Privé

Well, this is definitely not the biggest or the BEST club in Vegas, but I don’t think it’s as bad as these reviews make it out to be.
We decided to go to Prive last Monday night since we were staying at Planet Hollywood anyways. Also, a promoter outside the hotel informed us that they were having a Michael Jackson tribute that night, and who doesn’t love a little MJ? But I will get back to those promoters in a minute… We had put ourselves on the guest list, and as soon as we went and asked a bouncer, we got in almost instantly.
We had a really good time that night — The Michael Jackson impersonator was actually very good! Sang, danced & he even looked a lot like him! He performed several sets in between the regular music, and it was highly entertaining. Good job Prive!
There was also some random guy there dressed like Mr. T and I just had to get a picture with this man! hahaha With that being said, the crowd here admittedly, was a little more ghetto than your major clubs such as XS, Tao or Tryst. They definitely play way more hip hop here than anything else, but that’s OK with me — Fun to dance to & sing along with. They even played the Vegas version of «I’m in Miami Bitch,» by replacing the word ‘Miami’ with ‘Las Vegas.’ The whole crowd sings along. It’s a great time :)
But be forewarned about the so-​called «club promoters» outside. On this last trip to Vegas, we stayed at the Planet Hollywood hotel for a full 7 nights. There was not one day where we were not approached and given «VIP access» wrist bands. EVERY SINGLE DAY. And they were giving them to everyone. So how VIP is that, really? I mean, I know all clubs hand out passes and whatnot, but every day the promoter & the story would change. Sometimes, they told us that these bracelets let us skip the line. Other times, it was free cover, or free drinks for ladies… Every single thing you can think of came out of their mouths, and none of it was true. The wrist band will get you a whole lot of nothing — Just do yourself a favor and get on guest list. That will at least get you in with no wait and way reduces your cover charges. I’m glad we did.
However, I was disappointed by one thing — I had read in several places that Prive holds a weekly event on Mondays called «Money for Nothing» Mondays, in which they drop $ 5,000 cash onto the dance floor. This definitely did not happen — and we stayed til almost close. Maybe it was because they had the special event with the Michael Jackson impersonator there that night, and so it wasn’t their normal industry night, but that was one of the main reasons we thought this would be a fun club to go to. Allthough, I did recently read that they are going bankrupt and may close soon, so that may also be another reason they didn’t do it. I’m not sure. But in either case, I was a little let down.
Also, if you like watching eye candy, jaw-​dropping hot go go dancers, Prive is not the club for you. There were absolutely no real dancers! Girls were allowed to get up and dance in the spots where the dancers SHOULD have been, but let’s be honest — Your average girl at Prive is not the same as a professional go go dancer.
Overall, we had a really good time that night, but I just don’t think we’ll be going back. I’d rather spend my time at Tao or Tryst.

LAAAAME.
We arrived late Friday night and weren’t planning on hitting up any clubs. I was wearing a sundress and flip flops. As we strolled down the strip, a promoter gave the 6 of us girls wristbands for free entry to Prive. We decided to check it out.
Got in line. Bouncer wouldn’t let us in due to my flip flops (sorry girls) and then he seemed iffy and checked our wristbands to see who the promoter was. When he saw the number underneath, he said no. Wow… shady business! So I ran back to the room and changed.
At the door they tried to charge girls $ 40 each. We refused. So they said $ 10 each. Uhhhh… what was the point of the wristbands? So we left. On the way out, the guy stamped our wrists and we turned around and got in for free. Idiots.
So there’s the secret… go upstairs and if they make you pay, go back downstairs and get a stamp from the bouncer as if you’re just leaving for in/​out privileges. Now go take advantage of them, because they tried to take advantage of us! Jerks!
But the club wasn’t even worth all that trouble. Small and ehhhhh and too pretentious. So maybe save your money and go elsewhere!

