Hotels in Las Vegas
Treat yourself top a few days in a fantastic Las Vegas Hotel to see for yourself what Vegas and the incredible Vegas hotels have to offer. Every superlative about Las Vegas has already been written. Millions of tourists have sampled the delights of this Neon City. It has to be the ultimate adult playground, and it’s the themed hotels and casinos that are the stars of this desert resort. Many of the hotels are themed, some around Cities, such as New York New York and the Paris Hotel, complete with Eiffel Tower, the Luxor Hotel built in a pyramid style, or the Italian inspired Bellagio complete with 3933 rooms and of course those dancing fountains... the list goes on with hotels such as the castle inspired Excalibur Hotel, The Mirage, The Venetian, Trump International Hotel Las Vegas...Las Vegas caters for all styles, tasted and budgets from cheap and cheerful through to ultimate indulgence and luxury of the Four Seasons Las Vegas, The Wynn Hotel or newly opened Aria Hotel.
The development of Las Vegas hotels continues at some pace with new hotel projects having been completed and new ones under construction, and more in the planning stages.
The history of Las Vegas is as rich as the city itself today. Nevada was the first US state to legalise casino based gambling, ands the last state in Western USA to outlaw in 1910’s. The anti gambling law lasted 3 weeks as the market moved underground. For many years it remained illegal but generally ignored by the authorities. In 1931 gambling was legalised in Nevada in order to raise taxes for schools (as significant % of gambling tax revenues are still diverted in to education today).
In 1941 the El Rancho Vegas Hotel-Casino was built opposite the Sahara Hotel and this effectively started the Las Vegas Strip. This was quickly followed by other hotels and the building of the road between Las Vegas & Los Angeles – about a 4 hour straight road drive through the dessert. The El Ranch no longer exists but a few of the original hotel names such as the Flamingo Hotel are still there. Built by gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel in 1946, he was murdered 6 months after the Flamingo opened. The hotel name still exists but was rebuilt in the mid nineties.
In the 1950’s the famous hotels of the Desert Inn and the Sands Hotel opened. In 1955 the first nine story hotel opened – The Riviera Hotel, Stardust Hotels and the Fremont Hotel-casino in Down Town Las Vegas. Fremont Street is now a draw for tourists looking doe some 1970’s retro Vegas casino’s. In 1990 the Las Vegas convention centre was built - currently one of the largest convention centres in the World at 1.6 million square feet.
More recently the super hotels have taken pride of place on and around the Vegas Strip: The Bellagio Hotel (remember the film Oceans 11 ?) , Luxor Hotel, Encore Hotel, and sister hotel the Wynn, Hard Rock Hotel, Planet Hollywood Hotel, Venetian, Paris Hotel, MGM Grand Hotel, The Aria Hotel, ...
Vegas is an experienced, and must be on most people’s bucket list for the best rates remember that rooms are normally cheaper midweek as the domestic US crowd will arrive for a long weekend. They say Las Vegas is the brightest city on Earth and you can see the lights from Space...so take yourself to Vegas and understand what all the fuss is about.
At Discount Cities we have the best rates for Hotels in Las Vegas. Treat yourself to a 5-star experience on the famous Strip and indulge in some gambling, shopping, eating entertainment and shows, take a trip to the Hoover Dam by road or helicopter, or head in to the mountains a short drive away for complete solace and the chance to hike or rock climb for the complete contrast to Las Vegas.