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Only In Vegas Would You Hold Your Wedding Reception at an All Day Buffet

Please tell us they went on to party with Thunder Down Under

As the ever-wonderful Alex Acuna says, this is why we love Vegas – because it really does have something for everyone.

As we were busy tweeting on Friday night, some friends of ours were up for the weekend and decided to hit the Excalibur all-day buffet. On trip four, in the evening, they found themselves dining next to a wedding party.

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Tweet of the Weekend: How Drunk Do You Have To Be To Get Chucked Out Of Dick's?

Many people got trashed in Vegas this weekend, and lots of them told the world about it. So, every Monday we’re bringing you our favourite tweet of the weekend. And don’t forget to follow us at @vegaschatter.

We thought we’d seen it all on the Strip, but we’re not sure we’ve ever seen this from HimynameisC:

Did I really just kicked out of a VEGAS bar for being drunk???!!!! Really??

We’ve been known to push the odd boundaries on occasion, but we’ve never been thrown out. But then, we’ve never been to Dick’s Last Resort at Excalibur, which seems to have been where she was. Now we're torn between really not wanting to go there, and being intrigued as to just how battered the folks actually get there.

Also noteworthy: she tweeted that at 5pm. Good effort.

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Where To Stay With Your Boys In Vegas (Success With The Ladies Not Guaranteed)

Warning: the ladies may not be so impressed with your, um, turrets

VegasChatter fan Curtis emailed us to say that he's hitting Vegas in June with the guys and is looking for a less sexy option than Paris. We understand, sometimes you just don’t want the man dictating your rubber selection.

Trolling for deals June 1-4, we found some decent offers amid some rooms that were surprisingly a bit expensive for a mid-week stay. Since we aim to please all budgets – but still want to score a deal, here are a few rates we liked:

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Excalibur Wants to Be The Strip's Dive Bar

Beer pong, shuffleboard, and pool tables - in Vegas. Which one of these doesn’t belong? If you answered beer pong, guess again.

While you can get your pong on at more than a couple casinos these days, you don’t often see pool tables on the Strip, let alone shuffleboard. The corner dive bars found elsewhere with room in the back to knock some balls around just don’t exist as much here.

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Possessed Babies But A (Nearly) Spotless Room: Our Night Of Courage at Excalibur

The idea of Excalibur’s $27 room rates got us (and our *hint hint* Facebook fans) so intrigued that we had to go check it out.

What we were expecting: the pits. “I stayed there many years ago – once was good enough for me” was the line of the Facebook comments. And a friend of ours stayed there in September and vowed never to go back. No shower caps, bad air con, smelly rooms and no hot water is what we were told. So we packed our thickest pyjamas and a noseclip and headed down.

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Excalibur Joins the No Photos Gang

To be fair, if we were wearing the t-shirt that the guy on the right is wearing, we’d want our "privacy ensured" as well

Oh, how times have changed. It seems like only yesterday that we were extolling the virtues of Excalibur for not going down the Luxor route of forbidding us from taking pics.

But yesterday we were in there – yes, we stayed over to trial the $27 rooms - and were dismayed to come across this here sign.

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Excalibur Is Going Down To $27

For some reason (can’t think why), Excalibur isn’t a casino we go into that often. And because it’s not high on our radar, we kinda forgot how good the room rates can be.

Forgot, that is, until yesterday, when we got an email about their new Rooms for $27 package which, as chance would have it, offers rooms for $27.

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Excalibur's Marketing Goes Down The Toilet

With so many competing shows on the Strip, marketing teams need to get creative to draw in a crowd. And it looks to us as if the team promoting Defending the Caveman at the Excalibur has decided to catch us with our pants down.

Unless, of course, it could have been a recent attendee trying to make a statement on his impression of the show.

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Got Drunk, Forgot to Charge Your Phone? Excalibur To The Rescue

How good is this? We went into the Excalibur the other day to see if, like our commenter VegasVeteran, we’d be stopped from taking photos. Luckily for us, nobody batted an eyelid, even when we were snapping away on the casino floor (which makes the Luxor ban even weirder).

And good thing they didn’t, else we wouldn’t have been able to take this picture of the Automated Charging Machine by (what passes for) the Business Center round the back of the casino.

For $5, the ACM promises to charge your iPod, Blackberry, cellphone “and more” by up to 60% in just 10 minutes. So instead of remembering to charge up before you go to sleep (we understand habits go out the window in Vegas), you can get drunk without worrying, and come here the next day.

The geek in us loves the all the little leads they’ve got going on here:

The only problem is where to stand while you’re charging up. The Business Center is pretty gross, and the casino isn’t a whole lot better. But then again, it’s 10 minutes. A beer will see you through that easily.

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Finally! Top Chef Las Vegas Gets Back to Vegas Basics

All season long, Top Chef Las Vegas has been doing its very best to isolate Vegas from the cooking competition equation. All they've done is parade in big name chefs to act as judges and let the contestants use their fancy hotel casino kitchens to complete the elimination challenges. Heck, they don't even give the M Resort any love anymore.

Oh sure, every so often they throw something "Vegas-y" into the mix like showgirls, a couple of Vegas celebs, a $10,000 poker chip or the opportunity to double down on an Elimination Challenge. But we've always felt that this season could have just as easily taken place in another city. Where's the glitz and glamour? And more importantly, where are the casinos?

Finally, last night we got what we've been waiting for all season.

The episode kicks off with every foodie's fantasy--Padma in bed wearing white robe and her hair in soft layers around her face. In the bed next to her (sadly, not in bed with her) is every foodie's other fantasy--Nigella Lawson, equally stunning as Padma and also clad in a white robe with her hair in soft layers around her face. And thus the Quickfire Challenge begins.

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Come Out In Las Vegas. All. Month. Long.

If you didn't already know it, October is National Coming Out Month and in Vegas, the fun doesn’t stop with the annual October 3rd Street Festival. Nope. The party keeps rolling right on through the end of the month and it’s not too late to get in on some of these super cheap – as in under $100 a night – celebratory deals:

"2 Queens Beat a Straight" at New York-New York
This video poker tournament package includes:
Three nights Park Avenue Strip View accommodations (Oct 9, 10 & 11 only), one entry into the Video Poker Tournament, two spa admissions, 15% discount on spa services, two Rok Admission (Fri. & Sat. only), two-for-one Il Fornaio Breakfast and VIP Check In.
Rates start at $150.60/night, plus tax.
Make your ressie here.

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More Than You Should Eat: MGM Mirage Hotels Offer All-Day Buffets

Loosen the belt buckles, people: there’s a new opportunity for buffet-lovers to get their money’s worth in Vegas. The latest: all-day meal passes from the buffets at a handful of MGM Mirage properties.

The new promotion, which targets visitors looking to save money on food, started earlier this month in the buffets at MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, and Luxor. It continues indefinitely.

The deals differ at each property. Some of the specifics:

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