Rocky beginnings -> Start of my party hosting path

[Kinar100]

Trip Report

The Who
Group of Brother and my High School friends and Group of mainly brother’s college friends.

Group 1
Evan - 25 and unofficial group leader (ME)
Collin - 22 Brother and loose cannon
Frank - 22 Computer programmer and High School buddy from Utah
Alex - 22 Art and CADD student and High School buddy from Texas
Alberto - 25 Nuclear Engineer guy and best friend from High School now in Hawaii

Group 2
Tanner - 22 Perfect score on LSAT, highly addictive personality and crazy fiend, bros bud
Brad - 22 Odd man out and talks the talk but not the walk. Really crazy looking beard...
Brandon - 22 Spartan style physique but can’t talk worth a damn to any woman
Zach - 22 Buddy of the three above and poor/first time ever doing anything in vegas

Misc
Joe - 25 Rich college friend and best bud from college, living in Vegas
Ben - 23 High school buddy and kind of add in addition to group


The What
End of the year Vegas trip with friends


The When
Dec 27th to Jan 5th in Vegas (27th-31st mostly myself and 1st to 5th with the entire group)

The Where
Las Vegas - Green Valley/Henderson (Family lives there and I spent age 8-18 there)
Summerlin for 2 days
MGM for 3
Luxor for 1

The Why
I wanted to start networking and throwing parties for/with my friends. All my rich college buddies for the most part went to different parts of the US and I wanted to see that if I did enough research and planning, I could throw something awesome together.

Friday - December 27th
Drive in to town from California. Leave at 3:30 and arrive close to 9:00 (Traffic blows, normally 3.5 hours) I meet my college roommate Joe at McFadden’s for his birthday. Joe is from a pretty well off family and has done exceptionally well this year but likes to keep things small and quiet every now and then. McFadden’s was a great place (first time there) and a super intense bar. I can sometimes be a pretty shy guy and have a difficult time opening a conversation with any kind of pretty girl. At the end of the night two sisters came up to me and began a convo. I was terrified and tried to pawn them off to my buddy but the older one (my age) wouldn’t have it. Eventually I decided to just go with it and turned out well. I didn’t know how to close and ask for her number so I said exactly that and it worked lol. New tactic! Honesty.

Saturday - December 28th
Whenever I am with Joe there is a 50% chance we are going to have a very exciting, extravagant evening. He’s got the full grown money tree, mine is only a shrub right now! We decide to hit a strip club later that night. (I have never really been to a BIG strip club before or a Vegas one). He makes a call and lets us know that we are good for Sapphires. We pre-party a bit and arrive at around 1:30 AM. There are 4 of us (Joe, nadim, Joe S and myself). Joe S has somehow forgotten his wallet and after trying to use a fake, we decide that he gets to stay in the car while we check the place out for an hour. We walk in, Joe asks for some high up guy, ends up finding out he’s not working tonight. He asks for next guy in charge, gets the next high up guy, drops his last name and we are whisked away to a huge center booth with two bottles comped for the 3 of us. Joe is bleeding money, Nadim is breathing it and I am just tagging along, attempting to play the part of rich suave guy. Girls are swarming us and I have no clue what to do. First time here, I have maybe $60 on me and already have difficulty talking to good looking girls. Now they are good looking, naked and very verbally and physically aggressive! After being fondled for about 20 minutes and asking the most basic of information from some beautiful girl, I then end up finding out exactly why places like these are always packed. A few dances later and I am left with less money, a broken heart and a big grin and the bluest balls ive ever had. My buddy Nadim has been all over one of the hottest girls in there and eventually she and two other delights take us to a back room. An hour goes by of the most insane things I have ever seen. I felt like I was in an R rated movie (I saw Wolf of Wallstreet a few days earlier and felt like the same thing lol). They let us know they are getting off work soon and could come back to our place if we wanted ($_$). Joe turns them down and we head out.(fuck you joe) It’s 5 in the morning and Joe S, the guy we left behind is freezing and sleeping in the car. Lol sucks to be him.

Sunday - December 29th to 30th

Family time and normal friend seeing stuff.

Tuesday - December 31st

I hit the strip with my friends Alex and Alberto. We get trashed, cruise around, meet some people, walk in to different hotels and have a fun but relatively uneventful time. I did work up the courage to talk to these two gorgeous blonde girls sitting at a bar inside Aria. No one had talked to them for a good 15-20 minutes and eventually I decided to try and find out why. It turns out they only speak French. Luckily I am quick with technology and was able to get Google Translate App up and running. Had a nice little 10 minute conversation which they thought was cute but that was the extend.

