EDC Week 2026 — MGM Grand — May 14–17
Palm Tree Beach Club EDC Week 2026
Above & Beyond, Zedd, Alesso, and Chris Lake across four consecutive days. MGM Grand's 60,000 sq ft saltwater pool — the largest standalone dayclub footprint on the Strip. Complete guest list, tickets, cabana, and logistics guide.
Confirmed EDC Week Lineup
Four Days, Four Headliners
Thu May 14
Pre-EDC Thursday
Above & Beyond
Progressive Trance / Melodic Electronic
Group Therapy, Anjunabeats, Sun & Moon, We're All We Need
Ticketed — advance purchase recommended. Best guest list availability of the four EDC Week days.
Fri May 15
EDC Day 1
Zedd
Progressive House / EDM Pop Crossover
Clarity (Grammy), Stay the Night, The Middle, Beautiful Now
Ticketed — highest mainstream demand of the four days. Buy in advance.
Sat May 16
EDC Day 2
Alesso
Progressive House / Swedish EDM
Heroes, Scars, Years — multi-year Las Vegas residency since early 2010s
Highest-demand day (Saturday EDC). Tickets sell out. Advance purchase essential.
Sun May 17
EDC Day 3 / Closing Day
Chris Lake
Tech House / Bass House
Black Book Records, Anti Up (w/ Chris Lorenzo), Operator, I Remeber
Second-highest demand day. Advance purchase strongly recommended.
Palm Tree Beach Club and the EDC Week Pool Party Landscape
Palm Tree Beach Club's EDC Week 2026 lineup is, objectively, one of the strongest four-day pool party booking sequences of the festival week. Above and Beyond on Thursday serves the pre-festival trance audience. Zedd on Friday opens EDC Weekend with a mainstream crossover booking. Alesso on Saturday — the highest-demand day of the week — matches the peak-energy requirements of the largest dayclub attendance day. Chris Lake closes Sunday with the genre that is currently driving the entire Las Vegas tech house booking market. The lineup is genre-diverse in a way that serves the full spectrum of electronic music fans attending EDC Week, not just one sub-genre audience.
The venue context amplifies the lineup quality. Palm Tree Beach Club at MGM Grand covers nearly 60,000 square feet — among the largest pool party footprints on the Strip — with a saltwater main pool, 12 bungalow units, 10 standard cabanas, and a sunken DJ booth providing 360-degree sightlines from every position on the deck. The venue was co-created by Kygo and his Palm Tree Crew lifestyle brand, which means the booking philosophy and design aesthetic share a coherent creative identity rather than the operator-assembled character of venues built purely on hospitality calculations. The MGM Grand campus location makes Palm Tree the most walkable major dayclub for guests staying at MGM Grand, Park MGM, New York-New York, Aria, or T-Mobile Arena area hotels.
For EDC Week planning purposes, Palm Tree Beach Club positions itself as the premium mid-Strip pool alternative to the Wynn campus (Encore Beach Club) and the new Caesars Palace opening (OMNIA Dayclub). The three venues compete for overlapping audiences across the same four-day window, offering different strengths: EBC offers the highest production standard and Wynn service quality; OMNIA Dayclub offers the newest venue and the integrated nightclub bridge; Palm Tree offers the saltwater pool, the Kygo aesthetic, the largest raw capacity, and the four-artist EDC Week lineup diversity that no single competing venue matches day-for-day.
Lineup Day-by-Day: What to Expect
Above & Beyond
Progressive Trance / Melodic Electronic — Opens 11:00 AM
Above and Beyond — Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, and Paavo Siljamäki — represent a strain of electronic music that no other act on the Palm Tree EDC Week lineup touches. While Zedd, Alesso, and Chris Lake all operate in the peak-hour progressive and tech house framework designed for large festival audiences, Above and Beyond built their career on a melodic, emotionally elevated trance sound that prioritizes listener connection over dancefloor utility. Their Group Therapy radio program, which broadcasts weekly to millions of listeners globally, is the longest-running dedicated trance and progressive electronic platform in modern radio. Their Anjunabeats label roster — Lane 8, 7 Skies, Marsh, Yotto — represents a specific branch of the electronic music tree that is as far removed from festival EDM as it is from the commercial mainstream. A pool party set from Above and Beyond at Palm Tree on Thursday is not the same experience as the headliner sets that follow on Friday through Sunday. The emotional arc of their performance — building through instrumental progressions, arriving at vocal anthems the audience knows line by line, holding space for the quiet moments before the drop — creates an atmosphere of communal listening that most dayclub performances are not designed for. Their fans travel specifically for Above and Beyond performances, which means the Thursday crowd at Palm Tree will include a high concentration of Anjunabeats devotees who have attended Group Therapy live events globally and know the catalog deeply. The atmosphere is warmer and more engaged than a typical festival-crowd dayclub booking.
