A few days ago I wrote about the last couple of weeks in December being a relatively quiet time. This years, in my experience, that was definitely true between the end of the National Finals Rodeo and Christmas. But during the past couple of days, traffic on the roads and activity in the casinos seems to have picked up considerably.
On Friday, we visited Ellis Island, a casino near the Strip. To my amazement, we were told by a security guard stationed at the garage that only four empty spaces remained in the entire structure. The casino wasn't packed, but the restaurants were very busy.
The spouse and tried to figure out what all the cars were doing in the garage. We guessed that most of them belonged to guests at the Super 8 motel adjacent to the casino. We figured that between Christmas and New Year's was probably a good time for a lot of college students and other young people with time off to come to Vegas for a few days, having fulfilled their family holiday obligations.
Also, a lot of businesses close down or slow down during the last week of the year, so a lot of other people have time off as well.
So I will modify my statement that the last two weeks of the year are a quiet time in Vegas. I would still recommend the week and half between the end of the rodeo and Christmas as a time when Vegas is uncrowded and cheap, but not so much the week between Christmas and New Year/s.
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