Last event attended: Powershares Series Tennis - Chang v Courier, Agassi v McEnroe, & Agassi v Courier
Small arena with terrible acoustics and an even more terrible queuing system (for those intending on being barrier centre for a GA show), but the ushers are reasonably polite and you are much better off catching a show on tour here than at the MGM a couple of blocks away.
Ushers, or those supervising the ushers making the decisions, will permit you to move down to closer seats if the show has not sold particularly well. I would abstain from naming which events I have attended that have facilitated this but this type of policy is much appreciated and other venues would gain a lot from adopting the same practice (I am looking at you, Disneyland Angels of MLB). Ushers seem to be 300% nicer than those of the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
Events I have attended here:
- UFC® 64
- UFC® 67
- UFC® 74
- Cirque du Soleil® Michael Jackson Immortal Tour
- Glee/LXD
- Muse/Silversun Pickups
- New Kids on the Block/Back Street Boys/Midnight Red
You could do a lot worse if you are attending an arena-touring event than the Mandalay Bay Events Centre. Food is not good though, of course. Water fountains are easy to locate if you consume valley drinking water, which personally I do because there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. They regularly allow me to bring in a metal water bottle (which they don't even check to see if I have alcohol in) but will not permit drinks in glasses (they have plastic cups for you to transfer your drink before the metal detectors [which are really calibrated where they never beep]). - E