15 Best Hotels in Las Vegas
Ask yourself, “Where in the world would you like to sleep tonight?” to find the best hotel in Las Vegas for you. What about Venice? Check. Or maybe New York, Paris, or Lake Como? Also, they’re all here. You have to be funny to really enjoy the hotels in Las Vegas. For example, you have to love that you can see the Eiffel Tower and an Egyptian temple with a laser on top from Piazza San Marco in the city. All of our choices for the best hotels in Las Vegas, even the themed ones, have fabulous, over-the-top personalities of their own. There’s something here for every type of tourist, since almost every hotel is known for a different thing. Find out more about the best hotels in Las Vegas below. They will help you plan your trip to the Strip and beyond.
The Park MGM, which used to be the Monte Carlo and has been totally rethought, is where the NoMad Las Vegas is located. The Sydell Group helped remake the whole property, so there is some harmony here that you don’t find in some other hotel-in-hotel pairs in Las Vegas. But while Park MGM is fun and easy to get to, NoMad is the place for adults only. This place is very fancy and old-fashioned, with sexy, dark rooms and a big restaurant that looks like a library. When you walk into NoMad, it feels like you’ve found a great secret place to hide. There’s more to this place than what you thought you knew about Las Vegas.
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The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Autograph Collection
Cosmopolitan’s ads about being the “right kind of wrong” will help you understand who it’s trying to reach, and it’s doing a good job of it. On the Strip, most of the guests are younger and have a lot of money to spend on all the great restaurants, cabanas at the pool, and bottle service at Marquee Nightclub. Some of the best rooms on the Strip for parties are here, and some of them even have patios where you can enjoy the outdoors. The Cosmopolitan has been focusing on improving its services for bigger spenders lately, and you can see that in the rooms. For example, the Chelsea Penthouses start at 2,400 square feet, and the three-bedroom penthouses have patios with views of the city. Clean-edged design fans will like all of the rooms, though. Cosmopolitan has had some of the best restaurants and lounges on the Strip for a long time, and they’re always adding fun new things. Find The Barbershop Cuts & Cocktails, a fancy room hidden behind a janitor’s door where you can enjoy a wide range of whiskeys and, yes, book an old-fashioned shave and haircut. Additionally, look for the hidden ski lodge at Superfrico, which took its design cues from Japanese ski chalets in Hokkaido. In 2022, MGM Resorts International bought the hotel. It is now under Marriott management and a part of the MGM Collection with Marriott Bonvoy, a new brand collection that offers Marriott guests exclusive access and points for stays.
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Bellagio
When this fantasy land based on Lake Como opened in 1998, it quickly set the standard for other over-the-top Las Vegas casinos. Its fountains are still the best free show in town. The big name on the Strip could have relied on its fame, but over the last two years, the Bellagio has put money back into improving the experience for all of its guests, not just those who come to see the show. Together with MGM Resorts International Design Group, the Chicago-based Gettys Group Companies completely remodeled all 2,568 guest rooms in the main tower. They used natural stone and splashes of aqua to mimic the design of the pools, and in some rooms, large showers took the place of tubs. The resort knows it can’t get rid of its icons, even though it is becoming more modern. The hotel is spending $110 million to renovate its Spa Tower. The jewel tones used by Champalimaud Design come from Lake Como and the Alps; this is where you should stay if you want a more homey feel.
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The Palazzo is the fancier younger brother or sister of the Venetian. Both are part of the Venetian Resort and were designed with the same Renaissance Italian style in mind. Each hotel has its own rotunda entry. On the Palazzo side, there’s a beautiful crystal sculpture of women that’s actually a two-level fountain, instead of all gold. It looks both modern and like art from the past. It has the biggest standard rooms on the Strip, with 700-square-foot bilevel suites that have L-shaped sofas. It’s also a little quieter than the Venetian, which is more focused on families. The Venetian and Palazzo have always had a lot of places to eat, but in the last few years, the cool ones have really taken off. For example, Rosina is a small Art Deco lounge right at the base of the lifts that take guests to their rooms in the Palazzo. For less money than a hotel room in most other places, the Prestige upgrade is well worth it for the largest standard rooms on the Strip.
