The Mirage will open the new year by shutting down totally from Mondays through Thursdays, MGM Resorts International announced Monday.
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Las Vegas room rates have trended well below average this year, but prices listed for New Year’s Eve are skyrocketing.
Rooms at Mirage and Mandalay Bay will close at noon Mondays and reopen at noon Thursdays.
Scott Menke’s cousin and co-founder of Paragon Gaming, Diana Bennett, said the loss was “painful, inconceivable.”
MGM Resorts Internatioal CEO Bill Hornbuckle says of reopening Park MGM, “Without Park Theater being open, it’s a challenge. That is the venue that drives that property.”
The act of entering a local casino — put your right wrist up, pull your mask down, look at that camera, stand on that dot — is playing out like a game of the COVID hokeypokey.
From the first cheers on Fremont Street at 12:01 a.m. Thursday to the quiet hum of traffic at midnight Friday, Review-Journal photographers captured the reawakening of Las Vegas.
Amid fears of coronavirus, the company says closures at casinos will start Sunday and be evaluated weekly.