4 days - 3 Nights, Bachelor Party.. Strippers, Strippers, Strippers

[ckpon]

I started a thread in another Forum about my upcoming trip to Vegas. I've always gone with a hodge podge of individuals cause well it's Vegas. Some trips have been memorable and others have been horrible. But no matter what I have always loved the Vegas. I've come to Vegas so many times and feel that I should share a story of a trip I had. To be honest, after reading ones from wdreamgirl, BrooklynMarc, ArmyVegas to name a few it puts mine to shame. Maybe it's me being Canadian and slightly conservative. Ironically, I would be the most outgoing of any of my groups and usually the one to be reigned in.

Luckily, I remember this trip vividly and it is perhaps one of my favorite tales.

The cast of characters:

CK: Myself at the time 32. Banking Advisor (author) lol
AL: Same age and a engineer with a utility company
W: Same age and works at a Oil company as a consultant (bachelor)
J: Works for a large tech company

We are all Chinese and been all friends for over 10-15 years. I knew W since middle school (junior high) and we have always had similar personalities. I am a tad outspoken and sometimes my mouth writes cheques that my body can't cash. AL is a bit more conservative but wants to have fun.. he likes meeting women but definitely has a preference for FOBs ( fresh off the boat ). J is married so he was there for some fun but obviously nothing too out of hand.

Day 1: Wednesday

Myself and AL are departing first from our hometown. I always love to get into Vegas a day early to have a ME day and just do what I like to do. Myself and AL arrive into McCarran airport and as per my tradition I pop my IPOD in and I start playing the song "I'm Coming home" .. I imagine myself walking through the airport looking all cool in my Jordan hat, white puma shoes and Jordan shorts.. feeling 6'6 and playing ball but rather 5'7 and looking more like Eddie Huang lol. I had a surprise for my good friend AL I had a limo ready to pick us up. The driver was wonderful and sweet. We asked her to take us to a local liqour store and picked up some supplies.. Goose, Bottle of Dom, Crown Royal and some mixes. We were prepared and ready for the festivities. We went to our hotel and wanted to early check-in to the Vdara. However, they had a huge line and some issues and told us that we should come back later. So we leave our bags with the concierge and decide to wander. It was my first time staying at Vdara so we explore. It was a different hotel. Non-smoking non gaming but was really close to ARIA. So we went and it was around noon so decided on some lunch so we hit up Social House. Hey they had a sign that advertised their lunch special. Immediately something jumped out a sampler sake tray 3 shots of sake for $20. Now at this point we both get a tray or two. But we cannot just do plain sake. So we ordered a beer. My friend AL wasn't sure why but I said we need to do it Entourage style like Ari Gold and Vincent Chase and a sake bomb. He never had one but mission accomplished our drink on was ready. BAM BAM BAM in succession. As we finish up we decide to wander Crystals mall and take a look around and explore a bit.

My phone goes off and it's my friend CR - she works in Vegas as a party planner and a bartender at a gentleman's club. We talk and she says we should get together with her and a couple friends. Now shes a gorgeous latina girl a couple years younger than me whom I had met previously at a club. We have remained friends ever since and always meet up once. But she always seems to have a way to just be that influence to push me over the age in the drinking department haha.

She says we should meet up for some hookah and drinks at Cathouse in Luxor and I was more than happy to oblige. I tell AL the events and he seems excited. I said though it would be a quiet night and just pretty relaxing. *NOTE I have always said this the first night and well I never learn as many will read about...*

So the majority of the afternoon we end up chilling around Cosmo till around 3pm. We head back to Vdara thinking maybe it's ready for our room etc. Luckily it was .. we ended up staying in a 2 bdroom penthouse suite. Very nice and had a fantastic view. I don't care what people say but I like to stay comfortably if possible. I know me and I know my body. Sooner or later I need space and room to relax. So that was this moment for me.

We decide to change and get ready and head out for dinner. Now since its the first night I understand I want to just gorge myself full of food. So myself and AL decide on the 24hr buffet pass. First stop Paris.. the line up was pretty short and the food was decent. Not crazy spectacular but just good enough. We visit Paris and hit the tables. I always copy the Entourage so I always lay min bet on black. Like Wesley Snipes said in the movie Passenger 57... Always bet on black. So I do and it hit.. I knew it was going to be a fun trip. After a few hours at the tables we decide to start a night stroll to get to luxor. We do the touristy things such as selfies and pics all around the strip. Just to encompass that feeling. Vegas to me gives me that happy feeling inside.. an amazing sight seeing all the lights and the hotels... sigh.. Sorry, continuing onto my report..

