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The Five Best Budget Hotel Rooms In Vegas

Sometimes, appearances can be deceptive. When it comes to the rooms, that is. Not the casino. Shudder.

Reader Santony may not agree with this, but we at VegasChatter are all about the bargains. But how do you tell if dealz really are dealz? How to differentiate between a $27 room at Excalibur and a $25 gaffe at Imperial Palace? Should you write off Hooters for being Hooters? And are the Rio “suites” actually places you’d want to set foot in?

Reader, we share your pain, and not just because on our first trip to Vegas we ended up at the Stratosphere. The other week, we were watching the poor souls making their way around IP when we shacked up in the room of hell, and it made us think: wow, if you didn’t know Vegas too well, you’d think that all cheap rooms in this town came with grimy mirrored ceilings and suicidal impulses on the side.

So to save you from popping into CVS for some razor blades, here’s our list of top budget hotel rooms in Vegas. We've shacked up in a lot of dross in order to sift out some goodies. You’re welcome.

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Inside a $20 Room at Hooters Casino Hotel

Yesterday we told you that Hooters Casino Hotel will charge you $25 for stealing their room service menu. The funny thing is, we didn't even pay $25 for the room. We paid $20. Well, all in all with taxes and the $8.40 resort fee, it was a little bit more than that but still, $20 for a real hotel room in Vegas.

And we didn't have to go crazy refreshing our Twitter feed to do it (cough, Sahara's $1 rooms, cough). Twenty dollar hotel rooms at Hooters are available to everyone, so long as they stay during the week. So what do you get for a crisp Andrew Jackson? Let us show you now.

Check-In: Check-in was extremely fast. A lovely girl, not in a Hooters uniform, checked us in and sent us to Bayview room 623. (Another tower is called Oceanview.)

Room Reaction: The bed was huge but we had to throw that nasty comforter to the floor straightaway (this is where germs--sperm, blood, other unsavory kinds--live.) After we did that, we noticed the pillows were oddly small. But since it was just us, there was no one to share them with. The plants were fake but in good condition. The bathroom was clean if sparse and we had a view overlooking the pool.

Overall the room was astonishingly clean, for $20 anyways. We were borderline OCD about getting a non-smoking room at check-in and we were put in a room that smelled wonderful. Really, we don't think anyone has ever smoked in this room at all. Considering that the elevators at Hooters reek of smoke, this is an accomplishment.

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Hooters Will Charge You $25 If You Steal the Room Service Menu

We'll never understand some people's obsession for all things Hooters. For these Hooters kleptos fans, just having a Hooters t-shirt, tank top, sweatshirt, beer cozy, visor, orange shorts and baby onesie is not enough. They will pretty much grab their hands on any Hooters logo can find. Which is probably why the Hooters Casino Hotel has warned guests that if they steal the room service menu, they will be charged $25.

Yup, we snapped this pic just moments ago after arriving in our room. We'll have more on that tomorrow but we can promise you we will not be stealing the room service menu. And that's because it looks like some of the magazines populating the bathroom of a frat house. We're not even going to touch it.

Another pic of the menu is after the jump. See what we mean!

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Hooters Reckons It Could Go, Um, Bust

Say it isn’t so, but could Hooters be going bust (hur hur) any time soon? The casino announced on Friday that it had dropped 8 percent revenue and lost $3.9m in the first quarter of 2010 and had a stark warning about the future in its report:

The company does not believe it will be able to generate sufficient cash flows from operations to fund its financial commitments over the next year and cannot provide any assurances that it will be able to raise additional capital

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Spend The Night at Hooters for Nearly the Same Price as a Bucket of Wings

Just when we feared the days of bargain hotel rates in Vegas were slipping away, we have found ourselves spotting incredibly low rates at Sin City's already cheap establishments like Luxor, Circus Circus and Excalibur where we recently shacked up for $27 a night.

And now we've just spotted this crazy cheap deal from Hooters offering up rooms for $19.95 a night during the week along with $100 free promotional slot play, coupons for "wangs", two show tickets to one of Hooters five on-site shows and two drinks poolside at their nightly "receptions."

Yes, we do know this is Hooters we're talking about but unlike some other properties in Vegas, at least you know what you are getting--a "Delightfully Tacky Yet Unrefined" experience. And that room rate is nearly the same price as 20pc bucket of chicken wings which is $16.99. You know, just to put it in perspective for you.

