text: Note This relates to a visit in January of but I doubt anythings changed much updates welcomedrnrnOk maybe I am a contrarian maybe this crp is the standard situation at lots of nightclubs and maybe this was just a bad night but I would had people falling all over themselves telling me how great Ghost Bar at the top of Palms was so I and my friend went with our girlfriends on a Friday night to check it out First mistakernrnWe quickly discovered that Palms hotel divides its potential customers into two groups VIPs ie those willing to fork over an obscene amount of cash to a greasyhaired security punk and The Cattle The Very Important Wallets waited in a crowd of or in front of an elevator at the side of the casino floor Every fifteen minutes or so the elevator doors would open and three or four Very Important Wallets would disappear within A question to the aforementioned greasy punk revealed that he expected a tip of fifty dollars that is per person to gain the privilege of standing in this Very Important crowd He was moreover kind enough to inform us that he had a clone waiting at the top of the elevator at the entrance to the bar itself and that Greaseball would also be expecting an additional from us per person in order to actually get in So we were looking at a total of per couple just to get into this jointrnrnFolks call me odd but where I come from this is called a shakedownrnrnThoroughly disgusted we took the other option The Cattle Pen This was a line of people corralled a few yards away between a couple of those rope barriers you see at movie theaters about or deep each of them there on the assumption that though slower than the VIW line it would actually move at some point Second mistake After an hour it had remained absolutely inert After another halfhour of continued mindnumbing catatonia we had come to the conclusion that no nightclub experience was going to tip the scales against the dull degrading scam that had been thrown in our faces thus far so we turned and walked This was not before we were given as a small mitigating perk while we waited a free Floor Show consisting of a sloppy drunk emerging from the elevator passing out cold on the carpet then being revived and carted away on a stretcher by paramedics A real class joint this Palms Ghost BarrnrnSo we drove across Flamingo Road went up to the Voodoo Lounge atop the Rio hotel where we were utterly blown away not just by the panoramic openair views of the city from the two dance terraces but also by the civilized staff and admissions policy Reasonably respectable clothes and a modest cover charge a couple if I remember correctly and about five minutes in line and we were stompin on dance floors surrounded by Vegas single greatest panoramic city view rnrnFrankly I will never care what Ghost Bar has to offer and barring a major change of the Palms ownership and entire management staff I will never waste my time money and generally even temperment trying to find out I will just leave this here as a warning to those who similarly value their time money and basic human dignity Judging from what others have said about the Palms Ghost Bar what you get for hours of selfabasement and walletemptying is a standard DJ bar that is crowded as hell and has a gimmicky seethrough floor in one section Zowie