Two locations, one deep freeze
Minus5 keeps bars at two Strip resorts, and this page covers both because the films split between them. At Mandalay Bay you enter through the warm Daiquiri Bar front room — the happy-hour film suits up from there — and at The Venetian the visits arrive on scorching days (110 degrees under an excessive heat warning in one; well over 100 in another, September 2026). The pitch writes itself and the films know it: the coldest room in town as a heat escape, a winter bar inside a desert resort, everything — walls, seats, sculptures and the glasses — carved from ice.
How it works, and how cold it is
The ritual is constant across nine films: check-in, the loaner parka choice (options are offered — one walkthrough picks between them on camera), gloves on, and into the ice room for cocktails served in glasses made of ice. The practical tip of the page comes from the Venetian visit: use the coasters, because ice glasses slide on ice tables. On the name: the bar's own behind-the-scenes film (Mandalay Bay's, 2015, dated but definitive) states it — minus 5 means −5°C, which is 23°F — and that the room holds close to 90 tons of ice, everything except floor and ceiling made of it. A September 2026 pair of hosts guess the room runs nearer minus 20 than minus five; the official number is the one above, and their guess is preserved in the summary as the impression it is.
The visit, start to finish
A compact first-timer walkthrough runs entry to exit — check-in ritual, sculptures, ice benches, photo spots — and a family test (January 2026) asks the title question outright: is it really that cold? A food-tour finale (2021, dated) shows the group format: parkas, ice glasses, frozen seating, the novelty of a sub-freezing room steps from Strip heat. One Venetian host finishes his drink and smuggles the ice glass out as a souvenir — reported here, not recommended. Both locations keep rotating ice art, so the sculptures in any film are a season's, not a fixture list.
Sources: the nine videos on this page — Mandalay Bay and Venetian visits across 2015–2026, including the bar's official behind-the-scenes film, a food-tour finale, and a family cold-test — summarized from their entries in our catalog.
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