LAS VEGAS -- Your pool: Five feet of lukewarm water and floating dead bugs. Their pool: A two-acre oasis of chilled liquid and heavenly bodies all around. Really, who needs a room key?

For years, Las Vegas locals, college kids and fearless sun worshippers have been sneaking into casino swimming pools without paying for a night at the hotel.

Posing as hotel workers

"They slip in through any crack that's available," said Jack Lafleur, creator of the Sunday afternoon bacchanalia known as Rehab at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino pool. Rehab draws an average of 3,000 people per party.

Read more on hotel pool crashing in Las Vegas in the Chicago Sun Times online edition.