Tickets
Ticketed — advance purchase recommended. Best guest list availability of the four EDC Week days.
Guest List
Guest list likely active for early arrival. Women free on advance list, men at reduced admission.
Zedd
Progressive House / EDM Pop Crossover — Opens 11:00 AM
Anton Zaslavski's career as Zedd began as a trance producer before pivoting toward the commercialized progressive house sound that defined his early 2010s breakthrough. Clarity featuring Foxes won the 2014 Grammy for Best Dance Recording and remains one of the most-streamed electronic crossover tracks of the decade. His subsequent releases — Stay the Night, Beautiful Now with Jon Bellion, The Middle with Maren Morris and Grey — maintained consistent chart presence across mainstream pop and electronic playlists simultaneously, making him one of the few electronic producers whose name recognition extends into audiences that do not otherwise follow club music. By 2026, Zedd's live performance style has evolved toward a hybrid of pop EDM anthems and harder-edged club tracks that cater to the multi-demographic audience his career attracts. At Palm Tree Beach Club on Friday May 15, his set occupies the most commercially accessible booking of the week — not a criticism, but a description of what the crowd experiences. Groups attending who are not primary EDC festivalgoers will find Zedd's recognizable catalog creates an accessible entry point into the EDC Week pool party environment that a more genre-specialist artist might not provide as easily.
Tickets
Ticketed — highest mainstream demand of the four days. Buy in advance.
Guest List
Guest list may be limited. Register early and arrive before noon cutoff.
Alesso
Progressive House / Swedish EDM — Opens 11:00 AM
Alessandro Lindblad has a Las Vegas presence longer and more consistent than most of his European contemporary producers. His residency history at XS Nightclub, Encore Beach Club, and OMNIA Nightclub represents roughly a decade of regular Strip appearances — he is not a touring artist who shows up for EDC Week and leaves, but a performer whose relationship with Las Vegas nightlife audiences extends across multiple venue generations. His progressive house sound — melodic lead lines over driving four-on-the-floor structures, anthem-buildups designed for peak-attendance moments, records made for large rooms — is calibrated for exactly the environment Palm Tree Beach Club creates on a Saturday afternoon at capacity. Alesso's recognizable catalog (Heroes, Scars, Years, Take My Breath) contains the kind of anthemic moments that resonate across a 3,000-person pool deck simultaneously. Saturday May 16 is the highest-attendance day of the four-day run — EDC Day 2, with all festival programming operating and maximum visitor volume on the Strip. The Palm Tree capacity will be tested on Saturday, and Alesso's booking is the headliner that matches the scale of the demand. Arrive at 11:00 AM to secure positioning; expect the venue to approach sold-out capacity by early afternoon.
Tickets
Highest-demand day (Saturday EDC). Tickets sell out. Advance purchase essential.
Guest List
Guest list limited on Saturday. Register and have backup ticket purchase ready.
Chris Lake
Tech House / Bass House — Opens 11:00 AM
Chris Lake's position in the 2026 Las Vegas dayclub circuit is unusually prominent even by the standards of artists with multi-year Strip residency histories. The Edinburgh producer, who runs the Black Book Records label and the Anti Up project with Chris Lorenzo, has built residencies at three separate major dayclubs for the 2026 season — Encore Beach Club, OMNIA Dayclub, and Palm Tree Beach Club — reflecting demand from multiple operators competing for his scheduling windows simultaneously. His tech house sound, characterized by percussive grooves, filtered vocal samples, and sub-bass architecture that rewards a large speaker system, is the genre that currently drives the Las Vegas dayclub booking hierarchy. Encore Beach Club, Marquee Dayclub, and now OMNIA Dayclub are all investing heavily in tech house bookings because the sub-genre's crossover from underground electronic into mainstream festival consciousness over 2023-2026 has created a mass audience for a style that was previously a specialist interest. At Palm Tree Beach Club on Sunday May 17, Chris Lake closes out EDC Weekend with a set that serves as both festival comedown and standalone event — the final major dayclub booking before most EDC attendees check out Sunday evening. His Sunday performance is a natural fit for the Palm Tree environment: the Kygo-curated design aesthetic, the saltwater pool, the tropical-minimalist visual identity of the venue are all aligned with the warm but energetic arc of tech house that Chris Lake's 2026 catalog represents.
