Over Due Trip Report. I promise, it's a good read.

[mpbear14]

This TR goes out to all the Wacka Flocka Flame lovers…O LETS DO IT!!!!
97 days ‘til the next trip!

This is an overdue trip report we decided to work on since its a Friday and we're bored at work. 4 guys from Dallas went to Vegas on Thursday, Sept 17, 2009 staying ‘til Monday, Sept 21. We were meeting 4 other guys from Michigan that we grew up with.

Our itinerary going in was as follows:

Thursday Night: JET (bottle service)
Friday: Ditch Fridays
Friday Night: Palms Pass
Saturday: Palms Place Pool, followed by Palms pool
Sat Night: XS
Sunday: Rehab
Sunday Night: Body English

We stuck to the game-plan for the most part but we did have to call a few audibles along the way like Peyton Manning (regular season Peyton, not playoff Peyton).

We departed Dallas on Thursday, Sept 17th around 9PM and landed in Vegas just before 10PM. One of the guys traveling with us had his sister (who lives in Vegas) pick us up from the airport. Prior to picking us up she made a liquor run and picked up everything on our "grocery list" including Raspberry Smirnoff (Ludacris says it makes the girls take their shirts off), Ciroc, Bacardi O, Red Bull, water, and the ever important Gatorade.

We arrived at the Palms Hotel around 11PM and checked into our room. We failed at any sort of upgrade (even though we offered the front desk lady $100) b/c the hotel was at capacity. There was a Kid Rock concert that night and a couple other concerts on Friday and Sat night. We checked into our room in the old Palms Tower and were fairly disappointed - no Ipod player or CD player, small room, and worst of all we were cramming 4 dudes in this room. Nevertheless, we decided to focus on the positive - we're in VEGAS!!! and its time to start drinking. (Note to self: if staying at the Palms again make sure to book the room at Palms Place or the Fantasy Tower).

Anyways, we finally get ready and we are out the door by 12AM and headed to JET to meet up with the rest of our crew from Michigan. We chose JET because of the “buy 1 get 1 free” bottle special they offer on Thursdays. We had done JET Thursday of MDW 2009 and loved it. It helped that we had a group of girls from Chicago meet us there and we got a table with them and we had a table of Dallas Maverick cheerleaders on the other side of us. The talent (girls) at that time was top notch, as I’m sure in most places. Unfortunately this time around was a disaster and the clientele was definitely a bit shady. I’m not sure if it was just a bad night or what, but we felt like we were in an amateur rap video. There were a lot of Tall T’s and Stunna Shades being worn by the guys. To steal a quote from Jersey Shore, “the girls were busted and mostly grenade launchers.” Being on vacation and in Vegas, we made the best of the situation and started throwing back shots. Simply put, we don’t remember much after 1AM. We do remember that 3 shots as the bar cost $60 - We thanked the bartender for "hooking us up" and asked if we could get that sweet deal every time we ordered shots. The best part is we went to high school together with her! So you think she could do better than 3 shots for $60. Overall Jet was a disappointment. In 2010 we'll probably try Tryst or Tao on Thursday night instead. Anyway, we ended up back at Palms for some late night gambling and then crashed. Nothing spectacular.

We woke up Friday morning and grabbed a meal at the cafe in the Palms hotel and got ready for Ditch Fridays at the Palms Pool. Our friends were staying across the street at the Rio and met us at the Pool. Time for buckets and shots. Music was good at Ditch - the usual mix of hip hop, Top 40, and house music.

I feel this is a good spot to mention, what I thought was one of the greatest pick-up lines of all time. One of our buddies, who may or may not be retarded, I don’t know, goes up to this group of girls completely out of his league. They are all leaned up against the pool talking with one another when he stands over them and drops a piece of ice and goes “Ice Breaker.” This actually works, and he is in the middle of these girls the remainder of the day. Vegas…

I really can’t say enough good things about Ditch Fridays. This was the second time attending and both times the environment was on point. The crowd is really down to earth, the service is respectable and the pool itself is very unique. This is something we will definitely be doing in 97 days.

