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Train Your Stomach For Restaurant Week At Wet Republic Tonight

A particularly nice sausage of seared tuna we once enjoyed at Serendipity 3

What a lovely morning it is! The world is still laughing at Paris Hilton, and it’s the start of Restaurant Week in Vegas, meaning we can eat food we couldn’t normally afford at prices we can, while helping charity at the same time. Bonza!

Not familiar with what’s going on? Basically, from today until Sunday, 94 Vegas restaurants will be offering three course, prix fixe menus throughout the week for either $20.10 (lunch at Rao’s), $30.10 (lunch or dinner at Serendipity 3) or $50.10 (dinner at RM Seafood) per person. The proceeds go to Three Square.

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The Revamped Alexis Park Has New Rooms and Low Prices

The Rumor may have been garnering all the attention lately, but it looks like that’s not the only thing that’s been going under the knife down on Harmon – the Alexis Park is talking about its own extreme makeover on its Twitter account. And, dare we say it, it looks rather nice.

We always had the AP down as a bit grotters, but now we’re rethinking our stance. First up, it has a blog. Second, it trumpets the fact that it’s LGBT friendly, and that we love.

And third, these new rooms – or suites, rather – look pretty decent. They’re not as sexy as the Rumor, of course, and they’re unlikely to win any prizes for design (also the bedroom parts of the suites look pretty small), but they look bright and breezy and, most importantly, clean – see the gallery here.

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Cheap Vegas is Still Relatively Affordable For Labor Day (So Far)

Yours for $48 on a Friday night, courtesy of the Sahara

Yesterday we took a quick look at midrate hotels for Labor Day, and today we had a trawl for the cheap ones. Specifically, our five top cheap ones. Here’s what they’re going for:

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

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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The Last But Probably Not Final Chance to Get Cheap Rooms in Vegas

The bed at Vdara

Room rates are still insanely cheap in Las Vegas as evidenced by Travelzoo's brand-new Vegas sale. This latest round has put almost all of the MGM Mirage Resorts on sale.

You could get cheap hotels like Circus Circus and Excalibur for even cheaper or you can splurge for rooms at Vdara and Aria. We especially like the Vdara deal for just $95 a night. There's a $15 resort fee on top of that but it includes internet access, fitness center access and valet parking. Weekends do bump up to about $160 but most of the week of July 25 you can get rooms there for $95.

Also looking good? The Mirage for just $78 and the Signature at MGM Grand for only $98 (remember these are suites with kitchenettes too.) However, you need to book now. The deal runs out July 12. But don't worry, we suspect there will be another sale soon.

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Thrown Down Your Dollar Bills! (For Beer, Not Strippers)

Man, Vegas makes it so easy for us to continue being alcoholics what with Nickel PBR nights at CityCenter and now $1 Beer Mondays at Cabo Wabo at The Miracle Mile shops.

Starting this Monday, guests can guzzle a variety of draft beers for only a dollar from 9 to 11pm. Appetizers, entrees and other food will still be full price but we think if the booze is $1 than you can certainly pony up for at least a quesadilla.

Just remember, please no drinking and driving. We don't want anyone at Cabo Wabo (or anywhere for that matter) pulling a Vince Neil.

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Imperial Palace Is An Unlikely Contender For Swinger Central

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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Guess the Vegas Hotel Positioning Itself For Swingers and Sex Tapers

GUESS THE HOTEL REVEALED!

Why, what have we here? The opening scene of a homemade sextape? Another Erin Andrews-style peeping Tom hidden in the ceiling? A brave attempt to start a new fetish for fully clothed people eating TGI Friday’s potato skins in bed?

Sadly no. This was us at 5am this morning when, after attending the birthday bash of Mr Tasting Las Vegas, we mustered enough courage to return to our room in this hotel. And by “room” we mean “skanky amateur porn set”.

Yes, this place was so skanky that it is, as far as we can remember, the first room we've ever stayed in that made us keep on all our clothes, all night. And we were wearing jeans, people. Jeans. (Sorry for pictorially inflicting ourselves on you, btw; it was hard to convey the sheer skeeviness without a body in the bed.)

Where were we? None of you guessed on Twitter so we thought we’d try you on a picture round here. Some clues to help you on your way:

* The hotel is across the road from a similarly named casino
* Its self-park garage is on a par with Aria’s for appallingness
* The “minisuites” here (which we were upgraded to after we complained about the foul room we started off with) come with swingertastic baths with room for 8 and mirrored ceilings.
* Although there has surely been a lot of touching up going on in the room (probably by middle-aged swingers), we doubt the room itself has been much touched up since the 80s.
* We’re actually quite fond of the casino here
* The onsite entertainment and restaurant options are far, far superior to the rooms.
* Cellphone reception is bad in the casino, but impossible in the room – it took a 10 minute walk to get a single bar or reception this morning.

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The Monte Carlo Wants You to Stay Three Ways

No smutty three way jokes here

It’s always nice to feel wanted. The Monte Carlo knows this, and to pander to the basest part of our ego, it’s offering three different deals to persuade us to stay there this summer.

The cheapest: the Summer Offer. Rooms from $39 – a saving of 30 percent – depending on when you book it. Book 90 days ahead for the full 30 percent off, 61-90 days ahead for 25 percent off, 31-60 days ahead to get 20 percent off, or 15 percent off rates within the next 30 days. There’s a two night minimum stay, but they’ll throw in two for one deals for the buffet, drinks at Brand and appetizers at d.vino or Dragon Noodle. Book here by July 19 for stays up to January 5.

The funnest (yeah, we’re making that a word): 20 percent off Strip view rooms, Sunday through Thursday. In July, these are coming in as low as $53. Book here by July 19. Valid for stays until January 5 again.

The crappest: suites from $80, which sounds like a deal, but we can’t see any difference to this offer than going by the rack rates. And again, it’s a minimum two night stay, but it looks like you can get the same rate for a one night stay through the normal rezzies system. Although a suite for $80 is not to be sniffed at, however you come across it. Book the offer here - you get two for one on the buffet as well.

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Things are Looking a Little Blue Over at IP

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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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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