Tickets
Second-highest demand day. Advance purchase strongly recommended.
Guest List
Guest list access possible — closing Sunday often has slightly better availability than Saturday.
Guest List and No Cover Entry at Palm Tree Beach Club
Palm Tree Beach Club's guest list process follows the Las Vegas dayclub standard with adjustments for EDC Week demand. Register in advance using the form at the bottom of this page. Include your preferred date, group size, and whether your group is mixed or female-primary — this determines which pricing tier applies at the door. Arrive before noon, which is the universal guest list cutoff at Las Vegas dayclubs; arriving at 12:30 PM on a sold-out Saturday during EDC Weekend is a guest list non-starter.
The hierarchy by demand level, from most to least accessible for guest list: Thursday Above and Beyond (pre-EDC, lower overall demand, best guest list window of the four days); Sunday Chris Lake (closing day, slightly more accessible than Saturday); Friday Zedd (first EDC festival day, elevated demand, limited guest list availability); Saturday Alesso (highest demand, guest list availability is least guaranteed and backup tickets are essential).
Dress code at Palm Tree Beach Club is resort-casual and consistent with the venue's tropical aesthetic identity. Swimwear is standard at the pool. Cover-ups, sandals, and casual summer attire are acceptable at the bars and cabana areas. The Palm Tree aesthetic skews slightly more refined than sports-casual venues — the Kygo Palm Tree Crew design sensibility aligns with a clean resort look rather than the festival-kit aesthetic that some EDC Week attendees arrive in after crossing from the Speedway. Upscale festival-adjacent attire — casual summer dresses, resort shirts, clean shorts — is entirely appropriate. Standard Las Vegas dayclub restrictions apply: no athletic shoes, no work boots, no heavily worn or torn clothing.
For groups attending Palm Tree for the first time during EDC Week: the venue's size (3,000 capacity at 60,000 square feet) means the crowd density is lower than smaller venues at comparable attendance. You can move between the main pool, the bar areas, and the cabana sections without navigating through tight crowds. This is a real quality-of-experience advantage on Saturday and Sunday when other smaller- footprint dayclubs feel uncomfortably packed at capacity. Arrive early, establish your position, and use the size of the venue rather than fighting the early-afternoon peak-density bottleneck that smaller dayclubs create.
Cabana and VIP Strategy for EDC Week at Palm Tree
Palm Tree Beach Club offers 10 standard cabana units and 12 premium bungalow structures distributed across the 60,000 square foot pool deck. The bungalows at Palm Tree are the equivalent of premium table positions at a nightclub: larger footprint, better sight lines to the DJ booth, higher service priority, and higher minimum spending requirements. Standard cabanas serve groups of four to ten. Bungalows serve larger groups or groups prioritizing the premium experience package.
Pricing during EDC Week is elevated above standard-season rates. Standard cabana minimums start around $1,500 to $2,000 on the lower-demand days — Thursday Above and Beyond or Sunday Chris Lake — and escalate toward $2,500 to $3,500 on Saturday Alesso, which is the highest-demand booking day. Bungalow minimums run $2,500 to $4,000 depending on unit and day, with opening-week-adjacent special event premiums potentially higher. These minimums include bottle service at standard Palm Tree rates: $400 to $600 per premium bottle of spirits, with no additional general admission requirement when the table reservation covers entry.
For groups of six to eight people planning a full EDC Week day at Palm Tree, the math often favors a shared standard cabana over individual ticket purchase plus per-drink spending — particularly on Thursday and Sunday when individual ticket prices are lower but the per-drink costs over an afternoon session add up quickly. Contact the Palm Tree booking team or use our guest list form to inquire about specific EDC Week cabana availability. Book as early as possible — EDC Week inventory at all major dayclubs fills weeks before the event dates.
