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No Cheap Shots About Cheap Trick - It's Really, Really Good

Cast aside your aspersions about what this looks like. It’s really good.

There’s nothing we like better than being proved wrong here at VegasChatter (well, kinda), especially if it’s being proved wrong in a good way. So we’re delighted to say that in our latest Vegas mistake, contrary to our expectations, Sgt Pepper feat. Cheap Trick is, in our humble opinion, astonishingly good.

We finally got around to seeing it a couple of weeks ago, although we weren’t looking forward to it. What we were expecting: washed up rocker has-beens massacring the Beatles that belong back in the Hilton (sorry Hilton) rather than the Paris.

What we got: the surprise of our lives. They were ace!

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Holly Madison Reveals Secret Geek Side, is Hot for Hotel Carpets

We were already fans enough of the lovely Holly Madison here at VegasChatter, but finding out that she’s as much of a Vegas geek as we are has only fired our crush a little bit more.

We noticed a couple of weeks ago that Holly tweeted about the new carpets at Paris, saying that she didn’t approve of the "tres chic" (Paris' words) new carpet and preferred the old Impressionisty one.

Then we didn’t think any more of it.

But then! But then! Last week she tweeted this gem:

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Le Sexy Shop de Paris Could Do With Being Un Peu Sexier

He was with his wife. Don’t worry.

Ooh la la, qu’est-ce que c’est? Un naughty shop à Paris? Mais oui!

Yes, we’ve noticed the frilly stuff on sale in La Vogue - Paris’s new “bridal and bachelorette boutique” - for a while now, but this week we finally made it in.

At first glance, we were pretty disappointed. We saw his and her towels, Mr and Mrs soap dishes, even a $10 bar of soap with a bride and groom etched into the glycerine. Boring. Ou est le sauce?

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What are Le Changes Going On at Paris Las Vegas?

The other night we drove by Paris Las Vegas and some saw pretty massive ground-level construction going on. In fact, the work was funneling the foot traffic onto small sliver of Las Vegas Boulevard in front of the casino hotel.

We had no idea what this could construction could be and we hoped it was something grand like a new restaurant or a nightclub (Paris is in need of one of those) but then we found out it was just another Sugar Factory.

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La Vie Est Pretty Rosy At Le Village Buffet In Paris

Hungry? Can’t afford the In Suite Cooking Programme at the Signature? Time for our weekly rundown of a Buffet of Buffets contender. This week: Le Village Buffet at Paris.

First Impressions:

Depends on what you think of Paris in general. Personally, we’re very fond of the whole cobbled streets, faux-French vibe (we also love the fakey bits of New York New York), so for us the idea of eating sur les cobbles, filling our plates from little French cottages, and being served by wenches in floral dresses, is hilarious.

Our regular Dining Companion, though, is a spoilsport and thinks the place looks like Disneyland. So he classes the buffet as “intrinsically tacky”. Snob.

Location:

Towards the back of the casino, in its own little gated community. A bit like what Montmartre looks like in the early scenes of La Vie En Rose.

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Cheap Trick Returns With More 'Pepper' in June

Does Cheap Trick follow Barry Manilow wherever he goes? The 80s pop rock band was last seen performing the entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album at the Las Vegas Hilton last Fall.

This time they are back in Sin City with the same set but a different venue--Paris Las Vegas. As you recall, Barry recently moved up to the Strip from the LV Hilton.

Whatever the connection, you can get your not-so-cheap Cheap Trick concert tickets today. Seats start at $75 and go up to $250 with a VIP package prices at $275. None of these prices include taxes and fees. Show dates on sale are June 11-12, 15-16, 18-19, 22-23, 25-26, 29-30 and July 20-21, 23-24, 27-28 and 30-31. The concert kicks off at 8pm..."We hope you will enjoy the show."

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The New Anthony Cools is Looking Dapper

We may not be the biggest fans of Anthony Cools since the whole free show scam he was running down at O’Sheas, but hey, credit where credit’s due – man looks good in his new photos.

His old promo shot was actually on our list of top five over-photoshopped hideosities (we’ll give you the others another time). Just look at it.

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Is Paris Judging Your Sexytime By The Size of Your Wallet?

As avid readers of the Mail Online we know there’s nothing as riveting as speculating about other people’s sex lives. So we were particularly tickled to observe the differences in the sex kits at Paris during our stay there last weekend.

