Rain was a fucking debacle. I've been going to clubs in Vegas since RA in 2002 several times a year. Ive always called up a promoter and made a reservation for a table earlier in the day and get hooked up. The last few times I have been doing LAX with the same guy and its always smooth. We wanted to hit up Rain this time to see Fabolous so I made the mistake of booking and paying $580 online in advance on Tuesday and was told I would be contacted soon. I never was and waited until 2pm on Friday to look into it.
Big fucking mistake. Don't do it. I wasted 2 hours of my afternoon Friday trying to track down someone who could confirm my reservation. Was bounced back and forth between n9ne group, rain, and eventbrite. The women on the phone from rain were rude as fuck.
I had figured that once they had your money they wouldn't give a fuck what happens next which seemed to be true. Finally got squared away and was seated in a "VIP" area to the left of the stage but the area had a bar in the back that was open to everyone. I'm not some asshole that needs to be behind velvet ropes but if I pay 600 bucks for a table I don't want anyone randomly sitting at it. The whole night there was random people popping up at our table, asking for drinks, asking for smokes, even putting their stank bare feet on the table... We threw our bouncer a 20 for holding it down and he was real cool about it.....our waitress was real cool too. We bought a second bottle for about $520 and were having a good time. Dave Fogg threw down a sick ass set dressed up as Jason (Friday the 13th)....Fabolous was cool but the set was super hard to hear for some reason.
When the club was shutting down we were told we couldn't bring the last of the Vodka out of the club but the bouncer said if we pay him we could! Fuck that....We already spent over 1100 on 2 bottles and tipped him 20 bucks to do his job. Ended up taking the bottle and no one said shit...Rain sucks for the whole VIP set up. Too much of a hassle and not worth the nonsense. I would go again but never pay in advance and would hope we wouldn't be subjected to a fucking bribe. I also lost my fucking iphone there and some scumbag never turned it in.