The Best Las Vegas Hotels
When gangster Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo in 1946, it was the first large-scale casino-hotel project on a quiet stretch of Nevada desert. Today, Las Vegas is anything but quiet, with massive casino-hotels stationed like giant soldiers on the world-famous Strip. Though the final cost of building the Flamingo was plenty hefty?$6 million, an exorbitant […]The post The Best Las Vegas Hotels appeared first on Pursuitist.
When gangster Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo in 1946, it was the first large-scale casino-hotel project on a quiet stretch of Nevada desert. Today, Las Vegas is anything but quiet, with massive casino-hotels stationed like giant soldiers on the world-famous Strip.Though the final cost of building the Flamingo was plenty hefty?$6 million, an exorbitant amount of money at the time?Siegel couldn?t possibly have imagined that another casino-hotel complex would one day eclipse his property in both cost and size. You could fit six Flamingos inside The Venetian?or MGM Grand?or City Center (which includes The Aria and Mandarin Oriental among its 5 towers). And Las Vegas as a whole is now home to 14 of the world?s 25 largest hotels.But Vegas wouldn?t be Vegas if it wasn?t constantly tinkering with things?trying to build a better mouse-trap if you will. And while 2018 will only see only one major hotel opening on the Strip (the Asian-themed Lucky Dragon), there are myriad renovations currently in progress as Sin City tries, yet again, to upgrade its status.Her...
When gangster Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo in 1946, it was the first large-scale casino-hotel project on a quiet stretch of Nevada desert. Today, Las Vegas is anything but quiet, with massive casino-hotels stationed like giant soldiers on the world-famous Strip.Though the final cost of building the Flamingo was plenty hefty?$6 million, an exorbitant amount of money at the time?Siegel couldn?t possibly have imagined that another casino-hotel complex would one day eclipse his property in both cost and size. You could fit six Flamingos inside The Venetian?or MGM Grand?or City Center (which includes The Aria and Mandarin Oriental among its 5 towers). And Las Vegas as a whole is now home to 14 of the world?s 25 largest hotels.But Vegas wouldn?t be Vegas if it wasn?t constantly tinkering with things?trying to build a better mouse-trap if you will. And while 2018 will only see only one major hotel opening on the Strip (the Asian-themed Lucky Dragon), there are myriad renovations currently in progress as Sin City tries, yet again, to upgrade its status.Her...
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