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| - I set up a table reservation for a group of 8 (which became 9 last minute) at Tao for 11/3 Saturday night. Our group consisted of 6 guys, 3 girls, and i'm pretty sure we could've added another 2-4 girls without or bottle minimum going up. We ordered 3 bottles so we could get a table on the inside instead of Tao Beach (which is still nice). And I really liked our table location being in the side room rather than the main room, because it made it much easier for us to get to/leave our table when we wanted to use the bathroom or explore the club, we still had plenty of room to dance, and the music in our room was an excellent music of rap, hip hop, white rock music, I think the only time we didn't like it was the short 20 mins of techno or so..which stopped as soon as we made a complaint about it.
Bottle service is definitely the way to go. From the moment we stepped up to the club to check-in we were treated like rock stars. It was by far our best clubbing experience ever, and well worth the money.
Service: Our waitress didn't check on us too much as she mainly just came by refill our glasses, and clean up the table when necessary. BTW if it matters, our waitress (for the guys) was hot! (pictures will be up soon). Our table assistant Jeff was by far one of the coolest people I've met and he was constantly checking on us to make sure that we were having a good time, bringing us random sh*t if/when we needed it, and helped keep spirits high at all times. Our bouncer Ron was awesome as well, he was also constantly checking on us..and if necessary would walk our girls to the bathroom to skip the bathroom line (which I know for girls can be nuts). Lastly our VIP host Larson did an excellent job keeping us updated on anything, and answering any/all questions (which were plenty) that we had. Although I found it quite weird a different host walked to us our table named Paul...but he was cool as well.
Environment: The decor in Tao is quite nice, it definitely got crowded in the mainroom as the night went on, but as you read above, we didn't visit the mainroom too often..so that wasn't a factor for us. Most of us stuck right around our table with enough room to dance, a closer bathroom to access, the music in our room never even made us debate leaving other than to check out the other parts of the club. I like the gigantic BUddhas, the theme of the night club was cool, and of course the half naked girls dancing, standing in hallways, massaging each other, and sitting in a bathtub was quite cool to take pictures of. BTW there are BOUNCERS everywhere in this club, if some dumbass tries to start something...I would recommend setting your ego aside and letting it go..because i'm pretty sure you'd get your ass kicked 10 times and thrown out before you even knew what happened.
I can't compare bottle service from Tao to other Vegas clubs (yet), but I will say we don't regret anything. The bottle prices were pretty standard from what research I did..$425 for Kettel ONe and Cap'n Mo, $450 for Grey Goose (so you might as well stick with Grey goose). If you can afford it, bottle service from start-finish is the best way to go. I'll admit I was at first a little worried after reading all the other reviews on Tao before setting up my Table reservation (regarding long lines in the club/bathroom and being super crowded), but we didn't have any of those problems. We all had an amazing night (We were there from 10pm - 3 am..add another hour considering it was fall back daylight savings time), and I can't give this place any less than five stars.
~G
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