Navigating Palm Tree's Scale: A 60,000 Square Foot Venue During EDC Week
Palm Tree Beach Club's size is one of its primary assets during high-demand events. At nearly 60,000 square feet — comparable to Encore Beach Club's footprint — the venue can absorb 3,000 guests without reaching the suffocating density that smaller Strip dayclubs experience at their capacities. The sunken DJ booth at the center of the design provides 360-degree sightlines from virtually every position on the deck. You do not need to be directly in front of the stage to have a full visual line to the performance — unlike raised-booth layouts where the crowd depth between you and the DJ is the primary quality variable.
Arrival strategy: aim for the 11:00 AM opening on all four EDC Week days. On Thursday and Sunday, arriving at 11:30 AM is still workable — demand ramps more slowly on the flanking days. On Friday and Saturday — the two highest-demand days — arriving at or shortly after 11:00 AM is the only reliable way to establish good positioning before the venue fills to capacity. Walk-up arrivals at 1:30 PM on Saturday during EDC Weekend should expect reduced access options regardless of guest list status.
The MGM Grand campus location means rideshare and walking access are both more straightforward than center-Strip venues during EDC Week. MGM Grand is at the intersection of the Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue interchange — one of the most accessible large-hotel properties for rideshare drop-off even during peak EDC traffic. The campus is walkable from Aria, New York-New York, Park MGM, and T-Mobile Arena. From the MGM Grand casino floor, the path to the Palm Tree pool complex runs through the casino and is well-signposted — approximately five to eight minutes on foot.
The MGM Grand has the largest single hotel room inventory of any Las Vegas property — staying on property eliminates rideshare entirely for all four EDC Week days at Palm Tree. The pool complex connects directly to the hotel via internal casino floor access, making same-day transitions from room to pool to EDC festival rideshare more logistically smooth than guests staying at off-campus hotels across the Strip.
Palm Tree Beach Club EDC Week 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is performing at Palm Tree Beach Club during EDC Week 2026?
Palm Tree Beach Club has a confirmed four-day EDC Week lineup with a different headliner each day. Thursday May 14 is Above and Beyond — the British trance trio whose Group Therapy radio show and festival performances have defined a generation of emotional progressive trance. Friday May 15 is Zedd — the Russian-German Grammy-winning producer behind Clarity, Stay the Night, and The Middle, with a catalog that spans EDM pop crossover and club-focused progressive house. Saturday May 16 is Alesso — the Swedish progressive house producer whose seven-year Las Vegas residency history includes extended runs at the Wynn venues and OMNIA, making him one of the most consistent headliner performers in city history. Sunday May 17 is Chris Lake — the British tech house artist behind Black Book Records whose residency circuit now spans Marquee Dayclub, Encore Beach Club, and the new OMNIA Dayclub opening in 2026. All four artists perform at 11:00 AM, with shows running through the afternoon. These are among the most in-demand performances of EDC Week at any dayclub on the Strip.
How do I get free entry to Palm Tree Beach Club during EDC Week?
Guest list access at Palm Tree Beach Club applies on standard days and on EDC Week days where the headliner event has not sold out ticketed capacity. The process: register in advance using the form at the bottom of this page, indicate your visit date and group size, and arrive before the noon guest list cutoff. Women can typically access Palm Tree at no cover on valid advance guest list on non-sell-out days. Mixed and male groups qualify for reduced general admission through guest list. On EDC Week headliner days — particularly Chris Lake on Sunday and Zedd on Friday, which are the highest-demand bookings — guest list may not be available, or may only apply for a limited early-arrival window. The safest strategy for all four EDC Week days is to register on guest list and buy a backup ticket; use whichever provides better access on arrival. For the EDC Week Saturday Alesso booking and Thursday Above and Beyond date, guest list tends to be more accessible than the Friday and Sunday slots.
What is Palm Tree Beach Club at MGM Grand?
