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ResortsWorld Las Vegas, which houses three separate hotels (The Hilton, Crockfords, and The Conrad which are apparently still Hilton properties so whatever), is the aforementioned resort that just opened earlier this year. It was still under construction when I was there in 2019, and now qualifies as the first major resort hotel building opened on the Strip in eleven years, since The Cosmopolitan opened in 2010. It would also be the first major structure added to The Strip since The High Roller (seen to the left in the photo of the view from the top floor of Harrah’s) opened in 2014. As such, naturally, I wanted to check it out—at 674 ft and 57 floors, it is now the tallest, occupied, non-observatory tower building on the Strip (and in Nevada). It’s four floors and 32 ft taller than The Venetian’s Palazzo Tower.

As you can see, though, its external design isn’t much to shout about. The ground floor shopping corridors and casino floor have a nicely subtle, Chinese themed decor. My favorite, though, was the property’s severalnods to the old Stardust Resort and Casino, which was demolished on that spot in 2007 (its 1991 tower itself had been 32 stories), after closing in 2006 after having opened as the original, nine-story building in 1964. They also have Liberace’s stage Rolls Royce on display on the casino floor.

Another side note: when Shobhit and I took our first trip to Las Vegas together, in 2005, we stayed at the 16-story New Frontier Hotel and Casino, itself demolished in 2007 after having opened in 1967. This site is right next door to what used to be the Stardust and is now ResortsWorld; it has been earmarked for redevelopment for a decade and a half; and it remains a vacant lot.

Posted by Fruitcake Enterprises on 2021-11-03 06:00:17

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