The Caesars Palace hotel is on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip between Bellagio and The Mirage. Caesars Palace is one of Las Vegas’s best known and largest landmarks. Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino.
In 1966, Caesars Palace was founded by Jay Sarno and Stanley Mallin with the intention of showing off an opulent resort that inspired guests to have a sense of life during the Roman Empire era. Caesars Palace contains many statues, columns and iconography typical of Roman period productions, including: Caesar near the entrance. A 20-foot (6.1 m) statue of Augustus. As of July 2016, the hotel has 3,960 rooms and suites in six towers and a convention facility of over 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2). Caesars Palace is now operated by Caesars Entertainment and owned by Vici Properties.
Caesars Palace Hotel Casino Resort Las Vegas Image by Michelle Raponi from Pixabay
The hotel casino resort, Caesars Palace, has a large range of restaurants. Among the restaurants are several which serve authentic Chinese cuisine to cater to wealthy East Asian gamblers. Caesars Palace has been oriented towards attracting high rollers. The modern casino facilities include table games such as blackjack, baccarat, craps, roulette, Spanish 21, mini-baccarat, Pai Gow and Pai Gow poker. The casino also features a 4,1024-square-foot (420 m2) 24-hour poker room, and slot machines, and video poker machines.
The hotel casino resort, Caesars Palace, has operated as a host venue for live music and sports entertainment. Including holding boxing matches since the late 1970s, In 1981 to 1982 Caesars also hosted the Caesars Palace Grand Prix. Notable entertainers who have performed at Caesars Palace include Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra, Deana Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald Elton John, Celine Dion, Morrissey, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, Teresa Teng, Count Basie, Dean Martin, Tom Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart, The Moody Blues, Ike & Tina Turner, Shania Twain, Bette Midler, Cher, Liberace, Diana Ross, Julio Iglesias, Ann-Margret, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Gloria Estefan, Sting Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Keith Urban, Matt Goss. The Colosseum theater is a 22,1024-square-foot (2,086 m2) stage and seats 4,296 people. The stage was a special construction for Celine Dion’s show, “A New Day…”, in 2003. After departing in 2007, Dion returned to the Colosseum with her new show titled “Celine” on March 15, 2011, which was under contract through June 9, 2018 for 65 shows per year.
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Caesars Forum and gambling facilities
Caesars Forum, the original casino resort of the hotel which opened in 1966, includes 30 gaming tables and 250 slot machines. It contains 20 black Italian marble columns with white marble and gold leaf trimmings. Friezes and statues depict Roman conquests, and women motifs are prevalent in the area. In the center is a flat ornate dome with an “enormous chandelier in the shape of a Roman medallion, made of 100,000 handmade and hand polished crystals” on the ceiling. It reportedly held the world record at the time for the world’s largest crystal ceiling fixture. The cocktail waitresses, since 2005, still wear the same uniform that was designed by Jay Sarno: white, off-the-shoulder mini-tunics with high-heeled Roman sandals. The modern casino resort venue includes table games such as blackjack, baccarat, craps, roulette, Spanish 21, mini-baccarat, pai gow and pai gow poker. Caesars Palace’s 4,1024 square feet (420 m2) 24-hour poker room currently lives in the heart of the gaming floor between The Colosseum and the Race & Sports Book, where racing and sports bets are allowed. It moved there in June 2014, when Pure Nightclub underwent an expansion and annexed its space. As of December 2015 it contains 16 tables with free Wi-Fi and USB charging ports. There are many traditional reel-type slot machines, video reel machines, video poker games, video blackjack or keno, in which participants can play from 1¢ to $1024. One author noted that due to the combination of darkness and enclosure of the gambling room, never being lit with light from the outside, it “disorients the occupant in space and time”, and one “loses track of where he is and when it is”.