Wednesday - January 1st

I grab my luggage from the parents, roll to pick up Alex and we check in to the MGM grand for the first of 3 nights there. My Brother and the rest of our party crew (5 people) are coming in tomorrow so Alex and I have the day/night to find something to do. I had really wanted to see LIGHT and so I start reaching out to see what I can do to get in there. A high school friend of mine is trying to become an independent host and I had used him to walk me in to XS a few months earlier. He has hit me up quite a bit and I said i would try and go through him for a possible table the coming Saturday but wanted to see if he could get me into LIGHT. I am big on honor and loyalty and figured i’d give it a shot. We sleep till 10 or so and then prep and head over to LIGHT. My friend said his co-worker (somewhat associated with him) could get us into LIGHT no problem. I connect with his buddy and let him know i’d like to try and walk in around 11:00 PM. He says that is fine and to show up then. We arrive at that time and he ends up saying he’s running late. I am easy going and know stuff can come up. We wait around till 11:15 or so and he texts me again letting me know his current client is still having issues and he’s trying to make it over. Around 11:30 PM the line has gotten longer than I could see. I ask where he is at and he says he doesn’t know if he can make it but he’s trying. By 11:50 AM I feel like our luck is running out. (For the most part). My friend and I have never been in LIGHT, nor has he been in a club. It was NYE for Alesso and I really was looking to do whatever we could. I had previously been hounding JC for information regarding everything nightlife related and was at this point more familiar than my independent host regarding the in’s and outs. At 12:00 AM I look through the JC list and contact Noah. I had spoken once before to him and had read a lot of the information he has posted. He replies within a few minutes, requests my information and says to head to the front. 2 minutes later we are inside LIGHT and ready to rumble. We felt like super stars and were very very grateful to receive that kind of service. We both had an absolutely amazing night just dancing like fiends for hours on end. I left at 3:30 AM or so, completely drenched in sweat and couldn’t find my friend. 30 or so minutes later I see him wander out, weaving back and forth still dancing. Terrific night and big thanks to Noah again.

Thursday - January 2nd

The rest of my party group arrives around 5 PM and checks in. They are partiers but on a standard level. They dress up but mostly to gamble. Drink but mostly to gamble. I am trying to convince them that this saturday we should aim for a table at XS. I know all the pricing, people and how to make it happen. My brothers friends don’t believe me. A promoter inside MGM had given them 5 GA tickets to Hakkasan and said he could get them a table this saturday for 10 guys @ $900. After reading hundreds of posts relating to bottle prices I know that to be false but there is no convincing them. My brother and tanner had brought a good amount of drugs with them and proceed to mow through gram after gram, drinking and losing money. At one point my brother spent 12 hours at the craps table trying to win money back. I wander around trying to convince them to meet some girls with me and throw me the $ for the table. I have a luxor (I know I know) suite booked for Saturday, a party bus to drop us off and i am trying to get this table. They are more interested in gambling and continue on this mindless rampage till sunrise.

[Kinar100]

Friday - January 3rd

The bingeing continues as Tanner, Brad and Collin throw their money away at the tables in hopes of hitting it big. At this point my brother has spent another 10 or so hours at the table, Tanner hasn’t slept since he got there and the rest of the group is noticing their uncontrollable nature. My dad comes down and gambles with my brother and I. He ends up winning pretty big and by the end of the night is throwing my bro and I an extra grand between us. I know that this is my chance to convince the group (Have to do all the work myself do I!). I manage to bring my brother to my side and convince him to give me $500 for the table. It’s A LOT of money to him and he is fuming and spitting as he hands it over. I put my own free $500 in and we now have half the tab covered. I convince my close friends Alex, Frank and Alberto to drop another $225 each. With that I can get the other guys to come for $100-$200 and have a good time. I get the cash on hand, book the bus, let my friend know we can do the table and start preparing for the party. Another mostly uneventful night. Just lots of my brother and tanner making straws out of dollars bills and hopping around jumping on people while the rest of us wandered aimlessly.

Saturday - January 4th, the finale

I move to the Luxor with Frank and Alex and we check in. They give us a pyramid suite although i had wanted a tower suite. I go down and complain and we get moved to a tower suite. It’s nice but not the 1k+ square foot one. I go down again, hand the front desk guy $20 in my key cards and we get the room I wanted. It’s big enough, has a bar, separate bathroom, huge master bathroom and bedroom and doesn't look like an egyptian museum.

