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Tryst at Wynn Las Vegas
While every hotel/casino in Vegas has a nightclub, Tryst is one of our favorites. For starters, it's smaller and intimate than most. But the space is still pretty big compared to other bars and clubs outside of Vegas.

Outside, there's plenty of tables overlooking the Wynderful man made creations-- a mountain and a waterfall. A few are even tucked into a fake grotto offering those who want it some privacy.

Inside the decor is dark and sensual with deep red banquettes, the perfect place for a tryst. Bum-dum-dum, ching. But being part of the Wynn, the place is rather elegant too. Starting with a descent down a glass staircase to the velvet-lined hallway to the strict dress code--no hats, oversized jeans, baggy or athletic clothes. Still it's not too elegant thanks to the stripper pole in the corner. A word to all men who fancy themselves a regular Crazy Horse gal--only women are allowed on the pole.

And since this is the nightclub biz, one moment you're hot and the next you've been shut down thanks to some allegations involving GHB or an expired liquor license. While we think neither of those can happen at the Wynn, Tryst will have competition in 2008.

CatHouse, a Bordello-inspired lounge, is opening at Luxor (which also opened another club LAX over Labor Day 2007. Prive is set to debut on New Years Eve 2008 at Planet Hollywood and the Bellagio will unveil the ultra-luxe nightclub The Bank on the same night. So many choices here to get our freak on!

Cain at The Cove, Atlantis
Cain is a popular NYC nightclub that carried its magic down to the Bahamas. The club sits inside the exclusive adults-only luxury wing of The Cove at Atlantis.

Unlike the original NYC Cain, th warm weather Cain sports an outdoor pool and a beach club that serves specialty cocktails with spa treatments in 20 private cabanas during the day, and plays host to international DJs at night. Lindsay Lohan, pre-rehab stints, spun some tunes in the DJ booth here.

There's also outdoor gaming tables available and Cain is connected to another nightclub Aura owned by the operators of PURE in Las Vegas.

Teddy's at Hollywood Roosevelt
You can hate this place all you want and lots of people in Hollywood do but deep down everyone is still a little celeb-obsessed and would put up with the poseurs at Teddy's if it meant a chance to rub shoulders with a tabloid mag staple.

Designer Dodd Mitchell, who puts his design stamp on all Thompson Hotels, has done up this super-small (read: exclusive) lounge in "dark wood, subdued colors and comfortable oversized seating areas." While Hollywood is littered with clubs--some good, most bad--Teddy's is one of the only ones with a hotel attached.

[Photo of Hiro Ballroom: rimesparse]

The Hiro Ballroom at Maritime Hotel
While the Maritime Hotel has a nautical theme, its Hiro Ballroom is a Japanese-style venue that features live music and DJs on a weekly basis. The place sports chinoiserie booths and hanging lanterns and the drinks menu feature sake and shochu. The night to go is Sunday, which is when The Cuckoo Club, a gay night hosted by Erich Conrad, goes off.

A few other hotels in New York offer nightclubs in their hotels but some are a little too icky for us like the hot tubs at G-Spa inside the Hotel Gansevoort and the indoor pool at Hotel QT. Basically, we won't party anywhere near a chlorinated indoor pool or hot tub.

The Hiro Ballroom, however, might have something to fear in the Hotel Riverview, the newest project from Maritime's hoteliers Sean MacPherson and Eric Goode. Already inside the hotel's basement is the Socialista club, a sort of Cuban-inspired speakeasy popular amongst hipsters. So we'll have to see who wins this dance-off.

Social Miami at Sagamore Hotel
After Thompson Hotels ended their management contract at Sagamore, the hotel put in Social Miami from Jeffrey Chodowhow's China Grill group which has quickly become THE place to be on Friday nights in SoBe.

The place is part restaurant, part artistic gallery, complete with a video-art garden, part game room and part pool lounge. The design is in sync with the rest of the hotel using stark white with splashes of "palm-tree green" and a mix of modern and vintage furnishings. And of course, toons of art. Outside, party people can ogle the hotel's art collection while sitting on two thirty-foot sofas surrounded by large video monitors. Our Miami source says the best people watching in town happens here from 11 pm and 2 am -- hardly matters what night.

So Social Miami has been hot for a good year or more but with Lenny Kravitz's new Florida Room on the scene inside the Delano Hotel, we don't expect it to be hot much longer.

Did your favorite hotel nightclub fail to make it past our bouncers? Let us know in comments.