- A question I often get on my Las Vegas videos
are Chris, what is the best time of year to come to Vegas?
And so in this video, Topher and I
are gonna answer that question.
Hey but if this is your first time here,
this is Yellow Productions.
We do travel guides that are fun, informative, entertaining.
This is part of our series on Las Vegas,
and to answer the question of what is the best time of year
to come to Las Vegas?
Simple, it is the holiday season, look at this right here.
Holiday season being Thanksgiving, December,
into early January holidays.
In this video, I'll give you eight reasons why
the holiday season is the best time to visit Las Vegas.
The first reason to visit Las Vegas during the holidays,
what makes it one of the best times to visit
is frankly, the weather.
The weather in the summer, and the spring, and the fall
in Las Vegas is usually terribly oppressive.
Standing out here at nine at night,
if it was June, I would still be sweating.
It would be that hot, but if you come in November,
December, January, it's a nice temperature.
Like daytime highs around the 60s,
nighttime lows of 40,
I mean you need a little bit of jacket,
but it gives you that cozy winter weather
without being freezing, it never snows,
and Las Vegas is a place where like nothing really closes,
and so everything is open in Vegas in the holidays.
You might go some places Thanksgiving, Christmas,
it's all closed down, but here it's all open.
About the only exception, if you come during the holidays,
that isn't open are the pool clubs.
Most of the hotel swimming pools will still be open,
just the pool clubs, that are like the nightclubs
at the pools, those aren't open,
'cause it's just not that hot.
But, this is a good time to come,
'cause you could walk the whole Strip,
and not have to go through like 10 bottles of water
in one, mmm, one mile.
The holidays is the best time of year to come to Vegas
because how often can you go ice skating on the Strip?
Only one time of year, during the holidays.
The Cosmopolitan Hotel, up on the 4th floor,
every year from about November 'til the New Year,
sets up an ice skating rink, right on the Strip.
I mean that is an ice skating rink
with a really impressive view.
The ice skating rink is normally a pool
where you can rent cabanas.
But since it's an ice skating rink,
if you've got a little extra cash,
you can reserve a fire pit.
Now that's a romantic way to spend an evening.
Another great reason to visit Vegas during the holidays
is for all of the holiday decorations,
pretty much every hotel is decorated for the season.
The best is at the Bellagio, right off the lobby,
in the conservatory, it's busy, there's a lotta people here.
But there's a 40 foot Christmas tree,
there these huge polar bears,
then there's these big horses back here,
that like the tails actually move by themselves.
It's totally a winter wonderland.
The fountain in front of the Bellagio has special songs,
that performs for Christmas, and The Linq
the outdoor shopping promenade, hotel of the same name,
is all decorated for the season as well.
The 5th reason to visit Vegas during the holidays
is to gorge yourself
on one of the amazing buffets in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas has some amazing food, and what better way
to have a holiday meal, than an amazing buffet.
The one I'm at right now, it's in the Cosmopolitan Hotel,
it's called the Wicked Spoon.
It's one of the best in the city, and of course
they've got things like crab legs, prime rib.
But what am I gorging myself on?
Dragon fruit, this fruit you can find it everywhere in Asia,
and it's really cheap there, but in the states,
it is like $10 a pound,
so mmm, this is my 3rd plate of this.
But, the great thing about having a buffet
for your holiday meal,
there's no clean up afterwards at all.
You just eat and you go.
Though I will point out,
if you're actually eating your holiday meal,
on the holiday, like Thanksgiving or Christmas,
it might be pretty busy.
My tip, come and have your holiday meal the day after.
Today, December 26th, 5:00 p.m. at the Wicked Spoon,
no line at all, alright, enjoy.
Visiting Las Vegas before Christmas is great to do
all your last minute Christmas shopping.
Pretty much every hotel has some shops in it.
There's lots of shopping malls,
there's the fashion shops,
particularly if you're into high end gifts.
Did you know that on the Las Vegas Strip alone,
there are six certified Rolex dealers?
I wonder if Rolex sells any in yellow.
I should check it out while we're here.
One of the best reasons to visit Vegas during the holidays
is because the holiday season, historically,
has the lowest hotel rates.
Hotel rates in Vegas can fluctuate wildly.
But two weeks that always has really cheap hotel rates,
the week of Thanksgiving and the week of Christmas.
Generally right before and right after both those holidays.
A lotta these hotels can have room rates,
six, $700 a night, you can find those same hotels
for like one or $200 a night in those Thanksgiving
or Christmas weeks.
'Course the exception is if you are here for New Year's Eve,
it does go up in price quite a bit,
but come at Thanksgiving, or come during Christmas,
and get the hotels for a fraction of their regular price.
The 8th reason to visit Las Vegas during the holidays,
and this is probably why most people come to visit,
is for New Year's Eve.
Over 300,000 people come to visit Vegas
to ring in the New Year.
They close off the entire strip, it's pedestrian only,
starting at 6:00 p.m.
There's also another New Year's Eve party downtown,
at the Fremont Street Experience.
That one has an admission fee, there's live entertainment,
little smaller, less crowds.
That one, the show is also, they ring in the New Year
on the Viva Vision, which is the light show on top.
But if you come to the Strip, they do fireworks,
from lots of the Strip hotels.
But there's lots of rules and regulations,
and book your hotel early, and it won't be cheap.
Yes, hotel rooms New Year's Eve can be upwards
of $1,000 but it is a pretty exciting place
to ring in the New Year.
So, if you enjoyed this video,
and you wanna see some other videos from Las Vegas,
well they aren't new, they're older ones,
but they're great videos that we have in the series.
You can click over here, or over here
on the screen to watch them,
or find links in the description below.
We won't say goodbye,
because we'll see you in one of those videos.