Bally's Las Vegas
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| Location | Las Vegas, NV 89109 |
| Address | 3645 Las Vegas Blvd South |
| Opening date | December 5, 1973 |
| Number of rooms | 2,814 |
| Total gaming space | 67,000 sq ft (6,200 m2) |
| Permanent shows |
Tony n' Tina's Wedding Wayne Newton: Up Close and Personal |
| Signature attractions | Grand Bazzar Shops |
| Notable restaurants | Buca di Beppo BLT Steak Lavazza Coffee Nosh Sea: The Thai Experience Sterling Brunch Tequila Taqueria |
| Casino type | Land-based |
| Owner | Caesars Entertainment Corp. |
| Architect | Martin Stern, Jr. |
| Previous names | MGM Grand Hotel and Casino |
| Renovated in | 1981, 1994, 2004, 2014 |
| Coordinates | 36°06′50″N 115°10′10″W / 36.11389°N 115.16944°WCoordinates: 36°06′50″N 115°10′10″W / 36.11389°N 115.16944°W |
| Website | ballyslasvegas |
Bally's Las Vegas, formerly the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. The hotel features 2,814 extra-sized guestrooms that are 450 sq ft (42 m2) or larger and over 175,000 sq ft (16,300 m2) of banquet and meeting space. The casino occupies 67,000 sq ft (6,200 m2). About 75% of the rooms are in the Indigo Tower, and were renovated in 2004. The remaining rooms are located in the Jubilee Tower, constructed in 1981.
The resort has a large shopping area a floor below its gaming level, including several restaurants, and there is a station along the Las Vegas Monorail at the rear of the property. Bally's was home for the long-running production show Jubilee! which opened in 1981 and ended on February 11, 2016.
On November 21, 1980, the hotel, then operating as the MGM Grand, was the site of one of the worst high-rise fires in United States history, in which 87 people died.
The 43 acres (17 ha) site was first occupied by the Three Coins Motel, which opened in 1963. The Bonanza Hotel and Casino opened on the site in July 1967. It was later renamed the New Bonanza Hotel and Casino in 1973 shortly before construction of the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino, owned by Kirk Kerkorian, began.
It opened in 1973 with 2,084 rooms for the then-staggering cost of $106m and was the largest hotel in the world at that time, and larger than the Empire State Building.
The MGM Grand opened as one of Las Vegas's first megaresorts on December 5, 1973. Dean Martin was the entertainer on opening night. It was the largest hotel in the world at its opening and would remain so for several years. When the hotel was built, it set a new standard of size and luxury in Las Vegas, and is considered to have made the biggest impact on Las Vegas until the construction of Steve Wynn's Mirage Hotel in the late 1980s.
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