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VooDoo Lounge Details
- Hours of operation: Daily, 7 p.m. to the early morning hours.
- Cover price:
- Front of the line male and female (Sunday - Thursday): $30, per night.
- Front of the line male and female (Friday- Saturday): $40, per night.
- I-Bar front of line package: $35, per night, (Sunday - Thursday), $45, per night, (Friday-Saturday). Start the night out right with two specialty drinks at I-Bar and then receive front-of-the-line admission to VooDoo.
- VooDoo Open Bar package: $60, per night (Sunday - Wednesday), $100, per night, (Thursday - Saturday). Includes front-of-the-line admission and open bar at VooDoo. Starts at 9:30 p.m. NO shots. Table NOT included - bar only. The open bar at Voodoo includes domestic and imported beer, wine, basic liquors (SKYY vodka, Cruzan rum, Salsa tequila, Jack Daniels, Crown Royal whiskey, bourbon and Christian Brothers), bottled water, soda and juice. Includes Red Bull. Start time is 10 p.m.
- VooDoo VIP Package 1: $400, per night. Includes front-of-the-line admission and table for four (Inside seating only), one bottle of SKYY Vodka, mixers and gratuity. Inside club seating only.
- VooDoo VIP Package 2: $800, per night. Includes front-of-the-line admission and table for eight (Inside seating only), two bottles of SKYY Vodka, mixers and gratuity. Inside club seating only.
- I-Bar and VooDoo VIP Package 1: $155, per night (Sunday - Thursday), $195, per night (Friday-Saturday). Start the night out right with a table for four and a bottle of Moet at I-Bar, followed by front of the line admission at VooDoo. Includes tax and gratuity.
- I-Bar and VooDoo VIP Package 2: $295 (Nightly). Start the night out right with a table for four and a bottle of SKYY vodka at I-Bar, followed by front of the line admission at VooDoo. Includes tax and gratuity.
- Payment information: Cash, all major credit cards.
- Location: Inside the Rio.
- Music: Top 40, hip-hop, dance music. Live bands for special events.
- Resident DJs: DJ talent rotates.
- Clientele/Age Group: 21 and older.
- Attire: Dress to impress. No hats, white t-shirts, tank tops, baggy pants, shorts, sandals, flip flops, white tennis shoes, athletic or gym wear of any type.
- Occupancy: 750.
- Parking: Parking located in garages at the front and rear of the Rio hotel-casino. Valet parking at the Rio.
- Reservations: Available for VIP tables and booths.
- Seating: Yes, general admission and VIP.
- Handicapped accessible: Yes.
- ATM: Outside club on second floor.
- Special events:
- Tuesdays: "Soled Out," featuring old school hip-hop.
- Thursdays: Voodoo Rising.
- Sunday: "Solid Gold Sundays," '80s night.
VooDoo Lounge Review
Vegas is full of once-in-a-lifetime experiences. There's the entire plastic football of beer you drank downtown, there's the meal you ate that cost more than your college apartment and there's your trip to VooDoo Lounge.
It might not immediately seem like VooDoo is going to be something different than you've ever seen before. It's a nightclub, sure, and they have those wherever you're from. But trust us, it's different. In fact, VooDoo is different from any spot in Vegas, too, which is worth noting because VooDoo was at the forefront of Sin City's current club craze.
First, there's just getting into the club. Most clubs you take some stairs or just walk right up, right? VooDoo is a 51-story elevator ride away and it's not some sort of stuffy office elevator. It's a glass-walled box that climbs up and down the side of the Rio, offering a view of the city that'll be unmatched – at least until you get to the club itself.
The club's insides are all dark, sexy colors and candlelight accents.
There are booths of all sizes and flair bartenders and more than a few spots to dance the night away.
In fact, there's enough to do and see inside that you could spend your whole night in there – but we wouldn't recommend it. The biggest feather in VooDoo's cap looks like an American flag and it waves from the tippy-top of a staircase connecting the 50 and 51st floors.
To miss the flag, the staircase, the view and your newest Facebook photo is like skipping dessert or some other cliché where you lose out on the best part of something.
The staircase, just to put things in perspective, weighs 40 tons. This isn't some fly-by-night photo opportunity, this is a massive, actual way of getting between two floors (the VooDoo restaurant is on the lower one).
Once you get over the staircase (and, in our experience there's usually one person in every group who never does – either spending the whole night photo-bombing people or just trying to work up the courage to get on it), there's a whole other section of the club outside on the patio.
Equipped with a view even better than you can imagine (the whole city is laid out around you), the patio also has bars, VIP areas, a DJ booth, a dance floor and even a stripper pole.
It's definitely enough to make a whole, long night out of it. Unfortunately, you're going to have to leave at some point. And here's the best piece of advice you'll get about VooDoo – that's a long elevator ride for the drunkest among you and the view's too good to waste in a martini glass, so save the all-out bender for someplace else – your stomach (and your friends) will thank you.
-- Review by Jamie Helmick
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