This used to be the location of the Hard Rock Hotel for 15 years, off the strip on Paradise Road, but it got a revamp from top to bottom for the rebranding. While this is a new resort property, the Virgin Las Vegas is not the first hotel on this site. The hotel is managed by Hilton as a Curio Collection property, so you can also earn or cash in points. You can even park your car for free if you drive here, another Vegas rarity. The price you see on booking sites is the actual nightly rate before taxes that includes everything a hotel includes in normal cities, with no surprises. For now anyway, the marketing people have won out over the accountants. I’m hoping I don’t have to come back and edit this later like we had to do for other hotels that opened with a “no resort fee” promise and then caught the bait-and-switch virus later and reneged. Plus Virgin has a big, huge, massive competitive advantage in this city: No resort fees!

The intimate spaces scattered throughout have thoughtful design touches to make you smile. One of the newest hotels to open as of late 2021, it manages to pack a lot into the buildings holding its 1,500+ rooms, but it does that without feeling overwhelming. In a city that’s all about being bigger and more extreme, Virgin Hotel Las Vegas feels like a cool breath of fresh air.

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