Features
What to expect: A tribute to Roman opulence, Caesars Palace opened in 1966 as a destination for celebrities and high rollers. Periodic expansion adhered to the theme while sparing a garden of cypresses, statues, and pools buffering the resort from The Strip. Marble, gilt, and crystal still set the tone as thousands troop through. Gladiators, Cleopatra look-alikes, and toga-clad beauties wander throughout. Amenity highlights: A spectacle of Roman-style grandeur featuring cypresses, palm trees, marble columns, and classical statues, the 4.5-acre Garden of the Gods supplies four pools and two 12-person spa tubs set amid lovely statues. The focal point is the round, 10,000-square-foot Palace Pool containing a rotunda in which stands an outsized, gilded statue of Caesar. The rectangular Neptune Pool provides 5,000 square feet of lap-swimming space. Screened from the others, the narrow, 150-foot-long Venus Pool welcomes topless sunbathers. The fourth pool was added in 2004. Cabanas with television, telephone, ceiling fan, and padded lounges are available for rent. Insider tip: By going to the Caesars Palace desk near luggage carousel Number 1, guests arriving at the airport may check into their rooms while waiting for luggage to arrive.
Bradley Ogden - The celebrated San Francisco Bay Area chef prepares seasonal dishes such as hot and cold foie gras with kumquats, crispy black bass, and gnocchi with morels, asparagus, and braised veal. Contemporary decor of warm woods, fabric-draped lights, round booths. 808 - Memorializing the Hawaiian area code where chef Jean-Marie Josselin achieved fame, 808 features fare such as roast duck with lilikoi-caramel glaze under a ceiling of copper seashells. Vialé - Casual Italian trattoria restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Offers zeppole (Neapolitan doughnuts) and specialty coffees for breakfast, panini and focaccia sandwiches for lunch, antipasti and entrées of chicken, lamb, quail, and beef for dinner.
Palm Restaurant - An outpost of the legendary New York steakhouse, this place features prime-grade beef, Italian-style veal dishes, and jumbo lobsters. Spago - This spot replicates celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck's original casual-dining, fusion-food Hollywood restaurant with choices such as roast John Dory with shrimp couscous, blue crab salad, and lamb with baked polenta. Chinoise - Another example of a Wolfgang Puck restaurant that outlived the Los Angeles original, Chinoise features dim sum, sushi, noodles, and Asian-accented dishes such as lobster in coconut-curry sauce. Empress Court - This ornate, second-floor restaurant overlooks the pool complex, features Asian delicacies such as shark's fin, abalone, and bird's nests, and keeps seafood fresh in live tanks. Hyakumi - Servers in kimonos. Japanese garden. Sushi, teppanyaki, and other Japanese specialties. Asian noodles for lunch. Neros - Intimate steakhouse serving beef, seafood, lamb, chicken, veal, and prime rib and featuring the Caesar salad, crab cakes, and chocolate soufflé. Terrazza - Tuscan-style, traditional, and contemporary Italian fare such as pastas, risotti, grilled lamb, and seared ahi with balsamic vinegar. Terrace seating by the pool complex and inside under an elaborate dome. Fronted by a lounge offering live jazz Wednesday-Sunday. Café Lago - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets, plus a 24-hour à la carte menu. Big booths, long banquettes, and poolside terrace seating. Mesa Grill - Innovative Southwestern cuisine by award-winning chef/TV personality Bobby Flay. Cypress Street Marketplace - This nine-shop food court includes everything from pizza to wok-cooked dishes. The Cheesecake Factory - Chain restaurant featuring long global menu, huge portions, many cheesecakes and other desserts. Bertolini's - Pasta, pizza, Italian fare in casual setting, with expansive "sidewalk" seating inside The Forum Shops. Planet Hollywood - Movie memorabilia and long American-food menu. La Salsa - Mexican specialties and margarita bar. Spanish Steps Bar - Serves 50 frozen-fruit cocktails under an umbrella-style, permanent structure. Seats 250. Stage Deli - New York-style deli sandwiches, cheesecake, matzo-ball soup. Post-Time Deli - Burgers and hot dogs in race and sports book. Room service is available 24 hours.
Situated at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, the Roman Plaza serves as a vibrant welcome center to the "new" Caesars Palace. The Plaza offers a vast array of dining and entertainment experiences, accessible to guests entering the property from the Boulevard's pedestrian bridges before they proceed into the Palace proper. The Colosseum at Caesars Palace is a luxurious 4,100-seat theater with state-of-the-art electronics and unsurpassed acoustics—home to "A New Day," the theatrical spectacular starring Celine Dion, created by Franco Dragone and presented by Chrysler. Additionally, February 2004 marked the debut of Elton John's exclusive three-year agreement to headline with an all-new production titled "The Red Piano". The Colosseum Way is an expansive new pedestrian gateway, leading visitors from the resort's Las Vegas Boulevard entrance to the Colosseum, The Forum Shops at Caesars, and other attractions including an Elton John boutique and the porte cochere, refaced with a classic pediment and Corinthian columns, similar to those of the Palace Tower. Added casino space includes the Palace court high-limit slot casino and the Seahorse Lounge. Under a sky-painted ceiling whose lighting varies from morning to evening, The Forum Shops mall offers shopping, dining, and entertainment amid a depiction of an ancient Roman neighborhood. Shops number nearly 100 and restaurants and cafés a dozen. Entertainment includes a sound-light-laser show featuring Roman gods at one giant fountain and, at another, a fire-water-smoke show during which mythical Atlantis rises and falls in a 50,000-gallon aquarium while outsized, animatronic characters struggle to rule the island. In two casinos of different character, Caesars Palace supplies 129,000 square feet of slots, video poker, blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, min-baccarat, pai gow poker, and pai gow. Included are a high-limit salon and a race and sports book offering individual flat-screen televisions and plush table seating. The hotel's original Palace Casino remains draped in crystal. The newer Forum Casino features a high ceiling, one half sleek, black, and all curves and the other half elaborately decorated in Roman classical style. Caesars Palace Amphitheatre - With permanent seating for 1,600, this venue on the Roman Plaza expands in various configurations to accommodate 4,500. Belle Luce - A 200-seat venue for private functions, designed around a Roman rotunda, with fountains and statuary.
Caesars Entertainment offers free membership cards that consolidate in single accounts slot and gaming-table play at five casinos: Caesars Palace, Bally's Las Vegas, Paris Las Vegas, and Flamingo Las Vegas. Members earn cash and/or comp rewards redeemable for food, drink, and hotel services and facilities. Members also receive 10-percent discounts at gift shops owned by the hotels and may charge expenditures at all five hotels to their rooms. At the Shadow Bar, juggling bartenders entertain up front while topless dancers perform in silhouette behind screens flanking the bar. Clubbers rock the night away at Cleopatra's Barge, where the dance floor is located on a floating barge.
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