Top 10 Resorts on the Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is the ground zero of American entertainment and one of the most famous holiday and entertainment brands in the world. The desert Sin City in Nevada is the Disneyland for adults, with leisure and entertainment options including pools, parties, luxury dining, tons of quality entertainment, legendary casinos, and anything else you can think of for enjoyment.
So before you rush to book a flight to Las Vegas, want to get to know the desert Sin City a bit?
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Luxury Resorts on the Las Vegas Strip
The Venetian Las Vegas and The Palazzo at The Venetian Resort
The Venetian is one of the most impressive resorts on the Vegas Strip and the largest hotel in America. The five-star hotel is one of the most luxurious in the city, offering the most varied and expensive accommodations on the Strip. The hotel itself is a Vegas experience in the extreme. With nearly 8000 rooms, it boasts an immense amount of public space. At the hotel entrance stands Madame Tussauds Las Vegas, where you can pose with various American celebrities, including those linked to the city like Bugsy Siegel, and artists who made the city their home, such as Celine Dion.
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At the entrance gate of the hotel stands a replica of the Campanile Tower (the bell tower of the Duomo) at St. Mark's Square in Venice, and inside the resort, there's a huge mall with canals and gondolas mimicking the stunning Italian city. The Venetian's indoor mall is one of the leading attractions in Las Vegas and is full of visitors all day long. The northern wing of the Venetian is a separate hotel – The Palazzo at The Venetian Resort. The Palazzo is also a five-star luxury hotel and an integral part of the Venetian's North Italy experience.
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The Bellagio Hotel & Casino
The Bellagio is one of the most renowned hotel establishments in the world. Named after the luxurious resort town of Bellagio on Lake Como, it opened in 1998. The hotel was initiated by Connecticut hotel tycoon Steve Wynn, a key figure in the development of the Strip over the last twenty years. The hotel is one of the most luxurious in the city, rated five stars. It features nearly 4,000 rooms, including massive suites. The hotel has about 36 floors and the building rises to over one hundred and fifty meters. It is especially famous for the fountains in its front facing the Strip, and their hydraulic show, which has become a must-see attraction in the city.
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The Wynn Las Vegas
The luxurious and sparkling hotel of the hotel mogul Steve Wynn unofficially marks the end of the Las Vegas Strip from the north. The hotel opened with a massive investment in 2007 and has 2,700 rooms at different levels (from really good to unimaginable). It's one of the most beloved hotels on the Strip today. It stands on a huge area that includes a large golf course on its eastern side. The hotel is known for its amazing pool complex but mainly for the buffet that has become an attraction for visitors in the city. Wynn's buffet is considered one of the best and richest in the city, and there's an insane demand for tables in the grand dining hall.
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Caesars Palace Hotel
Caesars Palace is a massive resort with about 4,000 rooms, many of which have been renovated, although some are quite dated. It's a four-star hotel originally built with a clear Roman theme. To leverage the strong brand reputation, the resort opened the NOBU Hotel Las Vegas in its southern part, a luxury wing offering five-star deluxe service. The theme is expressed in many aspects of the hotel, including staff dressed as gladiators in the casino hall, interior design and architecture influenced by the Roman world, and more. The museum’s grand performance hall, The Colosseum, is an attraction in itself with a wide array of entertainment events.
In the northern part of the hotel is The Forum – The Forum Shops at Caesars, one of the most beloved open-air malls in Las Vegas. The Bellagio Fountains are another one of Vegas' most recognizable landmarks and a top tourist destination for anyone visiting the city.
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Famous Resorts on the Las Vegas Strip
MGM Grand
The massive retreat of the MGM is one of the largest in Las Vegas. It opened in 1993 and is located on the eastern part of the Strip, opposite the New York-New York Hotel. The complex includes several hotels offering different service levels (and prices). The Mansion is a four-star hotel, and the Skylofts is a luxury five-star hotel. The total number of rooms in the retreat is nearly 7,000, which made it the largest hotel complex in the world at the time and now the third largest in the world (and the second largest on the Strip, after The Venetian).
This is a huge complex that includes casino halls, a mall, many different types of restaurants, plenty of pools, spa facilities, and everything you need for an intense Vegas experience without ever leaving the Strip. Within the retreat, you'll find regular performances by the Parisian cabaret club Crazy Horse and Cirque du Soleil shows. The retreat also boasts a famous lion habitat, which has become something of an attraction.
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Paris Las Vegas
Opposite the Bellagio, on the east side of the Strip, lies the famous Paris Hotel. It opened in 1999 and is primarily known for the model of the Eiffel Tower at its front facing the Strip. The tower stands approximately 165 meters high, exactly half the height of the iconic tower in Paris. This 4-star hotel features around 3000 rooms of various types. The hotel's facade mimics Paris, complete with the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, and other well-known sites from the City of Lights. You can climb to the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower for a stunning view of the city.
