The honest version first: there is no hangover cure, in Las Vegas or anywhere. Your liver clears alcohol at a fixed rate, roughly one standard drink per hour, and nothing you buy changes that. What you can change is how bad the waiting feels. Alcohol suppresses vasopressin, the hormone that tells your kidneys to hold water, so a big night leaves you short on fluid AND salts. Rehydration with electrolytes, real food, and sleep is the whole game. Everything on this page is built on that, including the parts where we sell things and the parts where we tell you not to buy them. Last checked: October 30, 2026.
Brunch is not the answer to everything. Get medical care if you cannot keep fluids down for hours, you are vomiting repeatedly, you feel confused, faint or disoriented, your heart races at rest, or someone in the group cannot be woken properly. Dehydration and alcohol poisoning land visitors in care every weekend here. Start with our Las Vegas urgent care guide for visitors and the trip emergencies hub.
Every product below is a rehydration aid, not a cure, and the honest difference between them is sodium per serving and taste. Prices are the ranges seen on Amazon on October 30, 2026; they move.
| Product | Sodium per serving | Price seen | The honest take |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid I.V. Hydration Multiplier, 16 sticks | 500 mg per stick | About $24 for 16 sticks | The mainstream pick. Sweet, easy to find, 4.6 stars across 108,000+ ratings. The sugar is part of how the formula absorbs, not a flaw. |
| DripDrop ORS, Bold Variety Pack, 32 sticks | 330 mg per 8 oz stick | About $33 to $36 for 32 sticks | The medical grade formula, developed from oral rehydration science. Gentler taste, lower sodium per stick, good if the sweet ones are too much. (The bigger 16 oz sticks carry 660 mg.) |
| LMNT Zero Sugar Electrolytes, Variety Pack, 12 sticks | 1,000 mg per stick | About $24 for 12 sticks | The heavy night pick: double the sodium of Liquid I.V., zero sugar, plus potassium and magnesium. Salty taste; that is the point. |
| Pedialyte Electrolyte Drink, Unflavored, 1 Liter (pack of 8) | 1,080 mg per liter | About $39 to $44 for eight 1 liter bottles | The pharmacy standard, pre-mixed, nothing to stir at 7 AM. About 370 mg of sodium per 12 oz glass. Bulky for a suitcase; buy it here, not at home. |
| Gin Gins Original Ginger Chews, 1 lb bag | Not an electrolyte | About $14 to $18 for a 1 lb bag | For the nausea, not the dehydration. Real ginger chews, the number one ginger candy on Amazon, small enough for a pocket on the walk to brunch. |
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Las Vegas has a real mobile IV and drip bar scene, and a session runs roughly $100 to $300. Here is what the evidence says: for anyone who can keep fluids down, an IV has not been shown to beat oral rehydration. Your gut absorbs water and salts perfectly well; that is the entire basis of oral rehydration therapy in medicine. The drip feels dramatic, and the hour of lying still in a dark room probably helps as much as the saline. If you cannot keep fluids down at all, skip the drip bar and read the warning section above again: that is a medical situation, and urgent care is cheaper than a mobile IV anyway.
The pick: HASH HOUSE A GO GO at The LINQ. The consensus hangover restaurant in Las Vegas, and the rare case where the consensus is right. The menu reads like it was written for this exact morning: tractor sized pancakes, the Sage Fried Chicken Benedict, portions with no interest in moderation. Hours: Sunday to Thursday 7:30 AM to 3 PM, Friday and Saturday 7:30 AM to 9 PM, at The LINQ on the center Strip. It takes reservations through OpenTable, and booking one is the difference between eating at 9 and eating at 11 (hours checked October 30, 2026, on the restaurant's official site).
The bench, by situation:
There is no cure and nothing speeds up your liver, which clears alcohol at a fixed rate of roughly one standard drink per hour. What shortens the misery is rehydration with electrolytes (sodium plus glucose absorbs faster than water alone), food once you can keep it down, caffeine after food, and sleep. The full step by step is the morning protocol on this page.
For anyone who can keep fluids down, there is no good evidence that an IV drip beats oral rehydration, and a drip session in Las Vegas runs about $100 to $300. Oral rehydration drinks deliver the same water and salts through your gut, which is what they were designed for in medicine. An IV makes sense when vomiting will not stop, and that is also the point where you should be thinking about urgent care, not a drip bar.
Start bland if you are nauseous (toast, crackers, a banana), then eat a real meal with protein and fat once food stays down. Eggs help twice: protein for energy and cysteine, an amino acid involved in breaking down alcohol byproducts. That is the logic behind the classic hangover brunch order: eggs, potatoes and something salty, with coffee after the food, not before it.
Hash House A Go Go at The LINQ is the consensus pick: tractor sized pancakes, the Sage Fried Chicken Benedict, and portions built for exactly this morning. It serves brunch daily from 7:30 AM (until 3 PM Sunday to Thursday, 9 PM Friday and Saturday) and takes reservations through OpenTable. The bench on this page covers the never-slept crew (The Henry at The Cosmopolitan), the gentle re-entry (Peppermill, Mon Ami Gabi) and the fast option (Eggslut).
Get medical care, not brunch, if you cannot keep fluids down for hours, you are vomiting repeatedly, you feel confused or faint, your heart is racing at rest, or the headache is the worst you have had. Alcohol poisoning and dehydration complications are real, and Las Vegas urgent care clinics see them every weekend. Our urgent care guide lists visitor friendly clinics and what to expect.
Restaurant hours and Amazon prices checked October 30, 2026. Hours can change on holidays and event weekends; the protocols above are general information, not medical advice.