Ditch starts to die down and we head into the casino and right to the Pai Gow tables. For those that don't know about Pai Gow its a fairly simple Poker game. Due to the rules you "push" (tie) quite a bit so you're not gonna win or lose a lot, you can rack up free drinks, and its entertaining. We then move over to the Wheel of Fortune slots (highly recommended by ESPNs own Bill Simmons). I never thought 4 guys could get so excited over 25 cent Wheel of Fortune Slots. People were looking at us funny b/c we were acting like we won $20K when we actually won $20.

I don't remember what we did for dinner - I'm sure it was the Palms cafe again. We chilled in the room for a bit, then got ready to go out. Friday we had decided to do the Palms Pass. As its been talked about many times on these forums the Palms Pass is about $65-70 and gets you into all the clubs at the Palms - we started at Ghostbar and had a couple drinks - great view. Moved to Rain, more drinks and finally we met up with the group of girls our retarded friend had pulled at Moon. We are big fans of this place - great music, good crowd, not as uppity as XS and some other places. Good people that are down to dance and have fun.

We spend most of the night dancing with some fairly attractive ladies - not “Megan Fox dime-piece strippers,” but definitely cute and plenty-good for a Vegas hookup. 2 of the guys in our group end up taking 2 girls back to the room (to respect their privacy let's call the guys Bill and Ted and the girls Romy and Michelle). Bill leaves Moon and heads to an elevator to go up to the room with his girl Romy. The elevator is kinda crowded and right as the doors close Ted also gets in the elevator with his girl Michelle. Romy and Michelle do not know each other as they're from 2 different groups of girls. Bill and Ted are thinking "great, we each get a girl and now we have to go back to the SAME ROOM." Bill starts making out with Romy on one bed and Ted and Michelle head into the bathroom. Unannounced Romy gets out of bed (without saying anything to Bill) and just leaves the room - she's obviously uncomfortable in this situation. Bill is disappointed. Ted and Michelle come out of the bathroom and hop in the other bed. Bill decides he's gonna just try and fall asleep. Ted and Michelle are going at it and Michelle is moaning like she's Sasha Grey. This makes it impossible for Bill to sleep - not only did his girl leave him, but now he has to listen to Ted and Michelle go at it. Bill is not happy and decides he’s gotta leave the room.

Bill heads down to the casino to walk around and runs into the other guys from the group. Coincidentally, they're eating food with Michelle's friends. Bill tells everyone the story of Ted and Michelle going at it in the room. Michelle's friends decide it would be a good idea to head up to the room and wake up Ted and Michelle by jumping on the bed. Six of us head up to the room, yelling like 8-yr olds, jumping on the bed, etc. Ted wakes up, Michelle does not. More screaming and shaking and she still is not waking up. At one point one of her friends makes sure she is breathing - she is. Finally after probably 15 minutes of this she wakes up. Phew! Close call. So the running joke is Ted hooked up with a girl who may or may not have been conscious. Bill however can confirm that she was moaning heavily at one point.

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[mpbear14]

The next morning we felt we just sat through a Dane Cook comedy show, our heads were throbbing and we were miserable (For the record, Dane Cook is number 1 on our list of people we want to punch in the face. Also on this list are Mike Greenberg, Joe Buck, among others).

We head down to our favorite spot, the 24 hr cafe in the Palms. We replenish and plan out our day. We go place some college football bets, of course we’re throwing money on them Michigan Wolverines, whatever. After that, we decide to start off at the Palms Place pool. It’s a smaller pool, with a much more laid back environment than the big pool. (side note: the Palms Place Pool on MDW was literally 8-10 girls for every guy. Celebrity sightings included Hank Baskett, Kendra, and NBA’er Mike Miller). The music was good but you certainly aren’t going to throw the ROC up there. As long as there is no Techno we’re fine. We decide this is the perfect place to ease our way back into drinking. We chill here and order a few buckets. I still am not feeling good so I call Fabolous because “all he prescribes is cranberry and vodka.” We immediately start feeling better after a few of those. Time to hit the Big Pool again.

