las vegas imperial palace hotel personal overview of a unique strip front hotel casino in Las Vegas - by Jason

Imperial Palace Hotel Las Vegas

Imperial Palace has fun shows, a world famous auto collection, cheap rooms, a big bar scene and one of the best locations on the strip. This is old-style Vegas. Get here before it gets upgraded beyond recognition. Imperial Palace is a casino for budget-minded adventurous tourists. Like its famous, long-running shows, the hotel gets many repeat customers.

Imperial Palace is an Asian-themed hotel, with a huge gold Chinese lion and Bruce Lee mirrored columns, though there is only one Chinese restaurant: Ming. It is good and not expensive either. I would stay at the Palace and eat elsewhere myself.

The blue lights of the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas really stand out at night among the gold neon lights surrounding it.

In good weather they host Hawaiian Luaus by the pool which can actually be kinda fun, especially when somebody is drunk and trying to hula hoop. The weirdest thing about the casino itself is actually the reason so many come back. The dealers are in costume and are actually professional celebrity impersonators that look just like Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis. They really get into their own acts. Other long running shows include Legends in Concert, which they claim is the most popular tribute show in the world. You will see Elton John, Madonna, Britney and more.

The price to location ratio is a value that is hard to beat here. I highly recommend the Imperial Palace if you don't mind a typical less than fantastic room and don't mind walking for better restaurants. Look for discount coupons on this page.

Overview: affordable fun themed raw casino hotel in a great location
Location: Central Las Vegas Strip across from Caesar's
Restaurants: typical cafe, buffet, fast food choices
Nightclubs, Lounges: Rockhouse Bar and Nightclub gets very loud and is close to the strip side for views of the other street action
Casino: 75,000+ square feet, including Blackjack served by dealers that look and talk like celebrities, Caribbean Stud Poker, Craps, Keno, Let It Ride, Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Poker, Roulette, more than 2,600 slot machines, and a small poker room, race & sports book has seating for 275+ people with 250+ TV's and 20+ big screens for viewing major events.
Entertainment: Legends In Concert is a celebrity superstar lookalike show, the Karaoke Club is one of the biggest in town with at least 400 people when I was there and they were seriously top notch
Extras: I have been to the Auto Collection twice which has nearly 300 antique, classic and just plain weird and worth seeing vehicles including many for sale, as I recall they won't let you take pictures though
Pools: 1 nothing special pool and hot tub
Health Club or Spa: both plus a salon for nails and hair
Shopping: Auto Collections gift shop is worth checking out if you like cars otherwise go here for serious shopping.
Wedding chapel: numerous packages offered including themed
Childcare facilities: None
Pets allowed: No
Parking garage: free 5 story parking garage
Shuttle service to the airport: back and forth to the airport by a private company, better to take a cab unless you are real short on cash.
Shuttle service to Strip: Imperial Palace is ON the strip, no shuttle needed, the Las Vegas Monorail stops at: MGM, Bally's, Paris, Flamingo, Harrah's, Imperial Palace, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas Hilton and Sahara.
Hotel amenities: Typical amenities, plus valet parking, salon, currency exchange, laundry, luggage handling, electronic check-out, car rental onsite, wireless Internet connection throughout
Miscellaneous: Check-in time is 3 pm and Check-out time is 11 am. The minimum age to reserve a room is 21 years and there is a maximum number of guests per room of four. Must provide a credit card for incidentals

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