Just got back- Club review.

[dogeaters]

I enjoyed Rain, one of my favorite clubs from what i've sampled so far. I did go on a Saturday tho @ Perfecto and I love those tunes! :-)

/agree My most memorable clubbing night out in vegas was Oakenfold for perfecto at Rain... We did have a table up top and the production going on all around us was pretty cool... made you feel like you were inside a cirque show

[dogeaters]

The only way I would go to Tao again would be with a table though.

I feel the same way about tao... beautiful club, good vibe... great for singles imo... but if you have couples with you... definitely recommend a table...

[TonyB]

How many people were in your party that you had to grease $200 for?

There were only 4 guys, so $100 at Tao entrance but we didnt get a wristband for the vip so another $100 for that. I didnt hold it against any club because i had to tip, i blame that on impatience.

[wisepalladin]

Rain as ghetto? Wow, I thought all of the Vegas clubs kept out the usual crowd sporting jerseys, hats, tanks, large chains, baggy jeans, air force ones, etc. that would typically classify a place "ghetto". We had no issues back in December with the crowd at any of the Palms clubs on a Friday night. Maybe a tad slow due to the season and whatnot, but my wife and I made the most of it- plenty of room to hang out, dance, laugh our asses off at a very drunk bachelorette party, etc. The bar tenders took very good care of us.

We experienced Tao on the next night and I would fully support your conveyor belt logic. The only way I would go to Tao again would be with a table though. It was overly packed the night we went and seemed on par with an "amateur" type crowd, that or a very young 21 yr old crowd that I would classify as an 18 and up crowd back here in Michigan. If I was a single guy there with a group of friends, I wouldn't have been too impressed with the scenery. Maybe a few more shots would've fixed that. The bar tenders were great though and easily took care of us. We took full advantage of the open bar deal that they gave my wife for the first few hours.

I am going by the crowd, not really the clothes. anyone can put on a sweater vest and a collar shirt to get it. But you get the shoulder bump, the stare downs which is fine but it was mainly the girls seemed scandalous. Just based on my experience when you offer a girl a drink and you dont want to buy all 6 of her friends a drink as well , and she starts arguing forget it. Its one thing if its another girl or two but you get the sense thats the plan they have.

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I totally relate to you on this. Luckily it hasn't happened to me in Vegas where the drinks are extremely expensive, but in Minneapolis and other cities around the country I have experienced that same ploy...I wouldn't mind buying one girl a drink, especially if she seemed to show interest in me, but for all her friends is ridiculous, as if all of them are broke but decided to go out together, lol.

A couple of times a girl has asked me if I would like to do a shot with her and her friends. Thinking they were going to buy me a shot of something I agreed, and as a gentleman I even was about to offer to pay for my own shot until I'm hit with the truth of the offer. They meant that I would pay for all of the shots and I just got one too. The server would come around and all 5 or 6 girls would point at me and just stand there until it got too awkward and then I would pay because that's the honorable thing to do as a guy in my opionion, and in the places it's happened, the total bill wouldn't be too high. As revenge I would be that tag-along guy who hangs around them all night. I'm not a creep, but when I pay for a drink, it's like an investment, lol. I'm just following it for decent returns.

Heck, when a girl buys me a drink without me getting her one first I don't know what to do. I'm not sure if it's a trick, or if I'm being agressively hit on or something like that. Should I dance for her? I usually end up buying that girl a couple of drinks or shots in return, and don't care really if she doesn't want to leave the club with me (not that it was my goal in the first place, lol).

Sorry for the long hijack, but you brought up something that really got my mind going...

[wisepalladin]

A couple of times a girl has asked me if I would like to do a shot with her and her friends. Thinking they were going to buy me a shot of something I agreed, and as a gentleman I even was about to offer to pay for my own shot until I'm hit with the truth of the offer. They meant that I would pay for all of the shots and I just got one too. The server would come around and all 5 or 6 girls would point at me and just stand there until it got too awkward and then I would pay because that's the honorable thing to do as a guy in my opionion, and in the places it's happened, the total bill wouldn't be too high.

Oh man... I would absolutely refuse to pay if some chicks attempted to trick me into buying them a round ... gentleman shmentleman!!

Yeah, I had mug written all over my face that night. After that I refused to buy a girl anything unless she bought me something first. And when I said that I tagged along with them after, I meant that I treated them like they had been purchased. I'm never like that as I do my best to respect all women but they shredded their respect for themselves and especially for me at that point.

[TonyB]

A couple of times a girl has asked me if I would like to do a shot with her and her friends. Thinking they were going to buy me a shot of something I agreed, and as a gentleman I even was about to offer to pay for my own shot until I'm hit with the truth of the offer. They meant that I would pay for all of the shots and I just got one too. The server would come around and all 5 or 6 girls would point at me and just stand there until it got too awkward and then I would pay because that's the honorable thing to do as a guy in my opionion, and in the places it's happened, the total bill wouldn't be too high.

Oh man... I would absolutely refuse to pay if some chicks attempted to trick me into buying them a round ... gentleman shmentleman!!

Yea i just asked he bluntly (i was buzzed though) did you want me to get you a drink or do you want to argue about your friends drinks. Of course after that there is nothing there but at least I dont look like osme cheapskate but i dont give in.

[TonyB]

Rain as ghetto? Wow, I thought all of the Vegas clubs kept out the usual crowd sporting jerseys, hats, tanks, large chains, baggy jeans, air force ones, etc. that would typically classify a place "ghetto". We had no issues back in December with the crowd at any of the Palms clubs on a Friday night. Maybe a tad slow due to the season and whatnot, but my wife and I made the most of it- plenty of room to hang out, dance, laugh our asses off at a very drunk bachelorette party, etc. The bar tenders took very good care of us.

