How much does it cost to go to a Las Vegas strip club?

The four things you actually pay for

Strip club pricing confuses people because it is four separate charges rather than one ticket, and nobody explains them in order. Here they are.

1. Entry

Walk up entry generally runs 20 to 50 dollars in the evening, higher on big weekends and event nights. It is often waived or reduced entirely if you are on a guest list or arriving through a host, and weeknights are consistently cheaper than Friday and Saturday.

Many clubs also bundle entry with transport from your hotel. Those packages are usually good value if the timing suits you, because you are paying roughly what the drinks alone would cost.

2. The drink minimum

Most Las Vegas clubs run a two drink minimum per person, with drinks at 15 to 25 dollars each. So budget 30 to 50 dollars per head as a floor, before anything else. This is not optional and it is not a scam, it is how the room works, but it does surprise people who walked in expecting to nurse one beer.

3. Dances

On the floor, a dance runs roughly 20 to 40 dollars per song. The value tier clubs sit around 20 to 30, the more upscale rooms around 30 to 40. You will often be offered a package instead, commonly something like one song for 40 or three songs for 100.

4. VIP rooms

Private and semi private rooms typically start around 200 to 500 dollars per half hour, and climb from there by club, room tier and night. This is where the large numbers people tell stories about come from. If you are on a budget, the floor is where you want to stay.

Realistic budgets

• A look around, two drinks, no dances: roughly 50 to 100 dollars.
• A normal night, entry plus drinks plus two or three dances: roughly 200 to 400 dollars.
• A bachelor party doing it properly, per head: 400 dollars and up, quickly.
• Anyone who ends up in a VIP room for an hour: assume four figures and be at peace with it.

The variance here is almost entirely down to how much you decide to spend once you are inside, not the door price. Set a number before you go in and take that amount in cash.

Take cash

Cash is genuinely the correct way to do this, for two reasons. Card and in club ATM transactions carry fees that are steep even by Las Vegas standards, and some clubs add a surcharge on card payments for dances. More usefully, cash is a hard limit. When it is gone, the night is over, which is a much easier decision to make at home than at 2am.

Hit an ATM in your hotel before you leave. Small bills matter, since tipping is constant. See how much to tip for the breakdown.

What moves the number

• Night of the week. Weeknights are materially cheaper on entry and quieter inside.
• Big event weekends. Fight weekends, conventions and holidays reprice everything.
• Time you arrive. Earlier is cheaper and calmer. After midnight is peak.
• The club's tier. The large upscale rooms carry higher dance and VIP pricing than the smaller ones.

The one thing that is genuinely free

Getting on a guest list. A host adds your names, entry is reduced or waived, and there is no fee to you for arranging it. That is the same model we run for nightclubs, and it works the same way here. Everything else on this page you should expect to pay for.

Tell a host how many of you there are and which night, and we will sort entry and tell you honestly what the room you are asking about is going to cost once you are inside. No booking fee.