Marquee Hits the Mark

Every time you seem to go to Vegas, there’s a new flavor of the week, a new club that you simply have to check out. It’s a business that tries doubly hard to earn your dollars for extremely expensive bottles of standard spirits. Cavernous warehouses these are not.

Before this most recent trip this past weekend, Marquee was brought up in the conversation. The hot new club, the flavor of the week. Housed in The Cosmopolitan, a trendy, swanky departure from the typical excess of the strip, the hotel shimmers, and has plenty of bells and whistles to go with it. Marquee classifies itself as a dayclub/nightclub, and boasts a pretty impressive lineup of DJ’s spinning all night long. Walking up to the place, the first thing that catches you is not monstrous lineups, although that’s there too, but just crowds of people. It might be a lack of order or organization, but it works, creating a ‘red carpet gala’ feel to the folks lucky enough to be entering the elevators taking you to party central. From that point on, you’re going through 3 distinct rooms, you’ve got your main floor, the library, and the pool area. You have the obligatory dancers up on platforms, a few hundred people jammed on a main dance floor bearing witness and clothing to whoever is holding session that night.

Confetti, and strobe lights, rains down on a crowd ready to welcome morning right where they’re standing. The floor is surrounded by tables, which of course, as you’re in Vegas will set you back a few hundred dollar bills. Upstairs is the ‘library’, a genuine lodge looking library. Think of something that you’d find in Mr. Burns mansion, crashed by a bar, a pool table for effect, plenty of seating, people dead set on converting it into a hip hop lounge. Pop back down, through the main area, a side dance floor, and you’ll find yourself outside in the pool area. Cabanas, a pool, and just a sweet setup complete with a great looking visual experience of the action inside. The club is breathtaking, and will leave you in awe, the only drawback, some folks would say is that it gets too packed. But, if you’re not going to fork out cash for a table, or commit to the dance floor, you do need to get the hell out of the way. Security does a great job of keeping lanes clear, and aren’t overbearing or power tripping.

Actually saw some bird do a drunken slippery swan dive from a platform on to some bouncers face, and he still managed to stay calm. Of course, it being the most popular club on the strip, you’re bound to see a few famous faces, and the night we were there was no exception. Going to Vegas in the next little while? Check out Marquee.