Palm Tree Beach Club opened in May 2025 as MGM Grand's reimagining of Wet Republic Ultra Pool — one of the most historically significant dayclub spaces in Las Vegas, which operated for over a decade before closing after the 2024 season. The venue covers nearly 60,000 square feet on the MGM Grand campus and is co-created through a partnership between Tao Group Hospitality and Kygo's Palm Tree Crew lifestyle brand. The Kygo co-creation partnership is architecturally important: Norwegian artist Kygo did not simply book a residency or attach his name to a hotel venue — he co-developed the design aesthetic, the brand identity, and the booking philosophy through his Palm Tree Crew organization. The result is a venue with a coherent tropical-minimalist visual identity: pink and green pastels, lush plantings throughout the pool deck, and a refined aesthetic influenced by Palm Springs design sensibility rather than the arena-rock visual language of other EDM-centric dayclubs. The main pool uses saltwater filtration rather than conventional chlorine systems — one of only a few Las Vegas dayclubs offering saltwater chemistry, which leaves skin and eyes noticeably less irritated after an extended afternoon session. The venue seats approximately 3,000 guests, with 12 bungalow units and 10 standard cabanas.
Is Above and Beyond the right choice for Thursday of EDC Week?
Above and Beyond on Thursday May 14 is the right choice for listeners whose musical priorities center on melodic, emotional trance and progressive house — the Group Therapy sound — rather than the hard-driving electronic styles that dominate Saturday and Sunday of EDC Week. The trio of Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, and Paavo Siljamäki built one of electronic music's most devoted global fanbases through their Anjunabeats label, their Group Therapy radio program and live events, and a touring history that spans both festival main stages and intimate club settings. A pool party set from Above and Beyond is a genuinely different experience from a Zedd or Chris Lake set on the same stage later in the week — the emotional arc of their music, the crowd sing-alongs on anthemic tracks, and the listener devotion in the audience creates a communal atmosphere that is qualitatively distinct from the peak-hour peak-energy format of most dayclub headliner bookings. Thursday also carries the logistical advantage of lower overall demand compared to Friday through Sunday of EDC Weekend — guest list is more accessible, rideshare wait times are shorter, and the venue atmosphere at 3,000 capacity is noticeable but not festival-overload. For EDC Week visitors arriving Thursday for the pre-festival day, an Above and Beyond afternoon at Palm Tree is one of the strongest pre-festival programming options available.
What makes Zedd's Friday booking different from the rest of the lineup?
Zedd's position in the EDC Week lineup represents the most mainstream-crossover booking of the four days. Anton Zaslavski — performing as Zedd — won a Grammy for Best Dance Recording in 2014 for Clarity featuring Foxes, and has maintained commercial chart presence across a decade of releases that include Stay the Night, Beautiful Now, The Middle, and a catalog of festival-engineered anthems that reach audiences well beyond the electronic music specialist demographic. At Palm Tree Beach Club on Friday May 15, Zedd's set draws three distinct audience types simultaneously: core electronic music fans attending as part of their EDC Week itinerary, casual mainstream fans who know his radio catalog and treat it as accessible entry-level EDM, and groups visiting Las Vegas that weekend who want premium entertainment without committing to the festival itself. The result is a broader crowd demographic than the other three days — less genre-specialist than Above and Beyond Thursday or Chris Lake Sunday, less loyal-long-term-fan than Alesso Saturday. This is not a negative: it means Zedd Friday at Palm Tree is the most accessible booking of the week for groups with mixed musical backgrounds, making it the natural choice for groups where not everyone is an EDC-going electronic music devotee.
What is Alesso's history in Las Vegas and what can I expect from his Saturday set?
Alessandro Lindblad, performing as Alesso, has a Las Vegas residency history stretching back to the early 2010s — one of the longest continuous Strip presences of any European electronic producer in the same tier as Tiësto or Avicii. His residency runs have included multi-year stints at XS Nightclub, Encore Beach Club, and OMNIA Nightclub, building a Las Vegas audience relationship that is more loyal and longstanding than most artists who rotate in and out of Strip venue bookings on one-season deals. For EDC Week 2026 at Palm Tree Beach Club on Saturday May 16, Alesso plays the highest-demand day of the four-day run — Saturday is always the peak-attendance dayclub date during EDC Weekend, when all three nights of the festival overlap with maximum visitor volume on the Strip. His Saturday set is the most competitive access day. Buy tickets in advance rather than relying solely on guest list availability. Arrive at or shortly after the 11:00 AM open. Alesso's set at a pool venue is peak-hour progressive house with melodic lead hooks designed for large audiences — the broad appeal of his catalog means the crowd at Palm Tree on Saturday will be at or near capacity regardless of weather, and positioning is the primary constraint on experience quality.
