Vegas: The do's / don'ts / suggestions

[YouNeverKnow25]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

Tip well, they'll keep the drinks coming.

You don't even need to tip well, just adequately. Just toss them a buck and you will be fine.

[thebridge15]

Madonna -

Even Aria?

[DMBzilla]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

Haha I heard bad things about that hotel. Our company thankfully put us up at the Mirage.

Luxor was cool when it first opened but its location really hurt it's chances to being an "it" hotel.

The best part of the strip is right around Mirage/Venetian, since you can easily walk from there to Wynn, Bellagio, Caesar's and Aria/Cosmopolitan.

[thebridge15]

Cosmopolitan has consistently higher minimum tables from what I could tell. Their bars are solid though. As are Wynn/Encore's.

Try to tone out the bullshit Steve Wynn promotional videos in the cabs. They're annoying as fuck.

[LadyMadonna68]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

Madonna -

Even Aria?

If we're just talking tables than any hotel is cool, I was mainly referring to slots if that's his bag

[flip9014]

Love is $89-$198 a ticket online. It is really worth it? That a shit load for a show.

[YouNeverKnow25]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

Cosmopolitan has consistently higher minimum tables from what I could tell. Their bars are solid though. As are Wynn/Encore's.

Try to tone out the bullshit Steve Wynn promotional videos in the cabs. They're annoying as fuck.

Baaaack in the high life again, all the doors I closed one time, will open up again.

[YouNeverKnow25]

Originally Posted by flip9014

Love is $89-$198 a ticket online. It is really worth it? That a shit load for a show.

That is very average for a vegas show, on the low end, even.

[wnderwoman]

Originally Posted by flip9014

Love is $89-$198 a ticket online. It is really worth it? That a shit load for a show.

I didn't pay for it when I went, so I did not realize that. But it still is an amazing show.

[ExistenceNow]

Originally Posted by chadizzy1

Tip well, they'll keep the drinks coming.

So much this.

[chadizzy1]

Originally Posted by YouNeverKnow25

You don't even need to tip well, just adequately. Just toss them a buck and you will be fine.

I didn't know that the first time, I didn't tip, I just heard "free drinks at casinos". It took like 25-30 minutes between drinks.

Later I started tipping and anytime my cup was empty they refilled it.

[LadyMadonna68]

Tip the cocktail waitress/waiter nicely after she/he gets you your first drink. They typically don't give a shit about finding you if you move to another table/slot before they get back to you with your glass, but the drinks will come faster/stronger and they'll hunt you down if you're moderately generous

[ExistenceNow]

Originally Posted by flip9014

Love is $89-$198 a ticket online. It is really worth it? That a shit load for a show.

Don't buy them online.

Go to one of the broker stands on the strip.

I think we paid $60 a ticket for Love, having bought the tickets the morning of.


Love is must see.

[Arby]

Beatles LOVE.

Go see it

[DMBzilla]

Originally Posted by LadyMadonna68

Don't: eat at any Gordon Ramsay restaurant

We went to his new steakhouse at Paris this year and it was fucking fantastic. One of the best we've been to, including...

STK (Cosmopolitan)
Cut by Wolfgang Puck (Palazzo)
SW Steakhouse (Wynn)
Prime (Bellagio)
Alan Albert's (RIP)
Kokomo's (Mirage; RIP)
Tender (Luxor)

[thebridge15]

Tipping well makes so much sense, especially if you're playing blackjack.

I don't understand why people aren't willing to drop $1-2 a drink when it makes drinks come faster.

[wnderwoman]

I went to STK last time I was in Vegas. I was not that impressed (for the price)

[LadyMadonna68]

I forgot about his new one in Paris, haven't tried that yet. His pub and burger place are extremely mediocre though

[DMBzilla]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

Cosmopolitan has consistently higher minimum tables from what I could tell. Their bars are solid though. As are Wynn/Encore's.

