The best things to do in Las Vegas this weekend

One of the biggest and most visible attractions in Vegas these days is Sphere. It not only dominates the night skyline but the productions inside are equally epic. Among the shows are “The Sphere Experience” featuring the cinematic film Postcards from Earth, the V-U2 immersive concert film and an Eagles residency (Dec 6, 7, 13, 14). 

There are a few farmers’ markets in the Las Vegas Valley, but perhaps the most popular one is in the southwest Summerlin neighborhood. Every Saturday at 1980 Festival Plaza Drive, residents pick from bins of fresh fruits and vegetables and grab some pastries, flowers, and fresh bread.

It may be fall, and the temperatures are dropping in Las Vegas, but Stadium Swim is holding on to summer. With six heated pools and spas with temperatures ranging from 78 to 94 degrees, guests can still take a dip. Stadium Swim hosts pool parties every Friday ($25) with DJs and sports playing on the 143-foot-wide television screen.

There’s a new dance party in town, and it’s called DISCOSHOW. Spiegelworld’s latest production is an ode to disco and New York City. Guests arrive through a subway station and then hit the dance floor as the show happens all around them. There are no seats so put on your dancing shoes and join in. 

Try your hand at virtual-reality games, racing simulators, axe throwing and immersive entertainment at AREA15, where it’s easy to idle away all afternoon. Then explore Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart and when you get hungry, take advantage of the self-guided food tour Bytes & Beyond. It’s a package that includes two Kaia handrolls, a burger or sandwich at the Beast, a Dream Weaver Fantasy Float and a ride on Liftoff, a rotating observation tower with Strip views. Daily at various times.

Las Vegas is a hockey town. And when the Knights are in town, it’s electric. It starts with the drumline—the Drumbots—and continues with an amazing pregame ice production. The city’s first professional sports team (which, in 2023, won a Stanley Cup in only their sixth season) really puts on a show. 

Take a trip downtown to the Fremont Street Experience and you’ll find plenty of action. Overhead, visitors fly on SlotZila, an 850-foot Zipline, and 1,750-foot Zoomline, and on the canopy, music and light shows light up the street. There are also free nightly concerts and plenty of casinos to test your luck. Daily at various times.

This free garden attraction at Bellagio changes with the seasons and always attracts crowds. The fall display, called “The Garden of Time,” creates a forest scene inside the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens with a treehouse and a double waterfall, deer sculpted from driftwood and 475 pumpkins—including one that weighs 749 pounds. Daily at various times.

Through the end of the year, GIADA at the Cromwell is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a $110-a-person four-course tasting menu. It starts with either an arugula salad or crab arancini, moves to a choice of lemon spaghetti with shrimp or rigatoni with a wild mushroom Bolognese and then includes entrees of either branzino or short ribs. It finishes with Giada’s famous lemon cookies or tiramisu. Daily at various times.

The Neon Museum has been busy lately collecting signs from the just-closed resorts like the Mirage and Tropicana. They also just relit the “Debbie” portion of the marquee from the Debbie Reynolds Hollywood Hotel & Casino.