It’s time to wade into pool season, Las Vegas

Ladies, leave your vending-machine flats at home. The clubs are filled with water, and your pockets — well, you’re probably not wearing any.

Ready or not, spring break is upon us, which can mean only one thing: It’s pool season, Las Vegas.

Slip out of your uncomfortable outfits and into your shorts and bikinis to flaunt the you that’s been in hibernation since last year. (I know, we had only three minutes of cold weather this winter.)

Still, it’s time to schedule those disco naps, and let your nightlife bleed into your day life.

Properties on and around Las Vegas Boulevard will reveal their pool-centered clubs for the 2016 season Friday.

Wet Republic at the MGM Grand opens at 11 a.m. and will feature DJs Shift, Fergie, Jeff Retro and Mark Eteson through the weekend.

Every Friday, the club hosts a swimsuit competition, including 100 women vying for their piece of $150,000 in cash prizes.

With tickets starting at $20, those old enough to drink legally are welcome to the 54,000-square-foot space.

For a more intimate setting, head over to The Pool at The Linq, which debuted for the 2016 season in February.

The indoor “Recover Zone” there is open Fridays through Sundays and features TVs and pool tables to help you recover when you’ve gone zero to a hundred too quickly.

If you’re not up for dealing with traffic on the Strip, but are feeling too fancy to get your tan on around droves of screaming children at the YMCA, the Palms Pool and Dayclub is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Local ladies get in free seven days a week, as long as there’s no special event, and on Fridays and Saturdays, the hotel pool is open only to men and women older than 21.

It’s not the only off-Strip pool party.

Rehab Beach Club at the Hard Rock Hotel, best known for its Sunday offerings, launches in time for spring break March 19, with Elijah Wood and Zach Cowie of Wooden Wisdom.

Tickets start at $20 for women and $40 for men. It’s open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

And when you wake from your post-pool snooze like the sleeping beauty you are, you can ready yourself to slay all over again.

I can’t be the only one in Vegas this weekend who has dreamed of being invited to Lil Bow Wow’s birthday party. (Sorry, “Bow Wow.”)

For an Andrew Jackson, our dream can be bought to fruition.

On Saturday at Foxtail inside SLS Las Vegas, the rapper will celebrate the launch of his 29th year on Earth. Tickets start at $20, and the festivities begin at 10:30 p.m.

Or, you can just party like it’s your own birthday.

At the heart of the Strip, Calvin Harris, aka Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, will be performing with Generik at Omnia inside Caesars Palace on Saturday.

Just don’t spread yourself or your suntan lotion too thin.

Remember, we’ve got at least five more months to sit in cabanas, trying to figure out what those umbrellas are doing in our drinks. Consider this practice for Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends, when it really counts.

Contact Kimberly De La Cruz at kdelacruz@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5244. Find her on Twitter: @KimberlyinLV