The Venetian
The Strip
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The most painstakingly detailed of the themed casino resorts, the Venetian is a condensed version of its namesake city and features some of the largest rooms on the Strip, averaging 700 square feet with sunken living rooms and marble baths. Like Wynn and Caesars nearby, the Venetian is in full expansion mode, with a new 50-floor, 3,068-room sister property that opened in January 2008. Rooms in the all-suite 3,014-room main tower (which opened in 1999) have traded their gilded, faux-Venetian décor for a more modern style (backlit onyx walls, clean-lined, natural-hued couches and chairs, remote-controlled Roman shades), and each now has three LCD or plasma televisions (including one TV in the bath), wireless Internet, and a sectional sofa for guests. And just outside, of course, is a Piazza San Marco entrance (just like the real thing, minus the pigeons), in- and outdoor canals plied by gondoliers, and reproductions of famous frescoes on the soaring ceilings within.
Tip: Have breakfast at Thomas Keller’s Bouchon (boudin blanc and eggs, flaky croissants). If you want a taste without the production of a sit-down breakfast, pick up masterful pastries and sticky buns at Bouchon Bakery, near the Phantom of the Opera theater lobby.
Room to Book: Bypass rooms in the newer—but darker—Venezia tower, which opened in 2003, for the renovated suites in the main tower.
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From Travel + Leisure Family, Mar 2004
“You would think that a resort based on a city of canals would offer a water feature second to none. You would be wrong. This $1.5 billion casino, which is one of the Strip's newest properties and is sensational in so many other ways—enormous suites, innovative gondola rides—has a pool area that's quite a letdown....” MORE>>
From the T+L 500
Colossal all-suite hotel (modeled after the Sinking City) on the Strip.
- Stats:
- 4,027 rooms; 20 restaurants; 5 bars.
- Competitive Edge:
- The Venetian's on-site Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, designed by Rem Koolhaas.
- Rooms to Book:
- The recently renovated 650-square-foot Venetian Luxury Suites.
- Don't Miss:
- A romantic gondola ride, complete with a singing gondolier.
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