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The Official Las Vegas Bachelor Party Guide

January 16th, 2012

After years of dating you have finally decided to propose to that special lady. Time to settle down and live a long happy life with the woman you love, but first comes the notorious Las Vegas bachelor party to be enjoyed along with your best boys. Ah yes, the time honored-tradition of going out for that one last night of debauchery with the boys before committing to a life of loving only one woman.

Now you just have to decide where to spend your time and hard earned money. Sure, you could go to the local bar or Strip Club and drink at the same booth while staring at the same girls you’ve watched on countless weekends but why settle for the mundane when you could be celebrating in Las Vegas!? Bachelor party capital of the world! Home to numerous gentleman’s clubs, nightlife venues, and exciting activities to keep you busy during the daylight hours. Most men make the mistake of coming to Vegas and only sampling what the city has to offer when the sun goes down. Little do they know Las Vegas provides a myriad of things to do during the day from shooting zombie targets with automatic weapons at the indoor gun range to flying through the desert on your own personal ATV.

Most Parties tend to focus there energies on the Nightlife Las Vegas has to offer. Why Not? The town is saturated with nightclubs over 60 of them in all major hotels and a more strip clubs than than you can count. So what makes for the best Las Vegas Bachelor Party Ideas? Below is a brief list of top services and ideas you should look to hire in Las Vegas.

TOP Las Vegas BACHELOR PARTY IDEAS

1. Nightclubs – best venues for bachelor parties include XS, Marquee, Tryst & 1oak.

2. Strip Clubs - Sapphires and Treasures round out the top 2 with spearmint rhino the preferred venue for small parties

3. Restaurants – Piero’s and Del Frisco’s best off-strip restaurants Italian and American steakhouse, respectively.

4. Adventures – Dune buggying and Gun Range always great for beating a hangover

5. Transportation – Stretch Vehicles including Big BLUE or Brinks Bank Truck!

6. Pool Party - Great during the Spring and Summer months best pool include Encore Beach Club, Wet Republic and Rehab.

Las Vegas is also home to a long list of exciting and unique places to eat like the German/Beerfest themed Hofbrauhaus or Dick’s Last Resort for the younger, more daring crowd. When planning for your Las Vegas bachelor party it’s best to not just go out for one evening, but to make a whole weekend out of this! You only get married once (hopefully) so be sure that your bachelor party is one to be remembered for years to come. A weekend to look back on when you are older so you can think to yourself “Man, that was one wild party.”

A bachelor package is the best way to enjoy a full weekend of activities at the best prices. The most popular Las Vegas bachelor packages include providing you with VIP Services at a Nightclub for 2 nights in addition to receiving unlimited Strip Club access with transportation plus dinner! Not a bad idea for a weekend. Here are a few popular Bachelor package ideas in Las Vegas:

The Clubber: Includes a party bus, all you can drink on the bus and VIP Hosted Entry into any 3 Las Vegas Nightclubs (e.g. Tryst, Tao, Pure, XS, Marquee, Surrender). Hint: Drink as much as possible on the bus to save money on purchasing drinks inside!

The Teaser: Free Transportation to as many Las Vegas Strip Clubs you can handle (Treasures, Sapphires & Olympic Gardens. Hint: Limos like to provide a free service to you as they sometimes make commissions on what you spend inside!

Dine & Dash: Stuff your gullet full of All You can Drink and Eat food and Beer (Hofbrahous, Gordon Biersch) then get chauffeured around Las Vegas in a stretched Party Bus! » Read more: The Official Las Vegas Bachelor Party Guide

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Rome Adventure – Even the Thieves Are Artists in the Eternal City

November 4th, 2011

By David C Baird

No matter how you approach the Eternal City, it leaves its mark on you.

Visiting Rome on a repeat of our honeymoon, we saw all the historic sights, enjoyed the opera. Every morning we breakfasted on a “cappuccino e cornetto” in the busy bars on the Via del Corso, near our hotel. The cornettos, Italy’s equivalent of the croissant, were hot and delicious.

At other times we grabbed snacks in one of the thousands of pizza spots. Rome is not a cheap city, but in a tavola calda (literally “hot table”) snackbar, you could enjoy a pizza and a beer for five or six bucks.

Wandering through the narrow streets of the old quarter of Trastevere, we took shelter from a rainstorm in a cosy restaurant. It was your authentic trattoria, with check table-cloths and photos of illustrious clients on the walls.

The only other diners, occupying a long table, were certainly not tourists. Dark-suited and tough-looking, they were a confident bunch, joking, backslapping, occasionally talking into their mobiles. Outside the narrow street was lined with their late-model cars, all illegally parked.

When the group started quaffing Asti Spumante, one came over and filled our glasses. Some special occasion, I asked. He smiled, winked, and whispered in my ear.

“Polizia.”

As I digested this and my fettuccine, I could not help thinking these guardians of the law bore a disturbing resemblance to extras from The Godfather.

I had cause to remember them a few days later. We were heading for the Termini station and, in the absence of taxis, jumped on a bus. There was standing room only and a brown-suited little man obligingly made way for us.

As we swayed through the streets, Signore Brown Suit seemed to have difficulty keeping his feet and several times he shifted his hands from one strap above his head to another, and bumped into us.

Then, at one stop, he abruptly departed. Seconds later, a nasty thought crossed my mind and I felt my securely buttoned breast pocket. The cash I had just drawn from the bank was gone. At that point, I wished I had asked for the telephone number of our Godfather friends. » Read more: Rome Adventure – Even the Thieves Are Artists in the Eternal City