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Show Your Support for Hooters

Hooters Casino Hotel has been struggling for a long time to really break it big on the strip and the troubles continue with today's announcement that the owners of the hotel are reporting yet another big financial loss for the property. The Las Vegas Sun reports that even though operating expenses have decreased at the hotel, revenue was down about $4 million.

If you're a fan of Hooters, the brand and the real things, then you can help them out by booking a room there now.

The rooms this weekend are $145 a night plus a daily resort fee of $8.40. Ugh, that might be too much for us for Hooters. But skipping over to Expedia, we see that rooms for this weekend are just a touch cheaper at $135 a night (plus the resort fee) but with a $100 casino credit. So go give those Hooters, the brand and the real things, your support!

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Need a Hooters Fix? Now You Can Order Wings 2 Go

This post was written by Globetrotting Gourmet.

We once kicked a vegetarian boyfriend to the curb after he expressed strong opinions about us eating meat off the bone. We think of him (not so) fondly every time we have finger-licking good food, especially wings. After all, he didn't drink either (strike two), and everyone knows that wings and beer are like the Bonnie and Clyde of sports bar staples.

The smartypants at Hooters Casino Hotel recognized the high demand for its tasty wings, especially by drunk hotel guests and nearby UNLVs students, when they launched its Hooters Wings 2 Go service. It's pretty damn convenient, especially when late-night greasy food cravings kick in and you're stumbling around in the Strip (you know exactly what I'm talking about) or you've timed your Vegas stay with a football game.

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World's Largest Flip Cup Tournament Coming to Hooters Next Month

While beer pong is seemingly everywhere on the Vegas Strip, the other popular frat boy game of Flip Cups has not really broken onto the scene. But that may all change after October 11 when the second annual World's Largest Flip Cup Tournament comes into town.

Taking place at the Hooters Hotel and Casino, the tournament will feature 64 six-person teams in an NCAA-style bracket competition. Each game will be played mouth up to mouth down with one flip in a best of seven games series.

Ok, hold up. We got a little ahead of ourselves. We just took for granted that everyone knew what Flip Cups were. But if you partied in a college on the West Coast chances are you might not know what we're talking about (For some reason, East Coast schools know how to play Flip Cups more.) So here's a little explanation.

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Hooters at $199 is Your Best Last-Minute Option

Like most weekends in Las Vegas, there's a heck of a lot going on. We decided to do a last-minute look at hotel rooms and one of the cheapest hotels we found near the Strip is Hooters for $199 a night on Expedia. There's also The Tropicana which is going for $190 a night. In this case, we'd advocate the Hooters hotel which has a little bit more action. Plus there's no male revue inside the Tropicana.

Other properties like the MGM and Mandalay are $300+ a night while the Venetian is asking $500+ a night.

When marginal properties like the Excalibur are charging $225 a night (and that's not even for their renovated rooms), you know finding a bargain in this town is going to be tough. Then again, if Excalibur has some of the cheapest cabanas in town this could work out in your favor. And don't forget about the all you can eat, all day long $25 buffet.

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The 'Men of X' Now Bringing The Ladies To Hooters

Now, when someone says, “Hooters,” it won’t just evoke thoughts of hot wings and girls wearing orange shorts and nude pantyhose. A new male revue, the Men of X, is now performing nightly inside Hooters to the delight and pleasure of countless female tourists.

That’s right, ladies, every night at 9 inside Hooters, formerly a place for men to drool over waitresses and wings (we can’t forget the wings), you can watch six studly men dress up as doctors, firemen, pilots and soldiers, among other things, and dance and tease with their choreography.

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Hit Me, But Not With Your Breasts

Somewhere during the long stretch of super-nothingness that separates the Los Angeles basin from the Las Vegas desert on the 15 North, it appears like an oasis: a billboard boasting $3 blackjack 24-7 at Hooters.

If you’re a feminist—and, as Gloria Allred says, “If you’re not a feminist, you must be a bigot,”—you might have a small problem with partaking of this cheap gaming op because of the boobs-in-your-face trade-off. But in this day of economic struggling, a $3 blackjack table is not just tempting—it’s as downright seductive as those infamous too-tight, owl-laden tees.

Will you have to stand for a while to get a seat at the one $3 table? Probably. Will you have to endure some leers, some lewdness, and some rudeness from the male contingent? Maybe. It all depends on how low you go with your tee. Will it be worth it? Depends on whether you’d rather lose your fifty bucks in five hands, or in 16. Grab a little cash and meet us there. We’ll be the ones in the turtlenecks and comfy shoes.