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Partying @ Las Vegas Pool Parties
Wet and Wild, it's Nightclubs in Daytime
The pools of Vegas casinos are the nightclubs of the daytime.
There's more to Las Vegas nightlife than meets the
night.
It's the daytime pool parties! They open up again on May 1 and it's party all day before partying all night.
While just about any hotel pool can be fun any day of the week, it's
taken to new heights on Sundays. Hotels are have turned their pools
over to nightclub operators and they now include DJs and bottle service.
Party at the pool!
Caesars Palace, the Mirage and Venetian have all added these "club
pools" for lack of a better term. .And, unlike Mandlay Bay with
its huge wave pool, cabanas and cocktails, you don't have to be a guest
to be invited. A hot body (girls) and a fat wallet (guys) usually does
the trick.
This is Rehab.
Long considered the best pool in town, the Hard Rock (and we're talking
rock hard bodies here, male and female) really cranked up the party
level when it created Rehab in 2004. Within a week, the place was jammed
and it's been so ever since. It's a Sunday afternoon experience and
is so popular some actually stay in on Saturday night to go hard the
next day.
People start lining up as early as 8 in the morning; Rahab
doesn't open until 11 ($30 for guys, $20 for girls, $15 in-state and free for hotel guests, up to four per room). In 2009, it's Beach Club pool scene features a Friday Night Live concert series.
Beauty and the beer at the Vegas pool parties.
When the Hard Rock starts to wind down later in the day, The Tao Beach
Club at the Venetian starts to crank. It's called Sunset Sundays. The
Venetian Pool at Caesars Palace is one of the many that offers a private
area for topless female sunbathers (guys can go in for a heavy fee).
Bare, at the Mirage, is not the massive thousand-person party but a
much more intimate setting for about 250 guests. Girls who "release
the twins" are given a free shot.
Like their nightclub cousins, you just don't walk into these
pool parties. Cover charges vary, at least $20 for women and $30 for
men. It's easier the next day, for some people like to stay a day and stay by the pool. Therefore, Rehab becomes Relax on Mondays. And Rehab is seasonal, May thru September.
The day after Rehab, it's Relax at the Hard Rock pool.
Ironically, the Las Vegas police have been throwing water pool parties of late. Citing "lewd behavior and prostitution" several have had to reel in the wildness to a degree. The Rio closed its Sapphire topless pool (which was run by a strip club) in July and in August, a few people were arrested at Rehab on prostitution and drug charges. Spring break-type contests – Lose the Tan Lines and Boobs or Bust – have all been eliminated.
"But this type of behavior is what attracts people to Vegas," said one Vegas regular, Mr. Lay Vegas, who penned this article for PubClub.com on How to Get Laid in Las Vegas. "That's part of the attraction."
Fortunately for Mr. Lay Vegas and most visitors, it's pretty much business – or party – as usual.
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