This was my first experience in...

This was my first experience in a Las Vegas gentlemen’s club and it was nowhere near being what it was hyped up to be. I visited Olympic Garden on the last night of a business-related trip to Vegas with several co-workers. This is a woman’s perspective on the female strip club side of OG. There’s a male strip club area upstairs which I didn’t visit.

Several of my male co-workers and I were picked up by the club’s shuttle on the strip around 2:30 am. The host who escorted us was a great salesman - he said whatever he had to get his sale (cough, cough lied). Sale Pitch #1 - ladies drink free as long as the guys were ordering. Sales Pitch #2 - shuttle would return us to our hotel at the end of the night. I thought, ‘wow, free drinks and a ride back to the hotel, count me in’! As it turns out neither of these sales pitches were true but hey, I wasn’t going to be the party pooper. The ride to the club was a straight shot down Las Vegas Blvd. and took about 12 minutes. The shuttle was one of those party shuttles with the music blaring and the stripper pole in the middle. It was actually a fun little drive.

At the club, the guys were charged a $25 cover which included 2 drinks. I didn’t pay a cover but I did have to pay for drinks which amounted to $24 for 2 drinks – more about that later.