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| - "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,
Burnt on the water; the poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,
It beggar'd all description."
-- Shakespeare (Enobarbus' description of Cleopatra's Barge from Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 2)
When I first saw Cleopatra's Barge, I started laughing because the club itself "beggar'd all description". It's supposedly a replica of the barge that Cleopatra and her court used to travel on the Nile (undoubtedly she and Antony made the original rock during night voyages). The first thing I noticed was the Baroque era figurehead on the prow (so much for historical accuracy, but who cares?) that portrayed a gilded Cleopatra with well-formed conical breasts that were being "felt up" by about every other guy who walked under them. This had happened so many countless times that the paint has lost its luster around her tatas from all the groping by oily hands. Then I noticed that the barge actually was rocking from the dancing occurring on its "deck". The well endowed Cleopatra was bobbing up and down as the barge moved and I could envision a very tall person getting a nipple divot in their scalp if they didn't duck when she lunged.
Ref: http://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/Y5lamf0Jv4pB48otGWrkkg?select=4ctCVgtnVRVFxREcfEjJJA
Being tall myself, I carefully walked by before entering the club. There was no cover fee and no table charges. The drinks were the pricey variety you'd expect from any club within Caesar's Palace (roughly $10/drink and up). The cocktail waitresses either liked to take long breaks out of sight or there weren't enough of them (I counted two), but this didn't diminish the fun we had.
The club itself is modeled after a boat slip in which the barge is moored. The barge itself holds the dance floor and the bandstand. Most of the tables are found on "dry land". It appears that the barge is floating on water, but it was hard to tell with the subdued lighting and all the fog that was being generated at the "water line". To enter the dance floor, you walk across a gangplank and immediately feel the deck move beneath your feet. When the floor is filled with gyrating bodies, someone could get seasick.
It was a Friday night and an R&B cover band was playing with all sorts of gusto. Since it was hard to hear when you were sitting, we ended up dancing a lot. The crowd ranged from 20-year-old kids to rockin' grandmas in their 60's. They all seemed to be having as good of a time as we were.
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