The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino is a Venice-themed hotel and casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the site of the old Sands Hotel. The Venetian is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.
The Venetian has 4,049 suites and a 120,000 square foot (11 000 m²) casino. It is located on the east side of the Strip, between Harrah's and the Wynn Las Vegas. Each suite in the Venetian has a fax machine/printer, and guests receive a personal greeting fax with their own personal fax number on arrival.
When The Palazzo opens with 3,025 rooms, The Venetian resort, with 7,074 hotel rooms and suites, will become the largest hotel complex in the world.
Casino and other attractions
The Casino at the Venetian offers more than 122 casino games. In addition to slot machines and table games, there is a state-of-the-art sports lounge.
The Venetian has an extensive indoor retail mall called The Grand Canal Shoppes, which covers 500,000 square feet (50 000 m²).
In addition to the lake in front of the casino, canals on the second floor of building, in the shopping mall, are used to provide motorized gondola rides. The hotel also hosts the Las Vegas Madame Tussauds wax museum. You can see statutes on your way out of the exit near the “Sephora” and down the escalators, one of the statues is of Whoopi Goldberg.
Dining, Amenities and Entertainment
The Venetian hosts 17 acclaimed restaurants, including Bouchon, which is the vision of Time Magazine's “America's Best Chef”, Thomas Keller. There is also a food court in the Grand Canal Shoppes. Because the hotel is composed of suites, the hotel contains an upscale “grocery” store that sells produce, meats, and other items for cooking.
In addition to shopping at the Grand Canal Shoppes, The Venetian offers plenty of other things to do, including:
• Blue Man Group an explosive show in the 1760-seat Blue Man Theatre
• Canyon Ranch SpaClub – a 69,000 sq. ft. (6,400 m²) health spa and fitness center
• Convention space – 1.9 million sq ft (180,000 m²), including the 1.2 million sq. ft. (110,000 m²) Sands Expo convention center Golf Concierge
• A new production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical The Phantom of the Opera entitled Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular, which runs 95 minutes long and keeps every song from the original production intact.
• Pool Deck – a five acre deck above the fourth level of the Venetian Tower, featuring 3 pools and a hot tub
• Tao Nightclub – 10,000 square foot (1,000 m²) high-energy nightclub located within the Tao “Asian Temple” Entertainment Complex.
• Aquanox - a medium sized quaint and elegant restaurant that specializes in seafood. Located left of the front atrium in the casino, this place seems to rival even the restaurants of Wolfgang Puck and Emeril Lagassi.
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