- One of the great things about Las Vegas
is it's always changing,
and so there's always new things to see, do, and eat.
In this video, I'm gonna be sharing with you
what's new in Las Vegas for 2020.
All the new things that opened in the 2019 year
and all the new things that will be opening in 2020,
including a few attractions that are under construction
opening further out.
We'll talk about things to eat, things to see,
things to do, and of course, hotels to stay in
and shows to entertain yourself.
First, let's talk about new hotels for 2020.
And the first hotel that I wanna talk about
is the Oyo hotel.
This used to be the Hooters hotel,
now it's part of the Oyo brand.
Oyo is the world's fastest growing hotel brand
with 23,000 hotels.
Never heard of them?
Well, they are from India,
and they've planted their flag here in Las Vegas
in the former Hooters hotel.
Now, if you're wondering,
is the Hooters restaurant still there?
Yes, for now, the Hooters restaurant is still there,
though reports are saying that the Hooters restaurant
does plan to move to another strip hotel in the future.
The inside of the hotel still looks very familiar
to the old Hooters theming.
Kind of that red, woody orange.
There is a new Steak 'n Shake
since the last time I was there.
And there's a lot more purple around, as well.
I'm sure they'll be doing a lot more renovations as they go.
'Cause you can see the rebranding's pretty recent.
Even the sign Oyo on the side of the hotel
is actually just a temporary sign
that's been hung there.
The hotel that used to be called The Stratosphere,
you know the hotel, the really tall one up there,
well, they've changed their name.
Now, they're just the Strat.
In addition to the name change,
they've also undergone a significant remodel.
They spent about $140 million remodeling the casino
and half of the hotel rooms.
By the way, with half of that remodel,
they remodeled about half of the casino.
So, half of the casino looks really nice,
half of the casino looks really original.
And by the way, if you want one of those new rooms,
make sure to book one,
because if you book a standard priced room,
you'll be booked into the older, non-remodeled rooms.
The former Stratosphere used to be
pretty low on my list of hotels in Las Vegas.
I think with the remodel it brings it up a few notches.
Just be aware, if you are staying here,
to plan to Uber, taxi, or drive wherever you're going.
Pretty much nothing is in walking distance of the Strat.
The hotel that used to be known as the Sahara,
that then became the SLS,
well, it's now back to being known as the Sahara again.
And they're spending $150 million on the remodel
to rebrand it the Sahara, including new paint,
casino upgrades, and hotel room upgrades.
What's nice about the Sahara
is the Las Vegas monorail stops here
and so if you're going to the Las Vegas Convention Center,
the Sahara's a pretty good bet,
'cause it's pretty close to the Convention Center
on the monorail.
And while the Sahara is a little bit closer to the strip
than the Strat is, you're still probably gonna be
Ubering, taxiing, or driving from here,
or taking that monorail that I mentioned earlier.
The closest real strip hotel is the Circus Circus
down that way,
and then it's a pretty long haul to the Wynn and the Encore.
The bad news in hotels is that resort fees and parking fees
continue to go up at most strip locations.
The good news related to parking fees though
is that the Wynn and the Encore
have actually removed their parking fees.
Though they did raise their resort fee to $45.
That's all the new hotel developments for 2019 and 2020.
There's some more hotel developments in the future
that I'll talk about towards the end,
but now let's talk about some new Las Vegas attractions.
The Eiffel Tower at the Paris has a new light show
in honor of the Paris's 20th anniversary.
The new light show runs every 30 minutes
from sunset to midnight.
300 colored lights and 800 strobe lights sure are pretty.
Just opened at the Linq in December of 2019
is the Ice Bar, the coolest experience,
where for $17 you can don a warm jacket
and go into a bar made of ice.
You can get alcoholic drinks in there
and those, of course, are gonna cost you more money.
If you like stand-up comedy,
then check out the newly opened Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club
in the Linq Promenade.
They do stand-up comedy shows every day
except Monday and Wednesday.
Tickets start at $20.
Jimmy Kimmel's goal was to capture the classic Las Vegas
show experience and this club has recently been rated
the number one comedy club in Las Vegas
by the Las Vegas Revue Journal.
The Void has opened in the Grand Canal shops
with the motto Step Beyond Reality.
This is a virtual reality experience.
Different days they have different themes,
but their main theme or game you can play
is a Star Wars theme,
where you can participate in a rebel take down
of the Alliance.
The Wynn Golf Club is back after being closed for a while.
The remodeled and reopened golf course at the Wynn
costs $550 for a round to play in the peak season.
But hey, how many other golf courses can you play
right on the Las Vegas strip?
And really, think abut it, four hours for $550
is actually probably a lot cheaper
than if you were playing roulette for four hours.
Scheduled to open in August of 2020
is the new Las Vegas football stadium
which will be home to the Raiders.
The stadium finally has a name,
it's the Allegiant Stadium,
named by Allegiant Airlines.
The stadium's gonna be located on the other side
of the interstate 15 from the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
Planned to open sometime in 2020
in the Linq Promenade is a place called Kind Heaven.
It's going to be a multi-sensory 360 Omni Channel experience
that'll bring you the best of Southeast Asian culture
including art and food.
I am looking forward to this one.
Okay, now let's talk about entertainment.
And we couldn't talk about entertainment in Las Vegas
without talking about Circue du Soleil.
They've opened their seventh show called Run
at the Luxor.
