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Just arrived in Vegas for a gay volleyball tournament (no homo). Everything is still up in the air, including how serious we're going to take this and therefore which nights we can go out. But we're here for 5 nights so there's definitely going to be some. I really should have done some planning earlier. Suggestions for clubs? I think the main thing is we don't want to wait in line forever, and I don't know that we can do bottle service. I know one friend would be okay with it, and one would not (he's very cheap), and I don't know the other teammates we're meeting up with, or if we're even hanging out with them. Somewhere with enough girls that we'll be able to dance with them, music doesn't matter too much, and we're staying at the Trop but pretty willing to walk or cab wherever. We can dress up however, we've got everything from shorts to suits. Best nights for going out are probably Friday or Sunday. Maybe Monday. I see the Hooters advertises a $10 prime rib dinner. Is this good like the Ellis Island deal? It's much closer and I prefer Prime Rib anyway. I will definitely be hitting up Lotus of Siam a couple times, but are there any interesting but cheap/reasonable food options on the south end of the strip? Its just me and the cheap friend til tomorrow. We're okay with walking a decent distance. Also if you lean that way the Trop is going to be packed with gay dudes all weekend. Kase Im Licht fucked around with this message at 01:25 on May 25, 2012 |
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JaySB posted:Well you're hosed. It's the busiest weekend of the year and cover charges will be well over $100 Jesus, well over $100? That's crazy. Well let's hope we win a shitload gambling. Even then, I'd probably rather have a bunch of lap dances. ...poo poo. Are the strip clubs going to jack up prices too? I thought $20/dance was a pretty reasonable price last time I was here. I will be sad if I can't get that.
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May 25, 2012 01:55
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Are you there on the weekend or during the week? The prices change pretty drastically. For $150 during the week you could stay almost anywhere. On a weekend you're a lot more limited.
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Jun 3, 2012 15:01
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Random question. Anyone have experience with getting government rates at Vegas hotels? I'm there for a conference next week, and due to some fuckups I don't have a hotel yet and prices have been shooting up (wtf is going on Monday that prices are so high?). I'm only getting reimbursed $99/night and I'd rather stay somewhere on the southern end as the conference is at the Trop (which is full). Really don't want to spend $90 to stay at Hooters, but everything good that end is way over $99. It's worth a shot so I guess I'll just start calling them all and see if anyone works with me. If we go back a few years I've got some decent gambling history and used to get decent comp offers, but it's been a long time since I've gambled regularly. Any chance they might look back and factor any of that in?
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Sep 18, 2013 23:28
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:Travelocity has Hooters for $74 and Excalibur for 100 for next M-F when I just now checked. Planet Hollywood actually had good prices for the latter half of the week, so I jumped on that. I'm paying $80, $80, $99 for Wed/Thurs/Fri. They honored the gov rate for Friday, the only one I called who would offer it Friday and one of the few to do it for any night. I'm assuming the music festival is what has Monday hotel prices so ridiculous? I'm paying $99 for Friday (regular rate was only about $130), but they want $350 for Tuesday and are sold out for Monday. Similar issues with other hotels. May just stick with Hooters for the first couple nights.
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Sep 20, 2013 04:39
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I stayed there a couple years ago. Nothing wrong with it, but there's also nothing special about it. Also the casino kind of sucks. Last time I stayed I think I paid $20 for a room on a Monday and got a dozen wings for free. Pretty happy with that value.
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Sep 20, 2013 05:16
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Going to Vegas in two weeks. Wednesday to Sunday. Trying to decide where I want to stay. Original plan was all four nights at trump. Easy to get cheap through hotwire. Now I'm thinking staying somewhere else during the week would be fun. It's my girl's first time and we're on our own Wednesday before friends join us. Going through hotwire it looks like I might be able to get Ceasar's for wed/Thurs for $100. However I'm worried we'll be in the old rooms which I've heard are meh. I think I can get Aria for Wednesday only for the same price. Better idea even if we're moving after one night? My brain is fried from looking at hotel searches and I can't think. There are some other options at good prices but with the 4 star hotels on hotwire there are more places and it's hard to know what you'll get. And some of the "4 star" properties suck. Girl plans on spending 70% of trip by the pool. So maybe do Caesars for the pool? Otherwise the plan is a lot of gambling, absinthe, lotus of siam, a new buffet or two (done ceasers and bellagio) and fingers crossed I'll make it to hoover dam this time. Girl likes dancing so debating a club night.
