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Exclusively designed for an unforgettable evening, this package includes round-trip stretch limousine from/to the hotel, dinner inside the elegant Mandalay Hotel and Casino, and admission to Rum Jungle, the hottest night club in Las Vegas, boasting state of the art decor, from fire walls and waterfall walls to volcanic mountains of rum and go-go dancers who perform above the huge bar area!

Venue: Mandalay Bay Casino/Rum Jungle Discoteque

Renowned designer Jeffrey Beer’s tropical fantasy is a 20,000 square-foot spectacle for the senses. Guests pass through a 22-foot tall wall of fire and are met with the cool rush of a waterfall followed by a spectacular three-tiered dining area. The exotic ala carte menu features such delicacies as Blue Corn Fried Calamari with dangerous salsa and cilantro-ginger pesto, and Cuban Coffee Smoked Ribs with guajillo BBQ sauce.

From the Brazilian Rodizio-style “fire-pit”, signature entrees include Wood-Fire Mai-Tai Cured Island Spiced Salmon and Huli-Huli Rotisserie Chicken with a Pineapple Teriyaki Glaze. At night, rumjungle turns into a nightclub considered to be one of the hottest in Las Vegas, featuring the world’s largest and best rum bar, measuring 144 feet long and 19 feet high.

The Las Vegas Sun reports that the cost of concert tickets is starting to sting.

Las Vegas is no longer a bargain town - cheap steaks are getting rarer, free drinks are drying up - but if you want a real indignity, try going to a concert.

Our ticket prices are as steep as stepping off the Stratosphere.

By the way you can still find a $5 steak at the Ellis Island Casino, located on Koval near E. Flamingo behind Ballys, just by asking for the Steak Special.  You get 10-ounce steak, a salad, vegetable, a baked potato, garlic bread, and rolls for $4.95, 24 hours a day.  It’s not on the menu, so you’ll have to ask for the “Steak Special”.

Almost every casino in Las Vegas has an all-you-can-eat buffet, open to guests and non-guests alike for every meal of the week. Even at the worst you’re bound to find something you can keep down, and the cost is low enough that in any case you won’t feel ripped off. At its best, the traditional buffet experience is in terms of both decor and flavor like being granted unrestricted access to the food court in an upmarket mall; you’ll get top-quality fast food, but not a gourmet feast.

It’s no coincidence that in strictly monetary terms the better buffets tend to be in casinos that are neither on the Strip nor downtown , and depend on locals as well as tourists. At places like the Rio and casinos in the Stations chain, the buffet still serves the fundamental purpose of enticing in customers from elsewhere. Thus they’ve been at the forefront of innovations like having separate named areas serving different cuisines, or offering “action cooking,” where your stir-fry, omelette, fajita or whatever is cooked to your specific order. By contrast, the buffets at the very largest casinos only have to be good enough to ensure that the crowds already in the building don’t leave, while also coping with a daily deluge of customers. Hence the poor quality of the buffets at Excalibur and the MGM Grand , for example.

A new development, however, has been for high-end casinos to raise buffet prices to a level that makes it possible to provide true gourmet feasts. The opening of The Buffet at Bellagio in 1998 represented a quantum leap in standards, in serving food that would be considered excellent in any conventional restaurant. With dinner priced at $25, however - and $32 on weekends - it also dispensed with the idea that buffets are supposed to be cheap. Le Village at Paris swiftly unveiled a less varied but equally delectable and expensive spread, but the title of best buffet has to belong to Bellagio . The best old-style bargains are the Feast Around The World buffets at Sunset Station and Texas Station .

As a rule, buffet prices include unlimited refills on juices and sodas, but you have to pay extra for any alcoholic drinks. You’ll also have to pay tax, plus a conventional $1 tip per person. If possible, try to avoid eating between 6pm and 9pm, when the lines at the larger casinos can be endless. Arriving early for breakfast (before 8am) and late for lunch (around 2pm or so) can also save time otherwise spent in line.

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The Vegas Passport is the best way to access all the hottest Vegas nightclubs with no cover charge and no wait in line! Lines in Vegas nightclubs can be as long as 2-3 hours at the best clubs! This is the perfect solution! Walk past the bouncers, pass the line and be escorted straight to your table. Don’t be standing in line being average!

Night Clubs

• AM at Forty Deuce - Mandalay Bay
• The Beach - Across from Convention Center
• Bikinis - Rio Hotel
• Caramel - Bellagio Hotel
• Club Rio - Rio Hotel
• Coyote Ugly - New York New York
• Ghostbar - Palms Hotel
• House of Blues - Mandalay Bay
• I-BAR - Rio Hotel
• ICE Las Vegas - 200 Harmon Ave
• Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce - Mandalay Bay
• Light - Bellagio Hotel
• Mist - Treasure Island
• Plush - JW Marriott
• PURE - Caesars Palace
• RAIN - Palms Hotel
• Risqué - Paris Hotel
• Seven - 3724 Las Vegas Blvd
• Skin - Palms Hotel
• Studio 54 - MGM Grand
• TABU - MGM Grand
• Tangerine - Treasure Island
• Teatro - MGM Grand
• VIVID - Venetian Hotel
• VooDoo Lounge - Rio Hotel

You’ll also enjoy discounts and special offers at a wide variety of local restaurants and retailers. Click here for Additional Information.

Discounts and Special Offers

• Hard Rock Café - 15% off food purchase
• Planet Hollywood - VIP Line
• Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce - Free Drink
• Ivan Kane’s Forty Deuce - 20% Champaign Suzy’s Boutique
• The Beach - Free Drink
• SLIDE Tabu Sundays with Mr. Freeze
• Jillian’s Club DOWN-TOWN V-TOWN - $50 Game Pass
• PIERO’s Restaurant - free bottle of wine
• The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf - 2 for 1 any coffee drink
• The Attic vintage clothing store - 25% off
• Marrakech Restaurant - Free Bottle of wine
• Sin City Scooters - One Hour free Scooter rental
• Kahunaville Island Restaurant - Buy one drink - get one free
• Hart and Huntington Tattoo Company @ The Palms - 20% of first hour
• Beverage Company Sponsors - Offerings Gifts / Give-Aways
• Liquor Company Sponsors - Offerings Gifts / Give-Aways
• Cool samples of nightlife related products!

As recently as the early 1990s, the restaurant scene in Las Vegas was governed by the notion that visitors were not prepared to pay for gourmet food. All the casinos laid on both pile-’em-high buffets at knock-down prices, and 24-hour coffeeshops offering bargain steak-and-egg deals, but virtually the only quality restaurants in town were upscale Italian places well away from the Strip. The theory was that the longer tourists spent lingering over their meals, the less time they had left to play the tables.

Now, however, the situation has reversed, as the major casinos compete to attract culinary superstars from all over the country to open Vegas outlets. The first such venture was Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in Caesars Palace , back in 1992; these days, as each new casino opens, it’s taken for granted that it will have as many as ten world-class restaurants. Asked what had persuaded him to relocate to Las Vegas, one leading chef replied “three million dollars.”

Many tourists now visit the city specifically to eat at several of the best restaurants in the United States, without having to reserve a table months in advance or pay sky-high prices. Which is not to say that fine dining comes cheap in Las Vegas, just that most of the big-name restaurants are less expensive, and less snooty, than they are in their home cities.

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