My trip review June 5-9th!

[brazeneye]

Sunday: Got up and put on our bikinis and went down to the MGM pool. We had breakfast in the little cafe just inside the entrance way. Lots of little birds hanging out, trying to steal our crumbs. Went out to the pool area, and found a spot right by the Wet Republic entrance (you can watch the lazy river from here, washroom and bar are close, and you can listen to the same music that's being played inside of Wet).

Ordered ourselves a bucket of Bud Light (5 beers for $25, not too shabby!), and hung out by the pool. We had to hunt down an umbrella for shade, as there are not a whole lot out there at all, you really have to fight for them or come early, and we were lucky. Hung out there all day, made some friends, and just drank and ate until the afternoon. Nap time.

We went over to NYNY for dinner because we had tickets for Zumanity. Ate at the Gonzales Margarita restaurant, which was terrible. My chicken quesadilla tasted like it was filled with canned tuna.. not nice. We had Red Rockets (Red Bull margarita) but all you could taste was red bull and salt, not a lot or any booze in there at all. Saw Zumanity, which was awesome! It was like a drag show/cirque/peep show all in one. It was really awesome, and I was crying laughing through the whole thing.

Afterwards, I am trying once again to get my friend to go out. She's not feeling it and wants to go to bed.. but I try to keep her going by walking laps around the casino, trying to give her a motivational talk about how we're in Vegas and we're missing out on the real fun. No dice. AGAIN, I'm back in bed at 12:30. This time, I'm wearing my dress, full makeup and hair done, ready to roll. I will not give up!

I text my friends (I have about 10 other people who are here in Vegas too, but we are all travelling around seperately, and the girl I'm with doesn't know these people or have any interest in hanging out with them) to see what they're up to, and they're at Body English. They're too drunk and hammered for me to get any sort of indication from them that I can come meet them or where exactly they are so I wait.... I get a text at 6AM from them to come join them but I've already fallen asleep too deep. I was so sad.. broken.. mad..! another night wasted!

[orgunslinger]

So in retrospect would you have gotten the all access wristbands for the palms for 60 bucks?

Based on your report I'm going to order 5 of them for this weekend. BTW, your trip report is starting to depress me a little. Guys are definitely a little different than females, I'm pretty sure I would have said goodnight to my buddy and ventured out, but I can see there would be a safety issue there for you. Too bad, sorry you didn't get to go out as much as you'd hoped.

[brazeneye]

So in retrospect would you have gotten the all access wristbands for the palms for 60 bucks?

Based on your report I'm going to order 5 of them for this weekend.

I am not sure if it was just a crazy night or if that's the regular deal. My group of 10 friends went there Friday night with wristbands, but I think they had to wait in line.. I'll have to ask her how it went, and I'll let you know.

[brazeneye]

Monday: I wake up early. I'm just fuming. I'm being short with my friend and not very talkative. Today I decide, I'm getting drunk this morning. Fuck you! I'm in Vegas! Today was the day where we have reservations at Wet Republic for the day bed. I'm too mad to want to sit with her on a king size-d bed by the pool and spend $150 of my money to feed her drinks. I'm just so bitter and crabby, but I'm still trying to be nice. We are on vacation.

So we go back to the MGM pool, which I did have fun at, and I think I really had a better time that day at MGM pool than I would have at Wet. We catch the same spot as we did the day before with our umbrella. We have Starbucks for breakfast (coffee, muffin, parfait). We get to the pool and I get one of those yard long drinks. I'm on a mission today, so it started early. I get stopped by a girl, and my funky bathing suit is on the cover of Sports Illustrated she tells me! I feel pretty sweet now. Instead of sitting in the sun all day, I hop into the lazy river and start paddling around. Make some friends with some dudes from Chicago. They've all got innertubes and big ass jugs of god knows what in Fat Tuesday containers. They're offering it to everyone. I spin around with them for a couple hours, and they buy me an innertube and we mess around in the pool all day playing bumper cars and being drunk. It was a lot of fun.

Get ready to have dinner again, head over to the Italian restaurant in the MGM. We have pasta and champagne. I start texting my friends to see what they're doing that night, and I tell my friend that I am leaving her tonight and going to go hang out with them. She seems super pissed and she wants to go fuck around on the Strip.. but I've wasted two nights with her, so that's just not an option for me again. I get a hold of their group, and they're headed to the NY NY to ride the roller coaster. So I tell them I'll be there, and I run over. My friend in our room just keeps saying "lame sauce" over and over, but I don't care! I'm freeeeeee! Meet my friends at the rollercoaster. I'm SUPER scared of heights more than anything else, but before I know it, I'm sitting in the ride, strapped in. We come up to the first big hill and I really think this is the end for me.. hahahaha. I had to close my eyes through the whole ride. Everyone thought it was hilarious!

We jump out of NYNY and start walking towards a convience store. The girls have mickeys of vodka and want "chase' for it, so we grab orange juice. Five of us girls pile into a cab to go over to Jet, where they got some sort of pass to get in (I tell them there is no way that's getting us out of the line). But we go there anyways, and our guy friend books it down the strip to meet up at the Mirage. We get to Jet. I swear I see Timberland, or at least someone that looks just like them. The group tosses me infront of them as bouncer bait, and we all get in without waiting in line. We get into Jet and I immediately decide that I don't like it. The dance floor is so small for the amount of people on it, and I don't like the crowd that's there. Two of the girls go off to find guys with tables to feed us drinks. I do not like this idea. I tell the girl I'm closest with in the group that we should go to Prive (Chapp/Colton are there, and I really do not want to be at Jet with those other girls).

