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As the world prepares for the final countdown to #CES2015, are you ready? Do you have your hotel reservations? Have you taken a sneak peak at a map of the tradeshow floor?

With more than 3,500 exhibitors spanning two million net sq. ft and more than 160,000 attendees descending on Las Vegas for “The Big Show,” a gameplan for the event is a must.

Know What To Look For
It is expected that the most innovative technologies to date will debut at the International CES this year. Look for a focus on personalized technologies that empower users to make the most of technology in their lives, such as the TZOA Kickstarter that let’s you track environmental conditions around you.

Televisions and phones are expected to also dominate the tradeshow floor. Expect phone giants Apple and Samsung, as well as other companies such as Alcatel and Microsoft, to showcase new technologies. The auto industry is also expected to extend its visibility on the show floor with technologies that further redefine the automobile as a mobile device.

Plan Your Week
Here are a few key steps to plan for #CES2015 before you arrive:

1. Know your must-see products.
Check out a preview of what you’ll find on the show floor and learn more about joining an official tour of the floor.

2. Create your networking plan.
Use the CES event calendar to build your schedule and block time for connecting with colleagues.

3. Save time to learn from the experts.
Keynote addresses from the likes of thought leaders at Samsung, Mercedes-Benz and Google will take place in each of the three CES conference locations. Check out the conference program, search for speakers and see conference tracks.

4. Have a plan of attack for post-CES.
The key to #CES2015 is leveraging what you see and learn. Follow CES News to track what’s being discussed throughout the event and to help you think through your next moves.

If you happen to be planning a trip to Vegas January 6–9, chances are good that you will get your own sneak peak at wearables and other cutting edge consumer electronic technology debuting this year at CES – about as likely as you are to wait in longer than usual lines for coffee or a table for dinner. Be patient – and remember, this is the one week when what happens in Vegas will not likely stay in Vegas.

We have all sorts of fun things for you to do at Tahiti Village this first month of 2015. And remember: If making your own yarn medallions or charm bracelets doesn’t quite do it for you, you can always eat a sundae.

So another year has come and gone, as always seemingly quicker than the one before. On this last day of 2014 the sentimental among us are girding our memories in preparation for a eulogy. Don’t worry; no tears. Instead, we at Tahiti Village will use this occasion to celebrate a great and eventful year by recalling both the major achievements and minor accomplishments that contributed to your enjoyment and our resort’s longterm excellence.

We start in January, where all years begin. On the 13^th the pool area closed for a comprehensive renovation that consisted of replastering and retiling the pool, stripping and resealing the concrete decks, replacing the lifeguard towel hut, adding new faux granite-topped side tables, and rethatching our palapas (which sounds more painful than it is). The pool reopened on Feb. 7, just in time for winter sunbathing.

On Feb. 2 the AllSET team debuted to restore expired vacation time to owners who have missed two or more entitlement weeks. You’re all set! (Get it?)

On Feb. 21 we aimed our renovation plans at the Lazy River. The weeklong project included an acid washing, minor plaster repairs, resealing the decks with a nonslip coating, and restaining and rethatching the guard shack.

The WikiWiki, our onsite convenience store, closed on March 3 in preparation for its relocation next to the front desk.

The first phase of our yearlong lobby renovation came to fruition March 18 with the opening of our Grab-N-Go food and beverage counter. Fresh donuts and pastries, soft serve ice cream, sandwiches and specialty coffees are just some of the tempting choices that are tailor-made to eat on the run.

The remodeled and renovated WikiWiki reopened on March 21 next to the Grab-N-Go.

Squawk the Show, an amazing 60-minute demonstration of fine feathered feats, debuted April 5 in the Island Courtyard. Talented parrots delighted and confounded audiences every Saturday throughout May by painting pictures, playing cards and even reading minds! Once you’ve seen a parrot solve a math problem, you’ll think, `Oh, so that’s how you do it!’

