- Fellow explorers.
I've got some positive news for you
about the reopening of Las Vegas
and that is the governor of Nevada last week
held a press conference and announced
the easing of restrictions in three phases.
And so in this video, I'm gonna go over
those three phases with you,
tell you what's changing, what's reopening
and whether it'll make a difference or not
and what people are doing in response to this reopening.
By the way, if this is your first time here,
I'm Chris, this is Yellow Productions.
I do travel guides
that are fun, informative and entertaining.
This video is part of my series on the Las Vegas.
If you wanna see more videos about Las Vegas
you'll find links in the description below.
But let's go ahead and get right into
these reopening phases.
The first phase starts today, February 15th
and the first thing that's changing
that you'll notice as a tourist is that
dining restrictions are going up in the capacity limits.
Currently it's been 25% restaurant capacity
for dine in restaurants,
now they're moving that up to 35% of a restaurant's capacity
can be seated in that restaurant.
They still have to adhere to social distance
six feet for a table, that sort of stuff,
but now, in addition to being able to just sit
four people per table ,
restaurants can now sit six people per table
and the restriction for requiring
advanced reservations has gone away.
I will point out that 35% capacity
is not that much different than 25%.
So if you are going to Las Vegas,
I would highly encourage you to make reservations
ahead of time, because these restaurants are still
significantly limited in their capacity.
Now, another really positive trend is that
the public event limit is moving up
to a hundred people per event.
It's been 50, so this is the limit
on conventions, meetings and also shows,
which is what I'm sure most of you care about.
Now with the greater capacity limit for shows,
we see a couple of shows returning.
The Luxor hotel has already announced
that two shows are gonna be returning there
on February 19th, the topless review known as Fantasy,
and the red headed comedian known as Carrot Top,
are both going to be restarting their shows
with the hundred person limit .
Phase two of the easing of restrictions
starts on March 15th.
In this phase restaurant capacity moves up from 35% to 50%.
So significantly more diners can dine in at 50%,
the social distancing of six feet
and six people per table still remains.
Public gatherings and shows,
those are gonna move up
from that 100 person limit to 250 people.
With the 250 person limit on shows,
we can expect to see a number of shows starting to return,
because there were a number of shows when the limit
was 250 before this current big restriction.
What can you expect to see come back?
Well at MGM Grand, you should definitely expect
Jabbawockeez and David Copperfield.
David Copperfield was playing
to 250 person audiences last year.
Excalibur is expected to return the Tournament of Kings
and The Australian Bee Gees.
Caesar's palace is expected to bring back Absinthe
and Planet Hollywood is expected
to welcome back Crazy Girls.
Now, many shows in small venues
are still gonna remain closed,
because there's still a regulation of this 25 foot moat
between stage performers and the audience.
There has to be 25 feet,
between the people performing and the people watching.
So small theaters and small venues,
often don't even have 25 feet that they can spare
between the performers and the audience
and so until that goes away, lots of the small shows
are still gonna remain closed.
Now I should also point out that adult entertainment,
night clubs, day clubs and brothels
are still going to remain closed
in this phase of the reopening.
Now one new attraction that's gonna be opening in March
in Las Vegas is the Virgin Hotel and Casino.
Related to this announcement,
they've targeted their opening (notification ringing)
to be March 25th, when phase two of the easing
of these restrictions goes into place.
The Virgin Hotel is at the site
of the former Hard Rock Hotel.
This is the first, a native American-operated casino floor
in Las Vegas, sure to be a really interesting property.
And finally phase three of the easing of restrictions
goes into effect on May 1st.
What happens on May 1st?,
Well, this is when the state is actually planning to
not be in the business of making restrictions
on the state any further.
The governor of Nevada has said his plan,
on May 1st is to relinquish restrictions
down to the local level,
which is essentially down to the counties.
What does that mean the restrictions will be on May 1st?
It's really hard to say,
because it's hard to say what the counties plan to do.
You know, I think as we found
with most of these phased openings,
is take these dates with a grain of salt.
And the last thing to know about Las Vegas' reopening,
is I've got more videos.
You can click right here from my playlist
of all my Las Vegas travel guides
including the cheapest eats on the Las Vegas trip,
the best luxury hotels and the worst cheap hotels.
As usual I won't say goodbye
because I'll see you in this video.
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