The Most Famous Movie Hotels in Las Vegas
Famous movie hotels along the Las Vegas Strip have water fountains, miniature editions of a pyramid, canals of Venice, and the Eiffel Tower of Paris.
No other place embodies so much glamour, and nowhere else has as many movie hotels as Las Vegas.
The most famous Movie Hotels in Las Vegas are recommended by Sigrid from My Travel Diary USA.
In over 100 film productions, glamorous Las Vegas-themed hotels were used as a location.
Some of them have already disappeared, including The Mirage and the Tropicana in 2024, but there are still plenty of places where you can follow in the footsteps of well-known films.
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1. Bellagio
The Hotel Bellagio is glamorous, stylish, and very luxurious, and it is one of the most famous hotels in Las Vegas.
It is very popular as a movie set and appears in films such as Rush Hour 2, Lucky You and 2012.
Remember the Ocean’s films with Brad Pitt and George Clooney? Bellagio was the location for scenes in Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Thirteen.
The film scenes were shot at the casino, the botanical garden, and the entrance area with the glass ceiling.
However, the most well-known scene was shot in front of the hotel at the water fountain, where everyone gathered at the end to watch the impressive spectacle.
2. Caesars Palace: Known From The Hangover
Caesars Palace is one of Las Vegas’s most famous hotels, built in the style of an ancient Roman palace.
It is known for the concerts at its Colosseum, where many music stars perform. Well-known movie scenes from Rain Man and Iron Man were also filmed there.
Not to forget The Hangover, in which four friends head to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. The movie shows the hotel’s lobby, check-in desk and pool.
3. The Venetian: Welcome to Italy
From ancient Rome, it’s time to go to Venice because the next film hotel in Las Vegas is the Venetian.
Together with the Palazzo and over 7,000 suites, it is one of the largest hotels in the world and one of the highlights of the Strip. It is a copy of Venice, with replicas of the canals, St. Mark’s Square and the Rialto Bridge.
The Venetian was also a location for the comedy Rat Race, a madcap race to Silver City, New Mexico, where the first to arrive wins $2 million from a locker.
4. Treasure Island and Its Pirate Ships
Inspired by thrilling sailor adventures, Treasure Island is just across the street from Hotel Venetian.
The pirate show in front of Treasure Island, where performers swung from ship to ship, ended in 2013. The cove with its ships is still in front of the hotel, though, and makes a good photo stop.
Treasure Island was the backdrop for Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, in which Sandra Bullock plays an FBI agent searching for two kidnapped colleagues. She finds them in one of the ships as it floods and saves them from drowning at the last minute.
5. The Mirage (Closed in 2024)
The Mirage was designed to make you feel like you were in a tropical rainforest, with exotic plants, waterfalls and orchids. It closed in July 2024 and is being rebuilt as Hard Rock Las Vegas, due to open in 2027, so you can no longer visit the original.
Its lobby had water features and flower arrangements under a glass dome, with tropical landscaping everywhere.
The Mirage was one of the best-known film hotels in Las Vegas. Films such as Vegas Vacation and the Siegfried and Roy documentary The Magic Box were shot there.
It also appears in Leaving Las Vegas, in which an alcoholic writer goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death after burning his belongings. He was played by Nicolas Cage, one of my favorite actors.
6. Horseshoe Las Vegas (Formerly Bally’s)
Horseshoe Las Vegas, called Bally’s until 2022, has a superb location right on the Strip, next to Paris and across from Bellagio and Caesars Palace. The Flamingo is an easy walk away.
Scenes from two films starring Nicolas Cage were shot at Bally’s: Leaving Las Vegas and Honeymoon in Vegas.
In the romantic comedy Honeymoon in Vegas, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicolas Cage plays a man who never wanted to get married but then changed his mind.
The film shows, for example, the hotel’s pool, where the leading actress appears in a bikini.
7. The Tropicana (Closed in 2024)
Opened in 1957, the Tropicana was one of the older hotels in Las Vegas. It closed in April 2024 and was demolished that October to make way for a baseball stadium, so this one now lives on only in films.
For almost 50 years, the Tropicana was home to the Folies Bergère show. Its showgirls can be seen in the Elvis movie Viva Las Vegas and the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
8. The Flamingo: One of the First Casino Hotels
The Flamingo opened in 1946, making it one of the oldest hotels on the Strip, and it has seen better days.
The Hotel Flamingo has everything a visitor needs, including an integrated casino, shopping area, pool, and parking garage.
The Flamingo also served as the backdrop for scenes from the original Ocean’s 11 (1960) and Leaving Las Vegas.
9. Planet Hollywood: What Happens in Vegas
Planet Hollywood is one of the largest hotels in Las Vegas and is very popular with visitors.
Scenes for What Happens in Vegas were filmed here.
In the comedy, Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz get drunk together and wake up married.
10. Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino
The golden Mandalay Bay is at the south end of the Strip, near the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign and Harry Reid International Airport. You can see its golden facade from far away.
Inside the hotel, you can walk through Shark Reef, an aquarium tunnel with sharks. The most impressive feature is the huge pool complex, designed like a tropical island with a sand beach and wave pool.
If you know the Rocky films, Mandalay Bay is a movie hotel you will recognize. The final fight between Rocky and Mason Dixon in Rocky Balboa was shot there.
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