Top 10: the best hotels on the Las Vegas Strip
An insider's guide to the best hotels on the Las Vegas Strip, including the top places to stay for celebrity chef restaurants, exclusive bars and nightclubs, luxurious suites, great views and, of course, casinos.
Encore at Wynn Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
Sister to the Wynn casino resort next door, the high-rise Encore hotel is located at the northern end of the Strip. Expect a gilt-tiled casino, summer beach club, poolside nightclubs, an indulgent spa, modern rooms and three restaurants. Everywhere you turn are blooming flower bouquets, gilt tile work and plush royal purple and red carpeting. It’s an almost completely kitsch-free zone (well, except for those slot machines). Guests can also use the amenities of the Wynn. The spa is one of the Strip’s most indulgent, while brand-name boutique shops stand ready on the Esplanade. Read expert review From £170per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
It's luxury from the get-go at Las Vegas' Mandarin Oriental. As soon as you enter the downstairs lobby, you're greeted with museum-quality Chinese art. From there, you can expect swimming pools, a spa, 23rd-floor tea lounge and Pierre Gagnaire restaurant. An exclusive VIP atmosphere makes a welcome escape from the hoi polloi on the Strip, especially as there’s no casino here. You’ll find nothing sub-par in any of the almost 400 luxurious rooms and suites. Even the most basic ‘standard’ rooms sprawl over 500 sq ft, bigger than some suites elsewhere. Plush contemporary design is soothingly earth-toned. Read expert review From £186per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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MGM Grand
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
A non-stop carnival of gambling, shows, star restaurants and nightlife. Formerly the world’s largest hotel, the MGM Grand towers over Las Vegas Boulevard. Its design looks futuristically modern, with glowing green neon outlining buildings guarded by a lion statue, a nod to the days when the casino was owned by a Hollywood movie studio company. Outside you’ll find no less than five swimming pools, plus jetted hot tubs, private cabanas and a sizzling hot pool club, Wet Republic. Drop by the deluxe Grand Spa before hitting up the resort’s half dozen bars or glam Hakkasan nightclub. Read expert review From £57per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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The Palazzo
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
On the northern Strip, but still in the thick of things, the Palazzo rubs shoulders with the next-door Venetian casino resort. The Venetian trades on its gimmicky gondolas, canals, and faux Italian landmarks, but the Palazzo’s elegance is understated, with spritzing fountains and marble statues in the high-ceilinged lobby. Rooms border on palatial, with more than 3,000 sumptuous suites featuring high-thread count linens, sunken living rooms with rich furnishings, and marble baths with spa robes and slippers to cosy up in. The pool club Azure and nightclub Lavo aren’t the heart of the Strip’s scene, but they draw a mixed-ages crowd. The Canyon Ranch SpaClub, inside the next door Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes, is top-flight. Read expert review From £129per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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Bellagio
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
There's more to the Bellagio than its dancing fountains. Don’t get the wrong idea about the hotel just because it has appeared in a host of films: it’s not all glitzy surface and no style. Quite the contrary: there’s the obligatory big casino, of course, and it has plenty of the ostentation you’d expect in Las Vegas, but it is also sleek, well-run and well-presented. And despite having 3,933 rooms and suites, it doesn’t feel impersonal: while the public spaces are vast, the rooms are private, intimate and restful. 'Tower' rooms offer the best city and desert views, but all come with large picture windows. Head to the Picasso restaurant to see a wall full of the artist's original paintings. Read expert review From £138per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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The Cosmopolitan
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
The Cosmo breaks the casino hotel archetype, its cutting-edge décor (notice the digital new-media art collection on the walls) mixed with vintage touches like champagne-pink chandeliers. Think contemporary interiors, spacious rooms and an excellent choice of bars and restaurants. Popular with Vegas fanatics, high rollers, foodies, fashionistas, and anyone who craves pampering and an arty atmosphere. Hip crowds skew toward Generation X and younger. For starlets and the paparazzi, the Boulevard Pool overlooks the Strip, or hide away in a cabana bungalow at the pool club in summer. Take a spa day in the Turkish-style hammam before browsing the eclectic shops. Read expert review From £85per night
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Caesars Palace Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
This Greco-Romanesque casino resort is a Vegas classic and completely over-the-top, from the giant statuary and Colosseum concert hall to a sprawling pool complex where bronzed gods and goddesses laze in cabanas. Thousands of rooms afford plenty of choice, right at the centre of the Strip. The most sophisticated room designs are in the Julius Tower, where slate grey, cream and charcoal colour palettes set off accents like gold ottomans and aqua bedside lamps. Just as svelte are the resort’s boutique Nobu hotel rooms, with a black lacquered Asian design. The resort’s facilities feel endless, from the giant Garden of the Gods pool complex to the top-rated Qua Baths & Spa, where artificial snow showers fall. Read expert review From £97per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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The Venetian Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
Among the Strip’s most romantic resorts, the luxurious Venetian charms even long-time Vegas visitors. Gaze at singing gondoliers plying the canals, feast at a star chef’s table or bag fashions at the Grand Canal Shoppes. Then retire to your posh private suite, maybe one with a sweet Strip view. The most stunning of the Strip’s themed resorts, the gorgeous Venetian manages to evoke the romance of that Italian city, even though it’s a glitzy Las Vegas casino. Out front are replicas of the Rialto Bridge and the Campanile di San Marco tower. Cinematic canals wind around and through the property. Unlike many other Strip casinos, the Venetian is light-filled, with vaulted ceilings, marble floors and the aroma of flowers floating through the air. Read expert review From £129per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
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SLS Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
Trend-setters from Los Angeles take over this opulent hotel every weekend, when it becomes a party hot spot. During the week, international travellers mix with Vegas insiders looking to score a deal. The SLS puts a playful, wink-wink face on pampering luxury. Monkey mascots, giant duck sculptures out on the pool deck, and a smiling, silvery free-form blob standing outside the main casino entrance let you know not to take things too seriously here. In rooms, old Hollywood glamour meets a contemporary edge and modern French whimsy, courtesy of renowned designer Philippe Starck. Guests won’t recognize anything of the former Sahara casino hotel in these more than 1,600 opulently renovated rooms and suites. Read expert review From £53per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
9Telegraph expert rating
This high-end boutique hotel is a secretive escape from the Strip's frenetic action. Get the best of both worlds here: revel in Mandalay Bay's beach, restaurants, shopping and entertainment, then retreat to your luxurious hotel room and a rooftop swimming pool fringed by palm trees. An expansive, high-ceilinged lobby clad in cool marble and warm wood panels welcomes arriving guests. Rooms, far from the ding-ding-ding of the slot machines in the casino, are hushed hideaways, contemporary in style with a touch of glamour in sateen pillows and velvet ottomans, metallic patterned wallpaper, and granite bathrooms. Read expert review From £154per night Check availability Rates provided by Booking.com