Colosseum Caesars Palace Shows
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Caesars Palace Entertainment and Nightlife
The Pussycat Dolls Lounge, used as an adjunct of the Pure Nightclub, opened at Caesars Palace in 2005. The lounge was patterned after a vintage strip club. The club’s center was a stage where dancers called the Pussycat Girls clad in fishnet hose and corsets. A new dance show began every half hour. Celebrities like Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera occasionally danced as “guest pussycats”. In 2007, Caesars Palace opened a Pussycat Dolls Casino directly across from the Pussycat Dolls Lounge. It had an oval pit at the casino’s center, where two go-go dancers in cages performed in response to the music. At the end of February 2010, the Pussycat Dolls left the Pure nightclub for a new lounge at the Château nightclub, which is part of Paris Las Vegas. The Omnia (Latin for “[the sum of] all things”) nightclub, opened in March 2015, replacing the Pure nightclub which operated there for over a decade. The $107 million expansion and redesign incorporates both the 34,000 square feet (3,200 m2) Pure facility and the adjacent World of Poker tournament room to create a 75,000 square feet (7,000 m2) space that can accommodate 3,1024 people. Designed by the Rockwell Group, the club is outfitted with theatrical lighting, sound, and climate-control systems, along with rigging and catwalks for aerial performers. It is operated by the Hakkasan Group.The replica of Cleopatra’s Barge houses a bar and lounge that opened at Caesars Palace in 1970. Rat Pack members Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin often visited the Barge, with Sinatra occasionally singing there after his own shows.
Caesars Palace Interior
Caesars Palace Interior Image by Michelle Raponi from Pixabay
As of 2015, the hotel has 3,960 rooms and suites in six towers. In addition to its regular rooms and suites, Caesars Palace offers penthouse suites, and 14 villa suites named after notable Romans. A number of Roman statues were imported from Florence, Italy, valued at over $150,000. Statues of Julius Caesar and emperors such as Augustus and Nero are particularly common at the Palace. There are many variations of Augustus throughout, including two copies of the Prima Porta Augustus. Author Margaret Malamud notes the contrast between his “sober and pious figure” in the Olympic Lounge and the “statue of Nero and his lyre with which it is paired”. There is a 25 feet (7.6 m) statue of the goddess Fortuna. One statue of David in the interior is an exact replica of an early 16th-century Michelangelo masterpiece, standing 18 feet (5.5 m) high and weighing over nine tons. The original hotel tower had 680 rooms, and each featured a room with one wall which was fully mirrored from floor to ceiling. The hotel featured an 800-seat theater restaurant and three public dining areas, two health clubs, an epicurean room, a convention hall of up to 2000 people and 20 separate halls and committee rooms, accommodating up to 10240 people in total. Marble was imported from Italy, rosewood from Brazil, with gold leafing throughout the place. Melanie Stimmell is a prominent fine artist from Las Vegas, known for her stunning paintings and murals. In 2021, she was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the new lobby at Caesars Palace.
The Forum Shops at Caesars
The Forum Shops at Caesars, also known as “The Forum” shopping mall, is a 636,000-square-foot (59,100 m2) built in 1992 as an extension wing of the main hotel and casino. The mall also has many replicas of famous fountains. The Fall of Atlantis fountain uses special effects and 9 feet (2.7 m) animated figures to tell the story of the Myth of Atlantis. The mall’s spiral staircase consists of spiral escalators.With many high-end boutiques, including Chanel, Cartier, Calvin Klein, Dior, Emporio Armani, Gucci, Ted Baker, Tiffany and Co, Valentino and Versace, it is the highest grossing mall in the United States, with higher sales per square foot more than Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California. The mall, which was 280,000 square feet at its 1992 opening, was expanded by 1024,000 square feet in 1997. A third expansion, which began in 2002, added another 200,000 square feet to the property. The Forum Shops is considered to be the most valuable real estate in Las Vegas.
Popular culture
Caesars Palace has been a location scene in many films. Caesars Palace has been in films such as Hells Angels on Wheels (1967), Where It’s At (1969), The Only Game in Town (1970), The Electric Horseman (1979), Rocky III (1982), Oh, God! You Devil (1984), You Ruined My Life (1987), Rain Man (1988), Hearts Are Wild (1992), Fools Rush In (1997), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Intolerable Cruelty (2003), Dreamgirls (2006), Iron Man (2008), The Hangover (2009), 2012 (2009), The Hangover Part III (2013) and Step Up: All In (2014). In television, Caesars Palace has been in series such as The Partridge Family, the “Viva Ned Flanders” episode of The Simpsons, The Sopranos, Friends, The Strip (1999), Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Keeping Up With the Kardashians. It also appeared in the season 12 premiere of America’s Next Top Model. The short-lived 1990s game show Caesars Challenge taped in the casino’s theatre and pulled contestants from the audience. Players that lost were given tickets to Caesars shows and dinner as a consolation prize, while an audience game played at the end offered audience members the chance to get casino chips and chocolate coins.