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The Strip ne'er fails to bring retired abrogation envy successful me. The tourists revel successful their earthy habitat, splaying retired by the pools, sipping day cocktails and relishing the past vestiges of the prima arsenic daylight fades to evening. This place, successful galore ways, belongs to them.
But for locals similar me, an off-Strip oasis acquisition often feels retired of reach. That’s wherever Bel-Aire Backyard comes in.
It’s astir noon connected a Saturday erstwhile I tiptoe into Durango’s caller poolside wonder, a sister conception to Clique Hospitality’s intimate Bel-Aire Lounge specified feet away. Mild melodies of location and techno clasp maine similar the lukewarm sun, and I’m swept distant by what genuinely feels similar a portion of backstage paradise successful the southwest Valley.
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Bel-Aire Backyard feels similar it’s ripped consecutive from Palm Springs question guides, with its mature palms crowning a sprawling platform and a assemblage of crystalline h2o springing distant from the center. Women lounge poolside connected their lily pads, making waves with their toes; couples canoodle successful daybeds oregon by the bars; there’s adjacent immoderate person groups successful the h2o enjoying a midday aquatics and lazing retired by the lawn.
“This is wherever the locals play,” says Mustafa Abdi, elder manager of nightlife selling for Clique Hospitality. “It’s not Wet Republic, it’s not Encore Beach Club. But it’s thing sexier and much big than Red Rock and GVR.”
Clique besides operates Daylight Beachclub astatine Mandalay Bay, but Abdi views that and Bel-Aire Backyard arsenic “two antithetic beasts.” Whereas Daylight relies connected tourists and DJs anchoring summons sales, Bel-Aire Backyard casually fills a niche for the neighborhood.
“The purpose was to springiness everybody who lives successful this country a sensation of what we springiness them connected the Strip,” adds Hassib Wahab, manager of selling astatine Clique Hospitality. “The Strip, arsenic everyone knows, is 1 of the apical destinations successful the full world. But erstwhile you determination distant from the Strip a small bit, you’re not getting arsenic highly elevated of an experience. Now it’s changing.”
Because it is simply a edifice pool, locals inactive wage a cover, but Bel-Aire’s 21-and-up sunset aquatics enactment Recess Fridays admits locals for free. Roughly 48 daybeds and 10 cabanas flank the excavation and tin beryllium rented for a discounted terms compared to the Strip.
I personally recovered plentifulness of unfastened array seating, and the 2 bars are premier people-watching spots. If each that holiday-ing has you hungry, Bel-Aire Backyard Grill besides features an extended paper from Bel-Aire Lounge, with sushi, grilled food tacos, lobster rolls and much to screen your cravings.
For a local, Bel-Aire Backyard serves arsenic a invited escape. “When you’re successful here, it astir doesn’t consciousness similar you’re successful Las Vegas,” Wahab said,
and sometimes, that’s precisely what we’re looking for.
BEL-AIRE BACKYARD Durango, 702-567-7893, belairebackyardlv.com. Daily, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.; Recess Fridays, 4-10 p.m.
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