The Big Pool isn’t as crazy as it was on Friday but still a decent crowd and Top 40/hip hop is being played. We’re happy. There really isn’t much to be said about the day. It was a blast, we were wasted and the girls out-numbered the guys. We head back to the room a little earlier because we had a big night at XS planned. No one in our group had ever been, and at the time we heard good things about it.

We debated on going to Tryst or XS on Sat night. We had been to Tryst once, so we decided to try something new and go to XS. We were texting back and forth with a host at XS and he said he would allow us to cut the line for $50 a person but we'd still have to pay cover - since it was 4 guys and we hate waiting in line we decided to roll with this option. We get to XS and there are huge lines coming out of the club in both directions. These lines are longer than the longest line I've seen since I was 11 years old at Cedar Point waiting to ride the Magnum XL 200. The host was true to his word. We gave him his $200 and walked past hundreds and hundreds of people to the front. We get to the spot to pay cover and its another $50! We were expecting $30 tops. Nevertheless we'd come this far and there are tons of people in line so this place must be sweet, right? Little did we know...

We get in there and we felt like we just walked into the People's Republic of China. It was 80-90% Asian. If you have never hooked up with an Asian girl and need to fulfill that desire this is the spot you should go. We head over to the bar and order some high quality $10 bottles of Bud Light - the 12oz version.

The place is beautiful, huge pool, gorgeous decor, etc. We are in our mid 20s to early 30s and we felt like it was waaayyyyy too nice for us. People were dressed to the 9's. Maybe if we were in our 40s and single we'd appreciate it more. We felt like it was way too stuffy and uppity. And it was way too big. It just wasn't our style. We go to Vegas to get crazy, have fun, do a bunch of shots! Shots! Shots!, act silly, and hookup with girls. Sounds like most people love this place so we're obviously in the minority. After paying $100 per person just to get in we felt like we got completely punk'd. We were waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump out from a cabana with his camera crew.

We decide it’s best to leave. It’s still relatively early at this point so our night can still be salvaged. After a few moments of deliberation, we decide to go with a sure thing of a good time…Moon. Yes, Moon, two nights in a row, get on our level. We give a host out front some cash and he escorts us to the front of the line. At this point, I think our group has collectively dropped over $600 with nothing to show for it. Whatever, it’s Vegas.

So as we make our way and secure a spot on the dance floor we notice Thunder Dan Majerle. (For those of you who don’t like sports, he is the generic version of Larry Bird) Thunder Dan graduated from Central Michigan University which happened to be the same University 2 of our buddies graduated from. We decided to make the biggest scene ever in front of Dan’s table. “Holy Sh!t it’s Dan Majerle!!!!!!!!” “OMG THUNDER DAN!” He was loving it. Apparently no one other than us knew who the fck he was. He has to be in his Mid 40’s to 50’s by now. He is with a pretty official Blonde girl who starts dancing with us. She starts dancing pretty provocatively with one of our friends and Thunder Dan wasn’t having it. He makes his way over and grabs her and brings her back to his table. If any of you are Entourage fans, this is similar to when Drama gets cock blocked by Bob Saget.

Ted pulls a girl back to our hotel room at The Red Roof Inn, I mean Palms. Impossible to tell the difference between the two types of rooms. Ted is on fire like Jordan vs the Utah Jazz.

We awake Sunday morning at the Palms and it’s time to check out and head over to the Hard Rock for Rehab. The 4 of us grab a cab and head over to the HRH. On the drive over we pull up next to a sweet yellow Lamborghini. One of the guys in our group recognizes the car, then we look at the driver and its Ray-J. Its the car from the "Sexy Can I" video – youtube the video if you’re curious. We roll down the window say whats up to Ray-J, tell him its Kodak moment, I’mma go and get my camera, and then we roll to the Hard Rock.

We were staying in the Paradise Tower and only 2 guys in a room this time,…thankfully. The tower was just about brand new at this point, very nice, awesome beds, an extremely nice / new version of a basic hotel room. We check-in at the hotel but we can't actually get into our room until 3PM. We head out to Rehab and chill by the pool. We get 4 Electric Lemonades ($20 each) -props to the Hard Rock bartender who used an entire fifth of Vodka on the 4 drinks.