BOTTLE SERVICE
hell if we are going to do this. we are gonna do it right!
1 weekend in vegas, 2 nights
2 clubs
bottle service at both
started off here. and never coming back again!!!
i am from l.a.
and in los angeles we have this little anoying radio station called KIIS FM
they specialize in playing the one song that is popular right now… over and over and over and over and (well you get the point)
i never heard of a club doing that more than twice!
so its march 2010 i guess that song is blackeyepeas not sure what the song is but something about being a «having a feeling about a good good night» IT WAS PLAYED 5 TIMES!
now me being a guy i would like the sight of hot girls all over each other and showing the most skin, but these girls here thought it was some sort of pegeant! and selling themselves to the highest bidder!
luckily we had a table… but we still kept these girls away!
the guys… well not to be a stereotypical prick but i bet their favorite movies are scarface and the love the Dodgers. probably have ‘LA’ somewhree tattooed.
too over priced
music was annoying
crowd was generic
bouncers were dicks
i think i’ll just keep clear of planet hollywood

OMD… Oh Mon Dieu.
The worst club in one of the newest hotel, Planet Hollywood.
The place was all right, the bouncers were just typical crooks. We got in front of the line because we looked Hot, that is what they said and the bouncer let us go and took $ 20 under the table. They do that 50 times and they make a pretty good living… Whatever we got lucky there.
The DJ was just plain awful. played songs fore 3mn and would change to a different beat and people would just stop on the dance floor.
Bad bad place.

One star because I have to…
Never, will I ever step foot into this place again. I knew it the moment I stepped foot into the hotel that the club would probably be «funky». I didn’t like the colors, the patrons, or the tacky go-​go dancers in the hotel casino. I can’t totally explain it but the vibe/​atmosphere seemed pretty tacky and low-​budg. Honestly, I’m not surprised to see all the negative reviews.
I was with a group of girls, and we walked all the way from The Bank in The Bellagio, so we’d thought we’d at least check it out. There were tons of lines outside to get in, well if you could call them lines (people were packed outside in a disorderly fashion). Somehow we eventually finagled our way to the front and one of the bouncers let the 5 of us inside — without having to pay — thank goodness!
Once inside we proceeded to pay $ 17 per drink, per weak drink that is. Mind you, I didn’t «call» my alcohol. So for all I know, I could have been drinking Smirnoff (gasp!). The upside of this was that it was already late in the night and my taste buds weren’t so finicky. We walked into the main dance floor where men were standing completely still and in awe, gawking at the poor dancers on stage. Off to the left there was a lame group of people burning money, dollar bills at that. Side note: If you want to impress people and think you can do so by the act of burning money, then have the decency to burn something more than a 1 dollar bill. Which by the way, isn’t it illegal to burn money?
Moving on to the crowd, literally I don’t know where some of these people came from. That’s all I’m saying about that.
On to the music/​sound system. It was so horrible that even if I could tolerate the madness, it seriously made it unbearable to be there. The sound was scratchy and not too clear, and it was super loud and shaky. So much so that we all joked about how we felt the shaking in our throats even! Jeez. When asked about the sound, we were told it was a top of the line, super expensive sound system. One of the «best in the world» in fact. Uh, OK if you say so.
Point is I don’t mind paying $ 17 a drink if I’m having a good time and if the drink has some kick to it, but can we get a decent crowd, and decent tunes over some good equipment?
Sorry to be so harsh, but sheesh!
P. S. You were warned!

We didn’t have to wait long or pay a cover, so the experience here started off well. It was fine until some motherfucker creeped up behind me, grabbed my hand, then put it on his tiny little boner. Then some cuntface bitch almost started a girl fight with my cousin. Sigh.
So I decided to get water from the bar, which was $ 6. For $ 6, I should be getting some micropurified shit from the artesian well of heaven, not a dwarf bottle of fucking Evian. If water is that much, they must be charging up the ass for alcohol.

Watered-​down Long Island Ice Tea: $ 16
Coat Check: $ 5
Cover for entry: $ 0
Getting bumped into, drinks spilled on you, toes stepped on, losing oxygen and sweating like crazy: Priceless
I can’t put a price on a club that seemed like it’d be awesome but turned out to be rubbish in my opinion. Maybe I missed something at Privé, but I wasn’t feeling it.
I wanted to love Privé. Really, I did. We were lucky enough to not have to wait in the insane line on Saturday night. It’s a mass and a mess that I was happy to avoid, but once inside, I was not impressed. I think it was over rated and I know that clubs are supposed to be crowded and expensive and such, but for some reason, this spot isn’t my cup of tea.
Some love it, some hate it, some just won’t go back, like me! You may like it, I just didn’t.

