By any measure, Las Vegas is a master of spectacle. It dazzles, it entices, and when the season calls for it, it discounts with theatrical flair. As the northern winter edges closer and wallets brace for the traditional retail onslaught, the world’s most flamboyant playground is quietly staging one of its most brilliant sales plays of the year.
This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Las Vegas isn’t merely trimming its prices; it is throwing open the vault. From neon-soaked immersive experiences just off the Strip to lakeside houseboats under desert stars, and from playful social arenas to classic resort luxury, the city has stitched together a line-up of travel bargains that feel less like promotions and more like strategic invitations.
For Australians already planning long-haul travel for 2025 and 2026 with surgical precision, these offers arrive with almost suspiciously good timing. With the US dollar settling into more predictable territory and international capacity steadily normalising, value has become the new luxury. Las Vegas, ever alert to global appetite, is responding in kind.
AREA15: Buy One, Get One in Vegas’ Most Surreal Playground
Just west of the Strip, parallel to the main drag and pulsing with futuristic imagination, AREA15 has quietly become one of Las Vegas’ most compelling non-gaming attractions. For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it is offering a rare two-for-one incentive that will appeal to families, couples and groups alike.
Guests who purchase one Level 1 Experience Pass will receive a second pass free of charge. The promotion runs until Monday, December 1, with each pass valued at US$49. The inclusions read like a fever dream curated by a playful architect: a panoramic, sky-high observation ride, an old-school arcade, a psychedelic carousel, and a suite of immersive attractions that blur the line between art, entertainment, and mischief.
The passes also unlock additional food and beverage discounts, retail savings and equipment rental offers across the complex, a subtle but meaningful sweetener in a city where the add-ons can add up quickly. The offer is available at AREA15.com using the checkout code BOGOBF.
In a city famed for excess, this is one of the rare moments where indulgence actually comes with restraint.
Lake Mead Mohave Adventures: Deep Discounts on Desert Escapes
For travellers craving salt-free horizons and open water rather than slot machines and showrooms, Lake Mead Mohave Adventures (LMMA) is delivering one of the most aggressive outdoor travel sales seen in years.
Across all seven of its marina and camping destinations, LMMA is offering 35 per cent off new houseboat and motel bookings made between Wednesday, November 26 and Tuesday, December 2. A three-night minimum applies for houseboats, with travel valid from December 4, 2025, through to December 31, 2026, a time horizon that allows planners to lock in next year’s summer at today’s prices.
For those preferring a more rugged romance, RV and tent sites are discounted by 30% within the same booking window. These bookings apply to weekdays in May and September 2026, and to all days during June, July, and August 2026, the peak desert season, delivered with rare pricing flexibility.
The fine print remains mercifully straightforward: new individual bookings only, excluding holidays and group reservations, with standard blackout dates in place. Reservations are available by phone via (855) 918-5253.
For Australians seeking a distinctly American outdoor escape, one that trades poker chips for campfires, this is a neatly packaged gateway into the US national recreation system at a rare price point.
Play Playground: Social Gaming With 20 Per Cent Off
If Las Vegas still sells anything better than dreams, it’s the art of play itself. Nowhere captures that more literally than Play Playground, the Strip’s most energetic social gaming venue and bar. Spanning 15,000 square feet, the venue blends physical games, nostalgic challenges and highly stylised social competition under one very loud roof.
This Black Friday season, guests can access 20 per cent off all ticket types purchased through to Friday, December 5. Designed for adults, teenagers (13+) and adventurous families alike, Play Playground turns competitive instinct into spectacle with signature games such as Doctor! Doctor! and Ringer Run, all supported by a high-octane food and beverage program.
It’s part arcade, part obstacle course and part cocktail-fuelled theatre. In a city built on shared experiences, Play Playground is quietly reinventing how strangers bond through laughter, light bruises and a leaderboard that never forgets.
Ticket sales and full details are available via the venue’s official booking portal.
SAHARA Las Vegas: Half-Price Rooms and All-In Luxury
At the northern gateway to the Strip, SAHARA Las Vegas is playing the long game and playing it exceptionally well. The resort is offering up to 50 per cent off its best available rates for bookings made until Wednesday, December 3, valid for stays extending through to June 30, 2026.
The terms are unapologetically traveller-friendly: no booking fees, a guaranteed room type, and just a one-night deposit at the time of reservation, with the balance due at check-in. In an era where hidden charges have become tourists’ great nemesis, this alone is worth noticing.
Layered over this is the resort’s newly launched All-In Experience Rate, offering early access from November 24 through December 2 for stays up to February 28, 2026. Travellers who registered on November 24 received priority access before the wider public release on Black Friday.
The general All-In sale runs from November 28 to December 2, with room rates starting from US$69 per night, inclusive of a daily US$25 resort credit and late midday checkout, two perks that quietly stretch a Las Vegas stay without shouting about it.
Bookings for both offers are available via saharalasvegas.com.
Why These Deals Matter More Than Ever
What distinguishes this year’s sales is not just the markdowns — it is the extended booking window and future-proofed flexibility. Many of these offers push well into 2026, allowing international travellers to secure long-range plans while global aviation capacity and pricing continue to recalibrate.
For Australians, whose Vegas trips often combine entertainment, outbound US touring and event travel, this forward-looking availability dramatically improves itinerary confidence. Whether it’s a Formula One weekend, a desert road trip or a mid-year escape from winter’s grip, Las Vegas is providing the scaffolding for 18 months of planning at once.
There is also a broader economic undercurrent at play. Las Vegas tourism has become more sophisticated, less dependent on last-minute gamblers and more invested in curated experiences that travel across demographics and budgets. These Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns are not simply discounts; they are market signals.
They tell us the city is chasing international planners, not spontaneous visitors. It is courting families and experience-driven travellers, not just weekend punters. And it is doing so with pricing that reflects strategic confidence rather than desperation.
The Bottom Line
In a year of tightening global travel budgets and more considered spending, Las Vegas has played its hand with uncommon dexterity. Its Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns are not scattergun promotions; they are coordinated invitations into every corner of the destination: immersive art, desert wilderness, playful nightlife and classic Strip glamour.
For Australians mapping out America beyond the usual gateways, this may quietly become the most valuable travel shopping week of the year.
Las Vegas, it seems, is still very good at knowing exactly when to make an irresistible offer.
By Sandra Jones – (c) 2025
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About the Writer
Sandra has spent much of her working life untangling the world for others, one itinerary, one dream, one frazzled traveller at a time. With years spent in some of Australia’s best-known travel agencies, she’s the calm voice on the line when flights go missing, luggage takes its own holiday, or someone decides to “see Europe properly” in nine days.
A qualified travel consultant with a knack for making sense of chaos, Sandra fine-tuned her skills through a specialised advisory course, the sort that teaches both knowledge and patience in equal measure. But the storyteller in her was never far away. A later foray into writing gave her the perfect excuse to blend that industry wisdom with her gift for words.
Now, through Global Travel Media, Sandra shares the small truths of travel, its frustrations, laughter, and quiet moments that make every journey worth the fuss.
