Resorts World Las Vegas — Hotel Review | Condé Nast Traveler

Why book?  
There are plenty of large resorts on the Strip that have most of the things you’re looking for in Set the scene 
Those who love Las Vegas are accustomed to an implosion (although we’re trying to preserve our history these days) or a makeover. What they rarely get: a brand-new megaresort built from the ground up on a part of the Strip they wouldn’t have visited prior. Resorts World, originally conceptualized as a traditional Chinese-themed resort by its Malaysia-based owners, Genting Group, pulled out of their original theme and decided to distinguish themselves among Vegas resorts by going high-tech—think Shanghai over Beijing. Guests can use cryptocurrency and wager with a mobile wallet. Its Fred Segal store allows guests to just walk out with merch, which is detected automatically via Amazon technology; and it recently introduced “Glow,” a multi-media experience that plays simultaneously to the whole Strip on its massive, property-high LED screen and 50-foot interior globe.
The crowd skews young here: These are tech-savvy partiers with some crypto to spend on entertainment (Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and former Caesars standby Celine Dion are all residents), high-end dining (L.A. import Wally’s made news by serving a $20,000 porterhouse ribeye), and shopping (its District shopping center includes Fred Segal, Herve Leger, Judith Lieber, Sneaker Garden, and more).
The backstory 
How short our memory is in Las Vegas. What many people think of as the vast, undiscovered territory of the north end of the Strip was once home to the iconic Stardust Resort and Casino, which anchored this end from 1958 until it was imploded in 2007. Genting Group, the first Asian gaming company to enter the Vegas resort scene, bought the property (and a bit more). Its Resorts World Las Vegas, which sits on 88 acres across from

The rooms
Entering what Resorts World calls its “integrated resort” complex can be daunting, because there are three distinctly different hotels inside, each with its own entrance: the 236-room Crockfords, on floors 60-66 of the east tower; Conrad Las Vegas, the 1,496-room contemporary hotel; and the Las Vegas Hilton, whose 1,774 rooms fill the west tower. While the resort was originally billed as a Chinese hotel casino, this doesn’t look like a themed resort. Other than a few subtle exterior architectural references and lots of use of red, what you’ll experience is more a resort with clean lines and a residential feel.
Rooms at the Hilton don’t depart from the expected contemporary Vegas hotel, at 400 square feet with bright, white beds, colorful contemporary art, and great views of the Vegas Valley and the mountains to the west. Conrad’s rooms are a bit larger, with smart tech features. And the Crockfords rooms are all modern elegance, with a neutral palette and nice amenities like in-room massage guns and ambassador service. Where you’ll find that Asian design scheme: the dazzling 6,500- and 7,000-square-foot palaces of Crockfords, with their own outdoor pools, karaoke rooms, formal dining room, and billiards room, and design features like walls embellished with giant pearlescent koi, and indoor-outdoor living rooms that open into pools.
One of the best features of this resort is that its three separate hotel entrances allow you to go right to your room and not traverse a crowded gaming floor with your luggage. If you want to save on the room to splurge on the experience, the Hilton’s your go-to. But for a relatively small premium, the Conrad is a worth-it upgrade. And if price isn’t an object, the Crockfords villas, suites, and palaces are some of the best around.
Food and drink 
Resorts World has done a great job of balancing high-end and accessible dining experiences. Wally’s, home of the aforementioned $20,000 ribeye (but better known as the first outpost of Wally’s Wine & Spirits outside California), has been a celeb draw since it opened for its gorgeous, convivial charcuterie boards and 8,000-bottle wine selection. The resort has gradually opened its restaurants, and standouts include Carversteak, a modern steakhouse serving Japanese-certified Wagyu (check out the knife-bedecked private dining room) and one of the best new patio spaces in the city; the chic Bar Zazu, where you can sip extinct sherries with your tapas; and Brezza, a tribute to coastal Italian by locally beloved chef Nicole Brisson.
Our favorite part of the dining situation here is that, unlike some Strip resorts, you’ll have opportunities to splurge and save on dining, since there is a massive assortment of casual dining options in addition to fine. While many resorts stick a few fast-food chain restaurants in a corner, Resorts World added its Famous Foods Street Eats, a collection of now 17 food stalls configured as a Southeast Asian street market. No collection of throwaway chains here: It is the largest collection of Michelin Plate- and Bib Gourmand-recognized concepts under one roof. Favorites include Famous Pho, Harajuku Ramen, Burger Barn, Blood Bros. BBQ, Here Kitty Kitty Vice Den speakeasy, and many more. 