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Sep 10, 2014 23:06
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Wow I'm so out of it. Took me way too long to remember the concept of a poker rate. Looks like Venetian, Bellagio, and Aria all have doable requirements that would bring a nice casino into my price range. Which would be best if I'm going to be stuck playing a lot at that particular room. Figure nl200 mostly. Maybe some limit. I miss having a dedicated poker forum... Also any thoughts on which would be best for non poker reasons? Leaning towards aria since they have twice daily tournaments in my price range I could also use towards the rate requirements.
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Sep 11, 2014 20:24
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Okay newbie club questions here. Girlfriend is interested in Calvin Harris at hakkasan. Only problem is that will be on that Saturday night and we're driving to LA really early on Sunday. I can survive on low sleep but I'll need at least a little. I've got a memorial service when I get in so need to be able to function. What time would he actually be going on? Trying to figure out if I'll be going to bed before 4am. Also if we buy tickets in advance when would be a sensible time to arrive? I got the poker rate for aria. Yay. People are surprisingly hard to get a hold of for that. Girl also wants to hike red Rock. I'm fine with that but she wants to pay for a guided tour thing which includes a ride there and back. Something about that rubs me the wrong way. Probably because it costs about as much as that helicopter ride above. I say we just rent a car if we want to do it. Any thoughts or experiences? That pitr thread makes me sad.
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Sep 19, 2014 01:30
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Essentially every casino in Vegas, including the flamingo, charges a resort fee on top of the room rate. It will include internet access and I think gym access. About $20 per day.
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Baddog posted:Hey, who do you talk to for that, the poker room manager? How much do you have to play at aria for what kind of discount? I've always gotten straight up comped for blackjack, but its been quite some time now since I've been to vegas. Poker rate for first trip back would be cool. Wow I totally failed to reply to this. There are two women who handle the poker rates. The website mentions a Kate Paculan I think but I dealt with Elaine. eteitelb01@aria.com 702-590-7230 Discount requires five hours of play per day. You can do it all in one day or however you like. I think I'd done most my hours halfway through my four night stay. Playing a tournament counts for five hours. Everyone in the room counts towards the hours. Tournaments are $125 and allow one rebut. They run twice per day. Format is very slow. Was taking about 8 hours to finish the 1pm ones. I think it was usually 60-80 people for the 1pm. Less for the 7pm. Rate is 120 for a weekday which is okay and 160 for weekend nights which is pretty good. That's before resort fee and tax though. trip report: Aria is very nice. Would stay again. Poker room was good. Always had 1-3 going, players were okay. Some good. Some bad. Most in the middle. I made about $400 in 13 hours of play without getting many good hands. My biggest wins were all off one pair. Breakfast buffet is $20 and well worth the money. Pool was okay. Would be nice if there was a deeper part or some interesting features. Drink service by the pool is sloooooow. What idiot runs these things? At these drink prices you should have a million servers pushing drinks on people. "Love" was awesome. I've seen Mystere and Zumanity and liked this the most. Just really really fun. Almost saw absinthe instead but Love is pretty cheap right now. Ended up being exactly what we were looking for. Don't get the very cheapest seats. We were about halfway up which is the good part of the next cheapest group of tickets (row N) and these ended up being fantastic seats. I think if you're too close or too far you'll miss out on parts of the show. We liked the noodle place in Paris, China Poblano in Cosmo (too expensive though), and the burger place next to it. Bachannal was a little disappointing. Liked it better last year. Wanted to try the Wynn but others didn't want to go that far. Had my first time getting rained on in Vegas. Forgot to spend my comp dollars. The car rental place is very quick. Cabs in Vegas suck. Clubs are not my thing. Might return if we had a table but probably not. Downtown is gross and wonderful. I love this city and how to be back in December. Kase Im Licht fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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Oct 7, 2014 22:50
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JaySB posted:Literally any club will do that these days. We're doing a trip to Vegas Easter weekend. Four couples, celebrating the 30th birthdays of the 4 girls. We're looking to stay somewhere nice but not spend a ton, hotel prices seem pretty good for that weekend. I was wondering if there was any kind of suite option that might make sense for us but from my searching it either seems like it wouldn't be that nice or the prices would get out of control fast. Right now I can book Aria for less than $200/night (including resort fee, through Jay's site, beat everyone else by a fair bit, thanks!). That makes it $800/night for all 4 couples, and nice suites that would fit us seem well above that. We'd pay a little bit of a premium for someone cool and being all together, but not a whole lot more since each having our own room at a 5 star hotel is already pretty good.
