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Center Strip Hotels
Fashion Show
Mall
Wynn
Las Vegas
Wynn Golf and
Country Club
(Resort guests
only)
Spring Mountain Rd.
1
l
nd Dr.
The Venetian
15
Sands
Expo
Mirage
Harrah's/
Imperial Palace
Station
2
3
Ida Ave.
Flamingo/
Caesars Palace
Station
Caesars
Palace
4
5
95
93
95
515
W. F lamingo Rd.
d.
DOWNTOWN
6
Bally's & Paris
Station
Charleston
582
7
Bellagio
Sahara
15
Desert I nn
15
Harmon Ave.
Harmon Ave.
Flam ingo
UNLV
Bally's Las Vegas 6
Barbary Coast 5
Flamingo Las Vegas 4
Harrah's Las Vegas 2
Imperial Palace
Hotel & Casino 3
Paris Las Vegas 7
TI at the Mirage 1
Tro
0
0.25 mi
Area of
detail
604
0
0.25 km
McCarran
Int'l Airport
Monorail
0
1/2 mi
15
215
0
0.5 km
$-$$$ Or go directly to the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino (3535 Las Vegas
Blvd. S., between Sands Ave. and Flamingo Rd.; % 800/634-6441 or 702/731-
3311; www.imperialpalace.com; AE, DC, DISC, MC, V), your only cheap option in
this neck of the woods. Its greatest selling point is, well, the low point at which it
sells; it has no other bells and whistles. Family-owned until 2006 (when it was
sold to Harrah's), it seems not to have done a major overhaul in decades. Stepping
inside a guest room is like warping back to the 1970s, when bright orange, flow-
ered bedspreads were the height of groovy, especially if you added ceiling trim to
match. Ask for a “Luv Tub” room and the look gets downright Newlywed Game,
with mirrors above the bed and surrounding the large, sunken, in-room tub.
Unfortunately, many of the granite-hard mattresses also seem to be from the era,
as well as the chipped sinks and the odd, hospital-like tile in some of the hallways
that magnify the click of stilettos to hammer-on-nail decibels at 2am.
But the staff here sure is trying to do right by its customers. The furnishings
in most of the rooms may be old, but they're kept white-glove clean. Down in the
casino are the hardest-working dealers in town, many doubling as entertainment,
dressed as “Stevie Wonder,” “Cher,” “Michael Jackson,” “Elvis,” or “Madonna”;
at regular intervals, they ascend the stairs to a tiny stage to belt out a song. The
program's called “dealertainment,” and it doesn't get campier than this—it's a
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