Biggest on the Strip — as feature and warning
Two films argue the same fact from opposite ends. The cheapest-room stay (pool-season opening) builds a budget tour around the Lazy River — food-court economics surveyed ($18 for three street tacos, as filmed), the base room praised for its bed and blackout curtains — and decides 'massive' is accurate advertising. The other cheapest-room stay likes the hotel and issues the counterweight plainly: the internal distances are enormous; point A to point B is a real walk, and guests with mobility issues should think twice (stay in the main tower, it advises). Both are right; which one matters depends on your knees.
The case for it
The opinionated film calls MGM Grand 'vastly underrated' and the best first-timer's hotel in Las Vegas — argued from location, variety (food court to fine dining), show choice and a pool complex the host rates among the city's best; his own first Vegas stay was here, 13 years ago. The 2026 stay update keeps it current: a renovated two-queen room, what's new and what's closed, and the view across Tropicana Avenue — the A's stadium rising on the old Tropicana site. A full-day film proves the scale claim by never leaving: pool complex and Lazy River, immersive attractions, a steakhouse dinner and a speakeasy the host didn't know existed — a ready-made itinerary for a week-filling building.
The top floor, and the buffet footnote
The splurge film spends $1,031 — the host's number, after a rewards discount — on a night in the Skylofts, MGM's boutique hotel-in-the-sky: dedicated check-in, the Mansion's rarefied dining room, a private casino for the villas and lofts. His title calls the money wasted; the film is really a tour of how the MGM Grand's other half lives. The buffet review (post-reopening, late 2022) is dated where it should be: stations rotating at 11, a smaller spread than before, prices as filmed at $27.99/$36.99 — worth it 'perhaps,' and mainly with a two-for-one coupon. A 2020 walkthrough closes the set as visual orientation (no transcript; watch content).
Sources: the eight videos on this page — two cheapest-room stays, a first-timer case, a 2026 update, a full-day itinerary, the Skylofts tour, a buffet review, and a 2020 walkthrough — summarized from their entries in our catalog.