Hakassan nightclub, which opened in April this year in Las Vegas, holds a number of records.  It is the biggest nightclub in America.  It is 8 000m² and holds 7 000 people on a busy night – which appears to be most nights.  It is also the most expensive Nightclub every built, coming in at over $100 million.  It also pays DJ’s the highest amounts ever, blowing away the market with $200 000,00 gigs – that is R2 million for mixing songs together for two hours!  It has the number one and two DJ’s in the world currently playing on the same weekends.  A lot of that money is obviously being spent on the décor and the layout, but the sound system is of course absolutely amazing, and the lighting extremely sophisticated and on a level, as you can imagine at that cost, which is literally R1000 million, something that one has never experienced in South Africa or indeed London for that matter either.

Hakassan came to my attention when I read an article about it in a business magazine, Forbes, but there is no doubt that word is going to spread of this super club.  How long it will last, paying those sort of salaries to DJ’s, is another question, but based on the long queues of people, still trying to get into a full Nightclub just before 2 am on a Sunday morning, it has a good two or three years in it.  Attention to detail is everything, and from the staff, who seem to have to be models or close to it before getting a job, to their uniforms, which are choreographed differently on different nights according to which DJ is playing, it is an unbelievable clubbing experience for anybody who gets a chance to travel almost to the other side of the world!