I recently visited Vegas so I wanted to post an update to a post I did in October in another thread. Henry Sprinkler's post is pretty accurate based on what I've seen so I'll add in some of the blank spots.
Las Vegas experience really depends on when you go. A taxi driver told me last time that there is a rhythm to the city and depending on the week, it can be totally different. Now I see that. Last time I was there I met lots of Brits, Europeans and international tourists. This time it was almost all americans with a few UK ballers. Maybe the Rock and Rio had an effect too, because some nights were awesome.
I flew in from Europe on a trip for other reasons and I managed a layover in Las Vegas going and coming on two consecutive weekends. I stayed at the Cosmopolitain and the Encore. I totally agree with the jet-lag comment. I had a nine hour time difference and while I can ignore that for 3 days, by the last day, I couldn't go out til 5am, sleep 5 or 6 hours and then do it again without some effect. Before you say, this is the Cheap Vegas thread!, keep reading. There are lots of tips here even if you stay at those hotels.
First of all, if you go to the Cosmopolitain, always join the "Identity" loyalty rewards program, if you walk in the hotel from the taxi drop off point (next to The registration and Vesper bar), after you walk pass Vesper bar about 100 feet down on the right is the Identity window. Just give them your id and email and you're golden. Then whenever you spend money in the hotel (drinks, casino, Marquee club) show the card and get points. When i was looking for good hotel deals I saw a post from a woman that said after she joined that she always got special room offers in her email. So I looked in the junk email I used to book last time I stayed there and lo and behold, I had offers. But none were valid for the time I was visiting, so I just called up and the hotel, they transferred me to some other desk and they gave me a buy one night, get one free deal. (just not valid on friday or saturday night). Last time I was there I had a good run of luck at the casino and won about $900 in the first hour, then pretty much replenished whatever I spent during my three days there so maybe I had decent points.
Quote: (05-19-2015 01:58 PM)HenrySprinkler Wrote:
*Pro Tip* when the drink waitress comes around order a shot not a mixed drink. The mixed drinks were very weak on the alcohol at both Caesars and Encore (at the gambling tables).
In the Cosmopolitain and Encore casinos, I found the opposite. They would give me doubles or triples without asking (when I order a drink on the rocks it's easy to see). If you are playing at their $15 tables they want you drunk. At night the minimum goes up to $25 and if I order a drink and decide to quit playing before it arrives I just walk, or that drink could make the drinks in clubs look super cheap! So playing to get free drinks always backfires for me. If I'm really trying to win money, I won't touch it. But in Vegas everything gets confused.
Hotels
Although prices are comparable, the difference between Cosmo and Encore hotels is huge. Cosmo gives everybody a feeling that this is their place and you see all sorts of people rolling through. Encore/Wynn hotels heavily monitor everything and at all the entrances there is a sign that says guests only. I've been told that that during the 1970s if you went to Vegas, all the hotels on the strip were glamorous and upscale. Men went to gamble and see the fight, women went to shop, everybody dressed up (the women to an extreme) and it was a special vibe. Downtown is where most people stayed. I think Encore/Wynn is the only hotel i've been in that comes close to that description. Once you're inside, people are really open to you. Married chicks chat with you in the elevator, every girl will stop to talk and so on. Cosmo has the babes, but not the exclusiveness ... except for when you're in one of the guests only hotel pools. Babes are hotter in Encore too. Between Encore and Wynn, Encore is the more exclusive. Wynn has a lot more people rolling through it because of the shows and the bigger facilities (restaurants, casino, shows, etc).
Pools and Pool parties
Just for reference, at Encore there is the Encore beach club (day party and Surrender club at night), then two pools: regular pool and european (topless) pool. The XS club takes place on those two pools. I hit the pools every day i was at the Encore, in fact, once you're in that hotel you never need to go outside of it, day or night. Rumor has it that there are only old wrinkly chicks at the European pools but I found it otherwise. My first day, Thursday, there weren't many people, just one blonde cougar with a big silicon rack. The European pool also has blackjack and craps tables (you've seen them if you've been to XS) and a bar. Around the bar it was like a yacht club on Thursday with 40-50s yo ballers and some ex babes. On Friday it was like an East Coast frat reunion (i.e. lots of 30 something guys feeling entitled with fewer babes). Friday was the best day for the babes. There was a group of three mid-20s American girls 7/8s who were topless with hot bodies, hammered and just walking around cruising guys. As I said, people feel really open and relaxed once they know everybody around them is staying there. Tehre was also a 30ish super babe who was an 8/9 with a huge set of natural hangers. One 60yo guy was walking buy her when she was going to the bar in just a thin transparent coverup and his eyes became saucers, mouth dropped open and he did a 360 degree head rotation to see if anybody else saw what he just saw.
I also checked out the Encore beach club on a Saturday. Walking out of the hotel past the line, I only saw about 20 girls. I thought it was a girls only line, then saw one guy. So about an hour later I went in and the ratio was slightly skewed in favor of girls. But this wasn't really anything special. Just like Surrender in the daytime with everybody wearing beach wear. For $55, it wasn't worth it. If you buy from the hotel concierge you get a special price ticket that lets you avoid standing in line. Some days it was more than the general admission and some less (the concierge showed me the price list). The day I was there it wasn't that hot and it is still May, so not really pool party season. One local chick was telling me at the bar that I should check out the bouncers because they are only looking in the pool. Encore is an upscale pool party, so no shenanigans. She said that Hard Rock's pool party got a huge fine for drugs and debauchery (sex in the pool). I would say to avoid the Marquee and Encore Beach parties and go for the Hard Rock if you want to see extreme pool party stuff. If you are staying in the 5* hotel it's a ton easier to meet chicks at the normal hotel pool just because they know you are staying there and a lot of these are ones you would never see in a club, plus it's free. In the Cosmopolitain hotel the Bamboo pool is the one to go to.
