Jack Colton Says: How to Reserve Bottle Service

Jack Colton, that wise and ever watchful mentor of the Vegas club scene, has some helpful hints for us all on how to properly reserve bottle service at our favorite clubs. If you don't know what bottle service is, you can safely skip this post, and peruse the Casino Snob archives.

Here's what Jack Says:

If you have been looking around on the internet, you have probably seen a million websites trying to get you to book your table through them. You can certainly take that route if you want to, but most industry locals would agree that the best way to reserve a table at a Las Vegas night club is to deal directly with the Las Vegas night club.

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TIP # 1: The bottle minimum goes up as the number in your party associated with the table goes up. If you have a couple of people in your group who aren’t planning on drinking or splitting the bill, you might have them put on the guest list and tell them to just order from the bar. They can still sit with you at your table, but you might be able to cut down on your bottle minimum. At $300+ per bottle, that can help out a lot.

TIP # 2: If you are splitting the bill for the table with your friends, collect all of the money up front. That would be the total balance including tips. I repeat…GET THE MONEY FIRST. If you end up ordering more bottles, have everyone pay you when you order them. I can’t count the number of times I have seen people fighting about tip share at the end of the night, or never talking to friends again because so-and-so didn’t throw in money when they said they would.

Read all of what Jack has to say about reserving bottle service, and about anything else cool and on the Vegas club scene over at JackColton.com

February 6, 2007

Jack Colton Says: How to Reserve Bottle Service