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Rio Is Spoiling Us Now With $45 Rates For Twitter Followers Till June
How naughty is the Rio? We thought its $50 room deal was good enough, but turns out they’ve been hiding something from us: $45 rooms, available till the end of June (the $50 ones run out next month).
The Insider Rates deal is only open to their Twitter followers (they flagged it up yesterday) and has some weekday rooms available for $45, and weekends for $60. The weekend deal isn’t so great – there are a couple of $75s in there but the first $60 deal is for May 7 – but there are puhlenty of $45s going, even on a Thursday night.
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The Rio Has Rooms For $50 Until the End of April
It feels like only yesterday that we were praising the Rio’s 20th anniversary deal of rooms for $20pp. We thought that would be a fluke rate, but in fact, they’re also running a $50 room rate deal at the moment, as they flagged up on Twitter yesterday.
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How We Scored a $200 Room at Caesars for $88 This Weekend
We’ve said before how much we love blind booking site Hotwire, but when something’s as good as this, you can’t say it enough. So here’s our latest success story.
This past weekend, we had a friend staying and since we were bored of never being able to drink and drive, we thought we’d go halves and get a room on the Strip for one night. We plumped for Sunday, to get as good a deal as possible, and hit up Hotwire.
We were thinking of trying for something along Flamingo/Paris/Ballys lines, but what did we see? A 4.5 star hotel on the Central Strip was coming up as $72. Yes, $72. And cross-referencing what it offered on Betterbidding.com, we were 90 per cent sure it was Caesars Palace.
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What Does $5.99 Get You At the Rio's Breakfast Buffet?
We heart Isidra
We’re suckers for a bargain, and as we told you yesterday, we signed up to receive texts from the Rio in the hope of saving some dosh. We weren’t overwhelmed by all the offers, but the one that really took our fancy was the chance to try a breakfast at the Carnival World Buffet for only $5.99 (normal price $14.99). Including tax, our total was $6.48.
So on Tuesday we cashed in our voucher, paid up our moneys and entered the buffet. For that price, we were fearing the worst.
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Is it Worth Signing Up For Rio's Text Offers?
We were perusing the Harrah’s blog the other day when we came across this post about the text offers the Rio is doing at the moment. Seeing as the last time we wrote about the Rio we were on a bit of a downer, we thought we’d give it a chance to rehabilitate itself. Were these text offers as good as the folk at Harrah’s said they were?
So we texted “Rio” to 227466 as we were told to, and the offers started rolling in. Over three days, we got seven offers sent our way.
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You Can't Beat the $2 Beers at Triple 7's Happy Hour
We snicker at the Triple 7 Brewpubs’ gambling-inspired names for its microbrews – royal this, chip that, high roller this, jackpot that – but can’t scoff at its dirt cheap happy hour prices for its made-with-love microbrews and tasty pub grub. Here’s how far you can stretch your post-work buzz bucks at Main Street Casino Brewery Hotel's most redeeming venue:
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The Sahara's $1 Hot Dogs: Bargain or Unbearable?
Every time we drive past the Sahara, we keep seeing the Dollar Days sign with its ads for $1 beers, shots and hot dogs. We’ve kept meaning to check it out, but keep chickening out instead. So this week we thought it was high time to psych ourselves up and hit it.
We tried to get our dog at the main bar, which seemed fine (that is, if you keep your eye on the decor, not the clientele), but you can only get the $1 beer there. Instead, for the meat, we were directed to the bar by the Nascar Café at the back of the casino.
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Cheapskates, Rejoice: Groupons Have Arrived In Vegas
Perfect - Groupon obviously heard it’s our birthday next month
It’s been four months since we first stumbled on Groupon – a website which offers daily deals on things like food, drink and the odd pole dancing class at huge discounts. Back then, it hadn’t yet launched in Vegas, and, not being the kind of people to drop full price on a pole sesh, we’ve been waiting ever since.
Finally, on Monday, the wait was over, and we quickly snapped up a $75 voucher to eat at Andre’s in the Monte Carlo. For $30.
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Escape the Strip at Red Rock Canyon
Red Rock in sunnier, redder-rocked times last week
Ah, Vegas. Lovely as the Strip is, sometimes the gamblin’ and the partyin’ and the (metaphorical, of course) whorin’ around the place can get too much. Need out? You don’t have to go far. A mere half hour west of the Strip is Red Rock Canyon. According to the folk of Red Rock, it boasts some of the best rock climbing in the country and has some of the most interesting geology in the world.
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Easy Now... The Brits Are Coming, And They're Spinning Tunes
Remember when British Airways launched its direct flights to Vegas from Heathrow and we predicted a Brit invasion on the Strip? Turns out either we were wrong, or they’re keeping themselves on the d-low, because we’ve seen disconcertingly few drunken Essex girls and boys in the past week.
One place they’re making themselves felt, though, is the Crown and Anchor pub. And not just in its essential pubbishness, but with its free, weekly Saturday night British Invasion party.
At 9pm, out comes DJ Felix (a proper English name if ever there was one) spinning songs from the 60s to the 90s. We went last week and caught the likes of Erasure, New Order and Depeche Mode. ‘Choons! If he could only throw in some Take That this week, we’ll be sorted.
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Go Downtown Tomorrow to Count Down With the Mayor
You know you’ve been spending too much time perusing the Strip’s offerings when $150 starts sounding like good value for New Year’s. Luckily, we just found ourselves looking at the Fremont Street website and we remembered that there are events that don’t require us to lay down all our earnings from the last month.
At Fremont Street, New Year’s tickets cost $20 out of state and $10 with Nevada ID. Which, compared to the celeb stuff, is nothing pig, as our granddad was fond of saying.
For your money, you’ll get 8 bands. And although they’re not quite of Black Eyed Peas caliber, they’ll be playing a good kind of music – they’re apparently “the world’s best tribue bands” and cover everything from Led Zep, Guns N’ Roses and Aerosmith to No Doubt, Depeche Mode, INXS and U2 (don’t let that put you off, it’s not actually Bono).
And the celeb host? None other than Oscar Goodman, who’ll be leading the countdown to midnight. Which means there may very possibly be showgirls. And poker chip business cards. That's us sold then.
Stalk the mayor and book your tickets by calling 702 687 5600 or 877 VEGAS 4 U.
[Photo: Vegasbuzz]
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Costco Now Offering Vegas.com Gift Card for 20 Percent Off
Hands up who thought Vegas was pretty good value at the moment? Hands up who’d think it was even better value if you had a neat 20 percent knocked off your trip? Thought so.
In that case, you need to get yourselves down to your nearest branch of Costco who, from last week, have been flogging $100 Vegas.com gift cards for just $79.99. They’re pretty flexible – you can redeem them on any hotel room, show ticket, air/hotel package, nightclub pass or golf game that’s bookable on the website - and they have no expiry date. You know what that means? That means 20 percent off your Vegas trips from here to eternity. If you can buy enough of them, of course.
Vegas.com President Howard Lefkowitz reckons the cards are a “unique and thoughtful gift.” We agree – a thoughtful gift for, erm, ourselves.
If you want to be generous to the one you love best, the cards are on sale in 135 Costco stores across 21 states. So best call your local to check it’s participating before you run down there. Or, if you’re in southern California, the LA Times has helpfully compiled a list here.
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