This Red Hot Resort Attracts Celebrities and Entertainers
• This trendy hotspot is home to Ghostbar, an ultra-modern high-rise club that hosts album-release parties.
• Designer Italian bedding and pillowtop mattresses provide star treatment in guestrooms.
• This 55-story hotel is conveniently located two miles west of the Strip, five miles from McCarran Airport and the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Palms Casino Location: Just west of 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 Options at
The
Palms
Alizé - (pictured left) Fifty-five stories above the desert floor and offering views of the neon-lit Strip through window walls, this restaurant features nouvelle-French and California culinary stylings. Open for dinner.
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.
Garduño's of Mexico - Locally acclaimed, this rustic Mexican restaurant includes fajitas and margaritas bars and features Mexican-accented pastas as well as classic Mexican dishes. Open for lunch and dinner.
Little Buddha - (pictured at right) 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.
Festival Market Buffet - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets. Seven ethnic cooking stations and a Wednesday night luau.
Sunrise Café - Light and full meals featuring American and Chinese selections. Open 24 hours.
Food Court - Ben & Jerry's ice cream, McDonald's, Asian fast-food, Mexican fast-food, pizza, coffee/pastry shop.
Room service is available 24 hours.
Entertainment at The Palms
Sleekly decorated in silver, black, and green-neon lighting, Ghostbar hovers 52 stories above Las Vegas. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide dazzling views of The Strip's lights. A balcony contains a plexiglass dance floor through which the pool complex can be seen below. A DJ spins hip-hop dance music on Tuesday nights.
Site of special events, album-release parties, and concerts presented by headliners such as Kiss and Ozzy Osbourne, the three-story nightclub Rain features an elevated dance floor surrounded by a moat and covered by a ceiling from which pyrotechnics shoot. The top level offers VIP booths fronted by beaded curtains. The middle level offers waterbed-type seats. Open Thursday through Saturday.
On Tuesday and Saturday nights, The Palms' hip pool complex kicks it up a notch and becomes the Skin Pool Lounge. Plexiglas platforms rise in the main pool, supporting sexy dancers who writhe as if on water. Mermaids cavort in a raised pool with viewing windows. A band plays dance music. Two poolside bars, one offering open-air blackjack, supply tropical drinks.
The 95,000-square-foot Casino supplies slots, video poker, blackjack, craps, pai gow, and roulette and includes high-limit areas, a keno lounge, and a 190-seat race and sports book with 148 individual televisions. The Palms also offers bingo.
Club Palms offers free membership cards that earn points for slot, video poker, video keno, keno, and race-and-sports book play. The cards also earn points for making cash purchases in restaurants, hotel, health spa, barber/beauty shop, and gift shop. Points may be used like cash throughout the resort.
Rooms at the Palms Casino Resort
The Palms Resort 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.
Palms Casino Resort
4321 W. Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89103
Hotel Details:
Check-in time: 3 p.m., 4 p.m. on Sundays.
Check-out time: 12 p.m.
Policies: The maximum total number of guests
(adults and children) in a room is four.
Number of rooms: 455.
Casino: Yes, 95,000 square feet. 2,200 slot
machines and video poker machines, table
games, two high limit areas, classic poker
room, keno lounge. The casino has a poker
room.
Race & sports book: Yes, a 187-seat race and
sports book, equipped with 180 televisions
and 18 big screens.
Restaurants: The Palms has the following
dining options: Garduños, Alizé, N9NE,
24/Seven, Fantasy Market Buffet, Little
Buddha, Blue Agave Oyster & Chile Bar and a
food court.
Entertainment: Entertainment can be found at
Rain Las Vegas, a three-story nightclub; ghostbar; 14-theater Brenden Theatres; The
Lounge; and Skinny Dip Tuesdays.
Pool: Yes, one large pool and two wading
pools, each 1 foot deep, plus a Jacuzzi.
**The pool will reopen April 14, 2006.**
Health Club: Yes.
Spa: Yes, the 20,000-square-foot Spa at the
Palms offers multiple types of massages and
services. The spa also has Amp, a
full-service salon.
Shops: Stuff, Hart & Huntington Tattoo
Company, Cosmic Corner, hotel gift shop.
Wedding Chapel: No, but weddings can be
planned for the pool courtyard with
specialty wedding cabanas and private
gardens.
Parking Garage: Yes, two.
Convention rooms: Yes, 9,000 square feet.
Business Center: Yes.
In-room computer data port: Yes. Rooms also
have Web TV.
Wheelchair accessible rooms: Yes.
RV park: No.
Minimum age to reserve a room: 21 years.
Child care facilities: Yes, the Palms offers
limited child-care facilities; however, the
facility is temporarily closed until
October.
Pets allowed: No.
Room service: Yes.
Shuttle Service to the airport: Shuttle
service to and from the airport available
for a fee from an outside company.
Shuttle Service to the Strip: A shuttle
departs the Palms for the Fashion Show mall
at 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m.
and 5 p.m. The shuttle leaves the Fashion
Show for the Forum Shops at 10:15 a.m.,
11:45 a.m., 2:15 p.m., 3:45 p.m. and 5:15
p.m. The shuttle returns to the Palms from
the Forum Shops at 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 2:30
p.m., 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
Standard room amenities: Air conditioning,
hair dryer, coffee machine, iron and ironing
board, on-command/pay-per-view movies,
Egyptian cotton duvets, remote-controlled
cable TV, alarm clock/radio, desk,
electronic door locks, in-room safe,
on-television Internet access, minibar,
telephone and voice mail.
Hotel amenities: Concierge, beauty salon,
currency exchange, laundry, luggage and maid
service, safety deposit box, wake-up call.
Incidental charges: The Palms charges a $1
per day phone fee. Hotel requires a credit
card or a cash deposit for incidental
charges.
Interesting facts about the Palms: The Palms
is home to the only tattoo parlor in a Vegas
hotel -- Hart & Huntington Tattoo Company.
Guests can stay in the 2,900-square-foot
"The Real World" suite built for the filming
of the MTV show's 12th season. The Palms
also has two Playpen suites specifically
designed for bachelor and bachelorette
parties. Each suite has a stripper pole. At
the top of the resort, ghostbar features a
glass-bottom floor in a portion of its deck,
allowing patrons a view of the city 55
stories below them. The Palms also has a
tarot card reader available daily.
This Red Hot Resort Attracts Celebrities and Entertainers
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.
Alizé - (pictured left) Fifty-five stories above the desert floor and offering views of the neon-lit Strip through window walls, this restaurant features nouvelle-French and California culinary stylings. Open for dinner.
The Palms Resort 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.
