Marquee the Most Epic Nightclub in Vegas - End of Summer Invasion

So if I count back to my dayclub/night club experiences, this is a total of 6 times I could've written a Marquee review. However since I go there so much, it would be redundant. I am going to post my most recently VIP reservation experience at Marquee.

Going into the AOD End of Summer Invasion, I knew Marquee Nightclub was going to be one of the highlights of the trip. At the beginning there were about 25 people interested in getting VIP services at Marquee. As soon as we got the quotes back of $300-400 per head, it quickly eliminated the contestants in a hurry. So I ended up with a final total of 8, and the best I can do was a 5 person reservation at an outside table with my man Brad Spieser at the Marquee group. Even this was almost impossible to pull off because Marquee reservations were pretty much completely booked out for Fri/Sat, for a few weekends to come. We had to be there nice and early, no slipping up.

On early Friday we had a pretty chill pool party, and I made sure I didn't get chocolate wasted at Liquid. We got back to our room, and everyone was on point when we were getting ready. For the first time on this trip Gio/Mike B got all dressed, and were actually ready for me to pimp them out with the double windsor knots on the ties. We were looking sharp we left the Signatures and even got offered limo rides. Nah, we roll gangsta. Cabs only.

Marquee, we F'in did it!!

Got to the Chandlier bar at 8:45! We just had to wait for Ola, Chad and the rest of his crew. Thank goodness I brought a can of 4loko with me. So we were waiting for the crew to assemble, and I popped the can. Right away I took a huge ass sip. I handed off to Gio, hes like no thanks. Mike B also said no thanks. WTF. This meant I had to kill this whole can by myself. Either ways its Marquee, fuck it. We lay it all on the line. Slowly but surely I chugged the whole can. Rest of the crew appeared; I picked our select 5 on the table. Collected the cash and off we went. The other 2 dudes had glist lined up with 12 girls, so they were to meet us inside.

We took the escalator up to Marquee level and honestly I was seeing 30 ropes in front of me and I talked the guy that appeared to be in the middle. He said we had to wait an additional 10 mins before VIP line actually opened up. Apparently I was totally slurring my words cause Mike B said I was wasted and he still was polite with me. I was like “calm down Mike B!” Even me schwasted I can handle Vegas business with 110% efficiency. That's how I roll, army major general style.  So finally our guy Brad texts us back, hes waiting at the ropes. We quickly bring the crew up and he lifts the ropes, then off we go. Say good bye to the millions that are stuck on the other side of the club which have no idea that we take this secret elevator without ever being in line.

In the elevator ride I persuade Brad to come drink with us, and sure enough he agreed. Slapped him with a huge tip for being a bro. So we go to the outside level of Marquee, Brad straight walked us to the center front dance floor daybed, right in front the screen with a sweet view of all the oncoming talent. Everyone was bro-hugging each other because all our hard work of planning this trip finally paid off.

At the end of the night theres always left over girls to go around

We order bottles, and the rest was pretty much history. Here's the bits and pieces of what I remembered:

• I was yelling at some random bouncer for picking up bottle serviced drink and disposing of it, and I was telling him how much it costs vs the bar, and he said he didn't give a shit
• I was making out and dry humping one of our friends and she was loving it on our daybed
• I shuffled like a madman, and somehow found my way at bungalow cabanas (a good 100 yards from my daybed). Then some guy came back to our table and asked to have what I was having..

Special thanks to Spy on Vegas for this EC Twins pic. Apparently they were DJ'in

The nights ended with bits and pieces and countless random phone numbers in my phone when I left. I also remember the light show as incredible, and it was most banging house music I ever heard in my life outside of EDC. Oh Marquee, the next time we drop a couple of Gs we will try to remember it better.

Marquee Day Club on Friday of the Electric Daisy Carnival

We scheduled to visit Marquee Dayclub midtrip during our EDC invasion. The night before we had a cabana at Surrender, and brought a bunch of girls back to have a suite pillow fight party which lasted until the sun came up. Needless to say I slept in a bit.  I had a cabana here, but since we couldn't get there till 1'ish we got the next best thing which was a daybed next to the stage. I must say, it all turned out for the better!

We get to the Cosmo at about 12:30'ish, park and get ourselves up to the dayclub line. I walk up and let them know I have reservations through Robert Montero. Quickly they found me and were ready to let us in. One of the other bouncers walks up to us and tell us that the dayclub dress code is fairly strict and wife beaters are not allowed. 2 people from our crew were rocking the wifebeaters, so we asked.. "Can we just go in shirtless then?" He was OK with that. So we took off our wifebeaters infront of the huge line and my buddy was like, "The girls need a little something to look at after waiting all this time.. " LMFAO.

We take the elevator up to the dayclub, and line up at the check in line. I don't see Robert around since he is busy seating someone, but I do see Derrick who was at the podium. He recognized me and had someone walk me to the supreme location daybed. Before I left, I slipped him a good little friendly gesture into the palm of his hand since he has always taken care of me at the nightclub end.

Amy's first Dayclub experience is just as good as ours!

As we are walking through the pool, the house music is banging. It's the right kind of house music too! They didn't play your generic standard progressive almost top 40 mixes. They were getting into some serious electro mixes that help build up the tempo. Mr. Becks was the DJ that day and there were quite a few EDC people in town. He did his job as far as catering to them. Before I even got a chance to get seated, Alina (a girl I met at Tao Beach the day before) comes running up to me. Apparently they didnt have a place to put their stuff, so I hooked it up with the real estate. The perk with Alina is apparently she knows all of Canadia. She brought her entourage of like 8 other Canadian girls as well. Yeay.. 4 guys, 9 girls. We are in business.

