- What's new in Las Vegas in 2019.
I'm Chris, this is Topher.
This is Yelloww Productions.
We do travel guides that are fun, informative, entertaining.
And in this video we're gonna tell you
what's new to do, see, eat and hotels to stay at
if you haven't been to Vegas in a little while.
We'll start with what's new this year, 2018, 2019
and we'll go back with some notable things
you might want to see and do.
Alright this is part of our Las Vegas series.
We've also got other videos on things
like cheap eats, things to know.
You'll find links at the end or in the description below.
First let's talk about new hotels.
If you're coming to Vegas and you want a new place to stay,
there's some major developments this year.
The first one is the Park MGM, this hotel behind me.
It used to be the Monte Carlo Hotel.
It's been completely redeveloped.
And there's also the Nomad Hotel.
The entrance right here.
It's like a boutique hotel within a hotel concept.
I've got some reviews of that.
You can check it out, link's in the description below.
But there's a lot of neat stuff in here.
There's an Eataly opening soon, more on that later.
Over here, if you haven't been here in a while,
there's the T-Mobile Arena,
which is kind of a big concert, potentially sports venue.
There's this thing called The Park, right here,
which is between the Park MGM and the New York-New York.
They always decorate it for the holidays.
They've got performances and there's a lot
of little restaurants out there as well.
Other new hotel developments, the Mandarin Oriental,
it is now the Waldorf Astoria,
that's in the City Center Complex.
And so if you've got those Hilton points,
check it out as the Waldorf Astoria.
I got a review of that one too,
you can find the link in the description as well.
At the Flamingo Hotel, they're rolling out ten,
count them, ten bunk bed suites, that's right.
If you've dreamed of staying in Las Vegas
with a bunk bed in your room.
You'll be able to book these rooms
starting February 1st at the Flamingo Hotel.
Interesting concept.
Now for new rides on the strip.
This one's pretty cool, it's at the LINQ.
The LINQ ,this shopping mall has been open since 2013,
but what just opened this year, it's the FLY LINQ.
It's the zipline that runs over the top.
You probably can't see anybody on it right now
but if you take a look down here,
here's an advertisement for it.
You can go on it seated or lying down,
ten riders at a time, a thousand feet up in the air.
That's pretty cool, a thousand feet in LINQ.
And where it goes to, it goes from the strip
to the High Roller observation wheel.
That is the world's tallest Ferris wheel.
It is taller than the London Eye in London.
While you're here at the LINQ, if you like hamburgers
definitely check out In-N-Out Burger.
It's the first In-N-Out Burger location on the Strip,
my favorite burgers anywhere.
And there's a Sprinkles Cupcakes just behind it
for some delicious cupcakes.
I should mention, eat those after you do the ride
so you keep your food inside,
not on anybody down here in the mall.
Let's talk about new restaurants.
One of the newest restaurants on the Strip,
it's in front of Caesar's Palace,
it took over the former Serendipity 3 location.
It's a celebrity chef restaurant,
Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen.
Based on the show of the same name.
If you are a fan of Gordon Ramsay's Hell Kitchen,
you'll probably like this restaurant.
Why, cause it's themed like the show.
All the tables face this open exhibition kitchen.
There's big windows that face the Strip.
And it's got that red and blue colors from the show.
And when you walk in,
you're actually greeted by Gordon Ramsay.
Well a large television that kind of does
like a virtual Gordon Ramsay.
And you can buy some Gordon Ramsay t-shirts too.
- Blue Team, Red Team, it's time to open our kitchen.
Ready to enjoy our competition firsthand.
Let's go.
- The most exciting new thing in 2019
for Italian food lovers is definitely the Eataly
that has opened right on the Las Vegas Strip
in front of the Park MGM hotel.
What is Eataly?
Just the best Italian supermarket anywhere.
But this incarnation of it
is basically like an Italian food court.
Lots of different places,
you can get prosciutto, you can get cheeses,
you can get Roman pizza, pastries, coffee, drinks,
anything Italian, and it's like really good,
authentic Italian stuff.
I will tell you.
They even have the buffalo mozzarella cheese.
The mozzarella made from buffalo's milk flown in from Italy.
And it's a pretty neat architecture too.
It looks like a train station inside.
Nothing like anything in Vegas.
And the funny thing is, it opens up
to the Park MGM Casino on the back side.
I mean, I guess it makes sense cause it is Vegas.
I just don't usually think of an Italian supermarket
opening up onto a Vegas casino.
Well if you like Italian food, check out Eataly.
The Cosmopolitan always has new things going on
and they just opened up this Block 16.
It's a food hall up on the second floor right off the Strip.