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New York-New York Hotel & Casino
The Big Apple hotel in Las Vegas is located on the western side of the Strip, opposite the MGM Grand. It's one of the smaller giants of Vegas, with just over 2,000 rooms. The central space of the hotel feels like New York streets at dusk, filled with many restaurants and shops. Here, you'll also find the hotel's casino halls. Guest rooms are situated in a lineup of famous New York skyscrapers in scaled-down models, including the Chrysler Building and a model of the Statue of Liberty, which has become the hotel's hallmark. The hotel grounds also host a popular roller coaster. Right next to the hotel is the T-Mobile Arena, home ground of the professional hockey team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
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Mandalay Bay Beach
The Mandalay Beach marks the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip. The hotel is located opposite the airport runway, on a large plot. It's a big, golden hotel building surrounded by huge pool areas. Adjacent to the pools is the hotel's main attraction – the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay. This is a four-star hotel with 3,200 rooms of varying standards. The hotel opened in 1999 and is one of the most impressive in terms of appearance.
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Excalibur Hotel & Casino
The Excalibur is a large themed hotel situated between the New York-New York to the north and the Luxor to the south, on the west side of the Strip. The hotel's central theme is medieval England, and it's designed with a gothic castle as its entrance. Behind the castle, two wings form the shape of the letter ‘R' surrounding a large hall that houses the lobby, shops, restaurants, and of course, the casino. The hotel opened in 1990 and has about 4,000 hotel rooms of various levels. It offers a three-star level of service and is considered one of the most cost-effective options on the Strip when balancing experience against price.
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Luxor Hotel & Casino
The Luxor Hotel is built with an Egyptian pharaonic theme, and its iconic feature is its architectural design based on the Pyramid of Giza. The hotel is located across from the Las Vegas airport, on the western side of the Strip, adjacent to Excalibur to the south. The Luxor was constructed in 1993 and has nearly 4,500 rooms of various levels. The hotel offers four-star service and features a variety of attractions such as the laser beam shining from the top of the pyramid and the large statue of the Sphinx by the tall obelisk at the entrance gate. The hotel also has a spacious casino and excellent swimming pools.
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5 Tips from Guy for a Perfect Stay on the Las Vegas Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is ground zero for tourism and leisure. It's the most intense place in the world for gambling and a generic name for an escape with a taste of exciting nightlife. Gambling was the foundation for the city's development as a tourist destination, but the Strip's hotels and resorts have evolved immensely since the merry days of Bugsy Siegel and Sin City. Nowadays, the hotels offer rare vacation options with pools, spa facilities, covered malls inside casinos, and a vast array of entertainment choices. The Strip's hotels are the most liberated place in the world with options for drinking, dining, buffets, and anything you can think of to have fun at any time of the day.
With the establishment of the Flamingo in the 1950s by Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel, the city quickly overflowed from the mafia world to an empire of entertainment and enjoyment that catered to the customers' needs in the highest quality possible. Huge, dazzling, and famous resorts were built on the Strip, becoming top hotel brands that wildly satisfy the customers' desires. Today, Las Vegas is the realization of a fantasy world with massive casinos, quality entertainment, gigantic buffet restaurants, huge pools, parks, and an enormous variety of attractions and amusements.
- What is the Strip? – The Las Vegas Strip, or the southern part of the Las Vegas Boulevard, is the most tourist-friendly street in the world, located in an unofficial area known as Paradise, technically a township in the city of Las Vegas. The Strip essentially defines Vegas, stretching several kilometers west of McCarran Airport, with an unbelievable concentration of massive casino hotels, offering a vast array of attractions for entertainment and leisure, 24/7/365. The Las Vegas Strip is like a giant amusement park similar to Disney World, but for adults. You can find everything on the Strip – luxury hotels (and budget motels), lavish casinos, shopping malls, family attractions, large spa areas, entertainment venues, and more.
- How do you get to Las Vegas? – Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) is located right near the Strip. The airport, more commonly known by its former name McCarran, is situated east of the Strip, just a 5 to 10-minute drive from the center of the Strip, near the Bellagio and Caesars Palace. The main freeway in Las Vegas is the I-15, which connects Los Angeles with Salt Lake City. The driving time from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is nearly four hours. This route is bustling with heavy vehicle traffic due to the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area. Because of Las Vegas's relative proximity to Los Angeles, the city is almost officially considered part of the metropolis and the main entertainment spot for the city.
- When to visit Las Vegas? – You can head to Las Vegas any hour of the day and any day of the year. The desert city is deeply influenced by the weather, although visitors to the Strip hardly notice it. The Vegas Strip is like an autonomous indoor world where air conditioning maintains a constant temperature, humidity is always controlled (it’s dry in the desert), and sparkling neon lights replace sunlight. The weather in Las Vegas is desert-like, with scorching, dry summers and pleasant winters, and the city gets very little rain that hardly ever affects daily life. Except for perhaps a short period in winter when it's not really worth hitting the hotel’s luxurious pool because it's quite chilly (there are plenty of other ways to enjoy a day in swimwear, such as indoor pools, spa facilities, etc.). The rest of the year, pools are an awesome place to spend the afternoons, just after the breakfast buffet and before the siesta.
- Read online reviews before booking – The Las Vegas Strip is a giant of tourism and luxury hotels, and it's hard to go wrong, especially if you're staying at the well-known brands. If the prices at the Bellagio or Venetian are too steep when you're there, consider staying at less glamorous hotels on or near the Strip. Just make sure to read reviews on Booking or TripAdvisor, so you don't end up at a truly bad hotel.
- Get to know the hotel virtually – Today’s technology lets you visit a hotel from your computer at home. A short tour around the hotel on Google Street View lets you understand the nature of the hotel's environment and the hotel itself. In this virtual tour, you can see what surrounds the hotel and how close it is to the traveler terminal.
