The girls absolutely killed it.”Īnd of course a popup bar wouldn’t be complete without cocktails. “We ended up going on a little shopping trip to Hobby Lobby and we basically furnished this thing from top to bottom, with hand-painted art on the walls. The girls at the bake shop have always wanted to be part of a gingerbread bakeoff competition. “We used over 50 pounds of gingerbread, about 20 pounds of royal icing, 20 pounds of sugar, over 150 man-hours. The result: a multi-story mansion more than three feet tall. In true Red Rock fashion, we blew it up.”

“They wanted to incorporate a small gingerbread house. “They wanted it to go with the decor, to be like Christmas over-the-top,” said Jose “Lupe” Avila, the resort’s executive chef. And the team that created the massive gingerbread model of the resort did another house just for Merry Crimson. There’s also a candy-cane swing set, for some video action. But not just any Elf this one’s not only life-sized but live, and ready to star in your selfie. Santa Claus comes first, of course, as befits his iconic status. The staff are all wearing ugly Christmas sweaters.”Īnd, in this era when Instagram reigns supreme, there are plenty of photo ops. “It opens up to over-the-top holiday decor like no one’s seen before,” Yalda said. “When you come through the tunnel, it’s all ornaments and lights” - 60,000, to be exact. “There’s so many lights in there,” said Joe Yalda, vice president of guest experience. The indoor and outdoor holiday popup bar is about as outrageous - in a good way - as the property’s collective minds could make it, starting with the tunnel of lights. With a subtext of “Red Rock got run over by a reindeer,” how could this event be anything but fun?

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