We arrive at luxor and I see this electronic game. OMG its CRAPS in a bubble. Ok, I haven't seen this in Canada but wow this is wicked. So I start playing and do some stupid bets that I normally wouldn't do.. hardways, inside, pass line, call bets etc.. After 15mins somehow I was up $200. Sweet drinking money.

Heck, I wasn't sure how much this night was going to cost but I brought $1k just in case and I knew AL had some money. Never know what may happen so might as well have the ammo in case things got crazy. So we roll up to Cathouse and there she is my friend CR. Looking as gorgeous as ever. A short latin girl around 5'4 who just happens to always have a fire to her. Long brown hair, gorgeous eyes and just a built body like wow. We enter Cathouse, and she has a table for us and hookah ready to go. I go over and whisper. "hey how much for the bottle?" she lets me know it's comped. I was like Say WHAT?!? .. damn so I tip the waitress $150 for the night upfront. Not sure if it was enough but hope so. We had a 40 of goose and I knew for 5 of us it was going to be good or really bad. RULE: Vegas for me is all mental.. If I am going in thinking it's going to be a easy night I don't mentally prepare but if its going to be a rowdy night oh man I am going to suffer hard and fast. But we are troopers and I sucked it up and hoped my body wouldn't fail me.

Me and CR start to catch up.. and AL is talking to the other two at the table.. Now it was a theme night at Cathouse at the time. But it was pretty chill.. as the night progressed a group of 8 girls from San Fran are in town. They are sitting in the back booth behind us and CR being the wing girl that she is offered them to sit by us.. so we shared our Goose and drinks and started talking. CR is an amazing wing woman talking us up like we invented google. The entire girl group is full of Caucasians. Now, my game is built around jokes and just being funny and corny. Definitely, I know I have no game. I can't be mysterious cause it's not me. So I set it up... I say we need a drink that symbolizes your group and me and AL. So, when the waitress comes I say we need a round of shots.. something that will bring both of us together. A china white.. since I am Chinese and you white.... they all laugh and ask what is that.. Now if you have never had a china white it's basically crème de cacao, baileys and cinnamon.

It's a tasty shot, a little on the creamy side of course but it's a good one. the night progresses and then CR familia comes and we chat it up wanting to know more about banking and the like. Now we have been drinking for a while now and some how we get convinced to go for another drink at Spearmint. The party limo arrives and we head there.. now the rest of the night is a blur. I just remember lap dances and loosing AL. One of the groupmates said that AL had gone home so I left and said my adios and head back to the hotel.. I am in bed when 20mins later AL comes.. hey man u left me at the club. I was like someone was already telling me you left. He then rants that he had only a $20 left and was worried the cab ride would be more than that.. luckily enough he had enough.

I pass out in my room. BAD BAD IDEA.. I didn't drink water and just didn't realize what the next day would entail.. Day 1 of chilling and relaxing.. Mission failed. hahaha

[Brooklyn Marc]

Awesome start dude! keep it up for sure. And i feel you on needing space when in Vegas, even if its just a few nights i just can't do a small room i feel boxed in and get antsy as hell.

[ckpon]

Day 2 - Bachelor Arrives, Hang overs and Strippers.

Me and AL wake up early morning around 9am. We got in the previous night around 3am. So it's a short sleep but I felt the effects. It felt like I was coming down with a cold and that's not good at all. I had no water or pedialyte so I was hoping for a minor miracle that my body will clear itself up quickly. I get up and hit the shower hoping to feel better but my body is wrecked and I am super sluggish. I knew I needed more sleep but thought I could power my way through.

Me and AL decide to hit Planet Hollywood and hit up the buffet. Now we get there and start eating but we look at each other and re-hash what had happened. Worse of all we both feel like crap. Hung over and barely holding on. The food was average but I needed some rest. I didn't want to be such a bad friend since W was about to arrive. Finally, I get the text Our friend the Bachelor W arrives and says he will meet us at Planet Hollywood. So I hit the tables at BlackJack and get an asian dealer. I usually like someone very talkative or at least not enjoying too much to take my money. I will say that I concentrate better when I play dudes. But when I see a pretty lady as a dealer I flirt and think maybe I will have better luck. I like the COSMO for their casino. Or the Party Pit in certain ones that have girls just dancing all over haha.

Anyhow, I hate asian dealers and I am asian. I always feel like it's this game of magical powers and I always lose and this day was no different.. Sometimes I should hit or stay or split or double but nothing pans out.. and then .. 15 mins later I am down $100. Not a great start lol.

