I had never been to Tao before. My cousins were in town for Labor Day weekend and were staying at the Venetian. I figured this was as good a time as any to finally make it to this pretty popular club.
When I say "as good a time as any," that's both true and false. Being Saturday night on Labor Day weekend, the place was crazy packed. Fortunately, we were able to use the hotel guest line and it only took maybe 15 minutes to make it inside. Unfortunately, I had to pay the requisite insane cover charge of $40. Oh well. I justified that with the knowledge that my cousins knew some people who had a VIP lounge area with bottle service.
After we paid and went inside, we snaked our way up the stairs to the rooftop pool area. With the constant flow of people going up and down that stairwell, it felt like we were still in line for something. Seriously. We finally made it to the top and to cut a long story short, we found our group.
I must say that the VIP area really made the experience for me, at least on a night as crowded as that. I'm really not a huge club type person and it was nice to have an area that didn't feel like a zoo of people. My star rating is with that in mind. Tao is certainly a nice club. The outdoor space upstairs felt good that night, as it wasn't too warm out. Overall, Tao gets an A-OK from me.