Las Vegas Casinos
On The Strip

The newest, most spectacular and most popular casinos in Las Vegas are located along the southern end of Las Vegas Boulevard, known as "The Strip". They are all within a few miles of McCarran International Airport. Here are descriptions for some of those grand hotel casinos. Each of them has a unique motif and features a large casino containing thousands of slot machines and hundreds of gaming tables. Even the smaller ones have over 2,000 hotel rooms. Each of these casinos contains large swimming pools, multiple restaurants and a variety of entertainment venues. Some of them offer health spas, wedding chapels or golf packages.

Just click the links below for further information about each casino, to check current room prices or to make your reservation.

Visit our Las Vegas Tourist Map page to see where each of these hotels are located.

Luxor Hotel Casino This 110 meter high, all-glass pyramid is located at the south end of the Strip about 2 miles from the airport. It has 4,400 luxurious rooms, six restaurants, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a health spa, an Imax theater, a virtual reality game room, a variety show, and a shopping gallery. It has an ancient Egyptian motif with a huge Sphinx at the entry, an enormous atrium in the center of the pyramid and a replica of king Tut's burial chamber beneath it. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Excaliber Hotel Casino This huge white castle with multi-colored turrets is located at the south end of the strip about 2 miles from the airport. It has 4,008 rooms, six restaurants and a fast food court, two swimming pools, a health spa and a wedding chapel. The Tournament of Kings dinner theater includes dragons, wizards, swordfights and jousting tournaments. It has a medieval, King Arthur motif complete with knights, jesters, magicians, madrigal singers and a complete medieval village. Click for information, prices, reservations !

MGM Grand Hotel Casino This grand-scale hotel casino is located at the south end of the Strip across the boulevard from New York, New York. It is based on the theme of a large Hollywood movie studio. The hotel has 5,005 rooms, an amusement park, 16 restaurants, a fast food court and a small shopping mall. It has 3 outdoor stages, two large indoor theaters, a 16,325-seat auditorium plus a large dance club. The theaters feature major entertainers, rising comedy performers, and featured shows. The auditorium hosts many major sports events and performances by superstars. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Paris Las Vegas Hotel Casino This is one of the newer hotel casinos in Las Vegas. It is located in the heart of the Strip and has 2,916 rooms. It is a re-creation or Paris in the Nevada desert complete with a scale model Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and Louvre. It offers nine restaurants incuding a tower restaurant overlooking the Strip, and a shopping gallery featuring European specialties. Le Theâtre des Arts presents Las Vegas shows while Le Cabaret Lounge features Euro Bands. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino This is one of the new hotel casinos, famous for its exotic island motif with a huge tropical bay, sandy beach and four swimming pools. It is located at the southern end of the strip and has 3,700 rooms, 13 restaurants and snack bars, a huge spa, two wedding chapels and a shopping mall. It has a 12,000-seat events center that features major entertainments, a smaller House of Blues that features famous jazz and blues musicians and a theater that features Broadway type shows. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Caesar's Palace Hotel Casino This is one of the older grand hotel casinos in the heart of the strip, and it remains one of the most spectacular. It is decorated in an Imperial Roman motif with 2,440 rooms, beauty salon, health spa, wedding palace, magnificent forum of shops plus nine restaurants. The 1,000 seat Circus Maximus theater presents major entertainment events, the Omnimax theater features film spectacles, Cleopatra's Barge has dancing and Ceaser's Magical Kingdom presents a magical experience. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Monte Carlo Hotel Casino Centrally located on the strip near the airport, this elegant hotel has 3,000 rooms, six restaurants, a spa, a wedding chapel, a small shopping arcade and a swimming area complete with cascading waterfalls, wave pool and river ride. It has two tennis courts and an affiliation with several local golf courses. It often offers some bargain rates on weekday nights. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Stratosphere Tower Hotel Casino Located on the northern edge of the Strip, the Stratospere Tower rises over 1,000 feet (330 meters) above the desert floor and is easily the most recognizable attraction in Las Vegas. This is one of the older casinos, but the hotel was completely renovated in 2005. It offers five restaurants including a revolving restaurant nearly 1,000 feet above the Strip. It also has a spa and several swimming pools including an adults-only topless pool. It features daily matinee performances of its old-time, family-oriented Las Vegas Variety Show. Accommodations are usually bargain priced due to its distance from the fashionable southern end of the Strip. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Circus Circus Hotel Casino Circus Circus is one of the older hotel casinos located along the northern end of the Strip. It is the only casino that features a family oriented theme and caters to families with children. In the Big Top, circus performances are held all day long every day. There is a large midway with canival games for children and a huge computer gaming room with rides and other entertainment activities for children of all ages. The adult casino features low-stakes games and old-time slot machines. The hotel accommodations are normally bargain priced, but the facilities could use some refurbishing. Click for information, prices, reservations !

Written by: Mike Leco