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We purchase a ton of alcohol, throw out invites and sleep until it’s pre-game time. Alex’s dad works at a hair salon filled with beautiful girls and we had been hyping them up, trying to get them to come to the party. They end up showing up and bring some cute girls with them and then some dudes (wtf..really). Unfortunately it seems that a good majority of the girls are under 21 as well. (again….fail). I don’t really care because I have the money I needed and I really wanted to go through the experience of reserving and paying for my first table at a mega club. We actually end up having around 30 people in the suite at the same time, drinking and creating a good vibe. Party bus shows up and we all roll to it. I let everyone on, even under 21 and ask the driver (who turned out to be really sketchy after regarding $) to drop us off at the Wynn by 11:30 and use the 15-20 minutes left in the hour i bought to bring everyone back. The bus is a hit, everyone loved it and hadn’t been on one in a while. We are dressed as best as we can and hit the wynn at exactly 11:30. I contact my friend, he meets us there and we walk up to the club. At this point we have 9 guys (3 that have paid $225, 2 paid $500, 2 paid $100 and 1 paid $50 and 1 paid $140). We also have 3 girls with us, 2 are decent looking and 1 is a troll. I don’t know where she came from or how she got here and no one knows her but she somehow is with us. I don’t really care at this point. My friend says we are pushing our limit a bit and 2 guys need to get walked in. I give them the money and they get out of line. We end up getting an amazing table in between the bar and dance floor. A booth big enough to hold us all and next to a ledge/stripper pole. I think it fits us perfectly and I am very happy. Walking over the ramp Into the club i could see my friends faces lighting up as they quickly realized just how epic this could possibly be. Ben, one of the kind of new party additions to the group managed to down half a bottle of the kraken on the bus. I could see it hit him pretty hard but was hoping for the best. He had to get walked in and ends up meeting us at the table a few minutes later. The waitress brings us the menu, I select the lowest price thing I can and she wanders off to retrieve it. Ben heads to the bathroom as the rest of the group begins to settle in and take a look around. The place is bumping, Wolfgang is coming on in an hour and I am really liking what i am seeing. I turn to ask my brother what he thinks and I see him doing something I had seen 10 times a day for the last few days. Sitting in the booth he has a dollar bill out and is rolling it into a straw. I cringe and take a deep breath, then wander around the booth and quietly ask what he’s doing. I look down on his phone and hes got little white lines all along it. I think he thought he was some kind of star and can do what he wants. Maybe he thought drugs really weren’t illegal since he had had more drugs than food/water in the last few days. I get a little mad and then tell him to get it off quickly. He takes the lines then sits up and realizes hes made a mistake. The bottles come over, I pay all in cash and then explain to my friends that these are our keys to a successful night and we need to make them last. I wander off to the dance floor and being loosening up. Every now and then I head back and check on the table, the bottles have dipped a bit but nothing drastic. I see Zach and Brandon bringing back a score of girls AND guys and stop them quickly. Once on the side, they say these are friends they met and they want a drink. I then have to explain the workings of a minimum, that you can’t just sit at a table and not drink anything, and how important money is. Once the lesson is over, they say goodbye to their newfound friends and head back to the dance floor.

The night continues, we haven’t seen Ben for a while or Zach now but we assume they are out having a good time. I connect with some girls, dance a bit and overall make sure we are ok. My friend Alberto at this point is pretty trashed and while not in to EDM or crazy dancing, he does have a fancy for hitting on girls. He begins wandering over to another booth with a few beautiful asian girls that seem to be chaperoned by what looks like Yakuza mob bosses. These guys are easily 45-50+, in expensive clothing and look like they mean business. Alberto hasnt been to a club before and even though I try to explain that you can’t go into another personal table bubble, he doesn’t listen. Security brings him back twice and I sit him at our table but eventually he is back at it, this time up on a near by booth dancing along the edge and looking at the group. A bald security guy with a mustache is now here and in my time of dealing with law enforcement, those two aspects combined usually mean trouble. They pick Alberto up and drag him outside the club. I shrug as I had told him a few times before and friend or not, he’s gotta learn to take care of himself. We leave the club at closing, grab a taxi and head back to the room. We find Ben in the room, hung over and eating a bagel. He says he got thrown out for being in the bathroom. We later find out that he threw up all over the bathroom and that was the reason. Zach still isn’t back but i dont really care as my night was successful. Alex and Frank had an amazing time, Alberto for the most part did and my brother doesn’t remember. Prior to leaving the room Alex had wanted all the partiers not coming to the club to be able to stay in the room. I let a trustworthy friend watch the room and we come back to find 18 people asleep all over the place. 4 in the bed, 2 on the couch, 1 on the bar, 1 in the tub and others randomly scattered about. I clean up as much as i can, check out and hit the road back to california. A few redbulls and 5 hour energies and 260 miles later I am asleep, already planning the next trip.

Set now I am going back March 13th 14th and 15th with the hospitality suite at the aria and aiming for a table at LIGHT. I plan to bring a goPro with me and make an amazing montage of the entire event.

Thanks for reading guys! Good learning experience for me and most my friends had a great time, even if my brother and I had to fork over most the money to get them to commit.

From Left to Right -> Brad -> Me -> Zach -> Frank -> Ben -> Collin -> Alex -> Tanner
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Me after LIGHT -> Great time lol
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What we killed before XS
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What I came back to in my room
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[TommyGunz]

great read, thanks!