Good News/Bad News
There are more than 40 nightclubs in Vegas, and 36 million people visit here every year. Do the math. While not every place is hot every night, but it’s almost certain the club you want into will have a line…a very long line. How long? XS and HAZE on a Saturday night…minimum 2 hours, and as long as 4 hours. For real. Bank and TAO…same. By the time you get in, your buzz is gone, your evening is wasted and your party is pissed. Not good.

Your Hometown Street Cred Means Nothing Here
You may be tight with all the doormen back home in LA, NYC, Chicago, or South Beach, but that doesn’t make you a VIP in Vegas. Every night scores of wannabes try to talk their way past battle-hardened doormen with no luck, so by the time you get a chance to talk to them, they don’t want to hear it.

There are No $40 VIPs
A line pass you buy over the Internet doesn’t make you a VIP…get real. It just moves you from the General Admission line into the slightly shorter VIP line. And doormen are increasingly ignoring these paper-wavers because they screw up the control they want to have over who gets in. A VIP Hosting service is very different from an Internet line pass.

Mr. Jackson and Mr. Benjamin Wait in Line Like Everyone Else
In Vegas, the $20 or $50 “handshake” is how you tip the doorman after you get access…it does not guarantee access. Don’t embarrass yourself by setting your group’s expectations on cruising past the line based on what you’ve seen on TV or in the movies.

Capitalist Myth: A Large Group Gets in Because it Means Big Money
No, actually a group of guys is a walking “weiner convention,” and clubs base their rep on being full of very hot girls and celebrities, especially on Fridays and Saturdays. Groups of girls fare a little better, but a large group without a reservation is seen as disruptive. Walk-up groups have to commit to buying multiple bottles upfront and table fees because tables have to get cleared out to accommodate them, and they leave a “hole” when they depart.

Nightclub Democracy
It may not be fair, but it is how the business works here…hosts and doormen hold all the power. Giving grief to the guy with the clipboard because you’re tired of waiting is the surest way to never get in. VIP Host services like VegasHotSpots.com exist because we know the “game,” and we want to help people like you enjoy Vegas the way we do…as behind-the-velvet-rope VIPs.