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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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Dick's (10 Minute Lunch Express) In a Box
Eating on the run? You may to think about grabbing lunch at Dick's Last Resort at Excalibur Hotel and Casino with its new "10 Minute Lunch Express." This lunch promotion certainly isn’t going to win any creativity awards, but for cost and convenience, it’s one heckuva deal. Especially for the hoards of families that descend upon the medieval-themed hotel.
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The Excalibur's Tournament of Kings: Forever Cheesy, Always Family-Friendly
By all accounts, the show at the Excalibur billed as replete with “Invading armies! Dancing maidens! Jousting! Fireworks! And eating with your fingers!” offers families visiting Vegas the most memorable and age-appropriate opportunity for entertainment in town.
The Tournament of Kings dinner show is a completely safe and, all told, reasonably entertaining way to occupy a mixed-ages group looking for a way to bond while in Vegas. Sure, there are other shows that are appropriate for children: Blue Man Group advertises kids’ rates, for example, and the Cirque shows generally allow children 5 and over to attend. But you run the risk of attracting sidelong glances from unappreciative strangers if your young ones start gleefully exclaiming at the wonderment they’re witnessing (and who could blame them?).
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Where to Play Beer Pong in Vegas
Beer pong at O'Sheas on The Strip.
With the World Series of Beer Pong set to invade The Strip again next January at The Flamingo, it's no wonder Las Vegas is prepping its visitors on drinking game. Beer Pong is, for the most part, still a frat boy drinking game but in recent years, it's evolved into a game that nearly everyone who likes to drink gallons of beer has taken a liking to.
VegasConcierge recently posted a picture on its Twitter feed of the new beer pong tables at Excalibur where can play beer pong 24 hours a day at the Jesters Bar on the Casino floor.
Here are a few other places to get your pong on:
· Monte Carlo: Beer pong is played poolside here.
· O'Sheas: You can play beer pong right in the middle of this casino. (Watch the video above.)
· Blondie's Las Vegas: Inside Miracle Mile at Planet Hollywood, this bar offers up beer pong any time of the day. The bar's weekly Thursday tournaments offer a cash prize of $500. Also on Friday June 13th, the bar is hosting a satellite tournament for the World Series of Beer Pong.
One other place to play beer pong? In your room. That is, if you've got yourself a suite. Two places we could see working perfectly for beer pong games? The Trump Las Vegas and The Signature at MGM Grand. These suites have plenty of space and you can easily push a few tables together. And more importantly, they also have kitchenettes to keep your beer cold.
Know of any other places to play beer pong? Let us know!
[Front door photo: Blondies Las Vegas]
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If You Can Book in Advance, a $26 Room at The Excalibur Can Be Yours
This email offer just arrived in our inbox and we had to share it with you because The Excalibur is promising some disturbingly low rates at 30 percent off--starting at $26. Why is this disturbing? Because the "All You Can Eat" buffet at the Excalibur only costs $25! So you can eat your room rate, literally.
Yes, we know. This is the Excalibur, not The Wynn, and the only rooms we recommend booking here are the wide-screen ones which go for a bit more than the rock-bottom rooms. Plus, there's about a $5 resort fee.
Weekends throughout June and July are consistently under $100 a night, some going for as low as $65 a night. In August, almost every Friday and Saturday night starts at $68. Widescreen rooms just a bit more at $82 a night. But the promised low rates of $26 come in 2010 from January 24-28 and February 21-25. Widescreen rooms start at only $40!
Of course, the biggest catch here is that you MUST book by May 13 to secure this insane deal. Reservations must be cancelled within 48 hours of the arrival date so you can book now and decide later.
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Hooters at $199 is Your Best Last-Minute Option
Like most weekends in Las Vegas, there's a heck of a lot going on. We decided to do a last-minute look at hotel rooms and one of the cheapest hotels we found near the Strip is Hooters for $199 a night on Expedia. There's also The Tropicana which is going for $190 a night. In this case, we'd advocate the Hooters hotel which has a little bit more action. Plus there's no male revue inside the Tropicana.
Other properties like the MGM and Mandalay are $300+ a night while the Venetian is asking $500+ a night.
When marginal properties like the Excalibur are charging $225 a night (and that's not even for their renovated rooms), you know finding a bargain in this town is going to be tough. Then again, if Excalibur has some of the cheapest cabanas in town this could work out in your favor. And don't forget about the all you can eat, all day long $25 buffet.
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The Excalibur's Wide-Screen Rooms Are The Only Ones To Book
The Excalibur may have some of the cheapest cabanas in Las Vegas right now but they also have the cheapest rooms. We've seen rates go as long as $31 mid-week for the standard Excalibur rooms. However, we advise you to spend $20 extra and book one of the hotel's recently renovated rooms in Tower II.
The so-called Widescreen rooms are wide in terms of size, feature widescreen TVs and have wide views of the blue and red orange spires outside. We stayed here the other month and the good news is, we survived the night. We liked the big bed and the blue and gray color scheme. We didn't even mind the medieval dragons plastered on some chair pillows and the room door.
The bathroom now features a high, marble-topped vanity sink but oddly enough, the shower was not redone at all. So it's an old shower. Yup, you guessed right. We aren't showering here.
We were also peeved by the lack of a safe in the closet and the $13.95 internet charge. But with room rates as low as $56 mid-week, it's a hard deal to beat. And hey, at least those sheets are fairly new. We hope.
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The Excalibur May Have The Cheapest Cabanas in Las Vegas
Renting a cabana at one of Las Vegas’ hot hotels is the sun-splashed equivalent of a private table with bottle service at one of the city’s most coveted nightspots. Prices can be similar too. Some cabanas at the Palms’ Midsummer Night’s Dream party last August went for as much as $5,000, while Red Rock allows revelers to join together three cabanas to form a 20-person poolside party zone—for a hefty price.
Excalibur’s new cabanas offer a distinctly more affordable choice. Introduced last year as part of the hotel’s outdoor expansion, which doubled the size of the pool, the pool area has added a fire pit, sun decks, a separate private relaxation pool and a poolside restaurant, the appropriately named DRENCHED.
