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Fiddy And The Black Eyed Peas Are Taking On Xtina For New Year's Eve

While Christina Aguilera will be getting down at Tao this New Year’s Eve, Caesar’s will be luring 50 Cent down to PURE to “perform” (as opposed to merely “hosting”, like Xtina).

Tickets are going for $150, with table rezzies starting at $2000 (four people, including two bottles of spirits). For a chunky $25k, 10 of you will get four bottles of Belvedere, the same of Dom Perignon, and a chance to shake hands with the Fidster himself. Reserve your tables here or get your pleb tickets at Vegas.com.

If you want more celebs for your money, you’ll need to hit LAX in the Luxor where the Black Eyed Peas will be doing their thing. Again, entry costs $150, while tables start at $3000 for six people. A table, booze, plus a meet and greet costs, again, $25,000. But with four of them to go around, that’s a lot more reasonable, no? No? Well Bette Midler's yours for $120.

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Caesars Garden of the Gods Pool Area Now Half-Open

Major renovations have been afoot at Caesars since last fall. The big question is how on track are those renovations and how does the current state of construction effect your ability to bask in the sun at the Caesar's pool?

The Octavius Tower looks complete from the outside, however the project has been put on hold due to the "soft economy." But those in the know claim that the tower's interior can be made fully operational in "under three months", thus once tourists return to Vegas en mass the tower should open quickly.

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Caesars to Open Additions to Its 'Pool Oasis' This Summer

When Harrah’s Entertainment, parent company of Caesars Palace, announced the hotel’s newest expansion almost two years ago, the plan was to enlarge and renovate the hotel to the tune of $1 billion, the centerpiece of which was to be the new, 665-room Octavius Tower.

Of course, this was back when $1 billion represented a somewhat reasonable figure for a stalwart Las Vegas hotel looking to capture an even greater portion of the enormous Vegas tourism cache—and not the symbolic figure for bank bailouts and scandalous Wall Street ponzi schemes.

Needless to say given the current economic climate, expansion plans have been scaled waaaay back (hope to see you soon, Octavius Tower). But lest we forget those savvy folks at Harrah’s know a thing or two about where there bread is buttered, they went ahead with the expansion of their Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis.

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Would You Pay a $1,000 for a Room at Caesars?

There's still a recession going on, right? Well it seems as if someone forgot to tell the folks at Caesars. We were doing some deal-hunting today and clicked on the "Hot Deals" links for this Harrahs property. While we were initially jazzed to see $90 rooms on April 29 and 30th, our jaws almost dropped when we saw a rate of $1,000 for April 25th.

Yes, we know that's the day that Britney Spears is in town and yes, we also know that the 25th is the last day of the World Poker Tour and that Cher returns to the Colosseum that night but seriously, a $1,000? And it's not even a suite. It's a regular old Roman Tower room.

No thanks, we'd rather stay at Venetian for $269 a night or The Flamingo for $247. Maybe we'll even splurge on an upgrade.

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Only Classic Rooms at Caesars Available for Vegas Uncork'd

With less than a month to go until the return of the annual Vegas Uncork'd we thought we'd check in on the room rate and availability situation. If price is your biggest concern, we think you will be rather pleased.

Caesars Palace, where so many of the foodie festival's biggest events are taking place, still has rooms open for an average of $146 a night during the festival (May 7-10.)

However, these are the old classic rooms at Caesars which are found in the Roman and Centurion towers. Classic is another word for "old." But if you're intent on staying at Caesars, this is the best you can do as the rest of the hotel is entirely sold-out. Use code PCUCR to book.

At the MGM Grand, another big pit stop, rooms are a little cheaper at $99 for May 7 and a $139 for May 8 and 9. Again, these aren't the best rooms in the house but they are available and they are cheap. The hotel's West Wing rooms (small but with a boutique decor) are also available for about $10 more each night. Go through the special MGM Grand Uncork'd page to book.