Tailgate Beach Club

Tailgate Beach Club is what Daylight Beach Club turned into: in spring 2026, Clique Hospitality rebuilt Mandalay Bay's party pool around sports instead of DJs-as-religion, reopening it in May with Snoop Dogg on the decks. The bones are serious - five resort-style pools (three of them heated), more than 125 feet of LED screens, 22 cabanas, two bungalows, and capacity for 2,000 - now pointed at NFL Sundays, UFC cards, World Cup mornings, and March Madness afternoons.

The pricing model is the plot twist: general admission is free. You pay for where you sit - lounge chairs at $25 single and $50 double, cabanas by minimum spend - or for the all-you-can-drink package covering beer, house wine, and well cocktails until 6pm. The calendar follows sports rather than summer. The club runs from March Madness through Super Bowl Sunday, then typically goes dark from mid-February to mid-March. Off-season hours are Thursday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm. From September the football schedule takes over: Sunday 9am to 9pm, Monday and Thursday 11am to 9pm, Friday 11am to 6pm, Saturday 8:30am to 8pm, with hours pushed later for big games.

Set expectations by the name: DJs play, but the screens run the show, the volume is broadcast-first, and it's a 21-plus crowd yelling at football rather than a scenic swim. For a free-entry pool with this much production on a game day, nothing else on the Strip competes.