We stayed at the imperial palace because it was the most affordable place on the strip. Last time we went to Las Vegas we stayed on Freemont street and loved it. We should have done that again.
The Imperial Palace is like a maze when you are trying to check in if you do not use the Valet. There was a long line to check in but it moved pretty fast.
The major problem is there are too few elevator's to take you to your room, so you if you are not pushy you will never get up, because people do not form lines and they hop on in front of you. This normally would not be a problem, because we would just use the stairs, but the stair case is locked so you have to use the elevator (even if you are on the third floor).
Another thing was the last night we were there the fire alarm went off at 3 am. They made an announcement that it was not a fire and not to leave the room, but the alarm continued to go off for approximately 45 minutes. Once it was finally off we had about a half an hour of silence and it started going off again.
The rooms were clean and comfortable.
It was nice to have the monorail stop there, but we would not stay there again.

We stayed at the Imperial Palace Nov 7 - 10 while in town to attend the Cigar Aficionado Big Smoke.

When we arrived there was a long line to check in, but it moved fairly quickly and took only about 15 - 20 minutes. The woman at the check-in desk was friendly and checked on an upgrade for me. We had a King Deluxe Suite on the 15th floor. The room was very clean when we arrived, the only thing I saw out of place was a cigarette butt on the balcony. The furniture was in good repair, the carpet was clean and there where plenty of amenities.

Our room faced north and we heard the constant high decibel low frequency banging from the music at the bar between Harrah's and the IP. This would begin about 2 - 3pm and go on until about 2am. It was made worse by the fact that our balcony door would not close tighly, even though it was locked. Where we to stay here again, I would make sure that we got a south facing room.

The room was approx 600sq or the size of two larger hotel rooms. The living area had a desk with a chair, sleeper sofa, 2 easy chairs a tv and 2 end tables. There was a wet bar also with a small sink, nice marble counter top and a refrigerator. The refrigerator was off when we arrived, but got cold quickly and even froze our water until we got it adjusted.

The bedroom area had a King Bed, 2 night stands an amoire with a tv and drawers. There was a HUGE tub that also contained the shower, a double sink a closet and a room for the toilet. This is not a kid friendly room since there is no place private to change other than the small room that contained the toilet.
There are mirrors above both the tub/shower and the bed.

The casino area was fine, but there are 2 places where you are stopped by the "vacation" sellers before you can get to an elevator. Speaking of the elevators, this was the one single reason that I would not stay at the IP again. There were 2 banks of elevators that could service our floor. One was a bank of 3 that were close to the check-in area and the other were further down and there were 4 on the main hall and 2 behind them. The first bank constantly had a line. and the elevators were SLOW. The second bank had a huge crowd all the time and at least 1 -2 of the elevators were not working at all. Often it would take 3 -4 times to finally get on one. These elevators are also slow and for some reason would stop at every floor on the way down, even though there was no one around.

We only ate at 2 of the restaurants. We had breakfast at the Tea House 2 times and the food was terrific. The service was a bit slow, but we were not in a hurry either time. We had a late dinner at the Burger Palace and the burgers were good and the service was fast.

Our car was in Valet for the entire stay, so we only had to deal with their slowness one time.

For center strip this place is OK, but we won't stay here again if we have a choice.

THIS is my home when I come to Vegas.

IP makes it possible for me to stay a tad longer than other places would due to their reasonable prices and one of their casino hosts, Bob Cohen is one wonderful guy! He may be extremely busy but he will always help you in any way he can.

I have never had any issues at this hotel and granted the rooms are not like the high priced hotels BUT, I do not find the room to be the place where I am spending my time. It makes a whole lot more sense to me to spend it shopping and gambling.

As a person who travels alone, I feel perfectly safe at this location. I find their staff to be helpful and friendly.

I DID find during the transition last year that the new people behind the check in/out counter were anything but helpful BUT I chock that up to it being the transition period and I will hold off on comments on them again until I make my yearly trip in December.

All in all................I find it to be a good value for the money!

we had booked 3 rooms, with one needing to be handicap eccessible. they only had 2 rooms for us in the Capri tower. Not Handicap accessible and back behind main hotel, loooong walk! After arguing with front desk clerk, and asking for a manager, we finally were able to get 2 rooms in main tower w/ one being handicap. But the other room stunk so bad, the next day we had to move. also tub does not drain and you shower in 4 inches of water! This hotel really needs some help. Lots of hotels on the strip, off strip and downtown that are better and still reasonable priced. I would not stay there again....even if they paid me!!!