Our annual Easter egg hunt drew lots of young treasure seekers to the Island Courtyard and Lazy River on April 19.

May 18 marked the start of the fifth anniversary season of our popular summer luau.

On May 21 we earned our third straight TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence. Some things never get old.

May 29: New shuttle busses with rooftop-mounted air conditioning systems arrived just in time for the summer riding season. They get cooler faster and stay cooler longer. So far this year our shuttles have transported 328,866 Tahiti Village owners and visitors, including 8,565 to the Fremont Street Experience, 3,692 to Red Rock Canyon, 6,216 to the grocery store and 1,687 to Town Square.

17° South Booze & Bites, our new bar and bistro, opened on June 10. It is the centerpiece of our main lobby renovation and sits in the spaces previously occupied by the WikiWiki and the wedding chapel. In the six months since its grand opening, 17° South has poured 3,100 gallons of beer, cooked 2,755 pounds of ground beef and served 24,957 cocktails.

August 1: The New Tropicana replaced New York-New York as one of our two Strip shuttle drop-off locations.

New smoking areas were designated for all aquatic attractions on August 8. Smoking is now prohibited inside the pool area, Lazy River and hot tubs.

August 31: luau season came to an end. Exactly 4,000 people attended the 15 luaus over the course of the summer.

Our Tahiti Village Facebook page received its 5,000^th like on September 3. Just four months later we now have nearly 18,000. Thank you for your support.

We started our Paint and Party activity on September 26 in case you wanted to paint a picture instead of the town on your next visit.

On October 1 we earned our third consecutive RCI Gold Crown Resort designation. Some things never get old.

October 29: NHRA drag racer Terry McMillen visited Tahiti Village and hosted a fundraiser at 17° South. Proceeds from a special “Terry McTini” benefitted She4Life, a breast cancer support group.

Our newly renovated Mahana Spa reopened on November 3. Wait till we get our hands on you!

We began the final phase of our lobby renovation, also on Nov. 3.

We completed the final phase of our lobby renovation the first week of December. The lobby now features updated tables, chairs and couches, decorative space dividers, recovered pillars and eye-catching wall art specially designed for Tahiti Village by Ron Nicola Interiors. The makeover is an extension of the design concept Ron created for 17° South Booze & Bites. The previous island motif with dominant browns and greens has been replaced with vibrant colors and modern furniture that invites you to sit down and stay awhile.

As you can see, it was a busy and eventful 2014 at Tahiti Village. We wish you all a healthy and prosperous new year and hope to see you here in 2015.

If you haven’t purchased tickets to our New Year’s Eve party, it’s not too late. And if you didn’t know we were having a New Year’s Eve party, we are! Join us Dec. 31 from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. as we ring in 2015. We’ll be celebrating in the 10^th floor lounge of Tower 5, which offers one of the best views of the Strip fireworks in Las Vegas. You’ll enjoy an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and dancing to music from our live DJ. Please call 800-775-8463 to purchase tickets. Tickets at the door are $120. We look forward to seeing you and wish you a happy and healthy new year!

Las Vegas brings out the big guns to celebrate the prior twelve months and ring in the next year. You can participate in a number of parties throughout the region to celebrate this amazing holiday in style. Consider your favorite activities to find the perfect way to start the year off right. Here are just a few events to consider for your Las Vegas New Year’s Eve.

Fremont Street Experience

Bright and colorful Fremont Street absolutely fills with people celebrating on New Year’s Eve. Many people arrive to catch the hourly Viva Vision light show played to the sounds of `80s greats, such as Heart and Bon Jovi, and stay to ride the Slotzilla Zip Line. The shared excitement exuded by the huge crowds continues to mount until the inevitable release at midnight. You can kill the time before then by visiting one of the many casinos on this street.  Hopping between casinos downtown is much easier than the Strip as well with their close proximity to one another and more reserved entrances.

