Las Vegas Memorial Day Projections Slightly Subdued From 2024
Posted on: May 24, 2025, 10:52h.
Last updated on: May 24, 2025, 10:53h.
- AAA is forecasting record travel for the 2025 Memorial Day
- Las Vegas is a top destination this week
- Las Vegas is likely to welcome 340,000 visitors
Las Vegas is bustling this weekend, as the unofficial kickoff to summer begins with the Memorial Day weekend.
AAA projects a record 45.1 million people will travel at least 50 miles during the holiday period (Thursday, May 22, to Monday, May 26). The not-for-profit motor club association, best known for its roadside emergency assistance program, lists Las Vegas as one of the top five Memorial Day destinations. Hertz confirmed Vegas’ appeal this weekend, as the company says Sin City has the fourth-highest demand for rental cars.
The Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority (LVCVA) expects 340,000 visitors to arrive in Southern Nevada during the four-day period. While that’s down 1.4% from the 2024 holiday that honors military members who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, Strip casino hotels are nearly booked and remaining rooms are demanding steep rates.
Las Vegas Casino Hotel Rates
Planning a last-minute escape to Las Vegas where there’s 0% chance of rain through Tuesday? The rooms are nearly as hot as the daily highs, near 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
For a two-night stay tonight through Monday at Wynn or Encore Las Vegas, the nightly rate is $720. The rate includes all resort fees after a regulatory change at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was implemented earlier this month to require operators of short-term lodging to include all mandatory fees in their upfront advertised price aside from taxes.
The nightly rate at The Venetian is $1,149 (the Palazzo is sold out), the Bellagio is $617, and The Cosmopolitan is $794.
Even a traditionally cheaper property like Treasure Island is asking $448 a night, Planet Hollywood is $453, and Horseshoe is $345. The off-Strip Durango is $358 and Palms is $320.
Traveling on a budget? Casino hotel options include The Strat at $173, Oyo at $165, and Westgate at $177.
For those who book a room, an abundance of daytime and nighttime activities are planned up and down the Strip and across the Valley. During the daytime, almost every Strip casino is hosting a sun-soaked pool party with A-list celebrities and DJs.
At night, David Guetta plays the Fontainebleau’s LIV, and Tyga is on the decks at MGM Grand’s Hakkasan.
As for concerts, Kenny Chesney is at The Sphere tonight and tomorrow, and Bruno Mars is at Park MGM. For laughs, Sebastian Maniscalco is at Encore and Whitney Cummings is at The Venetian.
Visitor Stats
41.7 million people ventured to Las Vegas last year, 2% more than in 2023 and the highest number since 2019 when the destination welcomed over 42.5 million guests.
Convention numbers, however, remained flat from a year ago at 5.9 million. Exhibition traffic has labored to return to its pre-COVID levels when more than 6.6 million conventioneers arrived.
Las Vegas hotels generated record room revenue, as rates increased due to higher labor and service costs. Clark County casinos also took more money from gamblers than ever before at over $13.5 billion. 2019 gross gaming revenue in the Las Vegas Valley was $10.4 billion.
2025 has, to date, been a different story. Visitor volume has plummeted almost 7% and convention attendance has further contracted by 1.6%. Hotel occupancy was down 1% in the first quarter.
The lone bright spot is that casino revenue in Clark County and on the Strip is up 0.4%.
Last Comments ( 2 )
Do the casinos understand that these rates for rooms and the astronomical food prices leave very little cash for gaming?
I'm a cab Driver comper to last year my income is down by 35%.we don't see the sam crowd a round the strip. We have to wait 1 hour or so to pick up from the airport.