No Bungle In This Rumjungle
The Rumjungle is located inside Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd South, Las Vegas, NV and was designed by renowned designer Jeffrey Beers. This 20,000 square-foot club is a living indoor jungle. Guests pass through a 22-foot wall of fire and are met with the cool rush of a waterfall. Inside is an epic restaurant and nightclub accented by an indoor tropical island. The immense three-tiered space features a 144 foot long, 19 foot high world’s largest rum. What’s the use having the largest rum bar without having the world’s largest rum menu and it does. The menu features over 220 different varieties of rum. Delicious cuisine is cooked over open fire pits, accentuated by the world’s two largest conga drums. This Vegas hotspot caters to a more mature audience, so the club goer can have fun in a comfortable environment. A strict dress code is enforced and yes, you must pass the velvet rope. DJ Toast, DJ Creativity, DJ Homicide and DJ Randy lend a dance/ hip-hop back beat that keeps this club bumpin. Ladies, don’t miss this club on Monday’s Ladies appreciation night.
Admittedly, I steer clear of over the top clubs because most feel like they are trying too hard. Rumjungle delivers the great fun it promises. Each bottle is illuminated with a laser beam of light while go-go girls dance between bottles of wine to dueling congas. The food all comes skewered on swords. A great deal of thought went into the various clever designs and schemes and almost instantly, rumjungle became one of the hottest clubs in Vegas, with lines of partiers out the door every night, ready to dance to live world-beat music. Get there before 10pm to avoid lines and consider having dinner before 11pm, when the kitchen closes. Dinner is costly, but it’s a multicourse, all-you-can-eat feast of flame pit-cooked Brazilian food. For the amount of food and the waiving of the cover charge, dinner is a good deal. After 11p.m. there is a cover charge ($20 to $25). The club is open ’til 2a.m. on weeknights, 4a.m. Thursday through Saturday nights and is closed Tuesday and Wednesday.This fun place has won the Critic’s Award for Best Place to Dance and Best New Hotel Restaurant given by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The Mandalay Bay Resort houses a refreshing two-story jungle complete with waterfalls and the world’s largest rum bar. The Lava Flow is a flaming volcano-bowl filled with dark rum, crushed pineapple, mango, brandy and orange juice. Try the Fire Pit, an eight-course meal including skewered kebabs of meat. This club makes everyone feel like a VIP and even offers party packages for bachelor, bachlorette and birthday parties, this is one rain forest that remains safe from destruction. Darren Monie
