Las Vegas Grand Prix 2026 Luxury Guide

Bellagio Fountain ClubVanessa Rogers

Only in Las Vegas could a perfectly reasonable Saturday involve watching Formula 1 cars tear down the Strip, eating caviar out of a racing helmet and singing “I Want It That Way” at Sphere. Frankly, I’d build a weekend around any one of those things.

The Formula 1 Heineken Las Vegas Grand Prix returns November 19 to 21, 2026, for its fourth running, with the party carrying on through Sunday, November 22, and the race now locked in through 2037, which gives us plenty of time to perfect the itinerary. This year’s version stars JAY-Z, Martha Stewart, Gordon Ramsay, a Tokyo yakiniku legend and a boy band, and that’s before anyone has started an engine. My advice? Start with a Thursday table at Bellagio, make room for a little agave after dinner and leave Saturday night gloriously overbooked.

Photo Credit: Las Vegas Grand Prix

Photo Credit: Las Vegas Grand Prix

Where to Watch the Race

The Bellagio Fountain Club is where I’d go for the full Vegas spectacle in one frame. The three-day package gets you onto the club’s private indoor and rooftop decks, with views of the circuit, the fountains and the winner’s stage (front row, no less), plus rotating menus from a lineup of chefs. If your favorite part of race day is everything that happens before the lights go out, the Heineken Silver Main Grandstand faces the pit lane and the team garages, which means a clear view of the start-finish line and of whoever’s famous enough to be on the grid before the race (half the fun, if we’re honest). On Saturday, November 21, the pre-race show gets a serious upgrade: Steve Aoki and MORTEN take over the grid, and Jordin Sparks sings the national anthem. Arrive early, is what I’m saying.

In the Paddock Club, Wynn Grid Club has private terraces overlooking Turns 1 and 2, while Trackside Tavern takes the rooftop sports bar to its logical Vegas extreme, with 360-degree views. For a closer look at the cars getting back on the throttle, Turn 3 Club has an outdoor terrace where you can watch them come out of Turn 2 and floor it down the Koval Straightaway. The Lewis Hamilton Grandstand, meanwhile, puts you on the Harmon Straight as the cars charge toward the final turn. Single-day hospitality options have expanded this year, which comes in handy if you’ve already committed Thursday night to dinner. (And you might want to.)

Prefer your race with a menu? Giada De Laurentiis’s open-air GIADA, at The Vanderpump Hotel, overlooks the main straight with all-inclusive food and drink, Caramella at Planet Hollywood channels the ’70s Italian Riviera from its terrace, and Club Paris spreads an all-inclusive center-Strip party across three venues at Paris Las Vegas. For the full insider treatment, F1 Experiences’ official packages add guided track tours and pit lane walks.

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Where to Eat and Drink

Thursday belongs to Bellagio. On November 19, Tokyo’s Yoroniku, the yakiniku spot Japanese food obsessives speak about in hushed tones, takes over Yellowtail for a single night. Michael Mina is pouring Silver Oak, Williams Selyem and Quintessa all three nights, and afterward, I’d slip into The Vault, where New York’s Superbueno is in residence November 19 to 21 with agave cocktails and late-night bites. If Champagne is more your speed, Terrazza di Sogno becomes a Moët & Chandon and Dom Pérignon lounge overlooking the fountains on those same three nights.

Then there’s the Shoey Bar. Back at Bellagio (Eva Longoria, Jeremy Renner and Mark Wahlberg have all paid it a visit), it serves drinks out of limited-edition Sparco racing shoes, plus “The Lid,” a punchbowl cocktail presented in a racing helmet, and “The Kit,” a caviar service in the same. Vegas has never met a serving vessel it couldn’t make more absurd. Not to be outdone, Fontainebleau is debuting its own Shoey Bar at Solo Lounge, with just 300 collector’s edition shoes up for grabs.

Caesars Palace has a Thursday pairing worth rearranging lunch for. From 1 to 3 p.m. on November 19, James Beard Award winner Rick Bayless and Barcelona’s SIPS, one of the world’s great cocktail bars, will dig into the ties between Spanish and Mexican cooking over cocktails and food pairings. Elsewhere at Caesars, Gordon Ramsay will drop by a four-course dinner at Hell’s Kitchen to talk food and racing, and Guy Savoy will be in the kitchen at his namesake Michelin-starred restaurant as it marks its 20th anniversary (every guest goes home with a signed memento).

Photo Credit: Brand Barre

Photo Credit: Brandon Barre

On Friday, November 20, TENSHOU makes its debut at BLVD Las Vegas: six counter-only restaurants, from sushi omakase and tempura to yakitori, wood-fired kaiseki and fine Chinese cuisine, plus Tokyo’s Bar Centifolia. With just six to eight seats per service, reservations on Tock will be the weekend’s hottest ticket that doesn’t involve a grandstand. That same night at The Cosmopolitan, private chef and Eat (Like) the Rich author Olivia Tiedemann takes over Scarpetta, and Momofuku runs Lights Out, a race-week steakhouse menu with king crab Louie, Australian Wagyu and a roaming caviar cart, all three nights. In case the helmet was booked.

