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Tears Are Falling, Are KISS Slots Gone in Vegas?

Time for another VegasChatter Question! Already? Yes, our amazing readers have great questions! Do you have a question about Vegas, too? We bet you do. Send it to us and if we deem it clean enough, we'll post it here on VegasChatter!

We get asked lots of questions here at VegasChatter. And, most of the time, we have an idea of what the answer is. But, recently VegasChatter fan Mike P. stumped us when he asked about KISS. Not, the mini-golf center where we've already teed it up and could have answered most readily, but about KISS slots:

I was wondering if you could help me and my buddy out. We are going out to Vegas this Summer and plan on doing the KISS Monster Mini Golf. My buddy is a crazy KISS fanatic and would also like to know if you knew where a KISS Slot machine would be out there? We look at every casino we go to but never see one. We know they exist from YouTube and the Internet, but never actually found one. My best guess is there has to be one somewhere at the Hard Rock?!

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Tips / Deals / Pools / Pool Scenes / Cabanas / Excalibur / Flamingo / Hard Rock / Rehab / → All Tags

Before You Pay Full Price, How To (Possibly) Save On That Cabana

When there's not a chair to be found poolside and a cabana will run you hundreds of dollars, what's a Vegas visitor to do?

VegasChatter fan Kingnormandy has a solution that could land you in that cabana after all and without having to spend all your cash on it, either:

Don't book a cabana in advance! Wait an hour or two by the pool get the lay of the land, then if a bunch are empty at 1PM go make an offer at the spa (where they are usually rented). This has worked at Excal(ibur), Flamingo, and Hard Rock. I paid $70 for a Cabana at Excal(ibur) two day in a row last summer, and got a huge discount with a group at Rehab on Sunday two years ago, so there are always opportunities. Obviously Saturday's are tougher, but if you wait it out, there are deals.

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Piecing Together Our Dream Sportsbook

We talk about sportsbooks a lot. We love spending time at the sportsbook. There is little better at a casino then hanging out with some friends, enjoying a drink and watching games that we have a few bucks on. Just like everything in the world, there is no perfect sportsbook experience, but we thought it would be fun to make a Frankenstein sportsbook with all of our favorite bits and pieces from various sportsbooks. It's make believe, so let's not be concerned with costs.

First thing we'd like in a sportsbook are new TV screens like the TVs at the Venetian sportsbook. This may be the single most important thing for us. After all, we're watching the games. The TVs should be crisp and clear. In a perfect world, the TVs would be replaced yearly so they're always new.

We'd like free drink tickets when we place a fairly priced wager like we can get at Red Rock Casino. Hey, who doesn't want a free drink? We're not unreasonable enough to think the casino would just give a freebie without placing a bet. This may seem old school since sportsbooks have been trying to cut this out of their expenses.

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Pools / Pool Scenes / Adult Pools / Openings / Venus Pool Club / Rehab / Marquee Dayclub / Beachlife / TAO Beach / Venetian / Hard Rock / The Cosmopolitan / Caesars Palace / → All Tags

With Temps Hovering Around 100, Last of Vegas Pools Make Their Debut

If this screengrab doesn't convince you to plan a trip to Vegas soon, this will -- the last of the dayclubs (save one) splash into the Vegas pool scene this weekend.

Venus Pool Club at Caesars Palace opens today. Marquee Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan makes its picturesque return tomorrow. And, Rehab at Hard Rock gets back into the swim of things on Sunday. (Don't forget about Beachlife, either.)

The only adult pool that's still keeping the cover-up on is TAO Beach at Venetian which won't reveal itself again until May 5.

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Palms To Go All In With New Sportsbook

Cantor Gaming is expanding again. (Ho, hum.) Cantor Gaming is bringing their bland signature red betting stations to the Palms. This time, there's a twist. The new Palms sportsbook will also house a new poker room of eight tables. While the poker room will be physically integrated into the new sportsbook, Cantor gaming won't have anything to do with its management.

While it seems that role will fall to the Palms, Pokerati leads us to believe that things may not remain the same as their weekly game may (or may not) come to an end with the new sportsbook/poker room configuration.

