Vegas may be surrounded by desert, but that doesn’t mean you can’t indulge in winter pastimes like ice skating. So if getting into the holiday spirit means strapping on a pair of blades to your feet, you’ll want to head out to MonteLago Village to enjoy their annual ice skating rink.
During the summer, their stage in the lake is home to a wonderful concert series. But this time of the year, it’s turned into a real skating rink, with great views of both the lake it sits on and the surrounding resorts.
The rink is created on top of the village’s floating stage by using a vegetable-based glycol mix that is chilled to below freezing in a plastic tube. Water is then sprayed on top of this and kept frozen with a 12,000-pound freezer system.
The 40-by-80-foot floating ice rink can have up to 60 skaters on it at any one time. This is the fifth year it will be open.
The ice skating rink at MonteLago Village is located on Lake Las Vegas itself, which is a 30 minute or so drive east from the Strip. A day pass will cost $15 for adults and $12 for children.
The rink is open from now until February 19, 2009, but the holidays are the perfect time to really enjoy a visit to MonteLago Village to enjoy a day of skating, In addition to the rink, the entire village is decorated with holiday lights and a 40-ft tall Christmas tree serves as the centerpiece. Kids of all ages can also enjoy having their picture taken with Santa on Saturday afternoons through December 20, 2008.
So head out early, grab an early dinner (MonteLago Village offers everything from pizza by the slice to an Italian bistro and a steakhouse), some hot cocoa and then strap on your skates and enjoy an evening on the ice.
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If You Go…
MonteLago Village Ice Skating Rink
Address: 30 Strada di Villagio; Henderson, NV
Phone: 702-564-4785
Web: montelagovillage.com
Hours: 3pm to 9pm Mondays through Fridays; Noon to 9pm Saturdays and Sundays
Price: All-day skating passes are $15 for adults and $12 for children. Skate rentals are extra.
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Can i book tickets for ice skating please ?
We had a very bad experience at the Floating ice skating rink @ the Montelago Village Resort.
We got there around 8pm, excited to skate. It is hard to find ice in the desert so we were more than happy to drive 35 mins to get there from Summerlin.
We arrived and paid $15.00 each ( Three of us). We put on our skates and got on the ice. It was absolutely horrible. It felt like skating on rocks. The ice needed to be Zamboni’ed (SP) bad. After 2 times around the ice, we went back to the counter to ask to have them clean the ice. The two that were working there (brother and sister) promptly cleaned their fingers off from eating popcorn and other snacks behind the counter. They said that they were tired of having people complain about the quality of the ice, that they had cleaned it 2x tonight and that they were not going to do it again 1 hour before they closed. I said that since we could not skate on the ice, we would like a refund. They were rude and unhelpful. They referred me to call the owner. ( Turns out to be their dad) He was belittling and childish on the phone, would not refund the money, using terms like ” you dont get to try before you buy” and “Good luck with posting bad reviews, I dont like threats” All we wanted was a refund because we could not use the ice and we did not have a good time. I did not appreicate paying $45.00 for 5 mins of ice skating. DO NOT GO here. Its not worth your drive out there. The rink is NO bigger than 1/4 of a basketball court and they do not even Zamboni it for $15.00 a person.
0/5 stars.