Rehab ends up being a good time. Empire State of Mind comes on, we throw up the ROC like we're at a Jay-Z concert. 2 of the guys in our group start making out with 2 girls in the pool. They look like "that guy" making out in public, but it’s funny to us. After getting completely bombed we head back into the lobby to get our room keys from the front desk. We meet a 3-pack of girls from San Diego and somehow they agree it’s a good idea to go back to the room with 4 guys that are completely wasted.

We had a few fifths of that Rasberry Smirnoff left, but no chasers. We ordered room service, but only requested orange juice, cranberry juice and red bull. While waiting for the room service, a pillow fight immediately erupts. This is hands down one of the best moments of the trip. We had 3 girls, all of which, 8 or better, in our room, wrestling with one another. Have I mentioned, I love Vegas?

One of the girls has a flight to catch back to San Diego that night, so they head back to their condo across the street. Ted and our other buddy go with. Apparently, these girls aren’t through with them yet. We decide to crash and take a nap, to rest up for the night. A few hours pass and Ted and our other friend come back. They tell us how sweet these girls are and how they were taking bubble baths with them in an oversized bathtub. To this day, we do not know if this is true, but apparently they are all good Facebook Friends now. For whatever reason, I start telling these guys that those girls were hookers (as soon as I meet her she turns on the meter) but no one knows for sure.

Sunday night we head to Body English. We had contacted a host beforehand and used our patented move on nights we don't want to splurge for bottle service - tip $50 per guy to a host to skip the line. The nice bonus was we didn't have to pay cover since we were staying at the Hard Rock - just had to flash the room key. Music at Body English is on point as usual - hip-hop, 80s, and Top 40. We do not enjoy house music at all so we try to stick to clubs that play maintream stuff. Body English was fun, no good hookup stories...we were quite exhausted since this was our 4th night.

Monday morning we wake up at 6AM to catch our early flight back to Dallas. Not a good move...not only do we have to wake up after 2 hrs sleep, but the airport is JAMMED. We wait forever in the security line, and its about as long as the line at XS. After getting thru security we have to sprint thru the terminal like Bo Jackson in Super Tecmo Bowl to make the flight. Vegas…

Coming soon - Our MDW trip report from 2009
Coming in 97 days - Our 2010 MDW trip report

Here’s the plan this MDW if any of the Vegas experts would like to chime in and give some advice. We will probably be staying at the Hard Rock. Keep in mind we prefer Top 40 and hip-hop.

Thursday Night: Tao (bottle service) or Tryst (probably no bottle service – afraid of being too far from the dance floor)
Friday: Ditch Fridays
Friday Night: Palms Pass
Saturday: Hard Rock pool
Sat Night: Vanity (no bottles – just plan to get in). If Vanity doesn’t work out who knows.
Sunday: Rehab
Sunday Night: OPEN like 7-11

We would've loved to join you guys for AOD, but MDW is tradition and ya know, sometimes you can't mess with tradition.

O LETS DO IT!!!!

[LovesVegas18888]

wonderful TR!!!

[dnix]

nice tr

[negel1dj]

Haha. Sounds like ya'll went hard. Good stuff!

[travhast]

great tr

[DJ Ran]

Nice read, I'll be out MDW as well, maybe we'll meet up.

[Drew]

Nice! We were at both ditch and the palms club that day/night also. Good times.

[elf11]

good tr!

[k97jw04]

Solid trip report.

O LETS DO IT!!!!

[Ryan111778]

Nice trip report. If I ever see Dane Cook I will punch him in the face for you.

[DownriversSituation]

Sounds like a crazy weekend!

Dane Cook is a D-bag!

[NoCo81]

Nice TR. Good ole Thunder Dan had to protect his ASSets.

[nyc2vegas]

ask your "retarded" friend if I pay for his trip will he join AOD? Great TR!!!!!

[nyc2vegas]

by the way peoples......blue"BEAR" and mp"BEAR" both from dallas could they possibly be................................................ .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..one and the same??? hmmmmm