The line situation was crazy. Unfortunately for about a dozen people or so, a girl happened to drunk way to much and threw up a cornucopia of goodies. Ceviche anyone?
Luckily for me, I had VIP so that meant only a 10 minute wait in line as opposed to 30 minutes. The escalator ride up is a great photo op for those that are into that sort of thing.
The club itself is on the smallish side. But VIP sections are located throughout. We sat next to Lil’ Jon, who had one of the largest bodyguards I’ve ever seen. The guy was a walking bungalow.
I had a great time. Business was conducted freely and several transactions took place. It was fun. I would go again, but through VIP only. The general admission is bananas!
Yeeee – aaaaahhhhh…

Halloween VEGAS REVIEW — part 3
Where are we going?
It is funny because I was here last July… went, saw and left the last time I had tried to enter this club. This time around we actually got bottle service and cruised right on up that damned escalator. And this is how the encounter unraveled.
We rolled up the crowd that was the line, made a phone call, and promptly got escorted up those mechanical stairs. We were led to the table and bottles and bottles and mixers. The music was bumpin’ and our hostess knows how to mix a mean vodka everythang! I LARB YOU, my blond haired mixtress you… you were blond right?
Grant it that it wasn’t the best table but it was a table with a view. A view of all the beautiful… erm, female revelers in all their glory or lack their of. Hell, we know some of them… the ‘Queen of Hearts’ and ‘Snow White’ to name a few… and then the Socal ladies rolled up with their lovely smiles and legs for days… we know them too.
Gotta love the SBC!
;D

COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME.
DO NOT EVER GO HERE.
WORST CLUB EVER.
Our experience was much like Jaclyn’s. Can someone just close this [f*cked up excuse for a] club down already?!
1. Our promoter told us that we needed to show up with a group of 5 girls total for a booth and free bottle service. When we got there it was. *gasp* 7 girls instead! Wow, what a surprise. They lied. So, we hustle and made a few new friends.
2. Next, we had to pay $ 10 each. It’s half our cover and was required for utilizing their bottle service. So, we coughed up $ 70.
3. We get a bottle of Sky Vodka. After 30 minutes at our booth, we got the boot. They SOLD our ‘effin table and were moving us to the bar. Our bottle was still half full. We had to pour whatever was left into plastic cups as we were shuffled towards the bar.
4. They got us a free round of shots. After we ordered our Patron shots, Mr. Security Guard #1 came up to us and said we needed to tip $ 40 or else we need to leave the club. Tip who?! Our waitress? The one who came over once before they kicked us out of the table they promised us?! F*ck that!
5. Since we refused, he proceeded to escort us out through the entrance and down the escalator. Too bad Mr. Security Guard #2 yelled at me and told me that I couldn’t exit that way. So in confusion, I turned around. Mr. Security Guard #1 was behind me and told me to «GET THE F*CK OUT!»
No problem, idiot! I hope this piece of sh*t place gets shut down and you’re out on your ass, Mr. Security Guard #1.

Our original plan was to hit up XS. Arrived there around 11pm, the line was moving but had wrapped around the hotel to no-man’s-land. So many people for both general admission and table service. We knew it would be super crowded. Plus $ 50 per guy, just not worth it.
Onto Privé~ One of our friends had VIP bracelets for Privé. But when we got there they said the bracelets were no longer valid. They were willing to give the guys a discount. But at that point, my friends had lost their partying mojo and just wanted to gamble. So they sent us girls up to check out the club.
The place was small but poppin’. AND a total sausagefest. I guess it’s a good thing for some girls, since guys kept inviting us to their tables to drink. But we politely turned them down cuz we’re good girls! haha. =P
Overall, it’s not too bad. Good music. Lively crowd. I just really hated the layout of the place. It was almost impossible to find anything. There’s no walkway. So either push your way through the dance floor or sneak through the VIP section. Finding the bathroom and the club exit was a quest on its own.

