While I agree to some of the original poster's comments about Ibiza, I cannot believe anyone would recommend Vegas as a clubbing destination.
I had the misfortune to spend 3 days in Vegas last year (NOT through choice I hasten to add, but we'd spent 3 weeks doing a bit of an American roadtrip and we'd ended up at the Grand Canyon and Death Valley so Vegas seemed the logical place to fly back from....and I thought it couldn't be 'that' bad - oh how wrong I was
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While I am sure there are umpteen perfectly nice normal people who go to Vegas every year, a lot of the clientele when we were there did seem to fall into one of 2 categories:
1) The VERY worse type of American - loud, lairy, obnoxious, acted like it was the first time they had ever been out in their life and thought they were KERRAAAZY because they were walking down the Strip in the daytime drinking alcohol from giant test tubes. Kerrrazy I tell you
2) The VERY worse type of Bit - loud, lairy, obnoxious, coked up tw@ts who thought they were something special because they are flashing a bit of cash. No you just look like a coked up tw@t trying to be something special by flashing a bit of cash
The clubbing 'scene' (in fact you can't even call it a scene) is so backward - think a big glitzed up version of a small town Ritzy and that's the Vegas clubbing scene. There are dress codes
, it is all table bottle service, getting into VIP is the highlight of most people's night. And don't even get me onto the music - a night at Pacha would seem musically underground to what the Vegas clubs play.
One thing Vegas does do well is swimming pools and the pool at our hotel (Aria) was lovely and my little sanctuary....well until early afternoon when it turned into the Pool Party from Hell
(this is typical of most Vegas hotels). Think Paris Hilton wannabee types and aforementioned coked up Brits swaying to a commerical pap (house/RnB) soundtrack complete with MC.
I might have no desire to go back to Ibiza in it's current state but if I was forced to go back to Ibiza or Vegas, Ibiza would win EVERY day of the week.