While our favorite sportsbooks in Vegas include two Cantor Gaming venues, nobody is perfect. Getting a free drink in a Cantor Gaming sportsbook won't happen since they don't offer comps, but even finding a cocktail waitress to buy a drink can be next to impossible. That said, there is no denying the beauty and clarity of their TV screens. While we are lazy and like people bringing us drinks, watching sports on great TVs is a little more important.

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Resto Roundup: Opening Days for Carlos'n Charlie's, Slice of Vegas, and More

Now that we know when we can experience another a MasterChef in Vegas, we've got a few more restaurant openings to add to your calendar.

VegasChatter friend @_Lucky45 tells us that the staff of Carlos'n Charlie's at Flamingo have been informed that their opening date is the 16th of this month. He also snapped the photo seen above of the construction wall coming down earlier this week.

Word on the Facebook is that another party bar and restaurant just down The Strip will open the same day.

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If You're Done With Rehab, Hard Rock Has A New 'Life For You

Rehab is the infamous Vegas pool party that keeps on giving... even if we may not want it to. But, if Rehab has become disappointingly tame for you, there's a new way for you to rock the Vegas pool scene.

The Hard Rock has three other ways for you to chill out this pool season, taking the typical drunken Vegas weekend from two to four days, every week. Dubbed "Beachlife," things start every week with Summer Camp Fridays, featuring water balloon fights (what, no vodka filled balloons?), squirt gun battles (oh, sorry, ma'am. did you not want to get wet there?), and staff dressed in their campy best. Remember that one time in band camp by stopping by Fridays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ladies and hotel guests will get in free. Guys staying elsewhere will need to hand over $20 bucks.

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There Will Be No More Bare Feet In Vegas, For Gals With 20 Bucks To Spare

What's a club kid to do when it's 1 a.m., your shoes are off because your feet hurt like hell, but security is giving you the eye?

Make sure you're at the Hard Rock or the Venetian so you can totter painfully over to a Rollasole vending machine, now helping dance-weary gals get relief without all that I-can't-believe-you're-walking-down-The-Strip-barefoot grossness.

For $20, the Daily Mail reports that the machines will spit out rolled up "flats in a flash."

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A Closer Look At Hard Rock's New Players Club

Earlier this month, we told you that the Hard Rock was rockin' a brand new players club. Now, the hotel is releasing more info regarding just what it offers.

We already knew that the new rewards program would allow members to rack up points outside of gaming, just like almost every other players club these days. Dine, stay, shop, and earn points. The card will also entitle you to discounted dining, complimentary nightclub entry, and more.

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Hard Rock Will Sex You Up Anytime You Want

Aria keeps it kinky with Kiki. Flamingo's been letting us Go Sexy for a while. Now, Hard Rock wants you to know that it's down with sexy time, too -- whenever you want it, however you like it.

The hotel's Love Jones boutique now offers a room service menu for the naughty. Indulge your frisky side with open crotch peek-a-boo panties ($16), handcuffs wrapped in real rabbit fur ($36), feather spankers ($28, shown above), vibrating panties ($146), and more. And, yes, they will deliver all this to your room. 24 hours a day. Bellhop not included.

We just hope none of this turns up at Rehab... but, who are we kidding?

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The World Of DJ Pauly D Invades Las Vegas

“I’m blessed.”

DJ Pauly D’s project for the evening is to meet the Vegas press. He’ll do so with charm and reserved candor. Push for the details and you’ll just get the grin. Crazy Vegas? “Oh yeah we see it.” The grin. If you’ve seen the interview segments during episodes of Jersey Shore, you’ve met Pauly D. Brief, to the point conversation, then that smile and the knowing nods. Make him laugh and he doubles over. Pauly is loving life. The tan, the bling, the hair - it’s all there. His own TV show on the way. An album of tracks. And he wants to be the next Ryan Seacrest. It’s a Pauly D world.

“The East Coast can get down. We can party like no other, there’s no question about that. The thing about Las Vegas, is everybody comes here, to party.”

He's walked that walk, but Pauly is here to work. Promote his new monthly DJ residency at Vanity in the Hard Rock and a new MTV reality show, The Pauly D Project, partially filmed during his previous DJ gig at the Palms.