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Downtown Las Vegas hadn’t had a new hotel built in 40 years until Circa opened in October 2020. What a great ode to all the weird and fun things in the area! The spot has made a name for itself as an unapologetic temple of fun for adults only. People who like sports are the main audience for its Stadium Swim pool complex, which has a pool, lounge chairs, a sports bar, and bungalows all facing a huge 40-foot-high HD TV that always has a big game on. It has the standard Las Vegas steakhouse, as well as a pan-Asian restaurant that pays homage to both the Midwest and Las Vegas, and a great (but pricey) bakery. While this resort has plenty to keep you busy for days, it’s also very close to the 18b Arts District, which has cool dive bars, galleries, and places to watch insanely large groups of people. And if you want to see the Las Vegas Valley, the Legacy Club at Circa, a bar that is partly open to the air on the 60th floor, has some of the best views. (You can enjoy them in Las Vegas style, next to 500 handmade gold bars and a ticker that shows how much they are worth right now.)
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Vdara Hotel & Spa
This hotel, Vdara, might be the most like a vacation spa that you’ll feel while you’re in Las Vegas. The entrance has high ceilings, and the whole hotel is designed to let in as much natural light as possible, even though it’s a glass high rise in the very modern CityCenter. It’s the only hotel in Las Vegas that doesn’t allow smoking or gambling. One of the nicest spas in the city, and it’s never as busy as, say, Qua at Caesars or one of the other spas in big casino resorts. It has a meditation room, a waterfall, and wooden floors, so make it a point to visit while you’re here. Even though Vdara rooms cost a little more than some hotel rooms of the same size, an improvement is worth the extra money because you get: Studios have small kitchens, so you don’t have to go out to find food all the time. Also, if you’re staying for a while, there’s no reason not to use the cleaning service.
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You’ll see right away why this resort is the biggest five-star resort in the world: it has sunlit atriums, an indoor koi pond, and ponds and waterfalls all over the property. When you walk into Wynn, you’ll feel like you’re in another world. The shops feel like they’re in their own backyards, and behind the resort is the only golf course on the Strip—a green, par-70 championship course. Behind the doors of the Delilah Supper club, famous people mix with each other under tall cast-brass palms that remind you of places like L.A.’s Cocoanut Grove and Havana’s Tropicana Club. Meanwhile, at Casa Playa, a packed house of beautiful people eats food from Mexico’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Meanwhile, the Overlook Lounge is a fancy makeover of the main lounge and has a menu of drinks made with edible perfumes. Wynn has been on a spending spree for the past few years, opening a Gucci store with the only Gucci Garden in the US, a stunning Louis Vuitton store with unique items, and even a McClaren supercar shop. He has also spent $200 million remodeling rooms. It’s for a reason that Wynn has been the best resort in the city since it opened 17 years ago, and it still is.
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Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas
When you pull up to the Waldorf Astoria, it feels off-the-beaten-path and private. Some people live here full-time and enjoy all the comforts. When you get to the 23rd floor entrance, someone will greet you by name, and there’s no line to check in. The real “cherry on top”? It’s very quiet because there are no games going on. If you’re not sure about the Vegas pool scene, you’ll love this one. It’s probably the most classy, relaxed, and laid-back spot in the city. You can hide out for the afternoon and unwind without having to deal with loud music or the bachelor party in the next cabin. You can walk right over to the Pool Cafe whenever you need a snack, or you can order something to be brought to your cabana. That’s low-key beauty at its finest
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Aria is a modern building with a water wall and public art shows that go well with its sleek, curved shape. People who book rooms at Aria usually want to stay in a more modern building, and like that, it’s close to high-end shopping (it’s in the same CityCenter complex as The Shops at Crystals). It feels like you’re in a huge glass entryway when you walk in from the valet. There is almost never a line at registration, and the lobby is so big that it never feels squished and busy like other casinos do. There is also a salt room and a very relaxing area with warm beds made from a single block of stone that was brought in from Japan. The spa is one of the best on the Strip. All 420 Sky Suites have been recently remodeled and now have baths that look like spas and a lighter, brighter color scheme. They also have modern Vitra armchairs and comfortable wingback headboards.