My review may be unfair… I didnt go in.
The line for this place was the most unorganized blob of pushing and shoving people I’ve ever seen. On top of that… the general admission line was long as all get out and there were no cute guys in it. I looked at every single person in that line. It was mostly females… BLAH! This is Vegas… a manfest! Jermaine Dupri must be one helluva DJ. Prive will be a club I go to on a Wednesday or Thursday when I come back. (If I ever come back to this club. There’s so many other options)

Good thing we got in free with some wristbands cuz the place is not worth paying cover. It’s definitely one of the smaller clubs on the Strip and most of the real estate is for tables. You have this tiny strip of a dance floor that also doubles as a main artery walkway. You can dance for 10 seconds and then expect to be interrupted as somebody rudely pushes their way through the crowd.
Oh yea, the exit is by the bathrooms. They don’t really tell you where the exit is, you just walk towards different exit signs and then somebody would stop you once you get too close.
But the thing I hated most of all was the DJ!!! He was horrible. There would be times where the music just stops and you hear the crowd just talking. Transitions would be train whistles, or police sirens that are so annoying you see people putting their fingers to their ears. You would have rock, hip hop, techno, and 80s music within the span of 30 minutes.
I would never go back here.

All of my friends told me Prive is wack and it’s not a place you want to be at if you’re in Vegas, but shoooooot, I had a BLAST here. Maybe it was company? Maybe it was the alcohol? Maybe this place is just actually fun.
We went Memorial Day weekend so the line was pretty crazy, but we eventually got bumped up and were let in :) The music was great, the atmosphere was cool, and the bartender (tall Asian girl) was soooo great! She made my friend and I a special drink that tasted like a birthday cake. YUM! Asher Roth performed this night and I totally thought it was just his music playing, but then I realized that everyone was staring my direction… I looked behind me and he was performing RIGHT behind me! I had such a good time here and I’d definitely come back.

Never again…
The club is very spacious and the dance floor is huge, but the décor is very plain. Our table was supposed to be for 6 but it only fit four, two had to sit on the top of the couch. My problem (I’m going to sound like an old man here) was that the music was waaay too loud. When your ears start too hurt because of the music, you know it’s too loud. I’ve been to plenty of clubs/​concerts/​raves and this was the first time my ears have actually hurt. They have this ambulance siren and truck horn that they would sound at random and it was twice as loud as the actual music.
There was also a lot of obvious drug use going on. The dance floor reeked of bud and the group next to us was doing lines off the table. I know, I know it’s Vegas and I’m no hater, but it made the club feel less classy and reminded me of a rave. My friend brought this to our host’s attention and asked if this club was «legit». His answer, «this club is totally legit, but if you don’t want it to be legit, I can make that happen too.» BEST LINE EVER. If you want to sum Vegas up in one line, that was IT.
2 Stars go out to our awesome host. He didn’t try to screw us like LAX and he went out of his way to bring hot girls up for my single friends. We waited less than 5 minutes to get in and we got bouncer escort to a private bathroom. He was a way cool guy and bent over backward to make sure we had a good time.
When we went back to the escalators to leave, we were redirected to the «exit». I told the bouncer, there’s a down escalator right there and asked why I couldn’t use it. He said it’s not the «exit» and that I had to go back through the club to the other side. It was then that I realized the illusion, they don’t want people exiting where others enter so it «looks» like nobody’s leaving when in fact the club was emptying out around 2.

This club is pretty dinky, but maybe that was just because I had been to Tao the night before.
However, Steve Aoki was DJing, which made the atmosphere a lot better.
It was also HILARIOUS when they had the Michael Jackson impersonator come out. So awesome.
I also noticed a couple UFC fighters in the building.
It is very similar to a strip club in terms of near-​naked, toned girls getting paid to shake their asses for an audience. But the main point was to create a sexy atmosphere, I believe, which they succeeded in doing.
There was no line to get in here, unlike Tao, and it wasn’t too bad of a price either. $ 30 for my guy and $ 20 for myself.
The experience was good, but not great.

