ALT-3 Guide to new Years Eve Events in Las Vegas
We just returned home from our fourth and final Las Vegas visit of 2007. We had a great time, and in our opinion, every night is New Year's Eve in Sin City. All within just a few glittering blocks of each other on the famed Strip are world-class restaurants, Broadway shows, America's hottest singles clubs and super-luxury hotels. It's all happening night and day, and the scene is unmatched anywhere else in the world at any time of the year.
Just for instance, doings in Las Vegas for this coming December 31st and into the wee hours of January 1st, here are just a very, very few of the highlights. Be aware, it won't be cheap, and remember the famous slogan: Whatever happens to your money in Vegas, it stays in Vegas.
The Las Vegas Strip: This is a free show for those who want to join the celebrating crowds on Las Vegas Boulevard. This year's theme is "The Best is Yet to Come", but is pitched to older folks who enjoy music of the past. Along the street will be recorded music of familiar big bands of the 40s and 50s, and Vegas classic singers of the past, including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and others. A spectacular fireworks display will shoot out into the air from the tops of major hotels. It all free, but be warned. That's the last of it for your New Year's Eve celebration.
Fremont Street Experience: This is usually free every night for tourists to walk and gawk at the enormous light, sound and picture show above their heads. However, for New Year's Eve only, a four-block portion of the downtown street will be fenced off for those who are willing to pay $60 to see a big show Featuring the Doobie Brothers and the Bangles.
The Luxor: You can walk like an Egyptian in this posh hotel resort shaped like a pyramid at the LAX Nightclub. There you will be hosted in person by Paris and Nicky Hilton for the night's revelries. If you have to ask the price of tickets, you can't afford it. They list from $250 to $20,000. Ye gads! I don't what extras there are for the high price, but maybe it can get you to participate in Paris' next naughty video.
Treasure Island: This is where a very enjoyable free show happens every night out front where a pirate man-o-war attacks a ship full of nearly naked babes. So, who needs to go inside to the Tangerine Lounge and Nightclub and pay $100 to $1,950 to see, of all the world's untalented yutzes, Kevin Federline as MC and disc jockey? If you're real lucky, he won't sing.
Caesars Palace: This Roman-styled resort has a special New Year's Eve party at its PURE Nightclub hosted by Pamela Anderson. It'll cost you from $250 to $5,000 to see this blonde, bust-enhanced 40-year-old beauty. Pam just shed her fourth or fifth husband, so if you're a super-rich, single guy, you may get lucky. In your dreams. She only marries and divorces rock and porn stars.
Hard Rock: You can tell by its name that this hotel and inside venues are designed for the very young who like their music loud and painful. At the Body English club, you can shell out $200 to see and listen to the Back Street Boys. Across the lobby, at the Joint club, you can do the same for a mere $86.50 and experience seeing and listening to 3 Doors Down. Or is that instruction for finding the bathroom?
Palms: Maybe the most popular Vegas destination for the really, really young and cool, this hotel has an interesting New Year's Eve offer. For just $900 per person, you get an all-access pass with drinks and snacks at four in-house joints. Otherwise, each would cost you from $100 to $200 each. Doing DJ duties at the Ghost Bar is OB ONE (isn't he a robot from Star Wars?).
At the Palms' Moon Nightclub, your host will be Jaime Pressly, with Eric Cubiche as disc spinner. A guy who has had a lot publicity lately, good and bad, Kanye West, will perform at the Pearl Concert Theater. Playboy Club, which features the expected bunny babes, will offer a special New Year's Eve party, while Rain Nightclub presents Dave Navvaroand Skribble, also disc jockeys Rob and Greg Lopez.
