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| - I'm not big into the club scene. OK, I flat-out don't care for it. OK honestly I don't like being in tight, confined spaces with douchebags and skanks. However, I DO like a nice lounge, like Revolution at the Mirage, which eventually I will be getting around to reviewing.
So for the birthday, I wanted something like that, but I didn't want to go all the way to The Mirage. However, right next to The Cosmopolitan is CityCenter and Aria, which is home to Gold Lounge. Gold Lounge is in a similar vein to Revolution -- a lounge concept built off the concept of the accompanying Cirque du Soleil show. With Revolution, it's thematically conceived from Love, the Beatles-themed Cirque show.
Gold Lounge is supposed to be thematically conceived from Viva Elvis, the Elvis Presley-themed Cirque show.
The trepidation I had, though, was that Love is a MUCH better show than Viva Elvis, so would Revolution be much better than Gold Lounge?
As I debated, I found out Gold Lounge has an 80s night on Friday. Sold. Let's go.
When we got there, it took a little time to find our contact (we had been set up with a comp bottle), but when we did, he took us right away to our table, and the cocktail waitresses promptly came out and started pouring drinks. I think I only saw the bottom of my glass once. We had a cool corner area, and unlike other clubs where people are spilling in to your table area, ours was away from the main crowd, which suited me just fine. I was there to have a good time and drink and laugh with friends. The waitresses and bussers took great care of our group.
But the sad time came when our bottle ran empty. As we all started to talk about what to do next, our cocktail waitress came back with a lovely bottle of Skyy Vodka! But miss, I didn't order another bottle? "Oh, that's okay, it's your birthday, right? My manager signed off on it." WOOOOOOOOOHOO! THAT'S how you make sure your guests come back!
Plus, they play 80s music. Everyone who knows me knows I have a sick fetish for 80s music (I'm listening to The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping," so that should show how disgustingly into 80s music I am). So hearing Duran Duran, Men Without Hats, The B-52s, and Madonna blasting through the lounge remixed totally hyped me up. I can't think of any other place on the Strip that plays such a big playlist of 80s music.
By the time I left, I was thoroughly inebriated, tired from dancing, and plastered with a big smile on my face. Allow me to add Gold Lounge to Revolution and say I now have a PAIR of places I like to party on the Strip at.
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