The show highlights a new set of characters, the Posse, who they hope will be the next set of break-out reality stars. Mid-way through our conversation, he's brought dessert with chocolate toppers decorated in the design of his latest tattoo. It's a star within a star, the logo of clothing line, Dirty Couture. Pauly's a human billboard and a walking tribute to his friend and business partner, Pasquale DiPippo. Promotion and friendship. Two concepts that live strong in Pauly. Those that stuck by him during his earliest DJ days, are now being lifted into the limelight. It doesn't hurt they are also no strangers to causing a commotion.

For now, the Posse’s project for the evening is to sit quietly and politely, feet tapping with nervous energy, hunched over phones, coiled for the night's potential. The Hard Rock has 'hooked' Pauly up with a suite, a crackerjack team of promotional staff, and an obvious aura of genuine and mutual goodwill. Its created a happy DJ Pauly D, who would like you to know, assuredly and confidently, that he was always a DJ and he’d like to prove it to you.

The source of his lure to Las Vegas is DJ AM. When he died during the first season of Jersey Shore, Pauly lost his career mentor. Way back, during his major interview, ”I said I’d love to follow in DJ AM’s footsteps. No one will ever replace him, but I’d love to follow in his footsteps and land a residency in Las Vegas. And, here we are today.” Pauly spent a year and a half at Palms but, once a free agent, he says offers flooded in from other clubs. The Hard Rock might not be the obvious choice. He hedges he’ll maybe drop the odd rock track in with the beats. The grin. The appeal of also working their “legendary,” pool club, Rehab, grin, may have helped tipped the balance.

The Hard Rock is very happy they’ve signed him. A retail manager regaled a story of young girls spying Pauly at lunch, egging each other other to go talk to him, like he was a member of a boy band. He loves this, doubling over, “I’m blessed, I’m blessed.” The buzz he’s been creating, plus recent conventions and the Motley Crüe residency, have the Hard Rock staff feeling they are back on a serious roll.

With one DJ gig under his belt, Pauly's seriously considering buying a place here, “its just hard with all the traveling.” He finds time to check out fellow DJ’s on the Strip, “I love everybody” and name checks LMFAO, Afrojack, Swedish House Mafia, Tiesto, Chuckie and Paul Oakenfold. It's all about those anthems. That’s what he wants to drop here,

“as a DJ when you can feel the crowd and you own them, that's what a DJ lives for.”

Meanwhile, the Posse are plotting and planning. Everyone in the Pauly crew understands this is the next level. With a new, established back-story, legitimacy as a DJ and even more re-run exposure, things are cooking. There’s much talk of ventures, investment and the future. For Pauly, “my life is music right now.” Last year, he signed to 50 Cent's G-Note record label to release an album.

“I’m on skype, I'm on emails. I hit the studio on my downtime. I want this album to pop. I’m in no rush for it.”

Maybe. When he talks about the future, he's thinking further than the Strip,

“I want to show the world... to be a producer. Kind of like Mark Wahlberg. Or a Ryan Seacrest.”

As for returning to the Jersey Shore, he’d have no problem re-signing for another series. And, with news breaking of the Snooki pregnancy, we asked will he be "Uncle Pauly"? He doubles over, grin, “I want to be the Godfather" he yells.

“Snooki already said she wants me to DJ in the delivery room.”

Interviews over, the Posse rises and mingles as a pack. They have an intricate series of Jersey Shore-style handshakes, that evolve and upgrade. Fist-bumps, slaps, turns. It’s a bonding and isolating set of moves. You may be watching the Project, but you’re far from being part of the project. They head out for the evening, doubtfully heeding Pauly D’s personal visitor advice for our VegasChatter readers:

“Pace yourself. You got to pace yourself.”

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Total Rewards Isn't The Only Revamped Players Club in Vegas

Caesars Entertainment's Total Rewards program has gotten a total makeover, but Hard Rock wants you to know it's rockin' a new loyalty program, too.

The spring issue of HRH magazine touts the March launch of Backstage Pass. The article doesn't really say, but Backstage Pass seems to replace Hard Rock's Rockstar Club. (Clicking on the Rockstar link on the Hard Rock's website brings you to a sign-up form for Backstage Pass.)

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