W finally arrives and we do our greetings and catch up. He mentions that me and AL are looking rough and boy do we feel it. We had back to Vdara to get settled and he can get freshened up. I hit the bed.. well turns out AL hit his bed too and we both feel asleep while the bachelor decided to roam the streets for a bit. 3 hours later I wake up and super apologetic. I promised a better evening.


So we get dressed and hit up the buffet at Paris. Meal was alright and we had a good time. We were waiting for our friend J. He was coming in from San Fran later that night. I had already made arrangements for a limo to get us to go to Sapphires. Why not start there right?

As J finally arrives we are set. The four of us ready to take on vegas finally. We immediately hit the Dom P and have a toast similar to that of the Hangover the movie but minus the roofied part. We go on a tangent about friendships, loyalty, respect etc.. It was a touching moment.

I let everyone know I do have a surprise for them. Since I work in banking and definitely knew we will have some fun with the dancers I lined up $1k in singles. Each of them looked at me thinking I was a bit odd.. but damnit I wanted a rap video.. I know its only dollar bills but I am not Lil Wayne or Floyd here.. dollars will have to suffice.

We go down the hotel and wait for the limo to come.. when it arrives we get in and on our way to Sapphires. When we arrive I had pre-arranged for us to be near the stage and we had a few drinks already to go. I stick to my Jack and Coke. So it was a blonde buxom beauty that starts to perform. I set up my dollars like jenga and start going crazy.. She proceeds to grab our faces and makes sure we motor boat.. we all ended up motorboating the dancer.. We didnt say anything till after but the last one got all of our faces and possible drool lol.. For the bachelor I arranged to get him his first dance and of course one for J and AL ... I buy laps for all the guys and just see them have a great time.. we stay there for a few hours and head back to Aria at around 2am.

I wanted to do some late night gambling.. so we hit up Aria. I see a roulette table. My other friends wandered off.. well turns out they still had a $100 each in single dollar bills so they went to a slot machine and inserted them all in and cash out so they can get a large bill.. sigh.. I said to them why are you so chinese.. like come on haha we could use them tomorrow.

Anyhow we start to play roulette.. I usually play 25-32 and then random numbers like 17. After a couple spins I hit.. and then hit a big $10 on 17 and ended up around $400 for the night.. SCORE!! Everyone else was watching so I was like we need an interactive game so we hit the craps table. No luck but it was a good time none the less. We then go back and call it a night..

[OmarLittle]

good TR..an enjoyable read! feel like i'm there

[ckpon]

Day 3: Feeling better, Walk the strip, STK and STRIPPERS again..

We get up the next day all pretty refreshed and renewed with energy. We decide to make that stroll from Vdara to the Aria and hit up Jean Phillippe Patissierie for some breakfast. We end up grabbing a coffee and some sort of breakfast sandwich or croissant. I was pleasantly surprised with this place as I had never been at the time. I was marvelled at the desserts and chocolates that were around the retail space. IT was just fantastic. I love a few things in life, my hockey team, my friends and family, women and food. No particular order depending the mood I am in.. I made a mental note to come back to JPP for some snacks later on.

We decide to hit up the strip. Doing the typical tourist things. Checking out the Coca Cola store, the M&M shop and made our way to the CASINO ROYALE. Now my friends love to gamble there as they have low mins and cheap beer. So we stroll up to the roulette table. When I mean low mins they had like $5min I'm like holy moly this is great. So we kill some time there and everyone has a gambling style almost that suits someone's personality. W: Likes to play the corners of numbers to cover off 4 spaces, J likes to cover 2 numbers. AL likes Black or Tred, or thirds. I like playing 1/3 of the table of numbers and stagger my bets on the numbers. In the end we all made out pretty good. While at the table I receive a text from back home. It's my friend B. He says to lay $20 on the last third of the numbers. So I comply. It hits. I ask him what he wants me to do .. he tells me to buy a lap dance for this evening.

What a guy. He's one of the smartest guys I know .. and somehow he just luckily pulls this one off too. As we head out from the Casino Royale we make our way off to the hotels on the strip. Checking out the Encore, Wynn and then moving to Fashion Show mall to do some shopping. I always go to this sneaker shop upstairs.. I pick up the usual white pumas just to feel a bit different in and enjoy my new kicks. I needed to shop for a dress shirt cause I wanted to look new and fresh I mean today is bachelor party dinner. So head over to Niemen marcus and picked up a boss dress shirt that was a blue grey color.. had black dress pants and figure I am set. The rest of the crew followed along or wandered off but we always came back together.

