Resurrecting an old thread...
I just came back from Vegas & (wo)man...it was incredible. I hadn't been there since I graduated high school. I saw 3 Canucks games (didn't get to see the end of Game 7 because I was on my way home...& I could have written a novel about that)...
Anyway, I wanted to add to this thread my experiences.
I went down there with virtually no money (less than 200 US for 4 1/2 nights). Although our CAN$ is getting stronger (at about 73 cents to the US $ as of today), the US is still comparatively an expensive place to travel to.
Fortunately, I met up with friends (from Vancouver) who hooked me up with hotel, dinner, drinks.
For those guys who are going a little light in the pocket, I can recommend you to stay away from the Bellagio. You'll see incredibly hot women at the Baccarat Bar, but they are incredibly hot for a reason: $$$. They can sniff out the drunk tycoons & clamour to them like snakes. But, if you've got $$$, who knows? YMMV.
The Aladdin right now is supposedly in bankruptcy, so if you want to take a lady back to your room (although everywhere I've read recommends against it), there's no security to stop you & it's a nice hotel (across the Bellagio).
I went to a couple night clubs (Ibiza USA at the Aladdin, the Beach, Studio 54 at the MGM Grand, the Voodoo Lounge at the Rio, & the Ra at the Luxor). With the exception of the Beach, the others played a heavy rotation of dance & electronica).
However, if the club scene is not your scene (it's not mine to meet women), the Hard Rock Hotel bar in the centre & the MGM Grand's bar in the centre are great places to meet women, possibly women that aren't SPs. There were guaranteed SPs lurking Hard Rock, but the women I met were post-college age looking to party (& mighty fine as well as no attitude!)
Unfortunately, I didn't get to check out any of the strip clubs as I got way too drunk (with incriminating pictures to prove it). However one thing I did remember is that before I went to any of the clubs, the taxi drivers would always make a point to either tell you or stop by Club Paradise, which is across the Hard Rock Hotel. If you go in, the driver gets a commission. It got annoying after awhile, because that was something I wanted to do at the end of the night...if I didn't get any play. Big recommendations from the taxi drivers were Cheetahs, Club Paradise, & Crazy Horse II. It just made me wonder how much of a commission they guys make.
About SWs though...there were two that my friends & I noticed that were outside Barbary Coast. It was weird because the Strip is relatively a flashy place & they looked out of place, as they looked kind of haggard. It was a little sad when they mentioned "Everyone's looking at us? Why is everyone looking at us?" We were looking at them because they look way too strung out...a little out of what the Strip typified...regulated "fun".
All in all, I'm definitely going to Las Vegas again.