{"id":19667,"date":"2018-03-25T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=19667"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T20:05:10","slug":"venue-fees-newest-ways-las-vegas-nightclubs-screwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/venue-fees-newest-ways-las-vegas-nightclubs-screwing\/","title":{"rendered":"Venue Fees: The Newest Ways Las Vegas Nightclubs Are Screwing You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve long railed against insidious, often deceptive, CNF charges<\/a> (or “concession fees”) at Las Vegas restaurants.<\/p>\n

It seems Las Vegas nightclubs are getting in on the customer screwing action with a snaky new revenue-generating surcharge we haven’t seen before: Venue fees.<\/p>\n

An alert tipster informed us about a 7% “venue fee” tacked onto all bills at XS Nightclub at Wynn Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

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By the way, those numbers on the right are in U.S. dollars. The mind reels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the reasons we haven’t seen this fee before, and why we can’t definitively say it’s new, is we would rather dive headlong into a pool full of piranha while wearing bacon manties than set foot in a Las Vegas nightclub.<\/p>\n

So, what’s a “venue fee”?<\/p>\n

We’d say it’s a resort fee for nightclubs, but with resort fees, hotels at least pretend you’re getting something in return for your money.<\/p>\n

Venue fees, like CNF charges, get you absolutely nothing as far as we can tell. Nightclubs charge it because they can, plain and simple.<\/p>\n

The 7% venue fee at XS Nightclub may not sound like a lot until you see the prices at the club, then it really starts to sting.<\/p>\n

A 7% venue fee on an $8,000 table is $560. For nothing, as far as we can tell. Even for a lower tier table (the closer you are to the dance floor, the higher the cost), the venue fee for a $4,000 table is $280.<\/p>\n

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Las Vegas has a never-ending supply of WTF.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We tried computing the venue fee on the cost of table and a $300,000 bottle of Ace of Spades Champagne, but our calculator melted.<\/p>\n

Learn more surprising things about Las Vegas nightclubs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The great news, of course, is nightclubs are still free for groups of attractive young women. So, there’s that. Do expect to be asked by a club promoter for photos of you and your girls before you get your comped table, and expect you’ll be joined later by male customers with deep pockets.<\/p>\n

Chances are you visit nightclubs a lot more often than we do, so we’d love to hear if you’ve seen this new venue fee elsewhere. We suspect XS isn’t the only offender.<\/p>\n

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Somebody has to pay for all the untz.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve seen mentions of venue fees in reference to Tao, Hakkasan and Omnia.<\/p>\n

Club-goers don’t seem deterred by the price of tables or venue fees, so we’ll add it to our list of “Things We Don’t Get About Las Vegas.”<\/p>\n

You know, like Criss Angel, eSports and the ban on lotteries.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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