A reason not to use Nevada as s location for conferences, visits, meetings or enjoyment.

As Valerie pointed out, she was forcibly invaded by hotel security staff, harassed and made to feel violated and insecure.

Nevada has put in place LEGALLY that it is OK to invade a guest's room daily, with them in or not daily, and they call it "welfare checks" to make it seem less invasive. It IS invasive, it is demeaning and unjust, but that's the LAW as they say.

Here is a typical experience from a Laugh-Lin guest who had similar assault happen to them and pretty much a very similar result from trying to talk sense to the front desk or the "security" desk:
(from https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUser...in_Nevada.html)

I won't use the quote box to keep the text very readable, and have added "white-space". I will use INDENT though for emphasis:
This was my second stay at the Edgewater in Laughlin. For the price I paid, less than $25 a night, it is hard to complain.

However, there are some things that a cheap room can't excuse. This hotel, as well as its sister property The Colorado Belle, have a new policy in place where housekeeping or security must enter your hotel room every day to do a 'welfare' or 'safety' check.

I didn't notice it until eight days into my twelve night stay. But on day 8 I slept in late. Just after 1pm, with my do not disturb sign in, there was a loud bang at my door. Waking up from being sound asleep I heard a lady saying housekeeping. I told her to please go away I was sleeping.

She said through the door we need to do a safety check! I told her no, I'm not dressed and half asleep. She repeatedly asked me to 'please open the door'.

After the third time saying no I got in the shower, then went out and forgot about it.

Later at 6pm, while eating dinner in my room I got a call from security saying: there are two officers outside your door and you must open up.

I told the voice on the other end of my phone that I'm eating and I want to know why I'm being harassed by housekeeping and security. They told me its a new hotel policy, that rooms must be inspected every day by housekeeping. Or at the very least, guests must open the door so security can do a welfare check, meaning the security guards can take a quick peek in the room and see that guests are alright.

The security guard Jimmy A, a supervisor, that was sent up, was the rudest, most aggressive person and biggest jerk I encountered during my twelve nights in Laughlin and twenty six days in Nevada. I asked a bunch of questions that he blew off before saying: "We have keys to every room and can open any deadbolt. This conversation is over. You can either comply with our authority or we will come in anyway".

I went down to the front desk to complain about threatened by an employee. I was told I would get a call the next morning from management because it was late on Sunday night. The next morning when no one called I went back down and spoke to a women named Patti who was in charge at the front desk.

We talked for a long time and she explained and tried her best to excuse the ridiculous policy of using housekeepers as spies and security guards as welfare agents. Patti was extremely nice, friendly and, when she couldn't answer a few questions, suggested I go to the security desk to follow up.

Sitting at the security desk was Jimmy A, the same jerk that came up the night before. Only now, he took his aggressiveness to a whole new level.

When I told him I came from the front desk and had a few questions, he pointed to a sign on the desk that tells people their new policy and told me if I didn't leave him alone he would throw me out of the casino! After being at that security desk for thirty seconds and being threatened, again by the same man, my blood boiling I told him I dared him to throw me out for asking questions, politely.

He then went on a tirade about how he would drag me out and 'throw my a** out in the driveway in front of everybody'.

That was it, I went back to the front desk insisting they check me out and refund me for the rest of my stay that was prepaid.

Again, Patti obliged but first asked me to talk to Jimmy A's boss Brian. He told me that he would assign Jimmy to another part of the casino, and if I stayed we wouldn't cross paths again for the last few days of my trip. Brian too was really nice and convinced me to stay, also defending Jimmy saying 'he's usually the nicest guy'. But, I have to say that because of the actions of one employee, I will never, ever again risk this kind of drama even if the room was free.

I understand that a couple of months removed from the tragedy in Las Vegas that there are still people and properties on edge.

However, if you are going to treat everyone from all over the world as guilty until a housekeeper says there innocent, have some courtesy and do it with respect.

Don't use untrained housekeepers as spies.

Hire a security staff that can use their words to explain the hotels concerns not just spew empty threats.

But moreover, realize that even at $25 a night, a guest is still a guest. You are not running a prison or asylum. You are running a hotel casino in Nevada. People come from all over the world to relax, gamble and party in beautiful Clark County, Nevada, whether it's Laughlin or Las Vegas.

There's a reason why at the three different properties I stayed at in Las Vegas they didn't do this type of thing. Because Las Vegas doesn't want to become known as a place where tourists are treated as criminals.

Where one tragedy is used as an excuse to change the way things have been for decades. Las Vegas knows that people would not put up with this crap and would look for another place to spend their money.

But poor little Laughlin, where people can get a room for less than a resort fee in Vegas, figures that they can get away with anything.

If people were paying Las Vegas prices they wouldn't dare treat people like criminals.

The Edgewater, without their campaign of harassment against guests, is not all bad.

They have very good restaurants, a 24 hour souvenir store that has everything you could want and the location in the center of Casino Drive make the location central to everything. The rooms are plenty big enough and have one of the best selections of TV channels I've ever seen in any hotel around the world. There is a mall across the street and a gas station on the corner. It's a fifteen minute walk to North Reach, a huge park that has miles of hiking trails along the Colorado River and in the mountains and desert around Laughlin. Which if explored properly will give you endless things to see and some amazing views of Laughlin.

Some other issues with the hotel are that beds are as hard as rocks and Housekeeping is terrible.

There was used soap in the shower when I arrived, the beds are not made but the sheets are just pulled up and surfaces are not cleaned like the table and bureau.

Overall, stay away from this hotel until they come to their senses and realize that security and freedom both have a price.

Until this hotel can balance them properly, there are plenty of other places in Laughlin that would be happy to take your business and treat you like a valued guest, especially at the slowest time of the year.





Quote Posted by RunningDeer (here) 
Quote Posted by Valerie Villars (here) 
They said this new policy came into effect after the Vegas shootings. Like how they take an event and turn it into something that takes away your privacy and freedom? No? Well me either.

As I chewed out the woman at the desk the next morning (I never get ugly but this situation was too much) I noticed a man in line behind me. He came out front where I was waiting for my ride. He said security had done the same thing to him and he thanked me for making a big deal out of it. It seems he has two daughters and he was NOT happy about the policy.

Head's up to all the girls.
Thanks, Valerie. I was not aware of that policy. I googled and there are a lot of “Do Not Disturb” articles. Like the invasive airport pat downs, it’s another avenue to limit our freedoms and implant and reinforce fear, compliance and control.