This was my fourth time spending Thanksgiving in Las Vegas on a solo trip—and after taking myself out to dinner, I decided to head to the Bellagio for the Christmas display in its Conservatory & Botanical Garden.
I'd never seen the Conservatory displays at night—and I thought it might be a little less crowded, since Vegas itself is pretty quiet on Thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, everybody had the same idea I did—which, of course they did, with Thanksgiving being the official start of the Christmas season.
And if there's any seasonal display at the Bellagio that you want to see at night, it's the one with twinkling lights on holiday trees...
...and gleaming, oversized ornaments.
Once again there's a 25-foot-tall, candy-coated gingerbread house (which you can also make a reservation to dine inside), but this year it's a train station...
...adjacent to a miniature train running along its track, with this year's theme being "All Aboard for Holiday Bells and Whistles."
The centerpiece is a locomotive, The Bellagio Express, puffing clouds of smoke made from baby's breath.
You can actually walk through the train...
...to a caboose where the carousel was last year.
Silver and gold bells and red and white crystal stars hang from the skylight ceiling, darkened by night...
...as Billy the Elf rides an enormous white rocking horse, a nod to Victorian era traditions.
A majestic Bellagio-branded nutcracker stands at attention...
...surrounded by spinning toy soldiers.
This is yet another masterpiece of Bellagio designer Ed Libby and a horticulture team, which employed a whopping 20,000 poinsettias and 41 fresh-cut Silvertip trees in the display. (The nutcracker alone required 7,500 preserved red and black roses.)
Amazingly, it took them only six days to change out the display from the prior theme into this nostalgic holiday wonderland.
This one runs through January 3, 2026—and then Lunar New Year will debut on January 10.
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