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Shocker of the Week: Imperial Palace Has a Limo

August 19, 2010 at 11:41 AM | by juliab | 3 Comments

Do our eyes deceive us? We were driving down Industrial Road the other day, round the back of Caesars, when we noticed the limo in front had this license plate. That looks strangely like it belongs to Imperial Palace, but surely IP can’t have a limo. Can it?

Oh yes it can. It turned left in front of us, and we were so shocked, we had to take a picture.

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'Squirt Guns and Bikini Buns' On Display at Rockhouse This Friday

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 26, 2010 at 8:08 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

It turns out that you don't need a pool party in Vegas to get soaking wet. You just need to stop in at the debaucherous Rockhouse bar at Imperial Palace.

Surely, you've seen the Rockhouse on your last stroll down the Strip. It's that wild bar next to Vince Neil Ink where drunk teenagers 21-year-olds are rocking out with their 32-ounce guitar drinks. The place doesn't even have a front door, it's completely wide open and if you're walking by the bar's "front porch" this Friday afternoon, prepare to get wet.

The bar is hosting a "Squirt Guns and Bikini Buns" party at 2pm. Really, that's pretty self-explanatory. But if you need more info, there's two for one draft beers and $5 shots will be poured until 6pm by bikini-clad bartenders (see photo above.) A front porch tailgate menu featuring hamburgers, chicken fingers, mini corndogs and chimichangs will also be served.

Hmm...you may leave the bar without your bikini buns if you indulge in all that food. For more info, hit up therockhousebar.com.

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If You're Staying at Imperial Palace, We Suggest You Bring a Hazchem Suit

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 14, 2010 at 3:57 PM | by juliab | 5 Comments

Right, here it is. We’ve processed the trauma, learned how to swallow the little bit of sick that pops into our mouth when we think about the room of mirrors, and so the time has come to bring you our review of our stay in Imperial Palace last week.

Now, we had been hoping – nay, praying – that we’d have some kind of Circus Circus-style Road to Damascus moment at IP. We told ourselves that our friend who likes nothing more than to stay at Gold Coast and hit up O’Sheas, but who said IP is the one place he checked out of early, was being prissy when he said “it’s just disgusting”. We hoped. A lot.

Reader, we hoped in vain.

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For a Good View at Imperial Palace, Just Bring Nose Plugs

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 13, 2010 at 11:46 AM | by juliab | 0 Comments

One thing you can say for Imperial Palace, you’d think, is that the views are good. Well, yes, kind of. In the first room we were assigned last week, as well as an ear-splitting free concert courtesy of Carnaval Court, we had stonking views from the Mirage down to Caesars. Not bad for a $25 room, you might say. Maybe you could just bring earplugs and sit out CC until 4am.

Yeah, maybe. But you’d need to bring a noseplug too, because check out the open cesspit (only slight exaggeration) that was directly opposite our balcony. We wondered why the room stank of fart as we walked in – when we opened the window and it got worse, we realized that either someone at Carnaval Court had a big problem or the rotting garbage was stinking out our room.

And thus, IP room 1188 earned the honor of being the only hotel room in Vegas that we have ever walked out of.

Tomorrow, after our trauma counseling, the review of where we ended up (shiver).

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Imperial Palace Is An Unlikely Contender For Swinger Central

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
July 8, 2010 at 12:01 PM | by juliab | 2 Comments

Good thing they don't sell razor blades

So either we made it way too easy with our picture show yesterday, or you lot are fiends for location scouting possible sex tape venues. Yes, as 100 percent of people got right on Twitter and those of you hazarded a guess (rather than make us laugh hard) in comments said, it was indeed the Imperial Palace.

We’ll bring you a full review of the shagpad “minisuite” we ended up with soon but in the meantime, here’s a video of the room we were originally assigned – Tower 5, room 1188. Great Strip views, admittedly. Shame about the noise from Carnaval Court. And the smell – part greasy hair (which we assume was the comforter), part fart – which turned out to be coming from the rotting trash piled up on the roof below. But hey, at least the previous occupant had been decent enough to leave a drink on the balcony for us, and the maids had been thoughtful enough to leave it right there in case we wanted a sup.

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Michael Jackson Lives, At Least In Vegas

June 30, 2010 at 4:26 PM | by Mr Pappagiorgio | 1 Comment

You've got to fight for your right to wear crystals.

It’s been a year and five days since the world lost Michael Jackson and fans chose to remember him in many ways. Some gathered at his home in Indiana, some at the LA cemetery where he is buried. Chris Brown cried and one fan paid almost $200,000 for MJ’s white glove in an auction at Planet Hollywood.

If Friday's antics and non-stop MJ mixes made you realize how much you miss him, then you'll be wanting to relive the magic. Luckily, there are lots of magical places in Vegas. Here are our top picks:

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Things are Looking a Little Blue Over at IP

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
June 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM | by juliab | 1 Comment

Ah Imperial Palace, it’d be easy to knock you but we have an inexplicable soft spot for you, thanks to your Dealtainers and your drag queens and your general embrace the difference ambience.

So we were pleased to see during our recent stay at Harrah’s that you take your Imperial Palaceness seriously, as evidenced by your roof.

