Starbucks

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Located deep within the Rio resort. This tiny Starbucks Kiosk style Caffeine stop employees about 2 people at a time. One of which was hiding in the back room.
Your going to pay extra here. My grande iced Vanilla coffee with 4 pumps of White Chocolate Mocha costs just under $ 5.00. Grande regular coffees were $ 3.25 each.
The condiment bar was a mess. Half and Half was obsolete. Apparently one of the employees had just removed it. I am sure they have an extra thermos somewhere.
I don’t even think I can collect a STAR here.
Not a fan.

Let’s just start off with acknowledging the fact that a Starbucks in Vegas is almost guaranteed to have a huge line. The one by the Rio elevators was easily 15+ people back. After finishing my meal at Hash House next door, I was ecstatic to see the line at this next-​door Starbucks to be only 2 people back, so I rushed on over and got in line… and stayed there for the next 15 minutes. Slowest. Service. Ever. I think they had to remake a sandwich or something, but c’mon…15 minutes for a couple customers? Take upcoming orders and start making the next drinks. And the baristas didn’t even seem to be rushed to complete the orders… so that my dear, earns you a 1-​star.
On top of that, the drinks are about $ 1.50 more than what you would pay at a regular Starbucks location — but that might be a Las Vegas price hike?

Hot Coffee on a cold day… I will not complain… im in love with their holiday flat white coffee its out of this world and almost get a cup everytime I work… the lines are usually long but always fast!

Soooo expensive but great customer service. After a night of drinking and gambling I’d pay 10 $ for my ice coffee coffee, so I don’t really care but other people might.

Stood in line forever at this very slow Starbucks. Got to the front and tried to redeem my free drink and was told they don’t accept them at this location. I already stood in line, so I guess I’ll get my usual anyways. What’s that? My drink is over $ 7 here? Are you effing kidding me. I thought $ 5 was expensive, but this is just ridiculos. Will never get a coffee at this location again.

I really like this Starbucks — when I have attended conferences the service is very friendly. Yes, there are long lines, but if you have a convention and everybody gets out at the same time, you have to expect it. Their sandwiches for lunch are very tasty and filling. Not a lot of room to sit, so plan on standing with a large group in the hallway.

I come to this Starbucks a lot. The staff is friendly. The drinks are always consistent. Sometimes the line is very long, but this location is inside a casino so it’s to be expected especially when there are conventions in town.

Long ass lines, super slow service but the workers are great. Super convenient location though…
Just too freaking few of them damn employees working in there. :-(
Hire some extra peeps during the morning rush Starbucks!!!

This is the worst starbucks I’ve ever went to! Prices are so high and our drinks were not good! Our peppermint mocha, vanilla latte, and caramel macchiato had no flavor it tasted like straight coffee! Never coming back to this starbucks again! I recommend not coming here!

Nice location but limited space. Decent atmosphere with nice workers. It’s situated in Rio hotel casino. It’s nice to be able to get some Starbucks while staying here.

Every time I passed by this place, there was only 1 person working. She made the coffee, served the pastry, worked the cash register. So there was a long line. But the éclair looked so good, I gave in. Stood in the long line. The server was very nice in spite of being overworked. The éclair was very good; the coffee was good.

Stopped in here several times while I was staying at the Rio, because of convenience and because there aren’t too many tempting food options there. The snacks have been bordering on gross each time I’ve gotten them. The only thing I didn’t mind was the croissant, which I grabbed the first time we had a room there (Thing is they almost always run out of croissants early in the morning).
The sugar cookies were way too hard and an absolute chore to eat.
The danishes were worse than stuff you can grab at the grocery store.
The only other tolerable thing here were the pre-​packaged snacks.
Didn’t have any of the coffee, because it would have tilted me and made me homesick for some delicious Philz coffee: p

ECLAIR!
That is all.
No seriously though. It’s the best éclair ever and I always make sure to stop by Rio every Vegas trip to get an éclair from either one of their Starbucks. I think the Rio Starbucks has the BEST pastry case in comparison to any of the other million Starbucks. Everything is always different and super fresh and good!

it’s a prime spot, right next to the elevators. which also makes it a bad spot because everyone comes here. they had 2 lines when we came by for the mornings. 1 for regular drips and 1 for all the shmancy shit. the shmancy shit line took FOREVER! but, at least the baristas were very nice.
if you are just looking for coffee, try the sports book cafeteria.

This Starbucks is located inside the Rio and actually there are two in the hotel. One by the elevators in the Ipanema Tower and one by the convention hall and spa. I visited both and found the one by the Ipanema towers were always packed but the one by the spa was always quiet and had no line. It’s a little bit of a walk but I preferred this location better. Not only was it not busy but it also had a lot more seating and was away from all the chaos of the casinos and a bit less smokey too.
Service at both locations I found were great and employees were nice and friendly. Prepare for the higher prices though. Comparable to airport prices but I suppose that’s the price you pay for convenience. And since you’re ok with paying $ 15 for mixed drinks in Vegas, I suppose $ 5.50 for an iced coffee is about right. lol

I like Starbucks, I like the big green giant coffee house. My sister in law orders 2 Americana and the lady screws up the order and then said’s to her, «You ordered that!» with a attitude … «Hmmmm» I know customer service and the customer is always right. They also over charged her and owed her money, and she said, «Well i have to call the manager to open the register. «Dang !!! go get manager and get the $. Must be a full moon ??? All i have to say is many Starbucks stay away from this one. Go to a Starbucks that has customer service. No Wifi, small and horrible service. I don’t like writing bad reviews but i can’t let go through this pain.

What can say it’s a Starbucks. Except they have exceptional drive thru service. They recognize me and my wife by our voices and make our orders with out even asking. It seems to be one of the better run Starbucks in the area. They almost always are busy through out the day.

This is for the quickserve Starbucks at Flamingo.
Quick service all 4 mornings I was there, no complaints. The apple muffin is a must!

Limited table space.
No wifi.
Slow service.
All that for a venti bold. Can do.

standard starbucks
long line bc its next to convention center
star trek convention– super long