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I am taking you now to a place in my current hometown...Las Vegas!!!

9 years ago...
Standing in a sea of people on the casino floor in the Barbary Coast on Las Vegas Blvd in what can only be described as the LAST place you would expect the best after-hours in the world to be...it hits me like a ton of bricks that it is 4am on Saturday morning and this place is so busy the staff does not know what to do. Lucky for me, our group knew someone and we got past the velvet ropes and into a holding area near the bright gold elevator, because at this after- hours you go downstairs to get in. So inside the holding coral we are ushered into an elevator by a friend of ours who takes us into a club that can only be described as Hugh Hefner's Basement meets Satan's Den. In my many years of going out and working in the nightlife industry and going to all kinds of bars, lounges, nightclubs, live music venues, and after hours, I had never seen a place like this. I was taken into a room that looks like a library complete with books, boudoir paintings, leapard print booths and chairs, candles, and blood red painted walls, and could not believe this was an after-hours club. It was 4am and the party was just getting started, and not your typical crowd of after-hours people. . These people were professional partiers, dressed up, looking quite fresh for 4am. Not only was the crowd notable, but the place, you can not say enough about it. It is a labyrinth of rooms to walk in and out of, the place was a 5 star supper club by day complete with gourmet food and high back red leather booths, plants and paintings everywhere; then by night (after 2am), it transformed into an adult playground like no other before it. The music is house with a Euro flair, and there are people dancing everywhere, but the music is not so loud that you can not talk to the person that you are next to...I think I have just arrived in heaven! I wonder secretly if this place was made for me because it was perfect! I wander around and take it all in for nearly 5 hours, dancing, socializing, drinking and partying, it was the first night of many for me at this infamous club. I can honestly say in a city that praises, newwer, bigger and better, this place is still my favorite in Vegas!

Present Day....
Since my first visit to Drais After-Hours 9 years ago, I have introduced it to many friends and colleagues over the years. There is something about this unique place that makes people want to come back every time they are in town. I suppose that is why GQ magazine gave it the illustrious title "best after-hours in the world"!

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