Families & kids

Which Las Vegas hotel pools are best for kids, and which are adults-only?

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For kids, Mandalay Bay Beach is the standout, with a wave pool, a sand beach and a lazy river. Every dayclub is 21 and over, and so are a few quieter resort pools and the whole of Circa.

Best for kids

  • Mandalay Bay Beach: a 1.6-million-gallon wave pool (48-inch minimum for the waves), a real-sand beach and a quarter-mile lazy river, free for hotel guests.
  • Garden of the Gods at Caesars Palace: seven pools, with all-ages lagoons alongside the adults-only Fortuna, which has swim-up blackjack.
  • MGM Grand: a large pool complex with a lazy river.
  • Golden Nugget's Tank, Downtown: a slide that runs through a shark tank.

The south Strip cluster of Mandalay Bay, Luxor and Excalibur is where families end up for exactly this reason.

Adults only

  • Every dayclub: Encore Beach Club, TAO Beach, Marquee, Palm Tree Beach Club, AYU, LIV Beach, OMNIA Dayclub. Physical photo ID checked at the gate.
  • Quieter daybed pools: Aria's Liquid and Mandalay Bay's Moorea Beach Club.
  • Venus at Caesars Palace, which runs year-round.
  • Stadium Swim at Circa, Downtown: the whole resort is 21 and over, so no exceptions for a child on a lap.

Resorts sometimes turn their own pool adults-only for a ticketed event, so check the day's calendar at the towel desk.

Season and day passes

Most Strip pools open in March and wind down through October; the dayclubs ended their 2026 seasons between October 11 and 17. In winter the big resorts keep one heated pool on short hours, Stadium Swim and Venus run all year, and Mandalay Bay's wave pool takes a break while Moorea stays open. Hotel guests swim free; non-guest day passes run from about $16 (Venus) to $50 and up.

The two kinds of pool are explained in pools and dayclubs; the family rulebook is in Las Vegas with kids.

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