How does Chris Lake's Sunday set at Palm Tree compare to his OMNIA Dayclub and Encore Beach Club appearances?
Chris Lake in 2026 has his highest-volume Las Vegas residency schedule of his career. He holds active residencies at multiple Strip venues simultaneously — Encore Beach Club, the new OMNIA Dayclub, and Palm Tree Beach Club are all confirmed booking partners for the 2026 season. On EDC Week Sunday May 17 at Palm Tree, his set closes out the four-day run and serves as the final major dayclub booking of EDC Weekend before the festival ends Sunday night at the Speedway. The practical comparison between venues: Encore Beach Club is the prestige booking — the Wynn property standard, 60,000 sq ft, the premium-tier production environment. OMNIA Dayclub is the newest venue, opening May 15 with a Tao Group infrastructure, the direct bridge to OMNIA Nightclub, and the highest-profile launch of 2026. Palm Tree is the most physically accessible — MGM Grand campus, walkable from a large hotel cluster, the Kygo-curated aesthetic, and the saltwater pool. Chris Lake's sound is consistent regardless of venue: tech house and bass house built on his Black Book Records catalog, the Anti Up project with Chris Lorenzo, and a 2026 tour circuit that is driving the tech house genre's mainstream breakthrough. For a group staying at MGM Grand or nearby, Palm Tree on Sunday is the most logistically efficient way to see Chris Lake during EDC Week without a rideshare.
What are the cabana and VIP pricing options at Palm Tree Beach Club during EDC Week?
Palm Tree Beach Club cabana pricing during EDC Week reflects premium demand across all four headliner days. Standard cabana units start at approximately $1,500 to $2,000 with bottle service minimum on non-headliner days. EDC Week headliner bookings push pricing toward the higher end of that range and above — Chris Lake Sunday and Zedd Friday are expected to be the two highest-demand days for cabana inventory. The 10 standard cabanas are supplemented by 12 bungalow units, which are the premium tier: larger footprint, priority service, enhanced positioning. Bungalow pricing starts at approximately $2,500 to $3,500 with a higher bottle service minimum during EDC Week. Advance booking is essential for any EDC Week cabana reservation at Palm Tree — wait lists develop weeks before the event dates, and walk-up availability on Saturday or Sunday is typically zero. Bottle service at Palm Tree runs at MGM Grand pricing standards: $400 to $600 per premium bottle, $18 to $28 per individual cocktail at the bars. For groups of six or more splitting a standard cabana with a shared bottle service minimum, the per-person cost of the full cabana experience on an EDC Week weekday — Thursday Above and Beyond — compares reasonably with individual ticket purchase at the weekend premium-pricing level.
Palm Tree Beach Club During EDC Week Overview
Palm Tree Beach Club at MGM Grand operates as one of the most programmatically intensive dayclubs during EDC Week precisely because its brand identity is built on the same electronic music ecosystem that EDC represents. The Palm Tree Crew, founded by Kygo, is a music collective and label that crosses between mainstream pop-electronic, progressive house, and festival-scale productions, making the partnership between the Palm Tree brand and EDC Week a natural alignment. During EDC Week 2026, which runs from May 13 through 19 with the main festival on May 15 through 17 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Palm Tree Beach Club runs daily headliner programming on a 60,000-square-foot saltwater pool complex. The venue's headliner bookings for EDC Week include Above and Beyond on May 14, Zedd on May 15, Alesso on May 16, Chris Lake on May 17, and continuing programming through the full week. Daytime pool parties during EDC Week serve a specific function in the festival schedule: they provide the post-festival recovery environment and the pre-festival social gathering that extends the EDC experience beyond the Speedway gates.
