Las Vegas – a city that never sleeps, a place that promises immense opportunities for entertainment, a venue for escapism from the mundanity of everyday life, a dot in the world where even the most well-composed and well-behaved people could easily be convinced to awake the dormant bohemians in themselves.
The Las Vegas Strip and its multiple and diverse casino resorts are among the symbols of the casino and hospitality industries. These properties have been attracting visitors from all around the world for years now, helping Las Vegas retain its reputation of one of the world’s most popular gambling hubs.
Here are five of the Strip’s highest rated casino resorts and a little more information about the true artists and visionaries behind their establishment and why they have become what they are – favorite destinations for gambling and non-gambling entertainment.
Wynn Las Vegas
Wynn Resorts is one of the big names in the global gambling and hospitality industries with properties in Las Vegas and Macau, the world’s largest gambling hubs. And if the company is one of the brightest representatives in its field, its Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino resort (together with the adjacent Encore hotel tower) is one of the most stylish- and modern-looking properties to be gracing the Las Vegas landscape.
The resort has been welcoming visitors and guests from different corners of the world over the past twelve years since it was originally launched in the spring of 2005. Wynn Las Vegas occupies 215 acres of land in the heart of the popular gambling hub.
The 48-story crescent-shaped, bronze-tinted building, which absolutely deserves the privilege of being considred Wynn Resort’s most emblematic property, features over 2,716 hotel rooms of different size and different representations of comfort, a large casino floor with a number of gaming options, a golf course, designed by owner Steve Wynn himself with the help of prominent golf course architect Tom Fazio, convention space, as well as a number of food and beverage, retail, and entertainment facilities.
Architecture firm Marnell Corrao Associates had been appointed to produce the property’s unique design, and as it can be seen, it had done more than well. Here it is also interesting to note that Mr. Wynn himself had participated in the process, a fact that would probably not surprise casino fans and industry insiders due to the casino executive’s reputation of a true visionary.
Wynn Las Vegas is rated 4.5 on TripAdvisor and currently has more than 17,480 reviews, 75% of which have determined their experience at the property as excellent. A happy visitor has called the casino resort indescribably “beautiful and elegant.”
The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino
The Palazzo one of the jewels in Las Vegas Sands classy selection of properties in some of the world’s most popular gambling hubs. One of the largest operators of properties of this type, Las Vegas Sands was established by Sheldon Adelson, who just as Mr. Wynn can easily be called one of the visionaries of the global casino industry.
Architecture firm HKS, Inc. was the one behind the exquisite design of the luxury hotel and casino property. The Palazzo’s tower is known to be one of the tallest, if not the tallest, buildings in Las Vegas. The hotel portion of the resort features more than 3,000 all-suite rooms and more than 370 concierge-level suites.
The gaming part is represented by 105,000 square feet of space, which is occupied by different gaming options. The whole resort features different other entertainment, food and beverage, and shopping facilities, as well as meeting and conference space, just as it befits a property of this type. The Palazzo shares a common theme with its adjacent The Venetian Las Vegas – the richness and opulence of the Italian culture.
The Palazzo is rated 4.5 on TripAdvisor with 15,538 reviews from customers. A total of 72% of all visitors to have rated the hotel and casino resort have described it as an excellent one.
The Venetian Las Vegas
The magnificence of Venice has been reincarnated in this stylish, luxurious, and rich in accommodation, entertainment, and gambling options property. The Venetian and its neighboring The Palazzo represent a larger complex. Actually, one of the largest of this kind not only on the Las Vegas Strip, but also in the world. The Venetian opened doors in 1999.
Architecture firm KlingStubbins had made sure to reproduce Venice with its most well-known landmarks in the best possible manner. Inspired by the city of canals, gondolas, and of immense romantic appeal, The Venetian is a true piece of art.
The resort features more than 4,049 luxury hotel rooms, multiple attractions, with the Grand Canal Shoppes upscale shopping mall being the most remarkable one, 120,000-square-foot casino floor, and many more facilities to attract, please, and spoil visitors and guests.
The Venetian is rated 4.5 on TripAdvisor with 25,093 customer reviews, of which 67% viewed the property as an excellent one.
ARIA Resort & Casino
Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, ARIA pleases the eye with its modern looks and promises experience of the highest possible standard. The MGM Resorts International hotel and casino resort opened doors in 2009. It features more than 4,000 hotel rooms, a large pool area, multiple restaurants, nightclubs, bars, and a casino that offers 150,000 square feet of quality gaming space. Here it is interesting to note that ARIA has turned into one of the world’s most popular poker destinations with its regular high roller tournaments.
What makes ARIA different from its counterparts on the Strip is the successful and highly insightful incorporation of technology in all aspects of the resort’s design, hence its somewhat futuristic look.
ARIA has received 23,957 reviews on TripAdvisor. The property boasts a 4.5 rate and has been marked as ‘excellent’ by 66% of those who have reviewed it.
Caesars Palace
Originally opened in 1966, Caesars Palace has been one the Strip’s notables. Just as the Roman Empire its designers have derived inspiration from, the complex has sustained competition from different late-comers and has maintained its reputation of a widely popular and preferred place to visit for recreation, for entertainment, and for gambling purposes.
Caesars Palace’s 124,181-square-foot casino has always paid special attention to offering exquisite gambling experience to high roller players. This is why it has been offering different variants of table games such as blackjack, baccarat, craps, roulette, and Pai Gow, among others.
As any hotel and casino resort of this rank, the diversity of entertainment, food and beverage, and retail options and the luxuriousness of the accommodation options at Caesars Palace would take pages to be described. But the architecture of the resorts is what really distinguishes it from any other property of this kind. The successful and tasteful replication of some of the symbols of the Roman Empire, including The Colosseum, is only a minuscule portion of the uniqueness of this complex.
Caesars Palace rates 4.0 on TripAdvisor with 26,317 reviews, 53% of which assessing the resort as an ‘excellent’ one.
