Caesars’ Shadow bar is dominated by two enormous backlit screens, where phenomenally enhanced (at least on the night Tip Sheet visited) dancers gyrate topless to high-energy house music. (Shadow also features internationally recognized flair bartenders who juggle bottles and do back flips. They could have set themselves on fire for all the crowd cared.)
Risque, a nightclub at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel, hosts Burlesque Sundays, with performers in colorful bustiers and feather boas.
At Light, Bellagio’s sultry dance club, sexy go-go girls wiggle on platforms while guests indulge in pricey bottle-service drinks and try (usually in vain) to flirt with the dancers. “The go-go girls get the crowd going,” says Light’s Sean Christie. “And it doesn’t hurt that they’re nice to look at.”
At the Hard Rock Hotel, Wednesdays are Sex on the Beach nights, with a troupe of burlesque dancers from L.A. performing old-fashioned cabaret. (The black lace and garters are the real draw.)
The Palms’ Skin Pool Lounge showcases bikini-clad go-go girls on floating platforms. Inside the lavender-colored pool, long-tressed mermaids swim seductively.
At the MGM Grand’s newest bar, Tabu, waitresses change their lacy outfits in shifts, getting more provocative as the night wears on. And there’s always Studio 54, with caged female and male dancers. Ah, Las Vegas, land of equal-opportunity exploitation.
