3. Caesars Palace is a AAA Four Diamond luxury hotel and casino located
on the Las Vegas Strip.
Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment
Corporation and is located on the west side of the Strip, between the
Bellagio and the Mirage. The hotel includes a convention facility of over
300,000 square feet (28,000 m2).
Caesars has 3,960 rooms in six towers: Augustus, Centurion (now Nobu),
Roman, Palace, Octavius, and Forum. The Forum tower features guest
suites with 1,000 square feet (93 m2) of space.
In 1962, Jay Sarno, a cabana motel owner, used US$35 million that had
been lent to him by the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund to begin
plans for a hotel on land owned by Kirk Kerkorian. Sarno would later act
as designer of the hotel he planned to construct. Construction of the 14-
story Caesars Palace hotel began in 1962. That first tower had 680
rooms on the 34-acre (14 ha) site.
4. Over the years, the hotel has been owned by various
companies, including Sheraton and The Hilton International
Corporation, Caesars Entertainment bought the property in
2001 before it merged with Harrah's in 2005.
5. Caesars offers additional attractions including:
Fall of Atlantis—free show; features Animatronics, fountains,
and fire effects
Festival Fountain—free show
Pure Nightclub a nightclub
A number of world-famous restaurants and celebrity chefs
The Pussycat Dolls Lounge, an adjunct of the Pure Nightclub
In February 2006, a section of the casino was designed to
match the Pussycat Dolls Nightclub and is called the Pussycat
Dolls Casino.
During the 1980s, the hotel opened an Atari game room that
had over 60 Atari video game arcade machines.
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16. •Hell's Angels '69 (1969)
•The Only Game in Town (1969)
•Where It's At (1969)
•The Electric Horseman (1979)
•Pleasure Palace
•History of the World, Part I (1981)
•Rocky III (1982)
•Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
•You Ruined My Life (1987)
•Rain Man (1988); setting of the iconic
card counting sequence.
•Hearts Are Wild (1992)
•Showgirls (1995)
•Fools Rush In (1997)
•The Strip (1999)
•Rush Hour 2 (2001)
•Ocean's Eleven (2001)
•Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
•Dreamgirls (2006)
•Category 6: Day of Destruction
•Iron Man (2008); in the opening scene, Tony
Stark gambles during an awards ceremony in which
his friend Obadiah Stane accepts the award on his
behalf.
•The Hangover (2009); the main characters stayed in
the hotel.
•In the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San
Andreas, Caesars Palace appears in the fictional city
of Las Venturas, but with the name "Caligula's Palace".
The casino is a major part of the game's plot, in which
the main character must pull off a robbery heist on the
casino, which is run by the mafia.
•2012 (2009); Caesars Palace and the other hotels
along the Las Vegas Strip collapse into the ground
after being hit by a cloud from the Yellowstone
Caldera eruption.
•The Guilt Trip (2012)
•The Hangover Part III (2013)
•Godzilla (2014); Caesars Palace, along with many
other Strip casino hotels are seen destroyed and
immensely damaged.
•Step Up: All In (2014)