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Soleil Entertainment Group Chief Operating Officer Stephane Lefebvre (6th L) and cast members pose during a pop-up performance before the grand reopening of 'The Beatles LOVE By Cirque du Soleil' at The Mirage Hotel & Casino on Augin Las Vegas, Nevada.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - AUGUST 26: Cirque du Soleil President & CEO Daniel Lamarre (5th L), Cirque du. Nearly every convention in Las Vegas was cancelled, postponed or ‘went virtual’ early last year due to restrictions on group size and other COVID precautions. Of course, those increases are from a tiny base. (March 2022 data is not yet available.) Convention attendance numbers were even better, up an astronomical 3367.4% in January and 2285% for February. Visitation for January 2022 was up 91.2% over the previous January, while February 2022 was up 69%. Has Las Vegas itself come back from the depths of the COVID travel recession? The data, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau, is mixed. In a return to a past Vegas era, Millennial families even brought their young children. Nonetheless, travelers still found the Mirage experience compelling. Of course, there are also taxes and $15 per 24-hour parking, plus five-dollar coffees and the temptations of the minibar.

While guest rooms that week were indeed $99 a night on Expedia, a third “inevitable” needs to be added to the classic phrase “death and taxes.” That would be the resort fee ($40), which serves as the hotel industry’s profit firewall against the online travel agencies (Expedia, Priceline, ) and Googles of the world. Being able to book nice rooms at mid-week rates as low as $99 motivated those tired of winter and two years of lockdown to get away. While some might carp that the room décor is a little dated, the value was clear to hundreds of guests. The line for gelato reached thirty people for cones that started at 7 dollars. Kibitzers waited to get into the action at the tables. There were long lines of guests at the restaurants and 24/7 coffee shop. With the desert city just starting to heat up during the last week of March, the pool was packed. Yet on our mid-week visit, Mirage (to be operated by MGM until sometime in the second half of 2022) hosted a big crowd.

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