The spa
The resort has slowly rolled out some features, including its Awana Spa, which opened several months after the resort itself did. No one does spas like Las Vegas resorts, and Resorts World has managed to find a totally new concept. The space is all curvilinear walls and round rooms, though it’s the co-ed Fountain of Youth room that’s perhaps the most interesting. The country’s first Aufguss performance sauna is here, where “sauna meisters” use aromatherapy and dancing towels to move heat around. In the Art of Aufgass experience, you’ll walk through a rain tunnel, then progress through a series of cold and thermal pools, ending up in a salt and crystal laconium or tepidarium chair. And that’s all before (or after) your treatment, designed to join Eastern and Western treatments like Balinese skin rolling, Thai massage, and a California Redwoods-inspired grounding treatment of guided inhalation and massage. And while so many Vegas spas focus only on the over-the-top treatments, you can come into Awana for a quick foot spa treatment. 

The neighborhood/area
The north end of the Strip has suffered in recent years—a kind of limbo area of seamy trinket stores between the glamour of the Strip and the cool factor of Downtown. Resorts World, on the west side of the Strip, is bringing new energy to this area. Along with the land beside it (right across the street from Wynn, which is also owned by Wynn to be developed as Wynn West), the north end is getting its groove back—even though you can’t feasibly walk to Resorts World from the Strip.
The service 
Resorts World has done a great job combining high-end and accessible rooms, dining experiences, retail, and play under one very massive roof. Since its venues have slowly rolled out, so too has the service. Plus, each of the hotels functions as its own little kingdom—which is to say that you’ll find incredible service worthy of any fabulous Strip property in the venues that are on the high end. The service in the food halls and the just-opening restaurants is still emerging. It’s a giant resort with a lot of components. 

For families 
Families will love that they’ll never, ever run out of things to do and see here. Bored? Go to the massive pool deck or roam the food halls. In some respects, a stay at Resorts World feels like a stay in a giant shopping mall (in a good way). 

Eco effort 
The eco hits just keep coming. Resorts World has been approved as a stop on Tesla’s underground tunnel that will zip guests to the Las Vegas Convention Center and other stops in Las Vegas in just under two minutes. 

Accessibility 
Each of the hotels in Resorts World is fully ADA compliant with accessible rooms and suites in all three hotels—think roll-up vanities, pantry counters, lower closet rods, and hearing-impaired rooms that come with a doorbell on the hallway side and strobe alert on the inside. 

Anything left to mention? 
Resorts World is a full, standalone city on the north end of the Strip, and as such, it can feel a little disconnected from the rest of Las Vegas. While you can walk over a footbridge from Wynn into the Venetian, for instance, and even walk the length of the Strip all the way down to the south end when the weather isn’t punishing, getting in and out of Resorts World takes some doing. There’s not a pedestrian route that easily gets you to the Strip, so while there are a million things to do inside, getting out may take a little more planning here than elsewhere.
Finally, in 100 words or less, what makes this hotel worthy of Hot List? 
It takes a massive resort to invigorate a neglected section of the Las Vegas Strip. Resorts World is an entire city, with its own communities, marketplaces, and restaurant district. Play it casual in the food hall, or go high-end in its fine dining, spa, and palaces. Like any city, you’ll find your spot.

