My boyfriend and I are going to Las Vegas next month, and the Sunday that we’ll be there is his birthday. I’ve been trying to think of something special I can do for him, and what I’ve come up with is taking him to a strip club (as a surprise). But I’ve never been to Vegas before, so I need recommendations!
I’d like to find a place that’s on the upscale side, and also welcomes female customers – I don’t want to be the only chick in there who isn’t on stage. We’re staying on the strip, but I’ll happily pay for a reasonable cab ride if the club is worth it.
The Spearmint Rhino, hands down.
I’ve been a few strip clubs in the Denver, and honestly, this was a crazy new experience. I’m not sure I saw the same woman walk by our table twice the same night, and we were there for probably four hours.
It’s not cheap. $25 or $30 cover. I ended up running a bar tab of $240 (with tip, two people), but definitely worth it. We ended up catching a limo outside the Flamingo to get there, and the guy charged us $30 after some haggling.
As a note, my brother, sister and I went there for my sister’s 21st birthday a few weeks ago, and everyone was awesome to her. She even got a few lap dances, and had a great time. Well, until the next morning, heh.
The Rhino. Safe & classy. Last time I was there, I fell in with an 'extras girl," and that put me off my feed a bit, but once I shooed her away, I had a great time. Take chocolate.
(At the London Rhino a girl kept calling the place the “Mouthwash Hippo.” I still have to get away from typing that.)
Rhino’s is cool, but it’s really big and busy. I recommend Cheetahs for a smaller setting, if that’s your bag. My buddies and I like to go there daytime (no cover) and drink beer and watch football.
Avoid Sapphire’s. I went once because I have a thing for “World’s Biggest” type places, and Sapphires is the world’s biggest titty bar. That novelty wears off fast though. It’s just too darn big.
Nobody will glance twice at a non working girl in any Vegas club. It’s normal. Although, I do have a standing offer of a crisp Franklin to any of my buddies who have a big enough set of brass to ask a clearly non-working girl for a lap dance in front of their male companion.
I’m a big fan of Olympic Gardens. My wife and I went there when we were in LV for our wedding. The Rhino is just to… I don’t know. I think I’m spoiled because I live in Portland. Strip club capital of the US (highest number of strip clubs per capita! All nude and they serve alchohol!)
An “extras girl,” a girl who pretends to be a stripper but who in fact performs sex. Prostitution is legal in Nevada (everyone knows that), but illegal in the greater Las Vegas area. I do not patronize prostitutes and do not go to strip clubs for that purpose.
Further she had a thick Panamanian accent. I seem to attract Panamanians. Why, I don’t know. But I digress.
I am certain that you with your husband would not be bothered by such a thing at the Rhino.
Thanks for all the recommendations! Unfortunately, however, this thread is now kind of moot: I brought up the topic of strip clubs to my SO during tonight’s baseball game, just to kind of feel him out a little, and it turns out that he’s not really into them. For a bachelor party or something, sure, but not just for no other reason. (Whether strip clubs are like porn, in that every guy always wants to go to one no matter what he says in front of his girlfriend, is a matter for a different thread. grin) So now I have to come up with a Birthday Plan B, which will probably wind up just being him picking his favorite restaurant for dinner (he’s been there enough times to have a favorite restaurant).
But feel free to continue discussing Vegas strip clubs if you’d like…
I’m surprised he wasn’t interested. Then again, he might now be 100% clear both of you are going. Let me tell you a story:
When I met my g/f and we shared stories about our past, I mentioned that I went to the Crazy Horse (strip club in SF) several times by myself. My girlfriend was, at the time, majorly creeped out about the idea of a guy going to a strip club by himself. This kind of annoyed me, since it implied that going to a strip club wasn’t so much a social activity, but one straight guys do under peer pressure- nobody REALLY wants to go, but they’re all goading each other into it kind of scenario. I saw it as an activity that I did by myself, just like going to a movie theater by myself or eating at a nice restaurant by myself (all of which she thought was strange). I mentioned to her that they really like girls there, because if there is a girl in the audience the strippers will do stuff to her (with her consent, of course) and of course all the other guys like it.
On our anniversary, she surprised the hell out of me by taking me to the Crazy Horse. We had a lot of fun, since she’s just as into girls as I am. She said it was the first time she got to squeeze unlcothed boob (not counting her own I guess). We’ve gone several more times since then, and its funny since she’s the one talking me into going. The last time got really raunchy, with the stripper pulling my girlfriend’s top/bra down. Some people may be skeeved out by this, but for us it was really fun, and its an interesting phenomenon when the stripper takes some woman’s clothes off everybody is suddenly fixated on Jane Doe- regardless of her appearance, weight, etc every guy is more interested in her than the actual stripper. Going was actually a confidence-booster for her, because she liked the attention (being an ordinarily passive person).
I’ve seen this quite a few times and it’s a 100% true. Guys like stuff that’s supposed to be off limits. Anybody can see a stripper’s boobs, but a regular girls boobs? Now that’s something! (Don’t worry, a stripper will only involve a female audience member with her consent)
Same thing at Mardi Gras. 100 guys will crowd around a plain old girl who may be fixing to pull her top up for a split second. Hey fellas, there’s a strip club with no line and no cover 10 meters from here. Anybody?
And as an aside, a like to go to strip clubs alone sometimes. Sometimes I want to go out, and not know anyone there but still have fun. A strip club is perfect for that.
Jesus, that is not an activity for men and women to do together.
Yeah, like some time when his girlfriend isn’t with him.
Yeah, yeah. . .someone’s going to come along and tell me how much they like going to strip clubs with their girlfriend and it gets them both worked up. But, clearly your boyfriend is like the rest of the planet, not the two dopers who seem to make up the exception to every rule.
There are places that some guys just don’t want women around. The golf course and strip clubs come to mind pretty quickly.
Nope, he was 100% clear about that. After the general feeling-out conversation and finding out that he wasn’t all “yeah, I should go to a strip club again someday,” I told him what I’d been thinking.
Dude, whatever. :rolleyes: You can ramble about your “exceptions to the rule” all you want, but it always comes down to the particular couple. If he was the kind of guy who wouldn’t ever want me to go to a club with him, I wouldn’t have suggested it.
You know what might be a compromise: Cirque Du Soleil has a show in Vegas called “Zoomanity” (or “Zumanity” I’m not sure) that’s the “sensual” and “adult” version. Not a strip club but still a intriguing thing to go see.
You’d be surprised. I don’t know how many/how many times you’ve been to strip clubs, but the last several times I’ve been there were couples there. Hell, last weekend when we went there were six couples there, including a few my parents’ ages. :dubious:
