Vegas Q&A: What's The Biggest Place?
Question: OK, so I've heard the MGM Grand is the largest hotel and Vegas has nine of the 10 largest, which begs the question: What IS the largest hotel? Also, what are the largest casinos in terms of floor space devoted to gaming?
Chris in Boston
Answer: Hey, Chris, you put me through the wringer on this one.
To be honest with everyone out there, Chris' question really asked about the world's largest, but I wasn't able to gather that information. From what I was able to learn however, the answer doesn't change much (if at all) from what follows below as the largest hotels in the United States.
Of course, then you get into issues about what defines the largest. Are you talking about the number of rooms, floor space of the entire facility or something else? And then once that is decided, you have to rely on figures that vary depending on who you talk to.
If you go by floor space, the Venetian wins the title as world's largest hotel, but only if you count the massive Sands Convention Center as part of its square footage.
If you go by rooms (in the United States), then the MGM Grand wins with more than 5,000 rooms. That's are followed by Luxor with more than 4,400, Excalibur at over 4,000, Circus-Circus with over 3,700 and the Flamingo with more than 3,600. All of the top 10 largest in the U.S. are in Vegas, with Mandalay Bay (3,300+), the Las Vegas Hilton (3,100+), The Mirage (approximately 3,000), the Venetian (about 3,036), and either Monte Carlo or Bellagio (both just over 3,000, depending on who you get your numbers from) rounding out the list.
I believe there is one hotel in Asia that may place somewhere on this list when you look for the world's largest, but I haven't been able to confirm that yet. I'll keep working on it.
As for casino space, the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut is by far the world's largest, with more than 315,000 square feet of gaming space. This is followed by the MGM Grand, with more than 170,000 square feet and then Sam's Town with 150,000 square feet. After that the list gets a little blurry, with casinos all over the United States and the world claiming to be somewhere in the 100,000 to 150,000 square-foot range.
So if anyone knows where I can track down the world's largest in terms of number of rooms, send me an e-mail at rick@vegas4visitors.com. But don't forget that hotels must have more than 3,000 rooms to play.
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To be honest with everyone out there, Chris' question really asked about the world's largest, but I wasn't able to gather that information. From what I was able to learn however, the answer doesn't change much (if at all) from what follows below as the largest hotels in the United States.
Of course, then you get into issues about what defines the largest. Are you talking about the number of rooms, floor space of the entire facility or something else? And then once that is decided, you have to rely on figures that vary depending on who you talk to.
If you go by floor space, the Venetian wins the title as world's largest hotel, but only if you count the massive Sands Convention Center as part of its square footage.
If you go by rooms (in the United States), then the MGM Grand wins with more than 5,000 rooms. That's are followed by Luxor with more than 4,400, Excalibur at over 4,000, Circus-Circus with over 3,700 and the Flamingo with more than 3,600. All of the top 10 largest in the U.S. are in Vegas, with Mandalay Bay (3,300+), the Las Vegas Hilton (3,100+), The Mirage (approximately 3,000), the Venetian (about 3,036), and either Monte Carlo or Bellagio (both just over 3,000, depending on who you get your numbers from) rounding out the list.
I believe there is one hotel in Asia that may place somewhere on this list when you look for the world's largest, but I haven't been able to confirm that yet. I'll keep working on it.
As for casino space, the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut is by far the world's largest, with more than 315,000 square feet of gaming space. This is followed by the MGM Grand, with more than 170,000 square feet and then Sam's Town with 150,000 square feet. After that the list gets a little blurry, with casinos all over the United States and the world claiming to be somewhere in the 100,000 to 150,000 square-foot range.
So if anyone knows where I can track down the world's largest in terms of number of rooms, send me an e-mail at rick@vegas4visitors.com. But don't forget that hotels must have more than 3,000 rooms to play.
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