc.) to come up with their lowest rates. I especially like the I4vegas site for booking because it lists the total price for my stay, including all taxes and fees. That is perfect because I can look at all the hotels and know their rates for my entire stay. I wish that other sites will list the exact dollar amount of a person's stay instead of just the average daily amount.
On the not so plus side, I still notice that the I4vegas site doesn't have the lowest prices for places like the el cortez. I guess I4vegas still has to work out deals for some hotels.
Overall the site looks okay but while I like seeing the deals on the main page I would also like to try to book a stay from the main page. On your main page, if you don't know that you have to click on the "see all hotel deals" you won't know that the site also directs you to a booking page on top. Is it possible to also put the booking section somewhere on your main page? (the part where it asks for your dates and rooms and allows you to click to go to i4vegas or deals). That way it will be like the other booking and travel search sites, we go into the site and try to find rates for our stay. I know that I can change my favorites to point to the booking page but it kind of defeats the purpose of a "main" home page for that site.
Strange, when I tried to click to see the harrahs specials I get kicked out because my (cough, cough, work) filter deemed it as a suspicious site. Not sure why it would be filtered out, my work filter normally will come out and say that it's a gambling site (when I try to book with some hotel casinos). I found this mainly with the harrahs site, when I clicked on the specials for paris and flamingo I couldn't go any further because the filter says that it is a suspicious site. But I was able to go to the harrahs (caesars) site to check on rates (I didn't try the offer code though) without being stopped by filters. I didn't have that problem with mgm and mandalay specials, they directed me to their page which listed their specials.
Not sure if I'm considered "normal" but while I am partial to some hotels I'm more interested in finding the best rates for my stay. Wish there were some way that the booking search could be somehow merged with the deals section so we could see the best overall deal without having to navigate between each deal and discount code to find the best rate. Just wishful thinking, I know that it will be a pain to try to program that in the search (I am a programmer myself so know that it isn't easy to do).
Anyway, I will continue to check out the site and give you more feedback if it needs commenting on.