There are plenty of large resorts on the Strip that have most of the things you’re looking for in Las Vegas , but Resorts World manages to roll them all—celeb residencies, splashy restaurants, a massive gaming scene, a fabulous spa—into one. If you want to check in and not feel as though you’re missing out elsewhere, this is where to go.Those who love Las Vegas are accustomed to an implosion (although we’re trying to preserve our history these days) or a makeover. What they rarely get: a brand-new megaresort built from the ground up on a part of the Strip they wouldn’t have visited prior. Resorts World, originally conceptualized as a traditional Chinese-themed resort by its Malaysia-based owners, Genting Group, pulled out of their original theme and decided to distinguish themselves among Vegas resorts by going high-tech—think Shanghai over Beijing. Guests can use cryptocurrency and wager with a mobile wallet. Its Fred Segal store allows guests to just walk out with merch, which is detected automatically via Amazon technology; and it recently introduced “Glow,” a multi-media experience that plays simultaneously to the whole Strip on its massive, property-high LED screen and 50-foot interior globe. The crowd skews young here: These are tech-savvy partiers with some crypto to spend on entertainment (Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, and former Caesars standby Celine Dion are all residents), high-end dining (L.A. import Wally’s made news by serving a $20,000 porterhouse ribeye), and shopping (its District shopping center includes Fred Segal, Herve Leger, Judith Lieber, Sneaker Garden, and more).How short our memory is in Las Vegas. What many people think of as the vast, undiscovered territory of the north end of the Strip was once home to the iconic Stardust Resort and Casino, which anchored this end from 1958 until it was imploded in 2007. Genting Group, the first Asian gaming company to enter the Vegas resort scene, bought the property (and a bit more). Its Resorts World Las Vegas, which sits on 88 acres across from Wynn Las Vegas & Encore , was the first newly built hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in a decade when it opened in late 2021. It has also been one of the most anticipated, thanks to years-long delays and redesigns (a Great Wall of China replica, panda garden, and water park, out; but a massive rooftop pool deck, convention areas, and lots of big-ticket restaurants, in).Entering what Resorts World calls its “integrated resort” complex can be daunting, because there are three distinctly different hotels inside, each with its own entrance: the 236-room Crockfords, on floors 60-66 of the east tower; Conrad Las Vegas, the 1,496-room contemporary hotel; and the Las Vegas Hilton, whose 1,774 rooms fill the west tower. While the resort was originally billed as a Chinese hotel casino, this doesn’t look like a themed resort. Other than a few subtle exterior architectural references and lots of use of red, what you’ll experience is more a resort with clean lines and a residential feel. Rooms at the Hilton don’t depart from the expected contemporary Vegas hotel, at 400 square feet with bright, white beds, colorful contemporary art, and great views of the Vegas Valley and the mountains to the west. Conrad’s rooms are a bit larger, with smart tech features. And the Crockfords rooms are all modern elegance, with a neutral palette and nice amenities like in-room massage guns and ambassador service. Where you’ll find that Asian design scheme: the dazzling 6,500- and 7,000-square-foot palaces of Crockfords, with their own outdoor pools, karaoke rooms, formal dining room, and billiards room, and design features like walls embellished with giant pearlescent koi, and indoor-outdoor living rooms that open into pools. One of the best features of this resort is that its three separate hotel entrances allow you to go right to your room and not traverse a crowded gaming floor with your luggage. If you want to save on the room to splurge on the experience, the Hilton’s your go-to. But for a relatively small premium, the Conrad is a worth-it upgrade. And if price isn’t an object, the Crockfords villas, suites, and palaces are some of the best around.Resorts World has done a great job of balancing high-end and accessible dining experiences. Wally’s, home of the aforementioned $20,000 ribeye (but better known as the first outpost of Wally’s Wine & Spirits outside California), has been a celeb draw since it opened for its gorgeous, convivial charcuterie boards and 8,000-bottle wine selection. The resort has gradually opened its restaurants, and standouts include