Stratosphere Firework Show

The iconic Level 107 Lounge gives you the perfect vantage point to view the firework shows in style. Many casinos around Las Vegas shoot off fireworks at midnight to ramp up the excitement and highlight the city’s beauty. The Stratosphere shoots off its own gorgeous firework display from the top of their 1,149 foot tower. You can enjoy delicious appetizers, meals and drinks while counting down to midnight.

Snoopadelic Cabaret At The Venetian

The Tao Nightclub at the Venetian hosts the Snoop Dogg Cabaret to allow visitors to groove to legendary beats for the remainder of 2014. Snoop styled this venue and his performance around the beautiful designs produced in the 1920s. Mixed drinks and flapper dresses mimic the angst of the prohibition period, adding to the feeling of urgency and excitement of the night.  You are encouraged to embrace the suggested time period with your own outfit and attitude to add to the ambiance.

 

Join us this New Year’s Eve as we ring in 2015 at Tahiti Village. We’ll be celebrating in the 10^th floor lounge of Tower 5 with an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, dancing, party favors and a champagne toast at midnight. If you’ve been to one of our previous New Year’s Eve parties, you know that our balcony offers one the best views of the fireworks in Las Vegas!

Doors open at 10 p.m. Admission is $80 for owners and $100 for guests. Please call 800-775-8463 by Dec. 23 to lock in these low pre-party prices. Tickets at the door are $120. . We also have a special New Year’s package price that includes two free New Year’s Eve party tickets when you book a Bora Bora or Moorea. Minimum two-night minimum stay required over New Year’s.

Sure, you could spend New Year’s Eve on the Strip. But then you’d be cold, crowded and miserable. Don’t risk your New Year’s Eve fun. Bring in 2015 with us here at Tahiti Village and we can resolve to change the spelling of “hors d’oeuvres” to something we can all remember.

Been nice knowin’ ya, 2014. Now beat it!

For nearly 60 years, from the time Clark County granted the first gaming license in 1931 until Steve Wynn built The Mirage and begat the megaresort boom of the 1990s, Las Vegas was a place where children existed primarily outside the hot zones of the Strip and downtown.

Locals visiting a casino could bring their kids to the coffee shop or showroom, sanctuaries from sin, but were discouraged from dawdling on the way and even admonished by surly security to “get moving.” Las Vegas was still for adults doing adult things anonymously.

In the wake of Wynn’s resort renaissance, the sight of Marge and Bob from Iowa pushing a baby carriage through a casino with their youngins in tow – less likely than a jackpot on a one-armed bandit in the old days – became more and more common. Gaming was still the lifeblood of Las Vegas, but the tourism model had expanded – and it included families.

Resorts were devising ways to increase their bottom lines through retail, dining and amusement attractions that they hoped would draw a previously untapped demographic. This philosophical sea change was exemplified by the MGM Grand and Circus Circus opening amusement parks in 1993.

The idea to herd children while mom and dad dropped coin in the casino probably wouldn’t have occurred to the “boys” who built Las Vegas, but as individuals who made sure to have every angle covered, they undoubtedly would have approved.

Flash forward a few years. So it turns out families didn’t spend enough money on even the ancillary attractions, let alone gamble enough, and in 2004 MGM closed its $100 million theme park. Around this time Las Vegas made an abrupt about-face and returned to its Sin City roots, announcing its intentions with an advertising campaign that promised to keep Vegas-inspired indiscretions between the city and the sinner.

“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” went viral and sought to restore the city’s cred as an adult playground. The result? Risque shows returned to take their place alongside the Cirque du Family fare and G-rated magic shows that had begun appearing everywhere in the `90s. Hotel nightclubs opened up and down the Strip, hiring superstar DJs to attract cash-soaked hipsters who were willing to drop hundreds on a bottle of vodka and party till dawn. Those same properties then devised a provocative daytime activity geared to nurse the hangovers of that same, albeit less dressed, demographic: the beach party!