This one's best described as a live action thriller.
Lots of stunts.
Lots of suspense.
And you'll find it on the ground floor of the Luxor,
that pyramid shaped hotel with the sphinx out front.
And tickets to Run start at a reasonable $59.
There's a new show at the Venetian
called the Atomic Saloon Show,
by the creators of Absinthe at Caesars Palace.
The show has been described as Blazing Saddles
meets America's Got Talent meets Westworld.
Christina Aguilera started up her residency
at the Zappos! Theater in Planet Hollywood in 2019.
She's got shows currently scheduled through March 2020.
The Flamingo is saying goodbye to the Donnie and Marie Show
after a really long time,
and they'll be saying hello to RuPaul's Drag Race Live
in its place.
Okay, let's talk about shopping.
Not a particular shop, but a trend in shopping
in general in Las Vegas are gift shops
in hotel casinos that have no prices.
I witnessed this at the Excaliber and the Luxor
at the 24/7 gift shops.
There are no prices on any of the food items.
And if you wanna know the price,
you have to ask one of the store employees.
It's been reported that they're doing this
so that they can start doing dynamic pricing,
meaning that when the hotel is busier,
and there's more people,
the prices of the food items go up.
And when there's less people,
the prices of the food items go down.
That's pretty sneaky and I don't like this trend
towards no prices on items in the shops.
If you like candy, then you're gonna love
the new I Love Sugar shop at the Linq Promenade.
And if you don't like candy, well then,
you can take some awesome selfies in there too.
Speaking of sugar, let's talk about food.
Currently under construction, coming real soon
to the Las Vegas strip in front of the Planet Hollywood
is a branch location of Chick-fil-A.
So, if you're looking for some cheap
and tasty chicken sandwiches, find 'em here soon.
In my what's new in Las Vegas 2019 video,
I covered the opening of Eataly, an excellent food court
and Italian supermarket.
But right next to Eataly, the Crack Shack has opened.
This spot serves up tasty fried chicken
and chicken sandwiches.
My favorite sandwich is the Senor Crow.
In addition to the really good chicken
and chicken sandwiches, they've also got
a really neat eating area.
I give them props for the Las Vegas showgirls
with chicken heads.
And above their sauce bar, it's not dogs playing poker,
it's chickens playing poker.
Smith and Wollensky Steakhouse has reopened on the strip.
They are now in the Grand Canal Shops.
It's a much smaller location than before,
but still the same classic American steaks.
If you're a chocolate lover,
well, you'll definitely wanna check out Dandelion Chocolate,
opening soon in the lobby of the Venetian Hotel.
Dandelion Chocolate is a small batch chocolatier
from San Francisco.
Some of the tastiest chocolates I've had.
The Palazzo is doing some significant renovations
o their second floor shopping area
connected to the Grand Canal Shops.
The two eateries that are opening here,
the first one is The Alley from Taiwan.
They specialize in brown sugar milk drinks with boba
that are pretty tasty.
Come and try that out when they open.
And then second is The X Pot,
which is a Chinese hot pot restaurant.
Las Vegas is replacing bartenders with robots
at the Planet Hollywood hotel.
They got this place called Tipsy Robot
where you can get your drinks poured with a robot.
This one's been here for a couple of years.
There are rumors that at the MGM Hotels
they're planning to replace bartenders
with drink-pouring machines that will only pour you drinks
after you've gambled a certain amount.
Will that be happening in 2020 or beyond?
I don't know.
Stay tuned.
Tunneling is in progress underneath
the Las Vegas Convention Center
to build a futuristic people mover
brought to you by Elon Musk's Boring Company.
The autonomous Tesla-like vehicles should be operating
by the end of 2020.
In the category of opening someday who knows when
but currently scheduled for 2020
is The Drew Hotel right here.
This used to be the Fontainebleau, it's gone like bankrupt.
There's been so may delays,
but under its current incarnation,
it's scheduled to be a Las Vegas strip location
of the JW Marriott and Addison Hotels.
If that comes to be true, I'm totally looking forward to it.
But I won't hold my breathe because this thing
is delay after delay after delay.
One of the developments that Topher, my traveling panda,
is most excited for is the building right back here
that's coming along.
This is the Resorts World Hotel
scheduled to open in 2021.
Why is Topher excited for this?
Well, it's a Singaporean-based hotel
and so we're hoping that there should be
some pretty good eats in there.
It's gonna have about 3,000 rooms
and also a really big swimming pool.
220,000 square feet of pool space.
Also scheduled to open in 2021 is the MSG Sphere.
This will be Las Vegas's newest concert venue
operated by the same company
that operates Madison Square Garden in New York City.
It's gonna be a bg sphere that's gonna cost
over a billion dollars to build.
It'll have one of the worlds largest LED screens
and it is said that they won't have big speakers for sound.
Instead they're gonna beam audio directly to your seat.
I don't really know wat that means, or how it works,
but I'm excited to see it in 2021.
Well, if it's been a couple of few years
since you've been to Las Vegas,
you might also enjoy checking out
my what's new in 2019 video,
'cause a bunch of stuff that I talked about
in that video that I didn't cover in this one
or if you wanna see all of my Las Vegas series,
you can click right here for my convenient playlist
and see all sorts of more Las Vegas videos.
As usual, I won't say goodbye
'cause I'll see you in one of these videos.