MGM Grand Location Advantages for EDC
MGM Grand's Strip-center location at Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue provides a geographic advantage for EDC Week guests that is easy to overlook when comparing it to EBC's Wynn location further north. The Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where EDC takes place, is accessible by the festival's dedicated shuttle service from multiple Strip pickup points, and MGM Grand is one of the busiest shuttle origins due to its size and Strip centrality. The return transit from the Speedway to MGM Grand after a long EDC night typically runs 30 to 60 minutes depending on shuttle demand and time of departure. MGM Grand's 24-hour casino floor, diverse food and beverage options including Shake Shack, and the connection to adjacent properties via elevated walkways give EDC attendees using it as a base more post-event options than smaller properties. The MGM Grand campus also includes Hakkasan Nightclub, allowing EDC Week guests to combine daytime Palm Tree Beach Club with evening Hakkasan programming without leaving the property.
DJ Programming During EDC Week
The Palm Tree Beach Club EDC Week lineup positions the venue as the premium daytime option for trance, melodic bass, and progressive house fans who attend the festival primarily for those genres. Above and Beyond on Wednesday May 14 captures the pre-festival build energy for ABGT fans who treat the legendary British trio as the emotional centerpiece of any electronic music event they headline. Zedd on Thursday May 15 is the mass-appeal option — a producer with simultaneous credibility in festival headlining and commercial production, drawing both dedicated followers and casual listeners. Alesso on Friday May 16 targets the progressive house crowd that aligns closely with Kygo's Palm Tree brand identity. Chris Lake on Saturday May 17 shifts the energy toward tech-house, the genre that has absorbed the most new listeners over the past three years and whose EDC Saturday headlining represents the festival's acknowledgment of that audience growth. The four-headliner arc across the four core EDC days gives Palm Tree Beach Club a coherent programming identity rather than a random booking schedule.
Pricing and Guest List Access
Palm Tree Beach Club EDC Week pricing follows a graduated structure across the four headliner days. Above and Beyond Wednesday runs $50 to $80 general admission with daybed minimums starting at $800 and cabana minimums at $2,500. Zedd Thursday is priced at $60 to $90 general admission with slightly higher table minimums at $1,000 daybed and $3,000 cabana. Alesso Friday and Chris Lake Saturday are peak pricing days at $70 to $100 general admission, $1,200 daybed minimums, and $3,500 cabana minimums. Guest list is available across all four EDC Week days with the standard Palm Tree Beach Club terms: women enter free on advance guest list with valid registration, men enter free with an even or better ratio. EDC Week guest list registration fills faster than any other Palm Tree programming window, which means registration submitted more than two weeks before the event has the highest probability of confirmation. Men's guest list availability on Chris Lake Saturday is the most constrained of the four days.
How Palm Tree Compares to EBC During EDC Week
Encore Beach Club and Palm Tree Beach Club are the two venues competing most directly for the EDC Week daytime audience in 2026, and the comparison is more evenly matched than at any other point in the calendar because Palm Tree's EDC Week programming directly targets EBC's primary audience. EBC runs its own high-profile EDC Week lineup with residents and one-off bookings across the same four days, and its 60,000-square-foot footprint and 5,000-person capacity exceed Palm Tree's stats. The primary advantage Palm Tree holds during EDC Week is the brand narrative alignment — a Kygo-founded venue built explicitly around electronic music culture programming EDC Week artists feels thematically coherent in a way that differentiates it from EBC's broader luxury position. EBC's advantage is the established track record and the Wynn premium environment. For guests whose EDC Week is centered on Above and Beyond or Alesso specifically, Palm Tree has those bookings. For guests whose first priority is the highest-production-quality pool environment regardless of headliner, EBC's 15-year refinement still represents the standard.
Combining Palm Tree with Hakkasan for the Full EDC Arc
The most efficient EDC Week itinerary for guests staying at MGM Grand builds around the on-campus combination of Palm Tree Beach Club for daytime and Hakkasan for evening programming. Palm Tree Beach Club closes at 6 PM on EDC Week days, and the transition from poolside to casino floor to hotel room for a two to three hour break before Hakkasan opens at 10:30 PM is a transit-free recovery window that guests at other properties cannot replicate. Hakkasan during EDC Week runs its own lineup separate from the Palm Tree programming, with TWINSICK on May 21 and the MDW hip-hop arc beginning May 22, but its baseline EDC Week programming provides a contrasting evening option from the electronic daytime set at Palm Tree. For EDC Week guests who attend the festival on the Speedway in the evening, the sequence of Palm Tree afternoon into shuttle to festival is the natural structure, with the Hakkasan option available on any evening not committed to the festival. The MGM Grand campus structure makes all three components — pool party, hotel, nightclub — a single walkable complex.
