VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Bottles of Champagne Cost $575K Everywhere at EDC

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Last week, photos of drink menus from the Electronic Daisy Carnival (EDC) in Las Vegas made the rounds, just as they did last year, generating the same social media outrage.

That outrage came from people who mistook the menus as representing the prices for alcohol at the dozens of walk-up bars stationed across the music festival’s 1,200 acres.

“This can’t be real,” commented X user @LOS_LUCRATIVE.

“If I see a 6 pack of bud light for $120, I’m shootin the place up,” added user @txmmxdxnx.

Why So High at EDC?

The drink menus that went viral displayed the prices at EDC’s three elevated “SkyDeck” platforms called Marquee, Circuit and Neon.

Their prices ranged from $75 for a six-pack of Mamita’s Tequia & Soda to $575K (you read that right!) for “The Notorious,” a champagne package including 125 bottles of Dom Perignon Brut paired with 125 bottles of Dom Perignon Rose and 10 bottles of Clase Azul Ultra Extra Mexican tequila.

We’re not saying that these prices aren’t insanely wrong. We’re merely pointing out that they aren’t the prices charged everywhere at EDC, where beer or liquor poured into a plastic cup costs around $20 — overpriced but not head-explodingly so.

The thing that’s really on the drink menu at EDC’s SkyDecks isn’t the drinks.

It’s a reserved table with a close-up and unobstructed view of the stage and a personal cocktail server all night/morning.

It’s also a wristband allowing access to all other festival VIP areas, and the opportunity to hobnob with other trust-fund kids whose fathers don’t bother checking their credit card bills.

To be fair, the SkyDeck drink menus also listed a much more moderately priced $30 bottle of Grey Goose for $975, a $20 bottle of Jack Daniels for $875, and a $10 six-pack of Bud Light for $140.

That was sarcasm, in case you couldn’t tell.

The Bottle of the Sexes

Like it or not, most Las Vegas nightclubs and beach clubs have offered similar bottle service for at least 20 years. Though there’s usually no stage worth paying to sit close to at a dance club, bottle service buys a private table and a pass to cut what could be an hour-long entry line.

Sometimes, if the venue is close enough to capacity, a large group of males may not get in no matter how long they wait.

Bottle service began in 1988 at Les Bains Douches. Finding itself with more customers than space, the Paris nightclub began offering table reservations that came with a complimentary bottle.

From there, the idea spread across Europe, eventually losing the complimentary element.

The first bottle service offered in the US was at New York’s Tunnel nightclub in 1993. At the time, the $90 bottle purchase it required nearly made economic sense compared to ordering $6 glasses of the same beverage.

By 1995, bottle service had spread around New York, with new adapters upping their prices and requiring it for VIP room access, at least for non-VIPs. Miami and LA got on board this lucrative and elitist train in 2000.

Bottle service arrived in Las Vegas with the opening of Light at the Bellagio in 2001. Now, nearly every nightclub on the Strip features it.

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