Friday is also the day to find Martha Stewart at The Bedford by Martha Stewart at Paris Las Vegas, where she’ll host a 1 p.m. cocktail reception with caviar, Champagne and a cocktail demonstration of her own. Up on the 66th floor of Resorts World, New York’s Double Chicken Please takes over Allē Lounge on 66 that night from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., which is about as good as a hotel bar gets.

For those who need a soft landing before race time, Fontainebleau pours complimentary Moët & Chandon Impérial with caviar at Collins from 4 to 5 p.m. daily for hotel guests, and its new Cantina Contramar opens early for seafood before the lights go out. Saturday’s best brunch? Chef Ray Garcia’s at ¡VIVA! at Resorts World, with barbacoa melts, tres leches French toast and bottomless margaritas.

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Where to Go After the Checkered Flag

Saturday, November 21, is the main event, and not only on the track. The Backstreet Boys headline the official F1 Afterparty at Sphere (tickets are sold separately from the race, so non-racegoers can join in). Across the Strip, JAY-Z hosts Race Night at OMNIA Dayclub & Skybar at Caesars Palace, while Tiësto plays OMNIA Nightclub. Calvin Harris takes over the newly reimagined XS at Wynn, Dom Dolla plays LIV, Fisher is at Marquee, Steve Aoki (fresh from DJing on the grid) is at Hakkasan and Lil Wayne is at Zouk. May your dinner reservation be early and your friends decisive.

If you’re pacing yourself (I admire you), the rest of the week is just as stacked. Thursday has Hugel at XS, Alesso at OMNIA and Ja Rule on the T-Mobile Stage at Sphere. Friday brings The Chainsmokers to XS, Martin Garrix to OMNIA, Chris Lake to Marquee, Meduza to Zouk and Disclosure and Gorgon City to the T-Mobile Stage, followed by Sean Paul and Natasha Bedingfield on Saturday. Marc Anthony plays Fontainebleau’s BleauLive Theater both nights, and Fontainebleau’s members-only Poodle Room hosts its invitation-only VROOM ROOM party on Friday, if you’re lucky enough to be on the list.

Downtown, the free Neon City Festival runs November 20 to 22 with Diplo, Kaskade, Subtronics and The Fray among the acts. And for anyone who still has a Sunday night in them, RÜFÜS DU SOL closes out the weekend at XS with a DJ set.

What I’d Make Time For Between Sessions

F1 Academy, the all-female series, returns to the Strip for its season finale, complete with a Hello Kitty Café Pit Stop and a limited-edition merch collection. (I fully intend to come home with something pink.) On Friday, the series joins The Female Quotient at Delilah for a gathering focused on women in motorsport. At Wynn and Encore, Ultimate Race Week brings a McLaren takeover, a timed tire-change challenge at the Wynn Racing Motor’s Lounge, a pop-up from Lewis Hamilton’s +44 label at Encore Esplanade and, for the morning after, race-week IV treatments at Cleanmarket. It all kicks off Wednesday, November 18, with THE GRID: Pro-Am, an invite-only celebrity golf tournament at Wynn Golf Club.

On Saturday at 12:30 p.m., former Haas team principal Guenther Steiner sits down at Ghostbar at the Palms, 55 floors above the Strip, and it’s free. Shoppers should head to the F1 Hub at The Venetian, two floors of collaborations with BAPE, LEGO, Disney and more. And if you want to feel the speed yourself, SPEED VEGAS will put you behind the wheel of a McLaren, Ferrari, Aston Martin or Mercedes-AMG race car, and F1 Arcade at The Forum Shops has 87 full-motion simulators. Prefer to see the whole circuit at once? Maverick Helicopters’ Vegas Victory Lap will fly you over it.

For a different kind of pit stop, SkinCeuticals, which is celebrating its partnership with Scuderia Ferrari, is taking over Erin Jensen Spa for race week with a menu of “Pit Stop” facials designed to get your skin race-ready, from lifting and sculpting to a full revitalizing reset. (Late nights at XS are, after all, a contact sport.) Treatments run Tuesday, November 17; Wednesday, November 18; and Friday, November 20, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday, November 21, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Everyone who books leaves with a gift bag of the brand’s cult favorites, including C E Ferulic and P-TIOX. Consider it maintenance for the most glamorous engine in the room: you.

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Where to Stay

If you’d rather not think too hard, Caesars Entertainment will bundle your race tickets with a room at any of its eight Las Vegas resorts, and The Venetian’s packages come with three-day passes to the grandstands at Sphere. Fontainebleau has up to 35 percent off race-weekend stays for Rewards members, and Virgin Hotels Las Vegas will knock 25 percent off your room and throw in $150 to spend on food and drinks (use code F12026). Whichever you choose, book now. Las Vegas on race weekend is not the place to improvise. Personally, I’m going for the Fleur de Lis suites at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, every time.

Getting Around

Finally, one unglamorous detail that may save the most glamorous night of your weekend: the Las Vegas Monorail runs around the clock from 7 a.m. Tuesday, November 17, through Monday, November 23. Remember that when you’re tempted to book dinner, the race and the afterparty at three different addresses. Cirque du Soleil is moving its shows earlier, too. On F1 weekend, crossing the Strip is practically a competitive sport of its own.

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