We had back to the hotel... everyone was a bit tired and myself I thought I wanted to hit up the slots a bit so I make my way there and kill some time.. I notice our reservation is about 1.5hrs away so head back the hotel and get ready.. We all are done with 15mins to spare and make our way to STK for dinner.

We arrive and it was jammed packed but we ended up with a booth in the top section. None of us have been there before but I read it was trendy and had somewhat good food. So we arrive and get seated. We are being served by a gorgeous young lady. We got to talking and later found out she was from Arizona University. So of course from Canada am a big college sports fan and just wanted to know more. She told me she was dating Omar Bolden. I was like he was a CB I think one of the best in the US at the time and she let me know he was drafted by the Broncos. I was like he would have gone higher than the 4th round till injuries. She was surprised I knew these things. My friends were more shocked they were stunned and I said that over the year I was following the NFL a lot more than I have been because of Fantasy Football. It was my first year playing so I started reading about everything and everyone.

Back to the food.... W orders a bottle of wine. I don't know what it is something in the $150 range or $200 range. I remember I ordered the bone in steak 20oz, we had some sides of vegetables and breads and all types of add ons. It was a fantastic meal. The steak was very well done and it had tons of flavour. I order my steaks usually medium rare and it was perfection personified. As we finish up our meal I decide to buy a round of drinks.. but before I say anything a large man walks in and sits at the table next to us.. holy crap its Andrew Bynum. I remember when he was good Andrew Bynum for the Lakers. He had a watch that was just frosty soo packed that the lighting reflected off it. Dude does look like Tracy Morgan though lol. My friends didn't care.. and if you know now by reading I am a sports fiend. haha.

So after that spectacle I order some Hennessy and back home where I'm from we don't drink it we shoot it.. my other friend J was saying how can we do that. I just said because we can.. That shot nicely warmed us up. We chat some more and eventually head out.. As we do we run into a bachelorette party of 6 women. All Asian and they ask where are we headed to and we all stare at each other and say something along the lines of not too sure but we flirt some more and they ask us if we wanted to head to Marquee. The guys say we will meet you inside. We stand outside the club with a dilemma. What's the fair shake? take our chances at Marquee or go to the Rhino. We weigh the pros and cons. Nudity and a night of interesting memories or the club with some girls. The vote was split 2 vs 2.. so we left it up to the gods. We head to roulette table and lay down a $20 on black. If it hits we go to Rhino.. if it doesn't we go to Marquee.. well it hit. So we call the rhino limo and away we go.

[winnerbrah]

strip club for the 3rd night...while a group of girls asked you guys to go clubbing with them....

[Brooklyn Marc]

strip club for the 3rd night...while a group of girls asked you guys to go clubbing with them....

Yeah not gonna lie, given the choice between choosing attractive group of chicks and strip club, i'm choosing the group of girls. Strip clubs aren't going anywhere (literally after two nights in a row ain't much different going to happen on the third night lol), especially in Vegas of all places.

[PLAGUE]

Sounds like a good trip so far. Always interesting to see how others do Vegas. You know what you're getting with a strip club & there's something about the uncertainty of what lies inside a Vegas nightclub that can never sway me towards the former

[*ho_train*]

I don't think it's a Canadian thing but more of an Asian thing of shooting back the henny lol...great tr so far!

[Brooklyn Marc]

Sounds like a good trip so far. Always interesting to see how others do Vegas. You know what you're getting with a strip club & there's something about the uncertainty of what lies inside a Vegas nightclub that can never sway me towards the former

Mmm depends on what your expecting i suppose...

[ckpon]

**Continuation**

Oh definitely I understand where some are coming from.. However, I'm not the bachelor and he voted one way and I voted the other. Plus, at the end of the day it was a decision that I know I would be comfortable with regardless either way. Now I went to the peelers for what would be my THIRD Day, and definitely was twice at Rhino including this one but W and J didn't get to go there yet so.. C'est la vie as they say. For me it was whatever the roulette decided and it came up for the club and I was ok with that..

