Electra Cocktail Club

Electra Cocktail Club runs a double life on the Venetian casino floor: by day it's the resort's best sports-viewing bar, with a full wall of custom digital LED art and 40-foot HD screens carrying fights and games; after dark the same wall turns visual instrument, resident DJs take over, and the room becomes a proper cocktail club without a door policy. No cover, walk-in, nightly from 3pm to 2am.

The list prices like the address - $26 signatures across a Boulevardier, Old Fashioned, Spicy Margarita, and Espresso Martini, topping out at the $50 Hennessy XO X-Press-O - but the happy hour is one of the Strip's more honest: daily 4-6pm with $10 cocktails (gimlet, margarita, sidecar) and $8 beers. VIP tables with bottle service handle groups who want geography on weekend nights.

Know its nature: it's an open lounge on a working casino floor, so gaming noise and drifting smoke are part of the deal, and the day-to-night personality swing means a 5pm visit and an 11pm visit are different bars. UFC nights are the sleeper booking - those 40-foot screens beat most sportsbooks for watchability.