New hotels in Las Vegas

Las Vegas packs more than 150,000 hotel rooms into a few distinct corridors — the neon Strip, Downtown's Fremont Street, and the quieter, master-planned Summerlin. Which stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard you pick decides your walk to the casino floor, your nightly rate and your distance from the newest towers. The north Strip has hosted the city's two biggest recent openings, Resorts World Las Vegas (2021) and Fontainebleau Las Vegas (2023), adding more than 7,000 rooms to a once-underbuilt stretch of the Boulevard.

What to do

A weekend in las-vegas

Two nights is enough for one casino resort, one show and one classic Strip walk. Spend an evening on Center Strip to see the Bellagio fountains and the Linq Promenade, keep a morning for the Fremont Street Experience downtown, and book a pool day if your dates land on a warm afternoon. Reserve dinner and any headline show in advance — the Strip's best tables and residencies sell out on weekend nights, especially when a convention or Formula 1 week overlaps with your stay.

A full week

A longer stay leaves room to get off the Boulevard entirely. Red Rock Canyon and its scenic loop drive are a short trip from Summerlin, Hoover Dam is under an hour from the Strip, and Valley of Fire State Park makes an easy half-day out. Downtown's Neon Museum and Mob Museum cover the city's history in a couple of hours each, and a day at Downtown Summerlin or the Las Vegas Ballpark shows a side of the city most Strip-only visitors never see.

Neighborhoods

North Strip: convention business and the newest towers

The north Strip runs from Wynn and Encore up past The STRAT, and it is where the city's biggest recent hotel construction has landed. Resorts World Las Vegas opened here in June 2021 with 3,500 rooms split across three Hilton brands — Las Vegas Hilton, Conrad and the ultra-luxury Crockfords — the first ground-up Strip resort in over a decade. Fontainebleau Las Vegas followed in December 2023 with 3,644 rooms, next door to the Las Vegas Convention Center. Both sit within walking distance of the convention campus, making this stretch the default choice for trade-show and conference travelers, alongside leisure guests who want new construction over an older mid-Strip tower. Pedestrian traffic is lighter than Center Strip, though the walk between resorts is longer.

Center Strip: the walkable core

Between Treasure Island and Planet Hollywood, Center Strip is the only fully walkable stretch of the Boulevard, packing Bellagio, Caesars Palace and the Linq Promenade into a compact core. It is the highest-density tourist zone in the city — the best base for a first Las Vegas trip built around casino floors, restaurants and shows reachable on foot — and also the most congested on weekend nights. Room rates here sit at the top of the Strip range, and resort fees are standard across nearly every property.

South Strip: Mandalay Bay to the airport corridor

South of Planet Hollywood, the Boulevard runs past Luxor, Excalibur, Delano and Mandalay Bay, the southernmost resort on the Strip proper, before continuing toward the Russell Road and Blue Diamond Road interchanges near Harry Reid International Airport. This corridor trades a few minutes of walking distance to the casino core for calmer sidewalks and nightly rates that can run meaningfully below Center Strip equivalents for comparable rooms — a practical pick for red-eye arrivals, convention-goers using Mandalay Bay Convention Center, or travelers prioritizing an easy airport run over a Bellagio-fountain view. The free Aria Express Tram connects this end of the Strip north toward Center Strip.

Downtown Las Vegas: Fremont Street

Downtown, bordered roughly by the rail line to the west and Charleston Boulevard to the south, centers on Fremont Street, where four blocks run under an arched, neon-lit canopy. Hotels here — Golden Nugget, Circa, Downtown Grand, Plaza and the vintage El Cortez among them — tend to charge lower resort fees than Strip properties and put guests within walking distance of the Neon Museum and Mob Museum. As Strip resort fees have climbed, Downtown has drawn a growing share of visitors chasing a cheaper, more local-feeling alternative to the Boulevard, with a livelier dining and bar scene than its reputation as a purely budget district suggests.

