OT- Best sports book in Vegas for March Madness?

[UConn4ever]

just booked a trip to Vegas for the madness anybody who's been during the tournament know which ones are the best for all the games?

 

[businesslawyer]

My sons and I like Mandalay Bay. But certinly havent been to all of them, and I'm sure you can have fun most anywhere that weekend.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

I have been to every book multiple times over the last 5 years. What are you looking for? Some books have wager limits but better amenities. Others have higher limits with amenities that are not on par with other books.

 

[UConn4ever]

I have been to every book multiple times over the last 5 years. What are you looking for? Some books have wager limits but better amenities. Others have higher limits with amenities that are not on par with other books.

Im looking for the place with a good atmosphere and places where it's fun but where I can sit and actually watch the game not just a big party

 

[SirHypeAlot]

Just got back from Vegas for the Super Bowl and I went to the books at the Wynn and Aria. Wynn was surprisingly underwhelming. It reminded me of a fancier simulcast track with a number of small individual television stations. There are some leather laz-e-boys and a bar area but the viewing isn't great. Highly recommend the Aria. Great seating and televisions everywhere. It's newer and there isn't a musty smell of cigs as there is at Wynn.

 

[CAHUSKY]

We've got a couple of couches reserved at the Cosmopolitan on Saturday 3/21. I think they were $350 each but $260 is actually the food & beverage minimum. We have 10 people so its obviously $35 a head to eat and drink our faces off. Tons of TV's and a great environment.

 

[whaler11]

March Madness in Vegas is highly overrated.

 

[BUConn10]

Whoever has UConn with the lowest odds to win the title is the best one for you.

 

[Jerry1714]

Aria is my favorite spot in Vegas, Mandalay is good too.

 

[Mr. French]

For sports books, I can't tell you I'm an expert but I've been there during decent sporting events including march madness, and I enjoyed flamingos a lot...that was awhile back, but the atmosphere to watch games was great. I stayed at hard rock the year of Kevin Ware, their book wasn't great for watching...and the higher ends like Caesars etc are huge and packed, just my experience, no expert. I had a ball during MM, but some of my buddies with me weren't into betting as much as I thought they'd be, took away the atmosphere a bit...

 

[OkaForPrez]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/mmilv/

http://thevegasparlay.com/march-madness/march-madness-las-vegas/

I'm going this year as well and have been researching it. The above two sites have been the most helpful. You'll have to be approved into the facebook group.

You really have 3 options:

1. Pay a cover charge in a bar environment ranging from cheap to extravagant packages. The hoops and Hops event at the cosmo appears to be the most popular choice. Some places only have minimum charges for food/beer, some make you pay up front.

2. Get to the sportsbook of your choice between 5 and 6am to secure a spot.

3. Look for a ballroom/theater type set up.

Last year the best ballroom theater set up was in the encore theater at the Wynn but folks in the facebook group say there is a competing event this year so it wont be available but a similar set up (potentially in a different ballroom) will be. The key thing you want to make sure on these set ups is that there is a satellite betting window set up. This is important because some of the more popular sports books can get huge waiting lines.

When we lock in on a plan I'll post it here in this thread. How many are in your group?

 

[UConn4ever]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/mmilv/

http://thevegasparlay.com/march-madness/march-madness-las-vegas/

I'm going this year as well and have been researching it. The above two sites have been the most helpful. You'll have to be approved into the facebook group.

You really have 3 options:

1. Pay a cover charge in a bar environment ranging from cheap to extravagant packages. The hoops and Hops event at the cosmo appears to be the most popular choice. Some places only have minimum charges for food/beer, some make you pay up front.

2. Get to the sportsbook of your choice between 5 and 6am to secure a spot.

3. Look for a ballroom/theater type set up.

Last year the best ballroom theater set up was in the encore theater at the Wynn but folks in the facebook group say there is a competing event this year so it wont be available but a similar set up (potentially in a different ballroom) will be. The key thing you want to make sure on these set ups is that there is a satellite betting window set up. This is important because some of the more popular sports books can get huge waiting lines.

When we lock in on a plan I'll post it here in this thread. How many are in your group?

It's just me and one buddy was a last minute thing so I said why not I think he wanted to try the D hotel viewing party for Thursday ssince we're staying there because they had a promo code for 20 buck rooms that week and if it sucks go up the strip for the night games Thursday or all the games on Friday

 

[CAHUSKY]

March Madness in Vegas is highly overrated.

Buddies coming in from around the country, watching games all day , make a few bets, have dinner at Estiatorio Milos and then have a few martinis in the poker room before drifting off to sleep. Get up the next morning, watch a couple of games, lounge by the pool, have a nice lunch at Lotus of Siam before watching a few games that afternoon/evening. That's going to suck.

 

[whaler11]

Buddies coming in from around the country, watching games all day , make a few bets, have dinner at Estiatorio Milos and then have a few martinis in the poker room before drifting off to sleep. Get up the next morning, watch a couple of games, lounge by the pool, have a nice lunch at Lotus of Siam before watching a few games that afternoon/evening. That's going to suck.

