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Las Vegas but only 20

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    #62
    Cupcake_Crisis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    Op, the only way you'll be having a drink in Vegas is if you stock up in duty free and get pished in your room. They're VERY strict and know all the tricks.


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    #63
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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    #64
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    If he is under 21 the customs will confiscate it all.

    Oh... **** out of luck op!


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    #65
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    I wouldn't worry OP. Hookers and drug dealers rarely ask for ID. You'll have lots of fun.


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    #66
    languagenerd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,201 ✭✭✭languagenerd


    I was there in my late teens as part of a family trip - they are extremely strict. I wasn't even allowed walk down the liquor aisle of the supermarket with my dad while he was looking for a particular drink; I had to wait with the trolley in the next aisle.

    Our hotel also had a piano bar in it and me and my brother had to sit at an ice-cream stall across the hall to listen to the music (at 6pm. In my late teens. With both parents present.)

    Sorry OP. You might get lucky with the odd bouncer but it's unlikely, especially if your group look young.


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    #67
    kingtut
    Registered Users Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭kingtut


    I went when I was around 25 with a group of 5/6 of a similar age and we were rarely asked for ID. Personally I can only recall 2 occasions where I was asked during our week long stay.


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    #68
    jippo nolan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭jippo nolan


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    Nevada gaming regulations require the licensee of a gambling place to check the ID of anyone appearing to be under 21. Failure to do so can lead to huge fines and loss of licence. Now these places take in millions per day and you can be damn sure they don't want anything to hurt that. So the policy is to check everyone. More than their jobsworth not to check.

    Don't try any fake IDs as that will get you a trip to the Clark County jail and a room with Bubba and his mates.

    And you won't like Bubba!


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    #69
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I have been to Vegas twice and the only time I was not ID checked was in a strip bar.
    They are pretty strict about it.

    As an aside, I thought vegas was a bit of a dump, but you have to see it, experience it, once.


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    #70
    Jodotman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Jodotman


    jippo nolan wrote: »
    And you won't like Bubba!

    Your arsehole will be like the grand canyon


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    #71
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Rules vary across states and counties in the US. But if you are there regularly, you always carry ID on you. Some counties/states require every customer, even if they're a geriatric, to be ID'd. That's just the rules.

    I don't explicitly recall getting carded in Las Vegas on any off my previous visits, but I'm sure that I was. On top of drinking laws, you also have gambling laws in Nevada, which are pretty strict, so don't expect to find any loopholes.


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    #72
    Captain_Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Captain_Crash


    It varies depending on where you are, but 99% of the time they're strict as hell.

    In Florida last year I sat at the bar by the pool and ordered a drink and was ID'd. When I finished that one I ordered another from the same girl, and she ID'd me again. I laughed at it and she said she has to ID everyone. We both saw the funny side of it, but in the US, dems be the rools!


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    #73
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,086 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Just dress up like Elvis and you'll blend in op.


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    #74
    MadsL
    Registered Users Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    LPT: Get married to someone over 21
    http://drinkingage.procon.org/sourcefiles/NevadaUnderAgeAlcConsumpLaw.pdf
    Or bring yore ma...


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    #75
    Parchment
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭Parchment


    They are very strict as the servers job depends on it. If a server serves you drink and you are found to be under aged they are liable.

    Also if you try to use anything fake they will confiscate your ID. They take it very seriously.

    I worked a summer there and we were properly trained in to check id and it was really pushed that we would be in serious trouble if we served an under aged person.


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    #76
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Is this all booked and paid for OP?

    Would there be any chance of pushing the trip back into September after your birthday.


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    #77
    Klopp
    Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭Klopp


    Las Vegas is very boring if you can't drink, gamble or enter nightclubs.


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    #78
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Your wasting your time, I have been to lots of places in the States, New York, Boston, LA, Las Vegas, SF, SD, Tucson and in every single one of those places I was asked for ID.  Was even in a TGI Friday's ordering food with no alcohol and I was asked for ID.
    They are very strict on ID over there and no matter you try or what you think will work it wont. You might get into a place but when you are in there you will be asked for ID and this can happen numerous times in the place.


