Memorial Day weekend is the loudest four days of the Las Vegas pool season. Every dayclub on the Strip is open, each one books a different headline name on each day of the weekend, and the whole city prices itself accordingly. If you have only seen Vegas on a normal weekend, this is a different thing wearing the same clothes.
When it lands next
- 2027 Monday 31 May
- 2028 Monday 29 May
- 2029 Monday 28 May
Thursday through Monday, though the money is on Saturday and Sunday.
What is different about this weekend
The same venues, the same city, behaving differently enough to be worth planning around.
Everything costs more
Door prices, tables, cabanas and hotel rooms all move to holiday rates, and they move weeks out rather than on the day. The rate you see in March is not the rate you pay in May.
Doors open earlier and fill faster
Queues that normally build by one in the afternoon build by eleven in the morning. Free and reduced entry lists close earlier than usual, and some do not open at all.
Book the table before the flight
Cabanas and daybeds for this weekend are gone long before the weekend. If a group wants somewhere to sit, that gets booked first and everything else is arranged around it.
How the weekend runs
- Thursday is the soft open. Several venues run a headline booking, and it is the cheapest night of the weekend to be in a good room.
- Friday is the quiet one, relatively. It is the best of the four days to walk up to a pool without a booking.
- Saturday is the peak. The strongest bookings, the longest queues of the year, and the strictest door.
- Sunday runs almost as hard as Saturday, because nobody is working Monday.
- Monday winds down through the afternoon and a lot of venues close early. Check hours rather than assuming.
Getting in
- Buy entry ahead. Ticketed general admission for a named DJ goes on sale weeks out, and the Saturday and Sunday slots sell first.
- Or reserve a table. A daybed, cabana or bungalow is the only way to guarantee somewhere to sit. Minimum spends rise for the holiday and are set per venue and per day.
- Walking up and paying at the door is the third option and the one most likely to fail. It can work on the Thursday. It rarely works on the Saturday.
- The free and reduced lists that carry the rest of the season mostly do not run this weekend, and where they do they close much earlier in the day.
The pools that run it
Every Strip dayclub opens for this one. These are the rooms, with what we last confirmed about each.
What has changed since the last time you read about this
Older coverage of this weekend describes rooms that are gone. Surrender and Rehab both closed in 2018, and Bare closed in 2024. Where those names still turn up in an old lineup, the directory now points at XS, Encore Beach Club and Tao Beach instead. Anything written about this weekend before 2018 is describing a different Strip.
Why there are no prices on this page
Door and table rates for this occasion are set per venue, change every year, and are usually announced a few weeks out. Publishing last year’s numbers would be worse than publishing none. Each venue page carries what we have actually confirmed, alongside the date we confirmed it.
Questions people actually ask
Is it worth coming for this weekend specifically?
It has the strongest bookings of the year and the worst queues of the year, in the same four days. If you are coming for a particular DJ, this is the weekend. If you are coming for the pool itself, arrive a fortnight later and pay a fraction of it.
If I can only do one day, which one?
Saturday, for the bookings. Friday, if you would rather get in without a fight. Sunday sits between the two and is the one people underestimate.
How far ahead should a table be booked?
Weeks rather than days. The cabanas and the poolside daybeds go first, and what is left close to the date tends to be the seating furthest from the water.
Can a group of ten get in together without a table?
Sometimes, and not reliably on the Saturday. Doors split large groups when they are at capacity, and a table is the only arrangement that keeps a group together by contract rather than by luck.
What is the age limit?
Every Strip dayclub is 21 and over. Identification gets checked properly on this weekend, including at venues that are relaxed about it in September.
Check what is actually open today
Opening days and hours move through the season. The live list is the one to trust over anything written months ahead, this page included.