We had dinner at the Cosmopolitan last year, finished up around 9:30, and there wasn't a single blackjack table with limits under $50. Needless to say we went back to Venetian/Palazzo and found $25 tables a plenty, and even some $15s.

[Rebecca De Mornay]

New York, New York is my favorite place to gamble

[Rebecca De Mornay]

Originally Posted by wnderwoman

I went to STK last time I was in Vegas. I was not that impressed (for the price)

Same here, thought it was very average.

[ExistenceNow]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

Tipping well makes so much sense, especially if you're playing blackjack.

I don't understand why people aren't willing to drop $1-2 a drink when it makes drinks come faster.

Because drinks are supposed to be FREE, damnit.


Nevermind the fact that a free drink does little good at the rate of one per hour.

[thebridge15]

Bellagio typically runs a decent amount of lower mins too. As does Hard Rock.

[defcon]

Originally Posted by flip9014

Anything really. I guess my biggest question might be dress code for guys at nightclubs. Not a house music person, but the some people in my group are. I imagine we will end up at nightclub where I feel out of my element.

Best to call ahead. Some are really high end. Our group had to split off because some of us didn't bring dressy clothes. Although having to wear a blazer/sportcoat and dress pants in 90 degree (at night) weather seems totally asinine to me in the context of leisure.

Originally Posted by DMBzilla

^ Unfortunately, that also means you have to go to Luxor.

I was next door at Mandalay...what's so bad about the Luxor? I was staring in awe in the atrium at the interior of that place...I was thinking that Criss Angel's levitation shit there was either the fakest shit I've seen or the ballsiest...gonna go with the first assumption. Vertigo ahoy!

Originally Posted by YouNeverKnow25

Every time you order a drink from a cocktail waitress, order a water too. You will thank me in the morning.

This is something I probably should have done, instead of buying water.

Originally Posted by flip9014

Thanks defcon, lots of good tips in there. I don't see hard drugs in my future but I will be sure to avoid this method. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI_7o77AuI4

Get Him to the Greek seems like one of those movies I haven't seen but should.

[ExistenceNow]

Never been to a nice restaurant in Vegas.

When I'm that drunk, a $100 steak is going to taste the same as a $5 Fat Burger.

[thebridge15]

Originally Posted by ExistenceNow

Because drinks are supposed to be FREE, damnit.


Nevermind the fact that a free drink does little good at the rate of one per hour.

Right, especially watered down ones.

Order something on the rocks. Or a beer.

[DMBzilla]

Originally Posted by LadyMadonna68

I forgot about his new one in Paris, haven't tried that yet. His pub and burger place are extremely mediocre though

Yeah, Steak was excellent. We had a group of 8 and they gave us a virtually private room and impeccable service.

Biggest letdown I've had from a steakhouse in Vegas was Prime at Bellagio. We reserved a table for 12 over two months in advance and they crammed us into a table for 10 that was basically in the lobby of the restaurant, and the waiters were so fucking uppity that a few of us almost walked out before ordering. And it was nowhere near worth the price.

I'd say my favorite overall was Cut though. Awesome atmosphere and the food was excellent.

Originally Posted by wnderwoman

I went to STK last time I was in Vegas. I was not that impressed (for the price)

Agreed. The most talked about aspect of that meal was our attractive waitress who introduced herself as "Dragon," and the excellent Kobe slider appetizer. Everything else was straight mediocre (and they messed up two of our orders).

[YouNeverKnow25]

At my bachelor party we went to NY, NY first and literally everybody I was with except for one guy won a ton of money. I mean a ton. And the one guy was the hanger-on that hardly anybody knew and he got so mad that there was no way to do anything but laugh at him. Will always have fond (hazy) memories.

[chadizzy1]

If you've never been to a California Pizza Kitchen, check it out. Killer pizza.

[ExistenceNow]

The $3 craps table at Bills is such a blast. Great vide, and a $5 tip to the waitress will keep you double fisting beers all night.