Vegas Dec. 26th-30th...... dead or crazy??????
 

I've heard posters say Vegas is dead around Christmas time, and then real crazy after Christmas. Is this true? A friend asked me to go to Vegas with him. The possible dates being: Dec. 18th-23rd, and Dec. 26th-30th. What's it like around these times? We are both 23, and would like to gamble, party, etc... Worth going at these times, or should we wait for a better time to go?

Re: Vegas Dec. 26th-30th...... dead or crazy??????
 

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Dec. 18th-23rd, and Dec. 26th-30th. What's it like around these times?

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Dead Dec. 18th-23rd. The slowest period of the entire year in Vegas.

Dec. 26th-30th is exactly opposite. Things start to get nuts throughout the week, and by the 31st there are literally 300,000 visitors in town. Usually the busiest day of the year.

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At least now they have the rodeo in December. And several properties market like hell to bring in Asian guests (who don't celebrate Christmas, I guess, and aren't feeling their budgets squeezed in December).

It must've been a helluva lot worse before these two developments.

Re: Vegas Dec. 26th-30th...... dead or crazy??????
 

Thats the same week I am going down, my dad insisted that it would be a slow time of year and how he could get a great deal on air/room. But once his choice travel agencys around town were charging $450+ for air/room he was begging me and my brother to whore out some online prices.

We ended up getting $330 for 4 nights and air each (taxes and fees included). The hotel isn't all that great, it is off the strip but my brother was boasting how he found a (better) deal with the Lady Luck downtown for $275 but before we could take a look at it, it was sold out.

There isn't any big conventions going on (atleast not that I know of) but by any means it doesn't mean it will be dead.

Re: Vegas Dec. 26th-30th...... dead or crazy??????
 

I have been several times during this exact period. It was usualy nuts. Lot of fun toward new years eve but the two times I stayed for new years, I regretted it.

Re: Vegas Dec. 26th-30th...... dead or crazy??????
 

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I have been several times during this exact period. It was usualy nuts. Lot of fun toward new years eve but the two times I stayed for new years, I regretted it.

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This will be absolutely insane; maybe close or worse than Thanksgiving Friday. I just wish I could be there to play in some of those games.

Re: Vegas Dec. 26th-30th...... dead or crazy??????
 

How are the tables from the 23rd to the 26th, thats when I'm going

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two times I stayed for new years, I regretted it.

How come?

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I was in Vegas Dec 24 to Dec 27 a few years ago and here's a three word recap of what I witnessed: LOTS OF ASIANS. The usual overweight American tourists were fewer in number, but not entirely absent.

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I'll be there, staying at Monte Carlo, the 26th-28th. We're going to see seinfeld and I was afraid the place would be dead, but hopefully there will be a lot of tourists and bad players.