Post: #26

But the best plan is just to book a smash room at the Hard Rock if you want to pool party there. Or if you're staying at the Hard Rock, book a smash room on the strip.

Post: #27

Hey CaptainPower,

Seems like you got some good tips for this thread but I figure you could use some food advice for cheap eats:

Lotus of Siam is ranked by many food critics (and yours truly) as the best Thai restaurant in the US. Its also very reasonably priced and they have the biggest selection of wine at an Asian restaurant that I've ever seen. You should definitely check it out. My girl is a Bangkok native and she agrees that this is the #1 Thai place in the states.

Tacos El Gordo makes legit Tijuana style Messican food for cheap prices. They opened up a new location on the north end of the strip so yelp it for directions. Great after clubbing/bar food and surprisingly, girls love it too.

Good luck with the bachelor party.

Post: #28

Secret pizza shop in the Cosmo!

Peppermill for strippers getting off their shift!

Bellagio cafe behind the flower gardens has good steak and eggs late night

Post: #29

Thanks men, looking to go either June 8th weekend or June 27tish. 5 different coworkers told me to hit XS at night.

Should be a good time either way : )

Post: #30

I just booked 2 suites in the Palm's for June 28th to July 1st. This it our hotel room:

Palm's 2 bedroom Suite

Wasn't my first hotel choice but MGM was sold out, and Palms had the largest suites for a decent price. This room as $1150 for 3 nights, and we are splitting it with 4 guys.

Going to try to get a night in XS (everyone's been recommending it)
Wet republic on sat (if we can get in)

Sunday will be steak dinner somewhere, and then I need to find some strippers. Guy at work yesterday told me best strip club is one that turn into a regular club after midnight??

If anyone has any wet republic or XS connections let me know : )

captain P

Post: #31

buy presale for wet republic from their website. you get to skip the large line and its the same price..like $50, just make sure to get there before noon and you should get in under 15 min.

Palms should have a pool party on Fridays...Ditch. So its good. The only negative is the palms place is kind of isolated from the main casino by several long moving walkways. Kind of a bitch since its off the strip and you'll have to cab everywhere. Try getting a cheap room at harrahs or TI on the strip or something for pre-partying/smashing.

I usually like the Spearmint Rhino, which used to turn into an afterhours club but they stopped it there I think b/c of heavy drug usage..not a big fan of the big huge strip clubs since they are bigger hustlers out there. Used to like Crazy Horse 2 but it closed, and its now Crazy Horse 3 (which I haven't been to).

Getting strippers to your room is usually a huge hustle. Girls don't look like the brochures and they really hustle you to even get their tops off. Skip that and just hit a strip club.

Steak- Del Frisco's Double Eagle is awesome. I hear N9ne is good in the Palms if you don't want to leave the hotel, but I've never been. STK isn't that good but the scene is great.

Post: #32

(03-10-2013 03:45 PM)PartyonBro Wrote:  I usually like the Spearmint Rhino, which used to turn into an afterhours club but they stopped it there I think b/c of heavy drug usage..

What does this mean?

What time does it close now?

Post: #33

Just a heads up, Palms is a bit ghetto these days. After my last stay there I would never do so again.

N9ne at the Palms is the best steakhouse I've ever been to. 100% go, get the bone in ribeye rare plus. Their wedge is very good too as is there seafood tower. Everything is good there. When you are done and if your crew did not cheap out by getting hamburgers and shit, ask the manager for passes to Moon or Rain. But again, the crowd has gotten a bit ghetto there.

Spearmint Rhino is the best strip club in the world, let alone Vegas. Call them directly and have them send you a limo to get in for free, just tip the driver. When you get to the strip club, tip the bouncer at the door to find you seating. Should be $20/person for both the limo tip and the seating tip.

Post: #34

(03-10-2013 04:49 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(03-10-2013 03:45 PM)PartyonBro Wrote:  I usually like the Spearmint Rhino, which used to turn into an afterhours club but they stopped it there I think b/c of heavy drug usage..

What does this mean?

What time does it close now?

I think its 24 hours, dunno, I've been there until about 9:30am.

Probably 8-10 years ago, around 3 or 4am, Spearmint used to turn into a "club"...strippers kind of stopped stripping (and were in Bikinis or their outfits still) and everyone were just doing blow out in the open, dropping, hooking up, etc....like EDM music, it was a weird scene...like straight out of a shady movie. They had people with glow sticks come out on the stage and more go go dancing....I think they had to shut that down after a while...

Post: #35

Rain is currently closed BTW.

Post: #36

Ghost bar worth a trip??

Post: #37

For about an hour before you hit the town. Cool view.

Post: #38

Whats a realistic budget for a friday-sunday to actually have a good time...off holiday weekend for a bachelor party type deal?

Post: #39

You can have a good time on any budget really. Just depends on what you're into. Some people assume the only way to have a good time is to have a cocaine and champagned fueled bender the entire weekend with a dance floor table at XS when Tiesto is playing. But really, you can have just as good a time doing something budget...going from lounge to lounge.

I mean, how much do you WANT to spend and maybe we can come up with suggestions on the most bang for your buck.

Post: #40

Not a problem. I have 9 guys, everyone is working and making middle class $40K-$120 salaries. 2 are married, NONE of them have any kids.

They are big drinkers, definately no cocaine or testo. Imagine frat boys ten years after college.

$1,000 for 3 nights not including gambling??