Crowd Profile at Palm Tree EDC Week
The EDC Week crowd at Palm Tree Beach Club is more coherent in its musical taste profile than any other weekly programming window, including holiday weekends. EDC Week self-selects for guests who planned their Las Vegas trip around the festival, which means the Palm Tree pool crowd skews toward people who know the artists on the lineup and attend specifically for them. The median Palm Tree EDC Week attendee is likely an above-average electronic music fan who traveled from outside Las Vegas, is staying at a Strip hotel for four to seven nights, attends one or two EDC nights at the Speedway, and uses dayclubs as the social daytime component of the trip rather than as the primary nightlife experience. This produces a more homogeneous and enthusiastic crowd than a typical Saturday when the guest mix includes bachelorette parties, birthday groups, hotel guests attending casually, and destination visitors with no specific interest in the headliner. The EDC Week energy at Palm Tree is specifically high because the crowd shares context that most weekend pool party crowds do not have.
Bottle Service and Cabana Options
Palm Tree Beach Club's table service structure during EDC Week scales from daybeds to premium cabanas with private pool access at the top tier. Standard daybeds during EDC Week hold four to six guests with $800 to $1,200 minimums depending on the headliner, cover service and storage but not direct pool access from the reserved furniture. Cabana sections run from $2,500 to $3,500 minimum on peak EDC Week days and include shade structures, dedicated server, enhanced sightlines to the main stage, and in most configurations direct step-down access to the pool or a plunge pool adjacent to the structure. The premium offering at Palm Tree Beach Club is the private cabana with integrated plunge pool, a configuration that OMNIA Dayclub also offers but that neither Marquee Dayclub nor Tao Beach can replicate. Bottle packages at Palm Tree EDC Week are priced at standard Las Vegas dayclub rates: approximately $300 to $500 per bottle for premium spirits, with full setup included in the minimum spend. Groups of six to eight splitting a $1,200 daybed minimum at $200 per person are in the most favorable cost structure for EDC Week table access.
Transition from EDC Festival at Motor Speedway to Palm Tree
The festival-to-dayclub schedule for EDC Week attendees who use Palm Tree as their daytime venue and the Speedway as their evening destination requires managing the directional reversal: festival grounds close in the early morning, guests return to MGM Grand, and Palm Tree opens around 11 AM giving approximately four to six hours of potential rest before the pool party begins. The shuttle from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway back to the Strip typically runs until 6 AM or so on festival nights, arriving at MGM Grand shuttle drop-off by 5 to 6 AM for most festival attendees. A successful Palm Tree EDC Week day follows a structure of festival return by 5 to 6 AM, hotel room until 10 AM, prep and palm tree arrival by 11 AM for pool opening, afternoon at Palm Tree until 5 PM, break before the next evening's festival shuttle if attending a second night. Guests who attempt Palm Tree the morning after attending all three festival nights without a recovery day often find the afternoon pool environment too demanding on less than four hours of sleep.
MGM Grand Hotel Context for EDC Week
MGM Grand's scale during EDC Week is both its biggest advantage and its most operationally complex characteristic. As one of the highest-capacity properties on the Strip, MGM Grand has greater room inventory available during EDC Week than boutique luxury properties that sell out entirely months in advance. The tradeoff is that MGM Grand's scale means common areas including the casino floor, restaurants, pools, and elevators are operating at or near capacity across the full EDC Week period. The hotel's relationship to the EDC shuttle system is well-established: the shuttle pickup at MGM Grand is among the most reliable on the Strip with frequent departures during peak departure windows. MGM Grand's pricing during EDC Week is premium but generally below the Wynn, Cosmopolitan, and Aria equivalents for comparable room tiers, making it one of the more accessible major Strip properties for a six-to-seven night EDC Week stay. Guests committed to a Palm Tree Beach Club plus Hakkasan EDC Week itinerary will find MGM Grand the most logistically coherent base on the Strip for that combination.
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Register for guest list access for Above & Beyond, Zedd, Alesso, and Chris Lake during EDC Week 2026. Women free on valid advance guest list. Mixed and male groups at reduced cover on qualifying days.