5 nights at MGM Grand, June 19-23.

No in room safe? That's bad.

I looked everywhere and no safe. I suppose they could easily add one inside the closet, but they really should change those terrible doors first, IMO.

Thanks for the hotel review, but what I really want to know is where you're sign-off quote re Iron Sheik came from?
--Joe

OK Joe, you ask so here ya go:

In 1991 I worked with Joe Weider and his "Muscle Camps." During the summer "campers" aka bodybuilding enthusist would come out to California, spend a week at LMU and live, eat, train, and learn about bodybuilding and strength training.

Each week we had different Special Guest trainers and instructors. One particualar week the guest was Six Time and reigning Mr Olympia Lee Haney. Great guy, great bodybuilder.

Well his flights out to California from Atlanta were badly delayed and around midnight I was the only one still awake so I made the very short drive to LAX to pick him up. Lee wanted to stop at a Safeway store on the drive back to grab some things. In the parking lot a large drunken SOB started yelling at us, and Lee Haney started laughing. I quickly realized that the large drunken SOB was none other than WWF pro wrestler, "The Iron Sheik." Lee and The Sheik are old friends. Well- instead of going back to the campus at LMU, we detoured to the Baja Cantina in Marina Del Rey, just a few miles away. The Sheik continued to enjoy himself but Lee was dead tired and I was driving and "in charge" so only the Iron Sheik was wasted. When we finally had to say good bye, the Iron Sheik would have nothing to do with us leaving-

-The Iron Sheik, who was very big and very strong, grabbed me in a side head lock AND he grabbed Lee Haney in a side head lock at the same time. There we were- standing on the patio of the Baja Cantina- and yes, the Iron Sheik had us both in a double head lock!

Glad I asked, that's a great story!

He was a former Iranian Olympic champion, after all.....

Thanks for sharing.
--Joe

Did you ask anyone if there was an in room safe? I can't imagine a casino without one these days. Stayed at a Doubletree in Anaheim recently and first thought there wasn't an in room safe. Later found it hidden in the top drawer of the dresser. The drawer actually pulled down, not out and hid the safe. Never seen a safe there before.

J- I didn't ask at the front, but I can only assume that because my room was in fact very newly remodeled perhaps they had not yet installed the safe. That, or it was hiden so well I couldn't find it. LOL!

That's similar to how Bellagio's safes are after their remodeling. In one of the bedside tables. You pull open the drawer there it is, kinda like a laptop. Easy to miss if you don't know. I think the bellman told us about it the first time.

The room safes are located in the bottom drawer of the nightstand.

Barb

I wouldn't have thought to look for it in a nightstand either. Rarely open nightstand drawers in a hotel.