We experienced Tao on the next night and I would fully support your conveyor belt logic. The only way I would go to Tao again would be with a table though. It was overly packed the night we went and seemed on par with an "amateur" type crowd, that or a very young 21 yr old crowd that I would classify as an 18 and up crowd back here in Michigan. If I was a single guy there with a group of friends, I wouldn't have been too impressed with the scenery. Maybe a few more shots would've fixed that. The bar tenders were great though and easily took care of us. We took full advantage of the open bar deal that they gave my wife for the first few hours.

I am going by the crowd, not really the clothes. anyone can put on a sweater vest and a collar shirt to get it. But you get the shoulder bump, the stare downs which is fine but it was mainly the girls seemed scandalous. Just based on my experience when you offer a girl a drink and you dont want to buy all 6 of her friends a drink as well , and she starts arguing forget it. Its one thing if its another girl or two but you get the sense thats the plan they have.

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I totally relate to you on this. Luckily it hasn't happened to me in Vegas where the drinks are extremely expensive, but in Minneapolis and other cities around the country I have experienced that same ploy...I wouldn't mind buying one girl a drink, especially if she seemed to show interest in me, but for all her friends is ridiculous, as if all of them are broke but decided to go out together, lol.

A couple of times a girl has asked me if I would like to do a shot with her and her friends. Thinking they were going to buy me a shot of something I agreed, and as a gentleman I even was about to offer to pay for my own shot until I'm hit with the truth of the offer. They meant that I would pay for all of the shots and I just got one too. The server would come around and all 5 or 6 girls would point at me and just stand there until it got too awkward and then I would pay because that's the honorable thing to do as a guy in my opionion, and in the places it's happened, the total bill wouldn't be too high. As revenge I would be that tag-along guy who hangs around them all night. I'm not a creep, but when I pay for a drink, it's like an investment, lol. I'm just following it for decent returns.

Heck, when a girl buys me a drink without me getting her one first I don't know what to do. I'm not sure if it's a trick, or if I'm being agressively hit on or something like that. Should I dance for her? I usually end up buying that girl a couple of drinks or shots in return, and don't care really if she doesn't want to leave the club with me (not that it was my goal in the first place, lol).

Sorry for the long hijack, but you brought up something that really got my mind going...

an the shot thing happened to me at Drais; a girl and 4 friends, said "lets go do a shot" so i go up to the bar an dthank god i had no attention span because i just walked over to someone else, but now thinking about it, I am sure that would of been exactly what you said. When your dancing house, everyone is just dancing, there is no affiliation there to deserve a drink

[BritishV]

Just for the record the only guys I'll let buy me drinks are ones I'm really into...but got to admit if I'm going to snog em, they can buy me a drink whilst they're at it....never crossed my mind to get the other girls one too...that's just cheap!

[rocco]

After reading all this I'm more confused than before. Reconsidering Tao if its that crowded. Is there even any room to dance or is it wall to wall on the dance floor?

[rocco]

we are planning for sat april 24th

[kori]

it was mainly the girls seemed scandalous. Just based on my experience when you offer a girl a drink and you dont want to buy all 6 of her friends a drink as well , and she starts arguing forget it. Its one thing if its another girl or two but you get the sense thats the plan they have.

enjoyed reading your reviews.

uhh, i can't' believe she argues with you and called you a cheapskate. she was probably just embarassed though to get rejected.
I guess you're too much of a gentleman, but you shoudl have said something like, yeah, i'll buy your six friends drinks too, but you better be f^&king awesome in bed later.. or, maybe later, when i'm more drunk, and you appear better looking and i can see past your ego and sense of entitlement..

[kori]

After reading all this I'm more confused than before. Reconsidering Tao if its that crowded. Is there even any room to dance or is it wall to wall on the dance floor?

It's pretty much wall to wall on the main dance floor. you're basically moving as one.

I think you should experience Tao. It's a beautiful club, and worth to at least take a look around if you're going to be in Vegas.

[rocco]

maybe we'll just stick with our plan of eating at TAO and doing the nightclub after. We've really only got one night set aside for going to a club so I want to make sure we do it right.

[nardo21]

it was mainly the girls seemed scandalous. Just based on my experience when you offer a girl a drink and you dont want to buy all 6 of her friends a drink as well , and she starts arguing forget it. Its one thing if its another girl or two but you get the sense thats the plan they have.

enjoyed reading your reviews.

uhh, i can't' believe she argues with you and called you a cheapskate. she was probably just embarassed though to get rejected.
I guess you're too much of a gentleman, but you shoudl have said something like, yeah, i'll buy your six friends drinks too, but you better be f^&king awesome in bed later.. or, maybe later, when i'm more drunk, and you appear better looking and i can see past your ego and sense of entitlement..

That would be so awesome, I could only hope to be so quick on my feet with a witty reply like that.

[ellejay]

Ok not to be off topic but to reply to the buying drinks thing...how many girls actually do this? I would never ask anyone to buy me anything and it is classless. I hope in the future you men will see it as a red flag when you are ASKED for something. After all you are strangers and most men OFFER If they want to do something. I bet a lot of girls would agree with me when I say that more often than not I will turn down an offer for a drink because I don't want to spend time with the person and all that comes along with a "free" drink. Anyway never let anyone ask you to buy them something make you feel rude for not doing it. Those types are users and trash.

Ok I feel better now that I got that out!