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Another place to look at staying is Alladin. Their room rates are absolutely wacky...some weekends they are more expensive than anywhere but Bellagio and Mandalay Bay, and some weekends they are cheaper than Imperial Palace. Its a nice clean quiet place. It is not work Bellagio, or even Monte Carlo level prices, but if you can find a cheapo rate, it is worth staying there. They have a nice small poker room, with decent tournments. MGM is very close...maybe a two block walk and has a nice poker room. Bellagio is literally right across the street. You walk out of the Alladin onto Las Vegas Bl., take the crosswalk across the street, walk 10 feet to your left, and take the escalators into Bellagio.

It is also about 10 minute walk to Mirage. Ballys, Paris, Flamingo, Harrahs, and IP all have smaller poker rooms and are on the way to Mirage. Wynn is about a 20 minute walk.

The downfall is almost all food at Alladin is overpriced. I almost choked when I looked at their coffee shop menu and saw $13 pancakes. The gourmet restaurants are good and not over priced, and the buffet is excellent and not overpriced for what you get($24 or so). But there is no decent low end eats for reasonable price.