We say “sex kits”. As we already explained, the modestly-named “romance kits” ($5) were actually just a box of condoms. But here’s the funny thing – the ones in our Premier Red Room (ie a topnotch room) were supersize Lifestyles Megas (tagline: “for the man who needs more!”).

An inspection of the minibar in a Premier room (standard, but with a view), though, found it stocked with Ultra Sensitive (tagline: “almost like wearing nothing at all”).

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Is Everything Sexier in Paris? It Depends On Which Room You Choose

As you’ll know by now, we spent last weekend in Paris. You’ll know we liked shaking our glowsticks at the Manilow, and were disappointed by the non-sexy sex kits. But here’s the important bit - the room review. Especially because you can get 15 percent off rooms here by booking through our special code (see below).

Check in:

Impressive. Despite our arriving at 6pm on a Friday night, and the valet looking rammed, it only took a few minutes to dump the car. Likewise, check in – the queue moved quickly and we were through in a matter of minutes. We lucked out with the host lady too – she was lovely too.

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Seeing the Strip From The Eiffel Tower: A Toss Up Between Good Views And Alcohol

Hard to believe but we’d never actually been up the Eiffel Tower (in either the original or the Vegas Paris) until this weekend. Why? Because the Eiffel Tower is our favorite thing about the Strip, so we always figured it would be insanity to go up it, where you can’t see it. Surely it’s better to photograph it for free from the top of the Bellagio carpark, opposite, or from on high from the Stratosphere, non?

But we’re willing to eat humble pie on this one, because although you don’t get the Tower in your shots when you’re standing in it, what you do get is a way, way better view of the Strip from any of the carparks (pulled too far back) or from the Strat (too far away).

You get the classic Strip shot – from Planet Hollywood via Luxor down to Mandalay Bay, or from Caesars upwards. But because it’s 460ft up, you get the distance, as well – you can see the whole valley, including Red Rock Canyon and the mountains towards Boulder City and the Hoover Dam. At night, the Strip looked spectacular, but we're willing to bet that the nature fiends will go crazy for it during the day when you can actually see the mountains.

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Tip Of Le Day: Score a (Kind Of) $77 Burger For Under $25

Wit its waitresses dressed in hotpants and tarty corset combos and its, well, burger-ness, we didn’t have Le Burger Brasserie in Paris down as the kind of place you could throw down hundreds of $$$ on a meal. Turns out we were wrong.

Top of the menu is the 777 Burger, because it costs $777. Yes, for one burger. For that, you get a kobe beef burger with a slab of Maine lobster on the top, garnished with caramelized onions, imported brie, pancetta and 100-year-old balsamic vinegar. Oh, and you get a bottle of Dom Perignon rose as well.

What they don’t say on the menu is that you don’t have to go the whole hog – you can order the burger minus the bubbly for a mere (“mere”) $77. Which is what the Harrah’s highrollers we dined with at the weekend did, so we could get a taste.

How was it? Delicious enough that when we dropped a bit of meat on the table, we picked it up and ate it anyway (sorry mum), but worth $77? Not unless we’d had a particularly juicy time on the slots. We’re not big on the surf and turf thing anyway, so the lobster felt a bit redundant. For us, it was all about the beef.

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Glowsticks, Hearts and Disco Balls: A Night In With Manilow

This is probably the wrong thing to admit, what with our carefully constructed too cool for skool image and all, but on our very first night when we moved to Vegas in January, when our brand new housemate asked us what we would do that night, if we had to go home the next day, we said: MANILOW.

Not because we’re Manilow fans, you understand, but because one of our favorite aspects of Vegas is getting stuck into the cheese. Rod Stewart. Tom Jones. Donny & Marie. You’d never see them at home, would you? Not unless your mum paid for your ticket, your train fare, and the booze you'd need to knock the shame of going there on the head. But in Vegas, it’s the thing to do. You know it, and, more importantly, they know it, and that makes it all the more fun.

So, Manilow. We had great expectations, despite the lipsynching rumors, and we weren’t disappointed when, checking into the theater, we were handed glowsticks to wave at our leisure. Yes, glowsticks. ‘Mazing!

We’re not quite sure whether the sticks were ironic or not, but who cares? We loved it.

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