Clubs
After the Encore pool party (a Saturday) I went to the XS club. In my last Vegas post I wrote about going there for the Sunday night party and how it was not great. but this time it was one of the best club experiences I've ever seen. And I've seen the best in many cities around the world. I could tell lots of stories about that night, but this was a new one for me:
I saw a pair of girls pretty early in the night, one tall blonde 8 face, 10 body, perfect round ass and slavic style face, with another blonde 6 body, 7 face, both about 25. The tall one had bleached hair and lots of black hairpins. She looked so quirky I figured she must be Russian. So I open them and to my surprise they were immediately receptive. They were from Texas and said they were "partners" there to celebrate there 5th anniversary. The small one said, we are bissexual but we like dick too. We always find a guy who we can take home to use every night. Then she goes, "your nipples are hard" and starts rubbing them. I said, I can't see yours. So the tall blonde pulls open her top, pulls down her bar and says mine are pink. Then the other says is your dick hard too? And starts rubbing it. Then the tall one decides to try too. Now the first one tries again and says it's getting hard now, maybe you can party with us. Where are you staying? I said right up there and pointed to the tower that overlooks the pool. We can have drinks and watch the party from up there then come back. So she tells the tall hairpin girl, we can go up to his room and drink, trying to get agreement. But the tall one frowns and says, what time is it, so she can see my watch. Is it Cartier? (looks nothing like a Cartier and was nothing special) so I said, no it's my travel watch. So the small one says give me your business card, we will call you in 30 minutes. Then they cruised. I wait a second and followed after them. A group of three guys in suits had been watching i guess, because one guy says, "Have fun!". But for the rest of the night they hoped from table to table. No idea what they were looking for.
No biggie, it was still only around 12:00 otherwise I wouldn't have tried to close them so fast. That night there were so many hot babes. At one point i was near the entrance and three waves of girls 5-10 each time came down the stairs, no guys. For the night there were easily more girls than guys. it was like nothing I've seen before. The guys were also not thirsty. I opened a pair of smokers from Atlanta and was really interested since the 5'10" southern belle society girl would be a new one for me. I started with the 8 and her 10 blonde friend was getting hit on by a shorter chodey guy but watching me. But some guys next to me at the bar insisted that I do tequila shots with them. I was pretty drunk already since I had started at around 3pm, so I said yes, watched a little chodey guy take the Atlanta girls away (probably to a table) and with the jet lag, all day drinking combination that double tequila shot put me away for the rest of the night and I messed up a truly golden opportunity a bit later.
Here's a video:
I opened that tall blonde you see and talked to her for awhile, but after the tequila I have no idea what we talked about.
I should also note that on that Friday in XS, it was really swanky, half the guys were ballers who you could see were used to that atmosphere and the other half were like guys who put on a suit with nothing matching because they thought it would get them past the door. I was sporting a custom made blazer styled after a character in a movie renowned for its fashion. I couldn't find one so I got one made. When I wear that chicks always give me complements...and every opener works, but they also ask me how old I am, which they never do otherwise. Whenever I saw a super hot babe that night she was with a guy who looked really sharp. I went the next night, Saturday, and it was awful. David Guetta was playing, it was 3:1 guys, two times as many people, average height went down by 3" and was like a different world.
I also tried Surrender and Marquee. I like Surrender and never have any reason to complain there. Marquee is a little bit stiff and the layout is not so great unless you have a table. In the Hip Hop room lots of girls seemed to be getting picked up. I saw at least 5 pickups in the first 15 minutes with girls ever making out or walking out with guys they seemed to just meet.
If its easy to get laid in Vegas, then tons of guys are going for 4s, 5s. there was one English baller who I met at the Encore beach club who seemed like he should have tight game and at around 2AM I saw him lean a chunky 5 across the bar and make out with her then they left. My last night there I was in the Encore hotel bar waiting for a chick I met the night before and a chunky 4 proposed me directly to ditch my friend and go with her... no thanks.
Quote: (04-22-2015 10:13 AM)HenrySprinkler Wrote:
Heading to Vegas tomorrow.... another thing I recently heard about was prostitutes who dress like normal club girls, flirt with you, go home with you and then either before or after the bang demand money for their services.
Any truth to this, and if so how do I spot / avoid.
Totally true, I met a really hot one in Surrender with her friend, then ran into her outside the club on the casino floor, had a drink with her at the bar and then she wanted to see my room. Up there she wanted money, I said no, she walked out. Then two minutes later she knocks on the door, is back asking for money for time spent. I said let's go down and have a drink. So we go to the bar, one guy on the other side of me tries to hone in asking for a light. then tells her, you are the most beautiful girl I've seen here. So I ignore him and she whispers in my ear, "go!" I say no, you came back to me, you go to him. So she won't do that, but we really had a good conversation and somehow she ends up in my room again, but I won't still pay her so she takes off.
If she thinks you have money and is willing to risk it for some reason, you can't know she is a ho. But if you are doing better than ever with a better quality than you ever can get normally, that is a red flag.