I was gng to plan:

Fri Pure
Sat Wet Republic/XS
Sunday Shoot guns/Steak/Strippers

Post: #41

What type of girls are you into? I ask because Pure is not very white these days.

Don't underestimate how fucked up you will be after a full day in the pool/sun and drinking at Wet Republic. It's very hard to make it out at night, but doable. These guys better be serious drinkers/stamina for this.

I'd do N9ne to Rhino for Sunday night.

Talk to/yell/approach every girl you walk by at all times. Everyone's there to get fucked.

Post: #42

Yeah, I'd skip Pure for sure. dunno, its pretty ghetto, SUPER packed dance floor and weird layout. Fridays are usually the low energy nights in my experience since people are coming in late from SoCal, etc. Sundays are really good at LAVO, I'd actually do the Strip club on Friday night if I were you, gets you all horny and ready to party for the rest of the weekend (I personally don't do strip clubs anymore...but its a bachelor party thing to do)...do another pool party on Sunday then LAVO or XS on Sunday.

Another thing to consider for Friday thats not bad in my experience are some of the "club crawls" out there. For about $60 bucks per person, you go to four different clubs in a night..start off at a lounge, then 3 clubs and say an hour to an hour and a half in each one and you get to ride a party bus with a stripper pole and free beers and cheap champagne. At least the ones I've gone on, there have been decent girls that are down to hook up..even if not, you're in a few different clubs, you have an hour to do some work and if you don't like the vibe you can bounce with the group to the next spot. I'd suggest this on a Friday vs. Going to Pure...last time we started at the Gold Lounge, went to Haze at Aria...then went to LAX and then went to "The Act" at Palazzo. The time before that we did Eyecandy at Mandalay Bay, Foundation Room at the Top of Mandalay Bay, Pure at Cesars and Vanity at Hard Rock. http://www.nitetours.com/vip-club-crawl.html (look for discount codes, usually $20 off)..i found some on groupon or travelzoo once for pretty cheap.

Post: #43

I usually do cost breakdowns, this are samples for 2 trips last summer for 3 people....just did it so we kept track of who owed what. Always plan ahead and buy tickets to where you're going from Want Tickets. Always.

Trip one
Friday night:
Cab lax $15
Pizza airport $25
Rental Car: $85
Bachi burger $60
Booze at Vons: $70
Lavo nightclub at Palazzo $607

Saturday:
Brunch Table 10 $72
Dinner at cosmopolitan hotel. $220
Nightclub- Surrender at the Encore. (Lil Jon): $181

Sunday:
Encore Beach pool party: $170
Dinner at Lavo. $170
Club crawl: $196

Monday AM:
Taxi: $25
go back to LA

Trip two:
hotel. Vdara.
$270 + $50 resort fee / 3 = $106 each.

Marquee Presale tickets Friday:
(90/3) = $30 (no service charge)

Wet Republic Saturday
$170/3 = $56.66 ($6 service charge)

XS presale tickets Saturday:
$179/3 = $56 ($6.50 service charge)

Encore Beach Sunday:
$135.60 / 3 = $45.20 ($5.20 service charge).

Post: #44

@Partyonbro you are the man, I owe you some traffic!

Good thing I started planning this shit early, fukin Vegas changes every 6 months.

Post: #45

One thing we did on a big bachelor party was break into teams of 2...maybe you can do teams of 3 since you have 9...so when you work in the clubs you do it with your team...its more efficient and you always motivate each other. I know it says we were going to wait in line, but we ended up doing bottles every night and skipped the line but kept our teams in tact. I just copied and pasted from that email chain:

Because we have chosen to only do it big for one night, it means that the rest of the nights we will have to get into club via normal methods. There is NO WAY IN HELL that 8 dudes are getting into ANY club in Vegas. So, we will be divided up into pairs for getting into the clubs. We will stager our place in line and wait it out. I recommend that you somehow grab 2-3 women in order to get in the club faster. You can promise them a drink inside or perhaps their cover and they will walk in with you. You could even try to be like me and do it with your good looks This will help ensure that you are not waiting in line for 2 hours. The better looking the chicks the faster you will get in. Having said that, I have paired you up so that you have the best chance of reeling in some chicks.

You should keep your club buddy informed of your where-a-bouts for the evening. Since there will be so many of us, we will not do well to all stand around the club in the same spot. The idea here is divide and conquer. If you need help you know that you have 7 hommies in the club but for all other reasons there should NEVER be more than 3 of us together at any one place and time in the club other than on the dance floor.

Post: #46

If I were having a group of 9 deep for a bachelor party and you don't want to get bottles, I'd do this:

Friday: Palms Pool Party (book an early flight so you make this). Sleep. Eat something small. Club Crawl. Strip Club at 3am if you don't pick up.

Saturday: Wet Republic (buy presale tix). sleep (you'll only have 2-3 hours to do this). XS (presale tickets). Done.

Sunday: Encore Beach or shoot guns...Encore Beach will be way more fun though. Sleep. Steak Dinner. Throw Up. Lavo (DJ Vice Sundays are really good..just get there early).

Its been mentioned somewhere, its a LOT easier to pick up at the 2nd tier clubs than at the hot spots with big DJs. If you want to hear the music go hit those places (like XS)...but if you want to get laid, go to the smaller clubs or less popular venues as you'll get more of the "bachelorette parties from Texas who've never been to Vegas" versus the "I go to Vegas twice a month and have heard and seen it all" types.