Thats Cher getting down on the pool podium

I quickly ordered a pitcher and we got settled in. As the alcohol hit us, the music was just too good to not shuffle to. Mike B and I break into a shuffle while Sebastian goes out and recruits even more talent. The waitress was super friendly. Her name is Tracy Morrow and kindly asked that I send some ppl her way for guestlist. Look her up on FB, shes smoking. As the day went a long, we were taking pics and getting sloppy. Girls getting nip slips and hands were going on each others asses. Just the exact party we were looking for.

Things I should point out about Marquee is that the venue is new and modern. The view out of the cabana overlooks the center strip couldn't be any better. Also there are no other clubs/dayclubs out there that specifically have props, staff and regular DJ talent that is catered to house music. That is why this place just became one of my favorite dayclubs that I will have to include on my schedule for years to come. I will upload pics as supporting evidence as well. Also here is a link that will give you a good feel of the vibe with Avicii when he played here. 

Daybed just attracts a ton of chicks

Shoutouts: Robert Montero, customer development manager of Marquee. Go to him if you need anything for the dayclub. Derrick Runtas clutch as always at the lines and the podium if you need someone on the spot.

Wet Republic from the AOD Invasion

I think everyone on JC pretty much knows I m very bias about Wet Republic. So I m going go ahead and just push all the stars up 5 regardless on Yelp. Don't hate.. this place is awesome.

On this particular trip, I skipped the Marquee Dayclub on the schedule went with Wet on Saturday because I dig Avicii and Bromance (its an awesome song). So I ended up going to Wet twice. Here we go.. Wet Republic review #529529-

Whata view from the front

Saturday - Round 1

I got here with a minimal crew because Thomas told me Saturdays are absolute shitshow days. Sure enough when I pulled up in the cab I saw a line running around the MGM hotel pool, and it kept wrapping around. I waited for Tolek and his friend Jayne to show up and fortunately Thomas was up front and he just let us slide right in.

Before we know it, we got in and jumped right in the pool the first chance we got. I wanted to just stay out of the heat and relax this particular day. XS took a lot out of me the night before.  By about 2'ish Avicii came on and just about tore the roof off this place. The entire bar/front dance floor stage area basically turned into a mosh/ shuffling pit. I made a couple of trips to check it out, but Saturdays are simply too insane. Come here ready to get down and dirty.  I also met up with Amit and Chait a little later, got a good buzz and sang along to Bromance when it came on. Overall it was insane and exactly what I expected my Wet experience to be.

Sunday - Round 2 aka Fuck Me I m Famous Day!

Will I Am throwing it down on FMIF Day

This was the official JC party and it was last chance for the entire Team Encore crew to come out together for the last time. So we got up extra early and extra prepared knowing how the lines get insane by 11. We got here at 11:15 and Thomas was already waiting for us. This is the day when we were going all out on a premium location. We all followed Thomas and sure enough the location was right infront of the DJ booth. A dancefloor Wet Republic couch right infront of Will I Am!

We got in and got settled, and the whole pool area was decked out with FMIF gear and pool toys. The go go dancers even wore special outfits to celebrate this occasion. About noon'ish all of JC started to roll right in and AOD had setup this lounge deck table and I had to go up there to holla at my boys.  I was already 2/3s deep on my bottle before I went up, so I m ready to shuffle and crunk with it.

I saw Ricky back there with Stylez, JB and the rest of the crew and I decided to break it down with the rest of the guys that are down with shuffling. The hard house music kicked in and the feet was just in motion on their own. Plus it is really good cardio at the pool. Them chicken fingers just dont burn up on their own you know.

After getting my exercise on I went back to the daybed to hang out for Team Encore for a min. Ricky comes over and he was bleeding from the mouth, "What happened man? Your bleeding!" " I did a faceplant while I was shuffling.." "Nooo" We take this shuffling thing very seriously!

Ricky was telling me a story about shagging some girl the night before, and sure enough on queue she walks by our dancefloor couch.  I was like "No shit?" Then the next thing I know hes over there talking to her, and he wasn't kidding. I was having a few drinks on my own and noticed at the corner of my eye that this girl was really breaking it down EDM style and she gave me the glance. I gave her the glance and she didn't pretend to look but fixed her hair. Just like Skrillex I am in for the kill. I was out of mixers for some reason so I straight poured her shots. Her and her friends were totally down. We did shots, talked a min and it turns out shes coming back for EDC. So I took down all her info. I asked where she was from and she was a local. I didnt think anything of it, but after I added her on FB she is Morgan Nichole the dancer at Chateau. Wow.. LEGIT.

Angela Shih was our lovely hostess

Morgan ended up having to leave and then I was chilling with some random Yay area peeps from another dance floor couch. The waitress came over and asked me if I wanted some complementary redbulls? At $8 a can, I ended up taking 4 of them and kept the party going.  Apparently she wasn't too busy so her and I struck up a pretty good convo on just about everything for like 30 minutes. I told her about JC, and turns out she partakes in one of the industry locals bikini contests. I took Angela Shih's name down and I will definitely be voting for her. Also if you want to request Angela good luck. She only does reservations 3K and up. Either ways she is smoking and keeps it real. Thats a type of girl I can respect.

Moral of the story... if you are at Wet and you think you met just some random hot chick. They aren't! They could be a VIP in disguise and they are just great people to know.  Looking forward to coming back in June just simply to network, and of course a bit of shuffling never hurts since Wet knows their EDM inside out.

Shoutout for Thomas Gorman at Wet Republic. Senior VIP host and delivering great service year after year.