So the three of us hop in a cab and go off to Planet Hollywood where Prive is. Chapp is the first to meet us at the top of the elevator. I'm so happy to finally do what I want and not have to worry about someone being tired or having to go to bed early. We go over to their little corner and say hi to Colton, who pours us each a drink! I've pretty much over the moon. They offer us the couch and my feet are killing me, so I was happy to sit Tell Colton we really appreciate the drinks.. and my friends and I start dancing away. It starts to die down around 2:30ish, and Chapp hooks us up over at Drais for afterhours because he has to go. We hang out a little longer in the corner table, and leave after they start to shut the place down. We walk out of Prive and some guy starts chasing after us. One of the guys from Drais telling us to come.. and we tell him we're already headed there! Gives me his card just incase we have any troubles (Brandon Wallis).

After hours at Drais. Brandon met us up there and we just walked right in. My two ladyfriends stayed downstairs and danced with some older gentlemen.. I wasn’t feeling it and the guys down there kinda creeped me out. Went up stairs because I wasn’t getting any reception on my phone. I got a foot massage from a bouncer near the entrance. He pulled a bar stool from the bar and I sat with him at the door and he rubbed my feet! I had a lot of fun hanging out with them and they told me I would have no problems next time I came back to Vegas. Their sign outside said that they are open Wednesday – Sunday, but because of XS, they are open when they are to catch the people who want to party after they close. Threw myself into a cab around 5AM. Cabbie gave me a short tour of the strip, since we were able to drive down it because there wasn’t any traffic. Got to my hotel, and realized I didn’t have my room card (I had everything else in my bag… but my room card), so I had to bang on my room door after 5AM for my roomie to let me in.

[KC2Vegas]

Afterwards, I am trying once again to get my friend to go out. She's not feeling it and wants to go to bed.. but I try to keep her going by walking laps around the casino, trying to give her a motivational talk about how we're in Vegas and we're missing out on the real fun. No dice. AGAIN, I'm back in bed at 12:30.

i hate those days when you have to give a pep talk on why you should have fun in vegas while your in vegas. It has happened to me everytime i go its sad but i hope you manged to have fun on your trip

[brazeneye]

Afterwards, I am trying once again to get my friend to go out. She's not feeling it and wants to go to bed.. but I try to keep her going by walking laps around the casino, trying to give her a motivational talk about how we're in Vegas and we're missing out on the real fun. No dice. AGAIN, I'm back in bed at 12:30.

i hate those days when you have to give a pep talk on why you should have fun in vegas while your in vegas. It has happened to me everytime i go its sad but i hope you manged to have fun on your trip

This trip review seems to be really depressing, but the daytime was fun, but the nights sucked, except for my first and last night. My other friends told me of all the fun they had and I knew I was so so jipt.

[IRockNvegas]

dont feel bad about the trip BE, we have all made the mistake of going with the wrong team mate. lesson learned. im sure you friend was all pumped up to about the nightlife in vegas and she totally party fouled. at least you put a little icing on the trip on the last night.

[brazeneye]

dont feel bad about the trip BE, we have all made the mistake of going with the wrong team mate. lesson learned. im sure you friend was all pumped up to about the nightlife in vegas and she totally party fouled. at least you put a little icing on the trip on the last night.

I'm just a little extra bummed because my other friends were there as well, doing everything right. They had about 4 hours of sleep each night, and they partied with these dudes all weekend! (Jealous, I saw the photos!) http://www.vegasnews.com/8366/wes-br...the-palms.html

[wat]

Good to hear you tried to make the best of it, brazen. As long as you still got that desire to make it back to Vegas, it's all good. I agree - total party foul on your friend.

[brazeneye]

Good to hear you tried to make the best of it, brazen. As long as you still got that desire to make it back to Vegas, it's all good. I agree - total party foul on your friend.

Yeah, I may be back in September! Or if not, the friends and I who went out on the last night are talking about another trip!

[vegaspoke]

Sorry about the wasted nights. Even my worst nights in Vegas are good tho. Where does Prive rank among the other clubs to you?

[brazeneye]

Sorry about the wasted nights. Even my worst nights in Vegas are good tho. Where does Prive rank among the other clubs to you?

Oh god, I couldn't tell you. I didn't do a walk around and I was pretty toasted when I got there. We were off in a little corner dancing and hanging out, so I really didn't get a chance to see everything. Anywhere is good when you're drunk.. haha.

I really liked Tryst, it was nice, but it seemed a little slower, almost like a lounge.

[IRockNvegas]

im really surprised the night life portion of your tripped turned out to be a bust because you have spent so much time on this site and preparing every step of the way. thats what friends can do though, when your feet are tired and you finally hit the bed and its so cozy then its pretty easy to just chill, but you have to tell yourself like you did on your last day, that your in vegas and you can do this (lay in bed at 12:30 on a sat night) at home.

[brazeneye]

im really surprised the night life portion of your tripped turned out to be a bust because you have spent so much time on this site and preparing every step of the way. thats what friends can do though, when your feet are tired and you finally hit the bed and its so cozy then its pretty easy to just chill, but you have to tell yourself like you did on your last day, that your in vegas and you can do this (lay in bed at 12:30 on a sat night) at home.

Oh.. I was pretty choked. I gave her the speech on Sunday night because I was mad mad mad. "Why do you not want to go out to nightclubs? I did all this research, I am so excited, and now you don't want to go? ". After that I had it. I should have just gone out both nights, but I couldn't if things weren't secure, because it probably wasn't a good idea for me to go out on my own.

[tschwicht]

I feel for you brazeneye. I have a few friends that I don't know how much they are going to party while out there in July, but the funny thing is that's fine with me.

Normally I end up getting lost from my friends even if they are out. They call me "nomad" half the time because i'll end up on a different side of Chicago than them without knowing what happened.

Sometimes you just have to go, but good on you for being safe! Your next trip will just be that much better.