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Winter in Venice
The Hotel: The Venetian and The Palazzo Las Vegas
The City: Las Vegas, NV
The Dates: November 18, 2012 to January 6, 2013
If You Do One Thing: Slash and glide across their picturesque, polymer-covered skating rink before taking a gondola ride on The Venetian's romantic Grand Canal.
Other Highlights:
• Festive tree-lighting ceremonies for their awe-inspiring, 65-foot LED Christmas tree.
• Nightly winter parades with all sorts of colorful, Carnaval-esque characters (pictured above).
• The wondrous "Winter in Venice" fantasy scene in The Palazzo Waterfall Gardens.
• A gorgeously luminescent (and new) 3D-projection light show coined "Light of Venice".