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| - $40 for 24 hrs, you can easily get 4 meals in. We did 5 meals, 4 different buffets. Since you can't get meals for less than $10+tip elsewhere on the strip, we went for quality before quantity. We skipped out on Imperial Palace, Flamingo, and Paris. What we did hit up:
Rio - 'Carnival World' - Been here before, just as good as I remember. Rio's got both quality and quantity so we had all 3 meals there.
Breakfast includes most standard fare -- couple kinds of eggs and potatoes, ham, 1 kind of smoked salmon, fresh fruit.
Lunch comes out around 11am, char siu bbq and roast chicken, misc carbs that I avoided like bagels and potatoes.
For dinner that starts around 4p-- TONS of cocktail shrimp and snow crab, a not so good prime rib, char siu bbq and roast duck for dinner, delicious gelato (cookies and cream not so much though, I tried 4 flavors). The sushi was TERRIBLE, like 2 day old grocery store sushi that's been sitting in the refrigerator. I didn't even feel safe to eat it.
Caesar's - "Lago Buffet" -- Breakfast had tons of cute cups of yogurt and telltale garnish...along with SNOW CRAB LEGS...FOR BREAKFAST?! It was nonsensical, but fabulous! See my review for Lago individually for more details.
Harrah's - Flavor's - Suitable breakfast -- congee and those fried bread things were the most memorable. Good egg/chorizo mix but SOMEONE has to help (all) of the Caesar's/Harrah's properties with their tortillas!! Ice cream was not so great but there was cotton candy for breakfast!!
PH - Totally not worth the time, stopped by and was definitely unimpressed by the lukewarm -EVERYTHING-
We didn't wait more than 3 minutes in line at ANY of these buffets by (a) going just before peak times, aka 10a, 4p, 8p, 730a, 930a and (b) visiting in late January which is apparently Vegas' only slow period
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