Did I have second thoughts probably for a few moments but W obviously wanted to do something else. So off we went. John from Rhino came up in his black limo and picked us up.. We tipped him as we got to the back door of the Rhino.. met the bouncer and slipped him a c-note and he found us a table to sit at.. It was a packed night.. super crazy. So I bought a round of shots again.. and for the night I was sticking with Jack and Coke. Not sure why but I had really adopted a liking to this drink back home. After an hour my friends noticed I kept buying them dances and I just sat back. For me I like to chill.. a good time for me is seeing my friends having a blast and I enjoy that aspect. Just getting them out of their comfort zone. So when W had a dance I was checking out the stage and seeing what was going on. When I turn around I see AL just staring at W and I tap him on the knee asking why he's being such a voyeur so the next girl I saw I just told her to make him tap out. I mean voyeurism at it's finest.. It was like he was studying plays or moves. This was MY SPYGATE! hahaha

I go back to staring at the stage and it happens Francine Dee was there.. I remember her from back in the day she was in import tuner and it was like high school all over for me. Instead of leaning on tuned out civics she was on the pole. LOL I have to admit I marked out. Then W taps me on the shoulder and says he has a surprise for me. Now I have an infinity for latin women not sure why but she had this Gucci top and matching bottom set that really did something. After the definite good time she sat with us and we just all chatted. Talked about what brought us to vegas and what we did etc. I knew CR was working and bartending that night so I went off to go find her..got a few drinks for me and the guys.. she got us a round and thought that was nice of her so made sure we tipped accordingly. She asked how my trip was so far and what we have done.. We just chatted and nice seeing her is always good. We had made plans for her and a couple girls to go out tomorrow but of course dependent on how late she gets off and how late we want to get up. I said we will play it by ear and see where it goes.

Stayed there most of the night.. but of course we get some munchies so we leave the Rhino and back to Aria. I remembered a pizza place in the casino so we took our way there.. the line was crazy but I assume most places are when the club night winds down.. I ended up getting ham and pineapple and we ate. Recapped a good evening. People probably consider "fun" or partying differently. For me I'm pretty simple.. some drinks and good friends and a good conversation where we just talk. Keep in mind it's a rarity that we can all get together from all over. So we hit the casino bar and have one more night cap. We did another Henney. Toasted for our friendships and journey of life etc..etc.. You know had to make it inspirational and stuff. We wandered the casino floor and I decided to hit the paigow poker table. For those that have played it is a slight variation of this Chinese gambling game that involves 13 cards but it's 7.

You put two cards in the front to represent one hand and then 5 cards in the back to represent your second. The strategy is to win both sides to get paid.. if you win only one of two its a draw so no money lost. Your bottom 5card hand has to be larger than the two card hand up top. So if you have a pair of aces and a pair of kings and a pair of jacks.. you have to put the jacks up top and the AK pair on the bottom. Anyhow when you see it makes it an easy game to float on.. anyhow we sat there for a good couple hours. All about even and of course getting our drink on.. it's a good time killer.. but then we realize its getting late and need to get some sleep.

[ckpon]

winnerbrah - yeah its true for me a third night the rest of the crew it wasn't.. well besides AL

BrooklynMarc- The girls well never mentioned what they looked like.. they were sweet and fob like so more AL liking. But of course I had no qualms about it either and ultimately the decision of the bachelor was what I would have supported at the end. It's his night and well roulette table regardless if it hit or not I think we would have just gone with his idea. He's my bro.

Plague- for sure that's the thing. We all analyze a lot of the scenarios and for me it didn't matter too much but of course the bachelor had his say and he never been to Rhino.. so it was what it was.. lots of people do it differently. Myself I had a great time and I think it's because you are just with your friends and it doesn't matter. I could have been on Freemont at the Golden Nugget eating and drinking and still what I would consider a good time.

*ho_train* - Yeah, I think it is an Asian thing.. The one thing I gotta say.. the shot glasses seem bigger in Vegas haha it was more Henney at the beginning than I had thought but all that was missing was some green tea.. haha I usually here we drink it straight or with Green Tea not sure if that's a cultural thing but yeah lol.

[Brooklyn Marc]

Ckpon- No judgments on my part dude (if you have read my TR's you clearly understand i have no hangups about chilling with strippers or strip clubs), sounds like you guys had a great time and that's really ALL that matters at the end of the day.

[Cirilo Medina]

I had qualms about the Chicks vs Strippers dilemma, too, but the Vegas gods chose for you! Awesome TR

[kman90]

yeah no judgement, its a trip report, not a bro test...funny tho, been to Vegas many times, and yet never had time for a strip club...as for the dilemma, I pick the chase, the possibility of the unexpected, the risk many times over the already nude, working girl, but then again, I've never been to Sapphire, Spearmint Rhino, etc....maybe its time for something new

...I've had those moments where the bachelor is the reason for the season...its about his last rodeo anyway