Starting college marks one of life’s biggest transitions, and your dorm room becomes your home base for this transformative journey. It is good to plan in advance.
Opened 3 May 1999, not 1998 — and the three art museums and two shows that older accounts describe have all closed, the Guggenheim Hermitage in 2008. Sphere now stands immediately behind it.
Renamed from the Stratosphere in 2019 — the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States, the only big Strip casino actually inside the city, and four thrill rides at the top including SkyJump.
The lion habitat closed in 2012 and the lions went to a ranch in Henderson — so the hotel's best-known free attraction has not existed for fourteen years. Also: there have been two MGM Grands, and the first one is now the Horseshoe.
No apostrophe, and deliberately so — every guest is a Caesar. The oldest great themed resort on the Strip, home of the Colosseum, and the fountains Evel Knievel crashed into on the last day of 1967.
Italian, not Roman — modelled on Lake Como. The fountains outside are free and the best thing on the Strip, the lobby ceiling is a Chihuly, and the art gallery shows temporary loans rather than a permanent collection.
Closed on 17 July 2024 and being rebuilt as a guitar-shaped Hard Rock for 2027 — but this is the building that invented the modern Las Vegas megaresort, and the volcano is why the Strip became a street people walk.