The real Vegas was back, baby!

Of course transitions of the type Las Vegas experienced are never so precisely demarcated. There was overlap then just as there is now, and you don’t have to look too closely to see that adults and families coexist quite comfortably. There is world-class dining and shopping and plenty of attractions for the kids. A theme park still pulsates beneath the pink dome at Circus Circus, thrill rides abound atop the Stratosphere, and in case you missed it, Las Vegas just opened the world’s tallest observation wheel, The High Roller. Oh yes, and adults are still filling the gaming coffers by the millions.

As for us at Tahiti Village, things remain as they’ve always been. Everyone welcome!

 

 

 

In years past our lobby would never look more festive than when we lit the Christmas tree.

This year, our Christmas tree has never looked better thanks to our newly remodeled lobby.

Now the tree stands on colorful new carpet surrounded by updated tables, chairs and couches, decorative space dividers, recovered pillars and eye-catching wall art specially designed for Tahiti Village by Ron Nicola Interiors.

The makeover is an extension of the design concept Ron created for 17° South Booze & Bites, our new bar and bistro that opened off the main lobby this past summer. The previous island motif with dominant browns and greens has been replaced with vibrant colors and modern furniture that invites you to sit down and stay awhile. The wood space dividers create separate seating areas for a more intimate lounge feel and also perform double duty as stylish wall decor. The overall design still imparts a tropical vibe but without the Polynesian cliches.

If you won’t be here for the holidays, you can see our lobby’s new modern look – and our Christmas tree all alight for the season – in the YouTube video below. Stayed tuned – more lobby footage to come!

We wish you happy holidays and a healthy and prosperous new year.

For those that are used to Northeastern winters, Las Vegas can be a difficult city to get into the holiday spirit.  But just because it doesn’t snow every winter in Las Vegas (though it occasionally does), doesn’t mean that the city is devoid of its own special holiday traditions.

The Nutcracker

Few shows reflect holiday tradition like The Nutcracker, and the Nevada Ballet Theater puts on an amazing rendition every year at The Smith Center in downtown Las Vegas.  The show is very true to the original, but with some very careful personal touches to make it just a little bit unique every time you see it here.  The ambience of The Smith Center along with one of the most storied holiday ballet performances make The Nutcracker a must see for anyone looking to get in the spirit.  It even snows on stage!

Holiday Feasts

Las Vegas is a year-round hospitality destination, and as such the city and its premier outlets rarely close for a holiday.  In fact, many of the gourmet restaurants around the city offer dedicated menus and events to make the holidays that much more special for those that either cannot be with family or would like to have someone else cater to them for a change.  Depending on the location, availability can be extremely limited so be sure to plan in advance and make reservations.

Mount Charleston

If you absolutely cannot get into the spirit of the holidays without seeing snow, then Mount Charleston is just a quick 30 minute drive from The Strip.  Because of the altitudes, temperatures and seasonal weather atop the mountain much more closely resemble those of our friends in the North of the country.  The mountain has a lodge, but rates do tend to trend upwards during the holidays because of the nostalgic weather and also ski season.  If you do just make a quick trip up for the day, it would be recommended to go a few days before or after any major holiday as many locals and travelers flood the only roadway leading to Mount Charleston on these dates, especially Christmas, to catch a glimpse of Vegas’ own winter wonderland.

The closure of the Strip for Sunday’s Las Vegas Rock `n’ Roll Marathon will require us to cancel transportation to the Mirage. We will continue to provide shuttle service to our other Strip drop-off location, the New Tropicana, at the top and bottom of the hour. Please keep in mind that we may be subject to delays because of traffic and road closures. This is a one-day schedule change. We will resume our normal Strip shuttle schedule to both the Mirage and New Tropicana on Monday and apologize for the inconvenience. There may also be delays on Saturday owing to the 5k run taking place on the north side of the Strip near the Riviera. This would impact our Mirage route only. Thank you for you patience.