Las Vegas Strip residencies draw tens of thousands of fans who also occupy the various hotels, casinos, and restaurants along the Strip. It's an ideal entertainment combination that has prospered for decades.
Gaming costs vary for gamblers depending on what they choose to play and how much they plan to spend.
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As for restaurants, it's also a matter of how much a diner wants to pay. One could choose a casual meal at celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen & Bar at The Linq for under $30 or dine at his Flavortown Sports Kitchen at the Horseshoe from $31 to $50, according to Open Table.
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The Buffet at Bellagio, Michael Mina's seafood restaurant, also at Bellagio, or Gordon Ramsay's Steakhouse at Paris Las Vegas will cost about $50 to $100 a meal.
Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio's Craftsteak or Joel Robuchon, both at MGM Grand, will likely cost a diner over $100 a meal, according to LasVegasRestaurants.com.
When it comes to tickets to residencies on the Strip, there's a wide price range as well.
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When U2 opened its U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere residency at Sphere Entertainment's (SPHR) Sphere, tickets were priced at $140 but quickly rose after going on sale.
Tickets for U2's final show on March 2, 2024, at the Sphere ranged from $800 to $2,500.
The Sphere's second headliner, Phish, performed a four-show sold-out engagement on April 18-21, 2024, and ticket prices were all over the map. The lowest quoted prices were about $109 including fees when they went on sale, with many ticket brokers advertising tickets in the $400 to $600 range in the days right before the shows.
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TicketNetwork advertised Phish opening night tickets as high as $5,985, Rolling Stone reported, but there is no confirmation whether anyone paid that price.
The Sphere's next residency Dead and Company had more reasonably priced tickets in the $100 to $200 range, according to most media reports.
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One of the most popular headliner residencies on the Las Vegas Strip, which is not at The Sphere, is closing with an enormous finish, at least for the price of tickets.
Adele closes popular residency after 100 shows
Adele's "Weekends with Adele" residency at Caesar Entertainment's Colosseum at Caesars Palace ended on Nov. 23, with the final performance of her 100-show residency.
The residency was originally scheduled to open Jan. 21, 2022, but was postponed when crew members contracted Covid-19 and there were some stage issues.
Two years after opening, Adele said she was ready to close the residency, and she plans to take a break from performing for "a long time," as the residency has made her feel like her "tank is quite empty," Cosmopolitan reported.
Tickets to the "Hello" singer's residency shows have never been considered cheap, though tickets were more reasonably priced when her engagement first opened, considering today's Las Vegas residency ticket prices.
A review of Reddit posts revealed that ticket buyers were paying as low as $130 with taxes and fees included when the original 24-show "Weekends With Adele" residency finally opened on Nov. 18, 2022.
Adele ticket prices have been rising
The high end of ticket prices was somewhere between $860 and $970 during the first two legs of the residency, though some Reddit posts said some ticket prices in the second run were going for $1,200.
"Weekend With Adele" tickets in August 2023 were ranging from $400 to $1,000, The Oregonian reported. By January 2024, ticket prices began to rise, as New York Post reported that resale tickets on Vivid Seats from January through June 2024 were priced from about $488 to $1,217.
Adele, however, postponed all 10 of her shows in March 2024 and rescheduled them on five weekends from Oct. 25 to Nov. 23, 2024.
The singer's decision to take an extended break from performing has increased demand for "Weekend With Adele" tickets and caused resale ticket prices to skyrocket to astronomical levels.
A review of Seek Geek prices reveals tickets for Adele's final show starting at $2,098 on Nov. 20. The cheapest ticket on ticket broker Stub Hub was priced at $2,289 in Section 402, Row C. Vegas.com's lowest-priced ticket was $2,367.
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