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Makingdo

Double Bachelor party of 12 guys from Sydney arriving on the 29th.

Hey r/vegas! Looking for some advice or maybe some contacts. We have 2 bucks in our group and want to give them a good send off, we have 4 nights in Vegas!

I've heard there are companies that organise a package with bars, nightclubs and strip clubs. Is that the way to go or does that just make it more expensive than necessary?

We are staying at The Cosmopolitan and are keen for a great time but we will also need to offset our crappy Aussie dollar exchange rate with some cheap all you can drink or eat places on some of the other nights.

Help us r/vegas, you're our only hope!

Posted Jan 15, 2016, 6:17 AM UTC

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jrshaul•

Are you willing to leave the Strip?

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MakingdoOP•

Yeah for sure, we want to mix it up and do some stuff on and off the strip.

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jrshaul•

You made the right answer.

  • Don't go to whatever strip club your taxi driver recommends. They get massive kickbacks. Actually, just fuck those guys in general. Take an Uber or Lyft and rock the $20+ freebie codes.
  • The Pinball Hall of Fame is probably the most fun you're going to get for $6 in Las Vegas.
  • Merkato Ethiopian is between the airport and the strip, lulz cheap, and open quite late. They do vegetarian, though they have a literal raw meat sandwich for the carnivores.
  • Chinatown: Actually pretty great. There's a huge array of neat stuff: Izakaya Go is a lot of fun or you can just send someone out for $4.25 Banh Mi from Pho Kinh Do. Or all-you-can eat sushi, or Korean BBQ, etc.
  • Fremont Street is a fair whack cheaper than the Strip, and getting drunk and playing on the playground equipment at Container Park once they kick out the kids at 9 is fun. (This is encouraged.) Atomic Liquors is where the locals go, and the Bunkhouse is fun too. (DISCLAIMER: I live near Fremont Street and your drunken antics may be used as photography practice. No, I'm not a crackhead. Yes, my neighbors are.)
  • People who gamble say that sitting down and handing over your money is better at El Cortez than doing the same thing on the strip. I don't see the appeal in either; YMMV.
  • Promoters will make your life a lot more pleasant if you want to go to the hyper-clubs. There's at least one in the sidebar.
  • The crazy race-car shit is great fun, but see if you can book well in advance and get a discount - and not all providers are equal. See also: the backhoes at Dig This!
  • There is paintball, and then there is cheap paintball in the middle of nowhere for locals. I hear Vegas Xtreme is nice, and the rates - ~$25 for rental gear and entry plus paint - look very reasonable.
  • If you want to eat a giant lump of meat on the Strip, the steakhouse at the Top of the World is pretty decent for $50 and the view is freaking fantastic (the gnocci suck, though.) Also, you get the $20 admission to the observation deck waived, so you can get drunk first on $5 happy hour drinks (which are cheaper than you can probably get on the ground.) There's also a stand that does $1 Jell-O shots, I think.
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MakingdoOP•

Thanks heaps for this! Will definitely check out those. Great tip about the Ubers and Lyfts too!

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jrshaul•

Also worth noting - if you're going to drink like the proud subjects of the Queen you are, send someone on a voyage to a Trader Joe's. $3 for a bottle of passable wine, $7 for a fifth of drinkable rum, and 1/3 the price of anything on the Strip.

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Doctor_Pujoles•

You should put this in the FAQ for the every-other-day bachelor party questions.

Even when people ignore the FAQ and ask anyway, it'll be easier to just copy/paste this into their post, mock them for not searching first and be on our way. :)

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SurlyQueue•

There's a secret pizza place on the third floor of the Cosmo. If you can find it, it's a great late night snack on the cheap.

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Kraul•

If 5-6$ a slice is cheap then yeah I guess it is

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SurlyQueue•

Is it that much? For some reason, I thought it was cheaper than that. I guess that says something about my mental state at that point in the trip.

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westtexasforever•

Besides Vegas are you going anywhere else on your trip? Flying from Australia - Vegas for only 4 days seems like a huge waste of time.

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