The Las Vegas Girls Trip Nightlife Guide
A group of women planning a Vegas trip has more leverage at these doors than any other group in the city, and most of you have no idea. You are also the group most likely to overpay for things you did not need, because everyone in the industry knows you are the group the venues want. Here is the honest plan, including the parts that are annoying.
Start with the advantage, because it is real
Las Vegas nightclub doors actively manage the balance of the room, which means a group of women is the easiest admit in the city. Practically:
- Guest lists are approved fastest and most reliably for your group.
- Cover, if you pay any, is the lowest tier and is frequently waived entirely before the cutoff.
- You will be moved through lines that groups of men wait an hour in.
- Venues will occasionally offer you things to be in the room. Some of those offers are good and some are not, which we get to below.
Use this. It means the free guest list is genuinely a viable plan for your whole trip, and money you were going to spend on cover can go on a daybed instead, which is a much better purchase.
The three night plan
Night one: arrive, eat, go somewhere you can hear each other
Nobody has a good first night in a nightclub. You have flown, you have not eaten properly, and half the group is still in travel clothes. Do a good dinner and a cocktail lounge instead. The Strip's lounge scene is genuinely excellent now, the drinks are better than anything in a club, there is no cover, and you can actually talk. Then go to bed at a reasonable hour so night two works.
Day two: the pool. This is the main event.
This is the single strongest recommendation in this guide. A dayclub is the better version of a Vegas party for most groups of women: you can talk, you can sit, you can be in the water, the music is the same calibre of DJ, and it ends at sunset with your evening still ahead of you.
Book a daybed if there are four or more of you. It gives you a base, a server, somewhere to leave your bags while you swim, and shade if you take a cabana. See cabana vs daybed pricing for the numbers. And be at the door by 11:30am, because the free loungers are gone before noon.
Night two: the big club night
This is the night to spend on. Get on a free guest list before 11pm, or book a table if there are six or more of you. Pick the room for the music you actually want to hear rather than the name you recognise: the open format and hip hop rooms are far more fun for a group who wants to sing along than the big EDM rooms are.
Night three: something else entirely
A show, a rooftop, a nice dinner, a comedy club. Three nightclub nights in a row is not a trip, it is an endurance event, and the third one is always the worst.
What to actually pack
- A small bag only. Clutch or small crossbody, roughly paperback sized. Nightclubs will not take anything bigger. Full rules in the bag policy answer.
- Two pairs of shoes for club nights. The heels for the room, and something to get you back to the hotel. The walk from a club to a rideshare pickup at a Strip resort is genuinely long.
- A jacket in winter. Vegas gets into the forties at night from November to February. Coat check is a few dollars.
- Physical ID for everyone, every night. Not a photo of it, not a phone wallet. A passport if anyone's licence is vertical or paper. See the ID rules.
- A power bank. You will be filming for four hours in a dark room. Clubs have no charging.
- Sunscreen for the pool day, applied before you leave the room. It is several times the price inside.
What it costs
A realistic three night budget per person, excluding hotel and flights:
- Guest list nights: zero cover, plus drinks at roughly 20 to 26 dollars each.
- Pool daybed split six ways: a 1,250 minimum plus tax and service is roughly 1,550, so about 260 each for the day, including your drinks.
- Nightclub table split six ways: a 1,500 minimum all in is roughly 1,875, so about 310 each, including your drinks and entry.
- Dinners and lounges: whatever you want it to be.
The thing to notice: on a table or a daybed, your drinks are inside the number. Six women paying no cover and buying four drinks each at the bar is already 500 dollars for the group, so the gap to a table is smaller than it looks. That math is laid out in full in is bottle service worth it.
Practical things that go wrong
- Dinner at 8:30 on a club night. This is the number one cause of a ruined evening. The guest list cuts at 11 and a resort restaurant will happily keep you until 10:30. Book dinner for 7.
- Splitting up without a meeting point. Clubs are loud, phones die, service is bad. Agree an inside meeting point before you go in.
- One person's shoes. Somebody always. Bring the backup pair.
- Not naming the occasion. If it is a birthday or a bachelorette, say so when you book. It costs nothing and it changes how you are looked after.
- Assuming re entry. Most Vegas clubs do not let you leave and come back. Sort everything before you get in line.
If it is a bachelorette
Everything above applies, plus: book earlier than you think, get a table rather than a list if there are eight or more of you, and tell the host it is a bachelorette when you book rather than at the door. We put together a full breakdown in the group and VIP packages page, and the pool day is even more strongly the right call for a bachelorette than it is for a regular trip.
Tell a host your dates and how many of you there are, and you will get free guest lists for the club nights and real daybed and table numbers to compare for the day. No booking fee, and an honest answer about which rooms suit your group.
Common questions
Plan it with a host
Reading is the warm up. Tell a host your dates and we will turn this into a booked, sorted night. No fees.
