What a Las Vegas casino is designed to do, why smoking on the gaming floor surprises British visitors, and the house edge game by game — which varies from half a per cent to over twenty-five.
928 nuclear tests between 1951 and 1992, sixty-five miles from the Strip, watched from the hotel roofs as a tourist attraction — and the fallout that went north over Utah.
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.
Four resident shows, not three and not six — and O is not a letter standing for everything, it is the French eau, performed around a pool of some 5,700 cubic metres.
The most-taken day trip from Las Vegas, and the one most often got wrong: through traffic has not crossed the dam since the bypass bridge opened in 2010. What the tours cover, and why the dam was officially Boulder Dam for fourteen years.
The Casino de Montreal occupies the former French and Quebec pavilions of Expo 67 on Île Notre-Dame. It no longer opens around the clock, and the strict dress code has lapsed.
