With the National Finals Rodeo coming to an end and Christmas right around the corner, this is a slower time in Las Vegas than usual. In fact, the week or two preceding New Year’s Day tend to be among the slowest weeks in the year when it comes to visiting Vegas. Naturally, major touring acts do not stop in Sin City during these weeks, eschewing the week leading up to Christmas in favor of the New Year’s parties during the following week. As such, the resident Vegas acts are pretty much the only show in town this week.
Of course, Vegas never stops ticking, and a slow week out on the strip still hosts many tourists. Given that the resident shows have a higher market share than usual this week, ticket prices are actually up above where they usually are for many of them. As is typically the case, Cirque du Soleil is dominating the Vegas show ticket market.
The highest priced show of the week is none other than Cirque du Soleil’s The Beatles: Love. Always one of the most sought after Cirque du Soleil tickets and among the highest priced resident shows of any given week, Saturday, December 20th’s showing is currently atop the secondary market at an average price of $259.52. With the least expensive tickets on the market still carrying a price tag of $184, it is also the most expensive show of the week to get in to. The show’s secondary market average remains unchanged from last week, and there are currently 68 tickets available on the secondary market.
Also taking place on Saturday night, Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana is the second most expensive Vegas show ticket of the week. With only 32 tickets available on the secondary market, the current average price of $258.91 reflects an increase of 7% over last week. Interestingly enough however, while Zarkana outpaces O by a few cents when it comes to average price (O checks in at $258.43), O actually holds a higher get-in price despite the larger quantity of 118 available tickets on the secondary market. Still, to get into either show it will cost no less than $151.
Next up on the list of top Vegas tickets of the week is the only non Cirque du Soleil show to crack the top five, and that would be the Blue Man Group’s resident show at the Monte Carlo Theatre. There are currently only 24 tickets available on the secondary market, making it the hardest ticket to come by on the secondary market of any top show this week. These tickets are currently listed at an average of $241, with a get-in price of $182. While it is only the fourth most expensive ticket on average, it is only $2 behind The Beatles: Love as far as the most expensive shows to get into.
Rounding out the top events of the week in Vegas is Cirque du Soleil’s Criss Angel Believe. A resident show of the Luxor Theater at the Luxor Hotel since the fall of 2008, it has undergone many improvements over the year to where it is now a legitimate draw for the hotel. In this slower week where shows are scarce, the 103 Criss Angel tickets currently available on the secondary market are up 31% over last week. With an average price of $223.58, Criss Angel Believe is the fourth most expensive Cirque du Soleil ticket of the week, and fifth most expensive Vegas show overall. Out of all the shows on our top events of the week in Vegas list, it is the cheapest to get into, with tickets currently listed as low as $115.
{ SOURCE: Forbes | http://goo.gl/pzpqcH }
