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The Palms Casino Resort

Hotel Overview

Ultra-hip resort caters to celebs, young jet setters Located 2 miles from The Strip, this stylish resort attracts celebrities and vacationers with dining and clubbing above the 50th floor. Designer Italian bedding, duvet covers, and extra-thick mattresses ensure high-end slumber in guestrooms equipped with high-tech conveniences. Twice weekly, a multi-level pool complex becomes a dance club. A three-story nightclub plays host to album-release parties.

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Property amenities

A 20,000-square-foot, three-story health spa offers body/facial treatments and includes a fitness center, a workout room for pilates and yoga classes (candlelight yoga at night), deluge showers, steam rooms, saunas, indoor spas with plunge pools, and terrace spas.

Kids Quest daycare center includes a jungle gym and non-violent video games. There's also an infant-care center. Older children enjoy a state-of-the-art video-game arcade. The resort's 14-screen movie theater plays host to the summertime CineVegas Film Festival.

Complimentary shuttle service to The Forum Shops at Caesars Palace and to the enormous Fashion Show Mall whisks guests to and from The Strip.

What to expect: Thanks to MTV's The Real World Las Vegas series, which was set here, The Palms enjoys an international reputation. Celebrities mingle with vacationers. The Palms serves locals and visitors by separating their entrances. Members enter with thumbprint-screening. Visitors register on one side, and locals enter the other from a parking lot for access to penny and nickel slots, a bingo parlor, and a 14-screen movie theater.

Amenity highlights: A multi-level, palm-and-flower-garden pool complex contains a large, free-form pool; an 18-person spa encircling a flower island; a shallow pool bordered by white sand; a raised pool; a secluded pool; padded lounges; and two-person sunning beds with foot-thick mattresses. Padded resin chairs go onto the main pool's shallow shelf. Two-story cabanas include television, refrigerator, and ceiling fan. One of two poolside bars offers outdoor blackjack.

Insider tip: Conveniently located near the waiting line for the elevator to Ghostbar, a palm reader offers the curious a glimpse of the future.

Dining

N9NE - Suffused with pastel lights that periodically change color, this sleek offshoot of a popular Chicago restaurant offers plush seating on purple banquettes and features a Champagne/caviar bar as well as prime-grade beef and fresh seafood. Open for dinner.

Little Buddha - An import from Paris, this Asian restaurant includes a sushi bar in an opulent setting of jade-green pillars, draped-fabric ceiling, and huge booths. Open for lunch and dinner.

Blue Agave - Oysters and other seafood prepared with Mexican and South American twists. Open for lunch and dinner.

The Feast - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets are available, with champagne brunch Saturdays and Sundays.

Festival Market Buffet - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets. Seven ethnic cooking stations and a Wednesday night luau.

Sunrise Cafè - Light and full meals featuring American and Chinese selections. Open 24 hours.

Recreation

Rooms

This hotel offers 425 rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows in a 55-story tower. Contemporary decor features cool, neutral colors and taupe wallpaper. Cherry-wood furniture includes desk/chair sets, two upholstered chairs, and large armoires with closets on each end. Beds have designer Italian linens, duvet covers, and pillowtop mattresses.

Standard room
One king or two double beds with Italian cotton linens, down comforter and pillows, and foot-thick pillowtop mattress. 440 square feet. Floor-to-ceiling windows. Television Internet access with wireless keyboard and 27-inch television. Two telephones with dial-up Internet access ports.