As
if there wasn’t already enough temptation in Sin
City – now there are Las Vegas pool parties to distract
the millions who come to the city for a wild time. A Las
Vegas pool party is, well, exactly what you would expect:
it’s a daytime recreation of the lusty wilderness
of a Vegas nightclub, complete
with house DJs, overpriced drinks and thin, tanned bodies
writhing on the dancefloor. Just replace the dim, pink
and green lights of the nightclub with the welcoming glow
of the midday sun, and you have the newest trend in entertainment
– Las Vegas pool parties.
It all began with the Rehab pool party, located behind
the Hard Rock Hotel.
Still going strong, it’s considered the hippest
place to work off your hangover – the pool party
starts at noon and lasts until the sun goes down, and
offers all the fruity drinks, hot tub action and even
poolside blackjack tables just in case you actually came
to Las Vegas to do some gambling. Clubwear is shunned
in favor of bikinis and board shorts, as the Rehab pool
party is just as the name would suggest – it mixes
the party lifestyle with the relaxation of the sand and
surf, a combination that has proved eminently successful
since its inception in 2002.
But it wouldn’t be the strip if there wasn’t
some friendly competition. Many hotels now offer similar
Las Vegas pool parties, and now you don’t even have
to wait until Sunday to enjoy them. The Bare Las Vegas
pool party has grown in renown since it’s opening
at the Mirage, and subtly offers
“European-style sunbathing,” the most obvious
euphemism in the history of euphemisms. Open five days
a week, it also opens the earliest of any of them (for
instance, the first Rehab pool party of the year doesn’t
come along until the conclusion of April), and features
nearby dolphins at play, along with the usual trappings.
The entrance fee is a little bit steeper than the other
Las Vegas pool parties: $30 for men and $10 for women
during weekdays and an additional $10 for weekend parties.
The cheapest Las Vegas pool party is held at the Venus
behind Caesar’s Palace,
where everyone gets in for a twenty.
The newest Las Vegas pool party is angling to replace
Rehab at the top of the list when it comes to this form
of entertainment. The Tao Beach Club at the Venetian
is playing off its nightclub of the same name, which is
always the hippest, most exclusive nightclub in Vegas
at any time of the year. And now they are branching out
into the pool party scene, offering Sunset Sundays at
7pm, where the party lasts well into the night. Who needs
nightclubs when you have so many pool parties to choose
from?
