May 14, 2008
Among the dividends of LasVegasAdvisor are listings of the best values in Sin City
I earlier wrote about the popular website called TravelWorm, which specializes in revealing reduced-price hotel rooms in all the major U.S. resort locations, but does that best for Las Vegas. Among its competitors is LasVegasAdvisor (www.lasvegasadvisor.com), which also reveals hotel discounts but is just as well known for its up-to-date descriptions of the city's best non-hotel values. These are utterly factual but tremendously amusing, too, and trying them out is a practice far more entertaining, in my view, than spending time at the gaming tables. Here are the 10 current champions:
1) 99¢ for a shrimp cocktail at the Golden Gate casino.
2) $6.95 for a complete steak dinner at Ellis Island: a 10-oz. sirloin with salad, green beans, choice of potato, and fresh, microbrewed beer.
3) A $1.49 breakfast special at the four "Wild" Station casinos (Wild Wild West, Wildfire, Gold Rush, and Magic Star): two eggs with sausages, hash browns, and toast).
4) $100 in "free play" for signing up at the Hoosiers players club, including free entrance to the raunchy Bobby Slayton comedy show.
5) $10.95 for steak dinner at the Gold Coast casino: a 16-oz. T-bone with five sides and a glass of beer.
6) Reduced-price, $10.95 admission to the Magic Show at Greek Isles.
7) $13.95 to $24.95 for an all-you-can-eat buffet at the Mirage casino in center Strip: the best and highest quality buffet in all the city, says LasVegasAdvisor.
8) Reduced-price, $19.95 admission to the Comedy Stop at the Tropicana (note by A.F.: whose parent company recently filed in Chapter XI bankruptcy).
9) The entertainment viewable from the Fontana Bar of the Bellagio Hotel, where purchase of a $6 drink entitles you to sit at that bar all evening.
10) $9.99 for the Prime Rib special at Mr. Lucky's Coffee Shop in the Hard Rock Hotel, where you can order additional slices of beef for as long as you can finish them.
Who said that Las Vegas was just about gambling?
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1) 99¢ for a shrimp cocktail at the Golden Gate casino.
2) $6.95 for a complete steak dinner at Ellis Island: a 10-oz. sirloin with salad, green beans, choice of potato, and fresh, microbrewed beer.
3) A $1.49 breakfast special at the four "Wild" Station casinos (Wild Wild West, Wildfire, Gold Rush, and Magic Star): two eggs with sausages, hash browns, and toast).
4) $100 in "free play" for signing up at the Hoosiers players club, including free entrance to the raunchy Bobby Slayton comedy show.
5) $10.95 for steak dinner at the Gold Coast casino: a 16-oz. T-bone with five sides and a glass of beer.
6) Reduced-price, $10.95 admission to the Magic Show at Greek Isles.
7) $13.95 to $24.95 for an all-you-can-eat buffet at the Mirage casino in center Strip: the best and highest quality buffet in all the city, says LasVegasAdvisor.
8) Reduced-price, $19.95 admission to the Comedy Stop at the Tropicana (note by A.F.: whose parent company recently filed in Chapter XI bankruptcy).
9) The entertainment viewable from the Fontana Bar of the Bellagio Hotel, where purchase of a $6 drink entitles you to sit at that bar all evening.
10) $9.99 for the Prime Rib special at Mr. Lucky's Coffee Shop in the Hard Rock Hotel, where you can order additional slices of beef for as long as you can finish them.
Who said that Las Vegas was just about gambling?
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