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Jan 5, 2016 00:41
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Less than three weeks til I'm in Vegas! Group wants to see the MJ Cirque show (except for one couple going to see Pit Bull). Better to buy tickets now or when we get there?
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Mar 8, 2016 05:43
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I know this has been discussed a million times before (as have all topics here), but what are the opinions on doing Vegas during the height of summer? July or early August. It is unlikely there is a workable date for my bachelor party outside those dates (though I'm looking at some very early options in May or June but those are busy times for everyone involved). I know people think it's nuts, and others think it's not a big deal. I don't see us doing much outdoors other than walking around the strip (which can be done at night, or in short bursts) and hitting the pools/poolparties. Probably a typical bachelor party kind of trip - food, booze, strippers, gambling, recover - repeat over and over again. I'm not very concerned about shooting guns or golfing or hiking or whatever. I feel like it's not a big deal, but I'm a little concerrned things might be slower at the pools if people can't handle the heat?
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Feb 22, 2017 04:33
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Bachelor party question. I think the hotel has come down to Aria vs Wynn/Encore. Both are similarly priced our weekend. I've been to Aria and like it and it's location. I've never stayed at the Wynn and i think my only concern is its location at the end of the strip. Party is a mix of gamblers, partiers, quiet people, high spenders, and cheap people so options for various levels of gambling drinking and money spending are good. And if doing a pool party is it a lot better to be at a hotel with a good one vs transporting yourself to on at a different hotel.
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Long post incoming Alright, I'm a little over a week away from my bachelor party. We have totally slacked on planning. First off, what is happening next weekend (the 29th and 30th)? Hotel prices are significantly higher than surrounding weekends. It's a good thing I grabbed some rooms a while back because everything has just been steadily shooting up for the last month. Rough outline of trip Thursday - People show up throughout the day, so no real plan other than gambling and drinking as we move around the strip. Maybe strip club Thursday night since Stu gets there Friday and isn't allowed to do strip clubs. Friday - Sleep in, Dayclub. No plans for the evening. I think it's going to be hard to predict how we'll be doing after many hours of day-drinking. We're not as tough as we used to be. Saturday - Dune Buggies (I think we want to do the one hour chase, good option?), chill by pool, nice dinner, gamble and drinking Sunday - Half the guys leave. Other half probably do a calmer pool hangout, gamble some, maybe an interesting dinner. Most take red-eyes home, I stay one more night cause gently caress red-eye flights and leave in the morning. General thoughts? I think we're going to keep it a pretty high level itinerary and not worry too much about the details. I don't think we'll do a nightclub. Are there interesting bars we should consider? I know Vegas nightlife is dominated by clubs but I know there's been some bar discussion in this thread. For Dayclubs - I've never done one but am very interested as is most/all of the party. A few people do not have a lot of money and are goinig to get hit each day with some kind of activity so I'm trying to be price-conscious while still getting us somewhere worth the trouble. I think we want to do some sort of daybed/couch/cabana, depending on what we can price it at. I'd been looking at Drai's website a lot, because they show availability and prices for individual days so it's handy for comparing options within their place. How are other places likely to compare to prices on there, and are those prices possibly a jumping off point to negotiate downward a little bit? Jay, are you still a person who sets these kind of things up? There's a lot of price variance between Friday & Saturday. Is Friday so much cheaper because the place is going to be dead, or noticeably less fun? Or no big deal and enjoy the discount? We're staying at Aria, so Liquid is right there, but reviews and photos certainly don't compare to others. Don't bother? Stick to the high end places? Dinner - I've been slowly going through the thread and writing down recommendations and trying to check out menus, prices, and reviews of places, but that's slow work. Many of these restaurant websites don't put prices, which makes easy searches kind of difficult. Given the above-mentioned differences in finances, I'm trying to find something special but moderately priced. By which I think I really mean that it has a range of options (I think most fixed price stuff is out). That way some people can go nuts and spend some cash, but others could keep it cheaper. Numbers: If people can spend $50 or less and feel like they got to experience the restaurant, that'd be good. If other people could also get something really special for $100ish or more that would be even better. This is just for food, not counting drinks. For instance I'm looking at Bouchon's menu, which looks pretty good. I could get a $60 steak and split a giant seafood appetizer and be out about $100 and my buddy who just had his second kid can just get $27 gnocchi and grab some Del Taco later if he gets hungry. Finally: Carrot Top, Good? Bad? Or the good kind of bad? Kase Im Licht fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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