Carversteak, a modern steakhouse serving Japanese-certified Wagyu (check out the knife-bedecked private dining room) and one of the best new patio spaces in the city; the chic Bar Zazu, where you can sip extinct sherries with your tapas; and Brezza, a tribute to coastal Italian by locally beloved chef Nicole Brisson. Our favorite part of the dining situation here is that, unlike some Strip resorts, you’ll have opportunities to splurge and save on dining, since there is a massive assortment of casual dining options in addition to fine. While many resorts stick a few fast-food chain restaurants in a corner, Resorts World added its Famous Foods Street Eats, a collection of now 17 food stalls configured as a Southeast Asian street market. No collection of throwaway chains here: It is the largest collection of Michelin Plate- and Bib Gourmand-recognized concepts under one roof. Favorites include Famous Pho, Harajuku Ramen, Burger Barn, Blood Bros. BBQ, Here Kitty Kitty Vice Den speakeasy, and many more.The resort has slowly rolled out some features, including its Awana Spa, which opened several months after the resort itself did. No one does spas like Las Vegas resorts, and Resorts World has managed to find a totally new concept. The space is all curvilinear walls and round rooms, though it’s the co-ed Fountain of Youth room that’s perhaps the most interesting. The country’s first Aufguss performance sauna is here, where “sauna meisters” use aromatherapy and dancing towels to move heat around. In the Art of Aufgass experience, you’ll walk through a rain tunnel, then progress through a series of cold and thermal pools, ending up in a salt and crystal laconium or tepidarium chair. And that’s all before (or after) your treatment, designed to join Eastern and Western treatments like Balinese skin rolling, Thai massage, and a California Redwoods-inspired grounding treatment of guided inhalation and massage. And while so many Vegas spas focus only on the over-the-top treatments, you can come into Awana for a quick foot spa treatment.The north end of the Strip has suffered in recent years—a kind of limbo area of seamy trinket stores between the glamour of the Strip and the cool factor of Downtown. Resorts World, on the west side of the Strip, is bringing new energy to this area. Along with the land beside it (right across the street from Wynn, which is also owned by Wynn to be developed as Wynn West), the north end is getting its groove back—even though you can’t feasibly walk to Resorts World from the Strip.Resorts World has done a great job combining high-end and accessible rooms, dining experiences, retail, and play under one very massive roof. Since its venues have slowly rolled out, so too has the service. Plus, each of the hotels functions as its own little kingdom—which is to say that you’ll find incredible service worthy of any fabulous Strip property in the venues that are on the high end. The service in the food halls and the just-opening restaurants is still emerging. It’s a giant resort with a lot of components.Families will love that they’ll never, ever run out of things to do and see here. Bored? Go to the massive pool deck or roam the food halls. In some respects, a stay at Resorts World feels like a stay in a giant shopping mall (in a good way).The eco hits just keep coming. Resorts World has been approved as a stop on Tesla’s underground tunnel that will zip guests to the Las Vegas Convention Center and other stops in Las Vegas in just under two minutes.Each of the hotels in Resorts World is fully ADA compliant with accessible rooms and suites in all three hotels—think roll-up vanities, pantry counters, lower closet rods, and hearing-impaired rooms that come with a doorbell on the hallway side and strobe alert on the inside.Resorts World is a full, standalone city on the north end of the Strip, and as such, it can feel a little disconnected from the rest of Las Vegas. While you can walk over a footbridge from Wynn into the Venetian, for instance, and even walk the length of the Strip all the way down to the south end when the weather isn’t punishing, getting in and out of Resorts World takes some doing. There’s not a pedestrian route that easily gets you to the Strip, so while there are a million things to do inside, getting out may take a little more planning here than elsewhere.It takes a massive resort to invigorate a neglected section of the Las Vegas Strip. Resorts World is an entire city, with its own communities, marketplaces, and restaurant district. Play it casual in the food hall, or go high-end in its fine dining, spa, and palaces. Like any city, you’ll find your spot.