Las Vegas Strip resorts will welcome the Lunar New Year on Jan. 29 with festive decor and activities.
The Conservatory & Botanical Gardens at Bellagio is celebrating the Year of the Snake with a vibrant holiday display through March 1. Each bed features the serpent's symbolism of intuition, transformation and charm.
A 28-foot floral serpent is in the North Bed. Red and gold silk lanterns hang above it, and a fountain shoots water into a placid koi pond. The West Bed has a 30-foot-tall Banyan Temple, inspired by Guangzhou's historical Temple of the Six Banyan Trees. Floral representations of pandas play in the East Bed under money trees adorned with 88 gold coins. The South Bed features towering cherry blossom trees in soft pink and white.
The Year of the Snake display at Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens will run through March 1. Photo Credit: MGM Resorts International
"Our goal was to highlight the serpent's qualities of intelligence and grace while creating a space for visitors to embrace the joy and good fortune of the season," designer Ed Libby said. "This exhibit truly captures the elegance, power and pageantry of the Year of the Snake, inviting guests to celebrate its deeper meanings, the celebratory nature of the season and what's to come in the new year."
A dragon and lion dance will commemorate the Year of the Snake at Bellagio at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 1 in the resort's main valet. A globally renowned dance organization, Yau Kung Moon (the name means style of flexible power), will perform.
Over at the Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian Resort, guests are invited to celebrate the Lunar New Year with performances at 3 p.m. Jan. 29 to Feb. 1 in St. Mark's Square. Artists will take to the stage to showcase traditional dances. A ceremonial lion blessing will start at 3 p.m. on Feb. 2 in the square and continue throughout the Shoppes.
A lantern display, symbolizing good luck and fortune, will be displayed near Smith & Wollensky through Feb. 18. Additionally, the Shoppes' smoke-breathing golden dragon can be viewed near Louis Vuitton and Kate Spade New York.
The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace is honoring the Year of the Snake with a lion dance and blessing, lucky red envelopes, symbolizing good luck and happiness and containing special offers and prizes, as well as special retail offerings and celebratory decorations. The decorations include 22-foot-long dragon covered in 30,000 flickering red and amber LED lights on the Fortuna Terrace.
A 22-foot-long dragon, covered in 30,000 LED lights, is a tradition at the Forum Shops at Caesars. Photo Credit: Caesars Entertainment
On Jan. 29, the lion dance, performed by the Lohan School of Shaolin of Las Vegas, will begin at the Fountain of the Gods at noon and continue throughout the Forum Shops until 1 p.m.
Guests can visit the display from 1 to 5 p.m. Jan. 29 to receive a lucky red envelope.
The lion dance makes its way through Resorts World starting at the Plaza Entrance at 6 p.m. Feb. 1. Genting Palace will offer a special dim sum brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 25, 26 and 29 and Feb.1 and 2. The Eight cigar lounge and Gatsby's cocktail lounge are also marking the occasion with specials.