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MGM Grand Hotel & Casino
You probably think of the MGM Grand when you think of Vegas. It’s where you’ll see Cirque du Soleil shows, screaming lions behind glass, and loud bachelor parties. You can’t just make a list of reasons to stay at the hotel because it has…everything. The U.S.’s biggest hotel and the third biggest in the world. There are a huge variety of experiences to choose from, and the prices are also very different. Depending on the season, basic rooms cost less than $100 a night, while ultra-luxurious apartments cost thousands of dollars a night. It finished remodeling 700 rooms in its Studio Tower in 2022, giving it a look reminiscent of the city’s Golden Age desert glam in the 1950s and 1960s. That being said, the MGM Grand is a great place to stay in Vegas no matter where you sleep, because of the famous casino, the five pools, the endless entertainment, nightlife, and dining choices, and the Strip itself.
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It’s hard to believe you’re in Las Vegas when you pull into the Four Seasons Las Vegas’s circular driveway, let alone that it’s linked to the famous Mandalay Bay. At the very southern end of the Strip, there is a place where you can go without playing games. It doesn’t feel very far away from the usual splash and bang of the city. It’s on floors 35–39 of Mandalay Bay, but it has its own entrance, restaurants, and scene. The best parts are the peaceful pool and lovely spa. Four Seasons fully redecorated its rooms a few years ago. The rooms used to be very nice but kind of boring, being cream-colored. Now, they are classic Art Deco-style retreats with a sophisticated color scheme and bold, graphic wallpaper.
It was a big deal when chef Nobu Matsuhisa opened his first hotel in this city in 2013. It was the start of a new era for both the famous eatery and the city’s long history of hotels. Even though Caesars is a huge hotel, the stay ends up being incredibly personal: The boutique-within-a-hotel idea works in some places, but not all of them make you feel like you’re really having your own experience. There are beautiful touches, like wood walls that look like they could be a Louise Nevelson sculpture, that make the very small lobby of what used to be the Centurion tower feel just the way Nobu and the Rockwell Group imagined it. The Rockwell Group redesigned the rooms in 2022 with kintsugi, the Japanese art of gold epoxy-veined pottery, in mind. This gave the rooms a warm, homey feel. And if you’ve ever wished you could call Nobu and have their delicious food brought right to you, now is your chance. The restaurant downstairs is the only Nobu that serves breakfast, so it’s easy to go there. But while you’re here, you should definitely use the room service.
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Caesars Palace
This theme park on the Strip is based on Ancient Rome, but it’s not stuck in the past. The fact that its biggest building, the 1,181-room Palace Tower, got a $100 million makeover not long ago shows that. If you want to treat yourself, the villa suites on the 29th floor are the way to go. They are huge and have lots of great (and over-the-top) design features, just like the grand villas in the Octavius and Augustus towers. Because Vegas is all about pretending to be someone else for a while, the villas have a wide range of styles, from ancient Greece to a formal northern European villa with Biedermeier furniture, to neoclassical French Empire and English Regency. Each villa has 24K gold-plated fixtures and hand-painted murals, as well as private elevator access, limo service, and VIP check-in.There is still one of the most amazing buffets in the world at Bacchanal. It never ends and serves about 500 dishes at a time. If you want to walk to the other end of the huge complex, you’ll reach the Forum Shops, which have even more places to eat and shop. It’s really a city by itself.
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Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa
With backlit onyx, tinted glass, and thousands of Swarovski crystals that remind us of classics like the Desert Inn, this hotel has all the glitz and glitter of old Las Vegas. But it also feels very modern and natural. The rooms and public areas are very much in line with the colors of the desert, with natural tones and dark woods with pops of color, because the building backs up to the beautiful Red Rock Conservation Area. This hotel, which is popular with both locals and an increasing number of drive-through tourists, is constantly changing. Recently, it has opened a new high-end restaurant called Naxos Taverna, Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill, Marc Vetri’s Osteria Fiorella, and a new location of the famous Lotus of Siam. And people who think of local casinos as places where old people play bingo should check out the new High Limit Room, a 9,000-square-foot lounge with table games and butler service.
