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Rain Las Vegas

4321 W. Flamingo Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89103
(702) 492-3960
(866) 80-SHOWS
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Rain Las Vegas at the Palms

Rain Las Vegas Details

  • Hours of operation: Open Friday-Saturday, 11 p.m. to early morning.
  • Cover price: 
    • Front-of-the-Line Pass (Friday or Saturday): $30, per night.
    • All Access Pass (Friday or Saturday): $75, per night. (Includes front-of-the-line admission for one to Rain, ghostbar, Moon, and Playboy. Guest's name will be on admission list at all venues.)
    • Hosted Open Bar Package (featuring Ketel One and Perrier Jouet Champagne): $115. Includes pre-open admission to skybox/cabana for duration of the night with a hosted bar featuring Ketel One vodka and Perrier Jouet champagne. Must arrive by 10:45 p.m. for pre-open admission.
    • Labor Day Weekend 2008:
      • All Access Pass for August 29: $90; includes front-of-the-line admission to Rain, ghostbar, Moon/Playboy Club and pool party. Guests must check in at ghostbar before 1 a.m.
      • All Access Pass for August 30: $100; includes front-of-the-line admission to Rain, ghostbar and Moon/Playboy Club, Passes must be picked up at the STUFF store inside the Palms between 10 a.m. and 2 a.m. Will call pick up is required.
      • All Access Pass for August 31: $115; includes front-of-the-line admission to Rain, ghostbar, Moon/Playboy Club, and pool party. Passes must be picked up at the STUFF store inside the Palms between 10 a.m. and 2 a.m. Will call pick up is required.
      • Front-the-line-pass Perfecto Vegas, Paul Oakenfold (August 30): $40; passes must be picked up at the STUFF store inside the Palms between 10 a.m. and 2 a.m. that day. Will call pick is required.
      • Hosted Bar Package for August 30: $175; featuring Ketel One and Perrier Jouet Champagne, includes front-of-the-line, pre-open admission to skybox/cabana for duration of night with hosted bar. Must arrive by 10:45 p.m. for pre-open admission.
      • Front-of-the-line pass Pimp N Ho, Felix Da Housecat (August 31): $65; includes access to Palms Pool, passes must be picked up at the STUFF store inside the Palms between 10 a.m. and 2 a.m. that day. Will call pick is required.
  • Payment information: All major credit cards are accepted.
  • Location: Inside the Palms Casino Resort.
  • Music: Hip-hop, dance, old-school, rock and house.
  • Resident DJs: Beginning August 30, 2008, DJ Paul Oakenfold will be the resident DJ.
  • Clientele/Age Group: 21 and older.
  • Attire: Stylish. No tennis shoes, cutoffs, T-shirts or baseball hats. No shorts or tanks tops. No baggy or torn jeans, no flip-flops for men.
  • Occupancy: 1800.
  • Parking: Self parking and valet both available at the Palms Casino Resort.
  • Reservations: Reservations highly recommended and based on availability. Reservations will start being booked one month in advance.
  • Seating: Rain can accommodate private events with up to 1,500 guests. Private rooms are available. Skyboxes are $1,000 per night and can accommodate 15. Cabanas are $750 per night for 15 people. Water booths are $300 per night for 6-8 people. Plus there are bottle minimums. Tables are available and prices vary depending on number of people.
  • Handicapped accessible: Yes.
  • ATM: ATM available inside the Palms Casino Resort.
  • Special events: 
    • Rain Fridays: featuring different special events.
    • Labor Day Weekend 2008:
      • Friday, August 29: Z-Trip and Mark Farina
      • Saturday, August 30: Perfecto Vegas with Paul Oakenfold
      • Sunday, August 31: Pimp N Ho with Felix Da Housecat
    • Special Palms PoolEvent - A Midsummer Night's Dream (August 16, 2008):The infamous Playboy Mansion party, featuring performers and props based around this year's "A Masquerade in King's Court" theme. Guests must wear a mask or costume for admission.

Rain Las Vegas Review

When Rain Nightclub poured itself into the heart of Vegas' nightlife scene in late 2001, it was filling a relatively empty vessel. Sure, there were clubs, there were places to dance, but the city was coming off the heels of an ill-advised attempt to be overtly kid-friendly and it was time to get back to what Sin City was best at – sin.

With the help of a Las Vegas season of MTV's "The Real World," The Palms and, subsequently, Rain, was caught up in a typhoon-sized wave of hype, fun and debauchery. But was (or is) that pace sustainable?

Rain, if it could talk, would probably say, "Yes." Or it would let out a whoop and pull a crazy dance move, in the nightclub equivalent of a positive response.

Today, more than six years since the heavens parted and Rain fell down on Sin City, everyone's still enjoying the metaphorical weather inside The Palms.

The club's design was markedly impressive when it opened and it still remains one of the just genuinely neat-looking venues in town. Rain is laid out almost like a gladiator arena. There's a center area with the dance floor and tiered rings of seating (tables and booths and bars) going up in near-circles around it. Though some of the levels don't go all the way around and some start and stop in sections, the general gist is there.

Bars are scattered throughout the tiers, with one located conveniently immediately to your right when you enter the club (through a crazy-looking mirrored light tunnel thing). If you go with bottle service for your thirst-quenching needs, Rain's options run all over the board, or all over the club. There are private cabanas, water booths and skyboxes, in addition to the traditional tables, and they all seem to fill up most nights.

The DJ booth is easily one of the least pretentious in all of Sin City – it's a small area off the dance floor, near one of the VIP areas (which also minimizes pretension) and it helps give Rain a sense of community. Everybody's in it together for a good time at the club -- you, the DJ, the celebrity, everyone's sharing a similar experience. (Not to say, though, that there isn't some major force coming out of that booth – Rain's music usually reads, or plays, like a best-of compilation of everything you'd want to dance to in a club.)

Most of this is standard stuff for a club nowadays, but what Rain had then, and still has now, (that few clubs can match even today) is basically a show going on all the time. The lighting system in the club is almost entrancing and when the rig in the center starts shooting out fire over the crowds (huge, billowing flame clouds, really), there are generally a few dropped jaws – and, occasionally, a dropped drink. It's that cool.

It used to be that people would hope and wish for nice weather on vacation, but in Vegas, for the last several years, people have been praying for Rain.

– Review by Jamie Helmick