Look! It has blue tiles. It has the bent corner effect that totally says China. In fact, if it wasn’t for the Colosseum and the Eiffel Tower down the road, we might have taken this for a building in Shanghai.

OK, that’s a total lie. But we stand by the fact that we think it’s cute. Bet Caesars doesn’t have a roof as nice as that.

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Matsuri Actually Makes a Pretty Decent Budget Cirque

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map], 89109
June 10, 2010 at 12:06 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Matsuri’s actually like? Us too. And because we find the IP so intriguing, we’re fans of Divas, and we’re fed up of Cirque’s normally high prices, we thought we’d give it a go.

We had no idea what to expect, other than an “Asian Cirque”, as our companion put it. But we did assume it would be a bit crap. And you know what? We were pleasantly surprised.

There are Cirque-y moments – aerial gymnastics, routines with a giant hulahoop and the like. There’s also a magician and his annoying kid-friendly sidekick to provide giggles, which reminded us of the annoying light relief parts of Mystere.

What Matsuri lacks, though, is the thing that irritates us most about Cirque – the invented language and weird storylines. We don’t want human interest - just do us some acrobatics, dammit! So props to Matsuri on this front.

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The Imperial Palace Buffet Is Straight From The 70s In More Ways Than One

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Blvd S [map]
May 12, 2010 at 1:02 PM | by juliab | 0 Comments

Although we’re still blissed out over Vegas Uncork’d, it’s time to get back to impoverished reality. And nothing says impoverished reality like the Emperor’s Buffet at the Imperial Palace, right? Time for our weekly rundown of a Buffet of Buffets contender.

First Impressions:

Surprisingly good. The IP buffet was, out of the seven, the one we were most dreading. Once, when we joked to a friendly Harrah’s spy that we were so hungry we could eat a horse, he advised us to hop over to the IP buffet where we could, most probably, eat a horse.

But the room looked ok (well, compared to what we were expecting) and the ladies on the door were exceptionally friendly. Maybe we’d misjudged it? We did that with the IP once before.

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'It's Only Human Nature': Aussie Crooners to Serenade Us Through 2012

May 11, 2010 at 6:08 PM | by juliana | 0 Comments

Yeah, we worked a Madonna lyric into the headline.

Human Nature, the smooth Australian quartet that belts out 60s and 70s Motown hits, is here to stay on the Strip. Well, at least until May 2012.

Imperial Palace has renewed their popular show, "Smokey Robinson Presents Australia's Human Nature – The Ultimate Celebration of the Motown Sound" for two more years. And yes, they will be sticking it out at the old IP.

The IP is so excited to keep the Aussie crooners in house that they decided to rename their 653-showroom to "The Human Nature Theater." Additionally, Mayor Oscar Goodman declared today "Human Nature Day." In unrelated news, we at VegasChatter declare today and every day after that, "VegasChatter Day."

Human Nature performs six nights a week (except Fridays) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $49.95 (plus tax and fees) and VIP $59.95 (plus tax and fees) and can be purchased by calling (888) 777-7664 or online at www.imperialpalace.com.

[Photo: Life]

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Don't Wait For Celine's Return At The Colosseum - Go See Her In Divas Las Vegas Right Now

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
March 3, 2010 at 3:35 PM | by juliab | 1 Comment

Cher. Officially amazeballs.

Finally! It’s time for our Divas Las Vegas review. We went to thepremiere last Thursday* to see Frank Marino get his second slab on the Walk of Stars and caught the show in all its feather boa-ed glory.

Now we love drag, we love filthy jokes and we love cheesy pop, so we knew we were going to enjoy this. And it didn’t disappoint.

The show is built as a revue. Marino acts as the MC, and comes onstage to introduce each act. He’s done up as Joan Rivers to start with, and tells some spectacularly filthy jokes; then for each of the “singers”, he comes onstage in a different outfit, tells a couple more jokes and hands over to the performers – of which we counted seven, covering 13 artists. You get your Bette Midler and your Dolly Parton, your Whitney Houston (old style) and your Shirley Bassey, but there are also young ones – Beyonce doing Single Ladies, Madonna’s latest incarnation, Circus-era Britney and Lady Gaga.

And they’re spectacular. The physical resemblance to each is – for the most part – uncanny, their dance routines are spot on and their impersonations are incredible. Our favorites? Britney, obvs, Celine (“at the price you should have paid at Caesars”, as Marino says), Cher (complete with bum tattoo) and Liza Minnelli, who was faultless. The set is skeleton, and there are only a few dancers to jazz it up, but the impersonations are so good that you don’t notice for a minute.

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Eight Things You (Probably) Didn't Know Were In Imperial Palace

Where: 3535 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
March 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM | by juliab | 4 Comments

As you might remember, we went to the premiere of Divas Las Vegas last Thursday. We’ll bring you the review of the show very soon, but before we get down to the nitty gritty, we thought we’d talk about the place it’s performed in.

Because we’ll go out on a limb here and say no matter how many times you’ve trolled up and down the Strip, we doubt you’ve ventured into Imperial Palace. After all, one look at its exterior is normally what has us saying goodbye.

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