Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, Casino hotel near Las Vegas Convention Center, Nevada
The Westgate Las Vegas Resort combines a hotel tower with nearly three thousand rooms and a gaming floor of over fifty thousand square feet featuring machines and tables. The complex spans a large site near the Convention Center and offers several restaurants along with a connection to the monorail.
Real estate developer Kirk Kerkorian bought the racetrack site in 1967 and opened the International Hotel on July 2, 1969, with Martin Stern Jr. as architect. Hilton Hotels bought it and renamed it the Las Vegas Hilton in July 1971, adding expansions in 1975 and 1979; an arson in 1981 killed eight people. It became the LVH in 2012 and was bought by Westgate Resorts in 2014.
The hotel's name comes from the International Hotel, opened in 1969, whose rooms were decorated to the standards of several countries and whose floors carried Spanish, Italian or French themes. Restaurants served Bavarian, Italian, Japanese and Mexican dishes, and staff wore kilts, Slavic tops and French gendarme uniforms. Elvis Presley began a seven-year run of 636 consecutive sold-out shows here on 31 July 1969.
The Westgate station of the Las Vegas Monorail sits at the front of the property, and the Vegas Loop also stops here. The site lies on the east side of Paradise Road, about 0.4 miles east of Las Vegas Boulevard, with the Convention Center to the south and the Country Club to the east.
The sports betting hall on the ground floor is considered one of the largest of its kind and draws fans from many countries. Screens cover the walls and show competitions from around the world in real time.
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