It really depends, when it comes to clubs. It’s all on the hookups, time of day, your spirit, the crowd, etc. Or sometimes it’s just based on some serendipity workin’ its way onto you (you know you liked that movie).
The first time I came here was great. Us girls just got dropped off by our crazy taxi man in front of Planet Hollywood, and the guy up front tells us to go to Prive. We tell him that’s what we’re there for, to get the party started and he says he’ll hook it up. So one of us tells him well go escort us then so he takes us all the way up past the crowds, up the elevators, and we’re in there like *bam*. I had to later get a mysterious stranger up there too, so we go down to pick him and his friend up and do get them through the crowds, only with some added flirtation and what not with the guys workin’ it. We get them in but they still have to pay $ 30 (but it’s Vegas?).
The second time I went here I hollered at the lady who gave me her card (btw, don’t buy those tickets they sell on the streets. Just get a promoter to hook it up-they’ll find you, or you go holler at them. It’s better if they find you though, so just shop around the mall and go around the streets).
This time I was with a mix of guys and girls, however, so we did have to wait a bit until shady man in charge of the lines demanded loads of money for us to get in. So we had to help our guy homies out, and we all pitched in. Because of that, it really wasn’t too much of a cover, so it’s all good.
Vegas is a great place to go with only girls because of the better treatment you’ll receive, but even if you go with your guys, help them out. Don’t make them pay ALL the time now. Only in Vegas… right? Gotta make the nights good for everyone.
Btw I didn’t add about the club itself-it’s nice, huge, a newer happenin’ club versus other ones, and honestly, all the main clubs in Vegas are nice anyways. Plus, a lot of it is based on how you’re treated and who you’re with, since the most important things in life aren’t things but people!

I was a bit shocked with my night here. My review is based on the following facts: VIP list and table with bottle service.
That said, we didn’t have to «wait» in line. That automatically helps when review this place because let me tell you, if you don’t have tits or have $$ for bottle service or to: grease: some wheels, so fellows I’m talking about you. You will simply be waiting outside for a loooooong while. And this goes for just about every club in Vegas.
Prive was actually a nice little place. The VIP services were typical to what you’d expect at any trendy club. Prices were right on what you’d expect to pay at a well known Vegas club. The VIP location was actually cool, at least ours was. We not right on the dance floor so you could regulate who kicks it or who doesnt.
I liked Prive mostly because even though it was packed, you still had room to breath, dance, and move around. That’s always a plus if you don’t want to shell out for bottle service. The music is what you will hear at any other club. So I will not even waste time talking about that.
Overall its a decent spot, clean, has enough room, and its average!

My work place rented out for a tradeshow gathering. The place is lovely on the inside. So new it doesn’t smell like piss in the corners. Nice thing to enjoy at a club. I sat most of the night, never a good idea to act a fool around your boss. But, I was impressed. I felt like the girls working could have been a bit more polite to our guests but, for the most part they were quick with drinks and not wearing much. Most of the team enjoyed that.
Wouldn’t mind going again… without my company!

So last Friday, my friends and I were hanging out at the Planet Hollywood pool, and one of the promoters approached us for VIP Passes and what not. She then mentioned that if we had 10+ girls in our group, she would be able to comp us a table and a bottle or two of vodka. So of course we said yes, since we already had a group of 12 girls and were meeting up with a couple more.
Since we had the comped table service, we were able to bypass the mob of people standing at the bottom of the escalator. I think that they have a really poor setup for the club line. There’s no line, just people trying to get through people in a crowd. But luckily, we were able to walk straight in without waiting. We ended up having 20 girls at our table.
I don’t know if it’s because Prive has been around for awhile or what, but the club was at the perfect capacity. Not too many people to the point where you can’t move or dance, and enough people that you don’t feel like the place is empty and dead.
The music was pretty good here, and the setup is not bad in the club. Overall, I actually had a great time here. Even though it’s not my favorite Vegas club, I had a great time here. Sadly, most of my favorite clubs are way too crowded (example: TAO, i love it there but i cant stand how crowded it is)