Off-Strip and Summerlin: quiet, golf and Red Rock Canyon

West of the interstate, Summerlin is a master-planned community built around Downtown Summerlin's shopping and dining, the Las Vegas Ballpark, and direct access to Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Red Rock Casino Resort and the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa anchor the area's hotel offer, both aimed at travelers who want golf, hiking access and distance from Strip crowds over a casino-floor address. The trade-off is a drive of twenty minutes or more into the Strip corridor, which makes this pairing best suited to a rental car and a trip built around Red Rock Canyon rather than nightly casino visits.

Which hotel for your trip

Traveling for a convention or trade show

The north Strip is built for this: Resorts World Las Vegas offers roughly 250,000 square feet of meeting and event space, and Fontainebleau Las Vegas adds around 550,000 square feet of convention space next to the Las Vegas Convention Center itself. Both put attendees within a short walk or Vegas Loop ride of the campus, cutting the daily shuttle time that convention-goers based on Center or South Strip often lose to traffic.

Traveling as a couple

Adults-focused amenities are concentrated at the newer north Strip resorts: Resorts World's 5.5-acre pool complex includes the adults-only AYU Dayclub, and Fontainebleau's two-level Lapis Spa runs 55,000 square feet across 44 treatment rooms. Center Strip adds fine dining and headline shows within walking distance for an evening out, so pairing a north Strip stay with a night or two spent on foot in the Center Strip core covers both the quiet-day and the going-out sides of a couple's trip.

First trip or budget-focused travelers

Downtown Las Vegas is the more affordable base: lower resort fees than most Strip towers, walking access to Fremont Street's free light shows, and enough casino floors to cover a first-timer's curiosity without the Boulevard's peak-season rates. It suits travelers prioritizing nightly cost and a compact, walkable footprint over proximity to the newest megaresorts.

Traveling with a rental car, off the Strip

Summerlin works for travelers who want a Las Vegas trip that is not built entirely around the Boulevard — Red Rock Canyon access, golf and Downtown Summerlin's shopping and dining sit minutes from Red Rock Casino Resort and the JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa. A car is close to essential here, since the drive back into the Strip corridor runs twenty minutes or more depending on traffic.

Frequently asked questions

What is the newest hotel in Las Vegas?

Among the largest recent Strip openings, Fontainebleau Las Vegas opened in December 2023 with 3,644 rooms on the north Strip, following Resorts World Las Vegas, which opened in June 2021 with 3,500 rooms across three Hilton brands. Both remain the two biggest new-construction hotel openings the Strip has seen since 2020.

Which Las Vegas hotels have a full spa?

Fontainebleau Las Vegas runs the 55,000-square-foot Lapis Spa with 44 treatment rooms, sauna and steam room, and Resorts World Las Vegas operates a 27,000-square-foot spa with 23 treatment rooms. Both sit on the north Strip and pair spa access with large pool decks, including Resorts World's adults-only AYU Dayclub.

Where should I stay near the Las Vegas Convention Center?

The north Strip is closest: Fontainebleau Las Vegas sits next to the Convention Center campus, and Resorts World Las Vegas shares a dedicated Vegas Loop tunnel station with it. Both cut the shuttle or rideshare time that convention-goers based on Center or South Strip typically lose during trade-show weeks.

Is Downtown Las Vegas worth staying in instead of the Strip?

For travelers prioritizing lower resort fees and a compact, walkable footprint, yes — Fremont Street's casinos, free light shows, and the nearby Neon Museum and Mob Museum sit within a few blocks of each other. The trade-off is distance from the Strip's newest megaresorts, roughly a ten-to-fifteen-minute drive or rideshare south.

Can I stay in Las Vegas without renting a car?

Center Strip is fully walkable between Bellagio, Caesars Palace and the Linq Promenade, and the free Aria Express Tram connects the South Strip to Center Strip. The north Strip and Downtown are each walkable internally but require a rideshare or the monorail to reach other corridors comfortably.

Which Las Vegas hotel has an adults-only pool?

Resorts World Las Vegas includes the adults-only AYU Dayclub within its 5.5-acre pool complex on the north Strip, alongside what the resort describes as the only infinity-edge pool on the Strip. It is one of the newer adults-focused pool options among the Strip's 2020s openings.