It was difficult getting locals to go on record (or return my cold calls). Thankfully, Natasha opened her Rolodex, providing names and introductions to others in the business, including ALTON G., a bouncer at two clubs popularized by MTV's Real World Las Vegas. Alton knows firsthand what happens on the other side of the velvet rope. And, protected by confidentiality, he talked freely about the “crazy shit” he's seen and what Vegas bouncers really think about bachelor parties.

I work the front door, so I'm the first one to hear the stories, like, “Hey dude, there's ten of us. It's my buddy's bachelor party and we want to come in.”

Hopefully, for their sake, they've called in advance to make table and bottle reservations—or to just get on the list.

A lot of times bachelor parties come to town and they're like, “Yeah I'm going hit this, I'm going to hit that and we are just gonna go where ever.” They don't see that they're just one of many, that we already have like six other bachelor parties at the club. Just know that with any bachelor party, you have to be patient with the bouncer, and don't come with the attitude and ego, like, “My friend owns a company and he's getting married, it's his time.” Because everybody is somebody in Vegas.

Unfortunately, I have to say “No” all of the time, because we have to maintain the integrity of the club: there is a certain girl-to-guy ratio. If there are too many females, although it looks really nice, females ain't the ones that buy the drinks; they just don't. Guys have the ego, so they buy the bottle and they're just going to spend more. But if there are too many guys, well, that's just self-explanatory: nobody wants a cockfest. And then guys get cranky, because everyone's talking to the same waitress. Of course, if they're high-rollers and they got money then, you know, anything is possible.

And anyone can work a deal. A lot of the clubs try to keep a hold on that, but they realize that it's Vegas and it just kinda happens. The management terrorizes us, like, “If you take money, you will get fired.” But if a guy wants to get past the line, it's usually twice cover. So if the cover is twenty-five dollars, then it's fifty dollars to get past the line, and he still has to pay the cover charge. And once he gets in, it's going to be expensive: if it's ten guys, you're looking at a three-bottle minimum at $350 a bottle. But if we're busy and you are not on the list, it's not a sure thing. And if it's guest-list only, it's guest-list only. [PULLQUOTE: The management terrorizes us, like, “If you take money, you will get fired.” But if a guy wants to get past the line, it's usually twice cover.]

More often than not, the guys just don't have a plan. Or the limo driver just drops them off here. They planned transportation, but they didn't plan ahead with the clubs! Sometimes the limo driver can talk to the main host and he'll take care of them and get the ten guys in. But even that's not guaranteed.

That's why you call VIP companies like Natasha's and all those cats. They can set things up: they have a partnership with the club's director of guest services and can negotiate a set fee. So we would take a bachelor party from a VIP company versus your ragtag group of bachelor guys that just walks up because, you know, they always bring people that are going to spend money, that are going to buy bottles. It's already pre-arranged.

Have you ever had to throw out a group of bachelors?

Absolutely. Sometimes they just get too crazy. Usually it's not the whole group, it's one or two guys who think, “Dude, it would be cool to do my girl on the balcony of the VIP area; let me see if I can get away with that.” They do it because it looks cool or, you know, shows off their status. And then they'll have a story, like, “When we got married, you won't believe what Tim got away with!”

It's craziness, the stuff people pull: like going in the corner and peeing. Dude, the bathroom is right there! I've also caught bachelors doing lines [of coke] and stuff on the table—just right in the open. It's not cool. And that's where I come in: the party's over; they have to leave. [PULLQUOTE: It's craziness, the stuff people pull: like going in the corner and peeing. Dude, the bathroom is right there! ]

When people are drunk and they're just about to get married, they vent; and it makes the people around them realize where their life's at. I see that all of the time: i t just all starts coming out, you know. And the bachelors are just trying to get their last hurrahs; they want to do something that they probably won't be able to get away with once they get married.

You know, we get hookers in the club all of the time; I call them my worker bees. One was telling me that, bachelor-party-wise, she'll get guys that have wanted to do something their entire lives: a fantasy—or some latent sexual urge or something. But when it comes down to it, he'll be like, “Oh, what am I doing?” And at the last moment he won't do it.