Food hall, what's that mean?
A food court but more expensive.
But actually the things inside look pretty neat.
There's a Hattie B's, which is a Nashville hot chicken.
There's a place called Lardo, which is sandwiches,
their slogan is bringing the fat back.
There's a doughnut place called the District
with some $3 doughnuts.
And there's a chicken wing place
with some fish sauce chicken wings.
Apparently, Anthony Bourdain and Guy Fieri
are fans of that spot.
If there aren't any seats left in the food hall,
you can take your food down the hallway
to their Down the Rabbit Hole seating area,
Alice in Wonderland themed.
It was a pretty cool place to eat.
Taco Bell Cantina.
Well so this one on the strip,
it's been here for a little while,
but it's been doing so well that Taco Bell is opening
another Taco Bell Cantina
down on Fremont Street in downtown.
If you haven't been to Taco Bell Cantina,
or don't know what it is,
it is Taco Bell's flagship restaurant.
Which means in addition to the regular Taco Bell food,
you can get alcohol at this Taco Bell,
they've got merchandise, they've got music,
a DJ booth, a VIP zone, I mean if you're a fan of Taco Bell,
and you haven't been to the Taco Bell Cantina,
you should check it out.
It is right on the corner of the Planet Hollywood Hotel,
right on The Strip.
If you're craving something a little more local
and something off The Strip, check out Flock and Fowl.
We found this place while we were shooting this video,
they've been open about a year,
I'm shooting this in December of 2018.
But what do they specialize in?
They specialize in chicken, but not just any chicken.
They specialize in Hainan chicken.
It's a very popular dish in Singapore, that I love.
And this is some of the best Hainan chicken
that I've had anywhere in the USA.
Check it out, it's one block off Fremont Street
and Las Vegas Boulevard.
Get the Hainan chicken, you'll like it.
New shopping in Las Vegas in 2019,
there's always new stores opening,
but there's one sort of new shopping center that opened,
it's the Wynn Plaza Shops.
It's right here on The Strip,
with these little red awnings in front of it.
There's about 20 shops that opened in there,
of course my favorite, RIMOWA, the luggage I always carry.
There's a Le Labo, which is like a really nice
soap and lotion, but what I'm excited for is the Urth Cafe.
That's Urth spelled with a U, U-R-T-H.
They make pretty good coffees,
they make pretty good pastries,
so if you're looking for a reasonably priced
pastry and dessert for breakfast,
definitely check out Urth Cafe,
it's in the second floor of the Wynn Plaza Shops.
You can get to it from The Strip,
you can get to it from inside the casino as well.
New in entertainment for 2019 in Las Vegas,
there's always new shows coming and going,
but a few big residences and big names.
Number one, Lady Gaga is taking up residence in Las Vegas.
She just started December 2018,
she'll be playing 74 shows for the next two years.
Britney Spears, she is back.
She used to be at the Planet Hollywood
but now she's over at the Park MGM,
you can check her out there for her new residency.
And then of course, Cher.
Well, Cher never really left, she's been in Vegas forever
but she's moved, she's over at the Park MGM now as well.
So there's always new construction in Las Vegas,
so what's coming beyond 2019.
Well the one I'm most excited about, right back there,
it's the Resorts World complex.
This is set to open in 2020.
It will be an asian themed hotel.
They have one in Singapore currently.
It'll have 3,500 hotel rooms and when it opens
it will be Las Vegas' largest casino.
That's right and it's opening up about across
or kitty-corner from the Wynn and the Encore.
What else is opening?
The Raiders are building a new stadium
right across from the Mandalay Bay on the I-15.
They're set to open here in a couple years.
And what's set to open way in the future?
Well, I always hear about this bullet train
from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
Every year it seems like that's coming pretty soon,
I'm not sure if I'm gonna see it
in my lifetime or your lifetime.
I'll keep my fingers crossed
but that's a bullet train really to nowhere.
Something that should happen a little bit sooner
than that bullet train but still has no date of completion
is the Las Vegas Monorail extension.
The Las Vegas Monorail company is planning an extension
to extend it all the way to the Mandalay Bay.
That'll be nice because although I do like
the Mandalay Bay hotel, it does feel
a bit cutoff from the rest of the Strip.
This Monorail extension will help quite a bit.
And what else is new for 2019 in Las Vegas?
Well, I'm sure there will be new Yelloww Productions videos
coming at ya like Cleopatra.
That's a really bad rhyme but I'm gonna use it anyway.
So if you enjoyed this video and you want to see
some other videos from Las Vegas,
well they aren't new ones, they're older ones,
but they're great videos that we have in this 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.
- [Topher] See you soon.