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| - I thought I would never find a place like this in Las Vegas. But, in the back corner of the Mandalay Bay, behind some escalators, is Forty Deuce. It's everything a typical Vegas club is not. It's small and cozy. It's dark but doesn't have a lighting system that would give my epileptic seizures. The people in here are, by Vegas standards, fairly unpretentious. The drinks are...OK well those are Vegas-priced.
I went here with a couple of guy friends on a very busy Friday in October. One of the doormen told us he could get us in, no cover. No cover usually means "hey this place sucks" or "hey this place is empty"...but we took the bait. Turns out it neither sucked, nor was empty. And like I said, the people are exactly what you would HOPE to find in Vegas and almost always dont. They are in town for a good time, dancing their wasted assess off. BUT, they aren't judging everyone around them, aren't worried about their VIP status, and are actually pleasant people! In Vegas?! WOW.
What turns off your typical undesirables are clearly the tiny size of the place, it's location, and the interruptions for burlesque shows. Oh...the burlesque shows. I completely cringe when it comes to strip bars, strippers, etc. I was expecting the burlesque show to be a mangled imitation what burlesque is supposed to ideally be. Turns out, the imitation was quite awesome. It was actually really enjoyable. Go figure.
Anyways, when in Vegas, I will be returning to this place several times. It's the club you always wanted to find and never could.
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