I didn't say it sucks I said it's overrated. First of all you can do any of those things at any time.

Sportsbooks jammed to the gills with amatures - people flipping out about every basket in the first half of games because they bet $20 on the over.

The worst ratio of males to females for any weekend in the city all year.

Vegas is great, the tournament is great. They do not enhance each other.

Maybe if you live an hour away it's ok to burn time up in Vegas watching 20 hours of basketball. Otherwise you are spending a lot of time flying across the country for an experience not that different than Rookies as far as basketball is concerned.

 

[Sandeman]

Legasse Stadium is pretty awesome if you receiver your own booth. I was there in 2011 for some of Kemba's cardiac shots. The place was going nuts. Plus the food is awesome since it is owned by Emiril.

 

[Waquoit]

March Madness in Vegas is highly overrated.

For the curmudgeon, I'm sure.

 

[Sky ball]

I usually go to the Station Casinos..Mostly Sunset Station in Henderson. Prefer the local atmosphere. My dad lived in Vegas for a number of years. I got tired of the Strip etc.

 

[whaler11]

For the curmudgeon, I'm sure.

Funny coming from you.

I didn't say anyone should agree. I've done it and it doesn't play out as well as it looks on paper.

After a long NE winter I don't see the allure of flying 16 hours round trip to sit indoors and replicate what is found at any popular sports bar.

Controversial for sure is to prefer being in Vegas when the male to female ratio isn't 10:1.

Having to get up early to get a decent spot after a long night in Vegas is just a nice bonus.

The tournament and the city are two of the best things in the world. I don't find that they compliment each other.

 

[Waquoit]

Funny coming from you.

I didn't say anyone should agree. I've done it and it doesn't play out as well as it looks on paper.

After a long NE winter I don't see the allure of flying 16 hours round trip to sit indoors and replicate what is found at any popular sports bar.

Controversial for sure is to prefer being in Vegas when the male to female ratio isn't 10:1.

Having to get up early to get a decent spot after a long night in Vegas is just a nice bonus.

The tournament and the city are two of the best things in the world. I don't find that they compliment each other.

Nah, you're just peeing in the cheerios.

 

[Danzz]

Aria has a real nice one.

 

[businesslawyer]

I didn't say it sucks I said it's overrated. First of all you can do any of those things at any time.

Sportsbooks jammed to the gills with amatures - people flipping out about every basket in the first half of games because they bet $20 on the over.

The worst ratio of males to females for any weekend in the city all year.

Vegas is great, the tournament is great. They do not enhance each other.

Maybe if you live an hour away it's ok to burn time up in Vegas watching 20 hours of basketball. Otherwise you are spending a lot of time flying across the country for an experience not that different than Rookies as far as basketball is concerned.

I disagree with you on this. I don't care about male/femaie ratio, because it's not going to do me any good anyway. But I think it's great watching people flip out because they have WKU getting to 15 before Kentucky, and dying because they don't hoist a three down 12-13.

Now, if UConn or another team I'm truly vested in is playing, I'll watch from the room where I'm not interrupted.

FWIW, my sons (then 26 and 22) were there last year without me. And UConn won. They are going back this year. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

 

[OkaForPrez]

On the ratio thing, isn't it also spring break?

Edit: 1 Million girls roughly are on spring break the week the tourney starts. Some of them have to be going to vegas.

https://www.tripsmarter.com/panama-city-beach/events/spring-break-college-university-dates

 

[jleves]

I usually go to the Station Casinos..Mostly Sunset Station in Henderson. Prefer the local atmosphere. My dad lived in Vegas for a number of years. I got tired of the Strip etc.

That's strange to see this particular place singled out. I have to go to Vegas about 6 times a year for work and the contacted hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn just behind Sunset Station so I've been there dozens and dozens of times. Pretty nice casino overall.

 

[Deepster]

Never been there for March Madness, but I like Caesar's Sportsbook for the crowd and experience of it. It's big, it's what you think of when you envision Vegas and Caesar's location in the middle of the strip is top notch. Most people really underestimate how hard it is to get from property to property. If you're tucked down the strip at Mandalay Bay, you're not jumping across the street to anywhere new really easily. Caesar's is the best for location and eating/drinking options (Gordon Ramsay's pub, Wolfgang Puck's Spago, etc.)

 

[FrostyNuggets]

We've got a couple of couches reserved at the Cosmopolitan on Saturday 3/21. I think they were $350 each but $260 is actually the food & beverage minimum. We have 10 people so its obviously $35 a head to eat and drink our faces off. Tons of TV's and a great environment.

Is this in a ballroom? I stay at the cosmo often with Marriott points, like the place, but found both of their books to be relatively small with weird hours.

An underrated sports book is Bally's, (I know, freaking Bally's).....but its a big space with plenty of big screens.

The food at lagasse's is the best, and this is coming from a guy who cannot stand the concept of the celebrity chef.