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Newly Remodeled Rio Hotel Casino Offering 2024 Black Friday Deals

A Black Friday sale in Las Vegas – at a hotel? Staycation time for locals, and just one big good time for visitors! Rio Hotel Casino Black Friday Sale The…

Newly Remodeled Rio Hotel & Casino Offering 2024 Black Friday Deals

Newly Remodeled Rio Hotel & Casino Offering 2024 Black Friday Deals

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A Black Friday sale in Las Vegas - at a hotel? Staycation time for locals, and just one big good time for visitors!

Rio Hotel Casino Black Friday Sale

The Rio Hotel Casino is thrilled to announce its best booking offer of the year. It's an exclusive Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale, featuring 50% off room rates with a two-night minimum stay. Pretty darn good for Las Vegas!

The Special is available November 19 to December 9, and is applicable for stays from November 21 through September 8, 2025. The special is to encourage guests to explore the reborn Las Vegas icon, and indulge in all the new additions, and changes, to the resort.

The Rio Hotel Casino Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale is offering 50% off rooms with a two-night minimum stay. The booking window is Nov. 19 – Dec. 9, and it is valid for stays from November 21, 2024, through September 8, 2025. Restrictions do apply, and standard cancellation policies apply, with cancellations required 72 hours prior to arrival.

The Rio Hotel Casino recently finished phase one of their extensive renovations, enhancing the guest experience across the property.

Here's What Is New At The Rio Hotel Casino Las Vegas

While staying at the Rio, guests and locals can take in what’s new and different at the resort, for the holiday season. Here are some things you'll see:

  • Over 1,500 renovated rooms in the Ipanema Tower featuring vibrant and spacious 582 Square foot standard rooms designed with separate zones for work, sleep and play. The Rio is located just off the Las Vegas Strip, so it is just minutes from the city’s hotspots.
  • 150,000 Square feet of newly refreshed casino space. This includes the introduction of Rio Rewards, which they say is Las Vegas' most lucrative players reward program.
  • More than 40 individual table games and over 500 brand-new slot machines.
  • Eight new food and beverage options: Lapa Lounge, the new cocktail haven featuring exclusive house made creations. Luckley Tavern & Grill, a casual, come-as-you-are steakhouse that pays tribute to all things American. And of course the Canteen Food Hall, that has a great lineup of local classics, cult favorites and new concepts like Tender Crush, Tony Luke’s, Shogun Ramen, Southland Burrito Company, Attaboy Burger and Nama Nama.
  • Experience NFR at Rio Round-Up. An immersive, property-wide experience featuring daily live entertainment, with performances by Matt Farris and Harry Luge, and the official NFR viewing party hosted by Matt Merritt, featured on the Masquerade Stage. The new meetings and conventions space will be home to the Stetson Country Christmas, featuring hundreds of western lifestyle exhibitors showcasing jewelry, apparel, furniture, and more. Rio Round-Up guests can enjoy mechanical bull riding, dummy roping, rodeo fashion shows, and meet-and-greets with Forrie Smith and Mo Brings Plenty from the hit show Yellowstone. There will be an exclusive rodeo afterparty at VooDoo Lounge - which features some of the best views of the Las Vegas Strip.

The Rio Hotel Casino is located one block off the Las Vegas Strip on Flamingo Road. For more information on Rio Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal, visit: https://www.riolasvegas.com/offers/cyber-sale

Hot New Las Vegas Restaurants Set To Open In Fall

It doesn't seem like it in Las Vegas, but fall really is right around the corner. That means some big new, very highly anticipated, restaurant and bar openings.

New Las Vegas Restaurants Opening In Fall

Las Vegas is looking ahead to the fall season, which is actually the most beautiful time of the year in Las Vegas.

And that last quarter of the year moves fast in Las Vegas. Raiders football, Formula One racing, a big implosion, and holiday celebrations galore. The last quarter of the year will also see a handful of exciting new restaurants making their debuts.

Hot New Las Vegas Restaurants Offer Up Something For Everyone

Caesars Palace has turned its food court into a bunch of very cool celebrity chef quick-service restaurants. The Forum Food Hall says they make it easy and affordable to feed the whole family. With a large variety of cuisine types to satisfy everyone's cravings.

Gjelina, a new Venice, California restaurant, is moving into the Venetian, and I peeked in when I was there this past weekend - it looks really nice. It opened in Venice Beach in 2008, and set the standard for sustainable restaurant practices. It is said to be a premier case study for sustainable dining today. Gjelina is moving into the Venetian's Restaurant Row area and will be open for lunch and dinner.

Tiki rooms are hot everywhere, and that includes Las Vegas. The Golden Tiki, and Frank's Tiki room are very popular Las Vegas bars. A new Tiki bar will open in downtown Las Vegas, and honestly - it's about time.

Glitter Gulch Tiki is finally here!. Glitter Gulch Tiki is local Mexican restaurant chain Nacho Daddy’s first venture into the tiki world. They offer traditional tiki drinks, signature cocktails with lychee puree. And their kitchen will also serve light bites of various items like coconut shrimp and poke nachos on crispy wonton chips.

Here are some other exciting new restaurants and bars, slated to open in Las Vegas in the next few months.

Stubborn Seed - Resorts World

This is Top Chef Season 13 winner, Jeremy Ford's place. He opened in Miami, and is now opening a location at Resorts World in Las Vegas.  Stubborn Seed has a prix fixe menu.  The restaurant’s name refers to  the persistence it takes to open a restaurant - or any passion project, and  to flourish and grow.” Stubborn Seed will incorporate seasonal and local ingredients and a robust drink menu. Opening Winter 2024.

Resorts World Las Vegas to open Stubbron Seed RestaurantEthan Miller via Getty Images

Swingers, Las Vegas - Mandalay Bay

For over a year, Mandalay Bay has had sign on the doors of what will soon be an adults-only mini golf course. The space used to be Light nightclub. Swingers is supposed to have four different golf courses, each modeled after a quaint English countryside. They have locations in London, New York, and Washington D.C.. and they look really cool, and very unique. Cocktails will be delivered by caddies, and pizza, burgers, and tacos will be served at a parasol-covered sunken garden lounge. Las Vegas has a lot of trendy golf-and-play attractions, but Swingers promises to be the ritziest version yet.

Swingers Las Vegas to open at Mandalay BayDavid Becker via Getty Images/

Chamana’s Cafe and Molino - 3655 South Durango, Las Vegas

Midday steak and eggs with homemade tortillas and salsa, bowls of pozole with heirloom corn, and American diner staples like eggs over-easy with bacon and smashed potatoes. Chamana’s will have a fancy beverage menu, with espresso drinks from supposedly, the most expensive expresso machine in the world, and sodas with fruit purees like watermelon-basil, guava, and lavender. their website says Chamana’s "draws inspiration from the spiritual and therapeutic practices of ancestral healers providing wholesome cuisine to promote harmony, showcasing culinary creativity in its purest form."

Chamana's Cafe to open in Las VegasBhofack2 via Getty Images plus

Bourbon Steak - Four Seasons Hotel

After 20 years, Charlie Palmer closed during the pandemic. Enter Bourbon Steak. This will be  Chef Michael Mina's sixth local restaurant.  A beautiful selection of premium beef cuts and fresh seafood. Fancy trolley carts with shellfish, caviar, chocolate fondue and cocktails will roam  the restaurant. Mina says the restaurant will reflect the energy and essence of Las Vegas.

Chef Michael Mina To open Bourbon Steak at Four Seasons Las VegasChance Yeh via Getty Images
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