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    #79
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Americans are a bit weird about the ID thing.
    Ive been in vegas when i was 24, i had the old folding out driving license at the time. Thats was fun!! But it was accepted. I think any fake ID will be fine.

    Was in new york for work a few years ago and we had a 50+ coworker with us. He was refused because he didnt have ID.


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    #80
    Floppybits
    Registered Users Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Klopp wrote: »
    Las Vegas is very boring if you can't drink, gamble or enter nightclubs.
    Vegas is boring after the first 24 hours.


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    #81
    ceadaoin.
    Registered Users Posts: 8,110 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    Klopp wrote: »
    Las Vegas is very boring if you can't drink, gamble or enter nightclubs.

    It's boring if that's the reason you are going. There are plenty of other things to do though


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    #82
    Fred Swanson
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    #83
    The_Captain
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    FTA69 wrote: »
    You'll get ID'd a lot more often than you expect. If you're going to a bar or club with people in their mid-20s then there's a good chance ye'll all be thoroughly ID'd. It drove me demented and I was 25 looking 30 odd. Likewise Vegas gets loads of European tourists and I'd say a lot of the bouncers are wide to the dating system.

    I mean you may well be grand in a lot of places but you will be pulled and blown out of others.



    Result!




    Seriously though, I went when I was 18 and barmen would follow my dad back to the table after ordering a round of drinks to make sure I wasn't drinking any of them. They take it ridiculously seriously


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    #84
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    Parchment wrote: »
    They are very strict as the servers job depends on it. If a server serves you drink and you are found to be under aged they are liable.

    More than that. In a lot of places just not asking for ID is an offense, it has absolutely nothing to do with the appearance of the customer. They can be your own great grandmother but you still have to ask for ID.


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    #85
    Agricola
    Registered Users Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Christ this thread is hilarious. If only the yanks were as tight on their gun laws.


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    #86
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,865 ✭✭✭✭January


    Just be mindful OP, when you apply for your ESTA they ask for your email address and can look up anything you've posted online. They may not let you into the country if you've posted about possible criminal activity while you're in the country....


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    #87
    jmayo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,092 ✭✭✭✭jmayo


    Ahh the US of A.

    Where you can go join the army and die for your country, but not take a beer.

    If the OP does try it on I think they should have camera with them.
    The footage might come in useful for that episode of Banged Up Abroad. ;)

    BTW if the OP is in Vegas and all their mates are off gambling and drinking (maybe a bit of hooring), don't worry you can go to a gun range and shoot the shyte out of things.
    Some of them have AK47s, M16s, M4s, MP5s, M60s, Tommy guns, Stens, Brens and hell even a 50 cal Browning.
    Oh and supposedly a Barrett 50 cal.
    That is some serious shyte right there man.

    And yes you can get full auto.
    Some of them let in kids as young as 12 if they have adult guardian with them.
    Pregnant women are it seems the only ones not allowed.

    They will even pick you up from hotel.

    BTW you could probably go through more money more quickly right there than you could at a table in a casino.
    Talk about blowing your load. :D


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    #88
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,729 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    Breaking the law at home is one thing and wrong.
    Planning on going abroad to intentionally break the law is an even worse idea.


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    #89
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    The state of Nevada voted to legalise cannabis last november. Not medicinal but fully legal recreational cannabis (for the over 21's). Unfortunately the shops wont be opening until January 2018.

    It does mean that its no longer a criminal offense though.


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    #90
    smurfjed
    Registered Users Posts: 10,039 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Generally speaking i get ID'ed in most places in the USA, but not Vegas :)
    But US police don't have a sense of humor, so don't try to be stupid with a fake ID.


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    #91
    D0NNELLY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭D0NNELLY


    diomed wrote: »
    Clark county named after this guy
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clark

    The city of Las Vegas was established as a maintenance stop for Clark's San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad.

    In responding to criticism of his bribery of the Montana legislature, Clark is reported to have said, "I never bought a man who wasn't for sale."

    Clark died at the age of 86 in his mansion at 962 Fifth Avenue in New York City, one of the 50 richest Americans ever.



    Fukin hero!


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