Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino is a 43-story luxury hotel casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. It is owned by MGM Mirage. Five floors (floors 35–39) of the main hotel building are used by the five-star and AAA Five-Diamond Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas.[1] The top 3 floors (numbered as floors 70-72) are penthouses, with a penthouse lounge on level 72 for guests staying in the penthouses. It is connected by the free Mandalay Bay Tram to its sister properties, Excalibur and Luxor.

Mandalay Bay has 3,309 hotel rooms and a casino of 135,000 sq ft (12,500 m2). The adjacent Mandalay Bay Convention Center has almost 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2) of space. In addition, the Mandalay Bay Events Center hosts events including boxing, the UFC's MMA pay-per-views and concerts. It hosted the Latin Grammy Awards in 2007 and 2009.

Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino

Address : 3950 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119

Opening date: March 2, 2000

Theme: Beach Resort

No. of rooms: 3,309

Total gaming space: 135,000 sq ft (12,500 m2)

Signature attractions: Shark Reef
House of Blues
Notable restaurants Aureole
"Alain Ducasse MiX"
Charlie Palmer Steak
Fleur de Lys
"Red Square"
"RM Seafood"
"Shanghai Lilly"
"Stripsteak"

Casino type : Land-Based

Owner: MGM Mirage

Previous names: Hacienda (imploded to make way for Mandalay Bay)

Years renovated: 2002, 2007

Website: www.mandalaybay.com

History

On December 31, 1996, the Hacienda was imploded to make way for Mandalay Bay.

The working title for the $950 million resort and casino was "Project Paradise", officially replaced with Mandalay Bay in 1998.

During construction engineers discovered vertical movements and particularly differential movements ('dishing') between the tower core and the wings. The tower core was sinking at a rate of 1/2 to 3/4 inches per week and the wings were sinking at a slower rate causing differential distortion between the column bays. If these movements were not stopped structural damage would occur. Construction was halted while a solution was developed and implemented. The solution proved to be the installation of micro-piles (formerly marketed as 'Pin Piles') filled with grout 200 feet deep below the structure each capped with a hydraulic jack to stabilize the structure at the desired vertical height to carry the weight[2]. Since then, there have not been any reports of this problem recurring.

The gold coloring of the hotel is a result of gold leaf used on the windows.

The resort opened on March 2, 2000, with actors Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, and John Goodman headlining a parade of Harley-Davidson motorcycles through Mandalay Bay's front doors to celebrate the grand opening.

The convention center was added in January 2003. When it opened, it was ranked as the fifth largest in the United States. It also offered the largest unobstructed ballroom in the country, at 100,000 ft² (9,000 m²).

In 2004 a new 43-story tower was opened with 1,120 suites, called THEhotel at Mandalay Bay. The hotel contains 1,117 one-bedroom suites, each at least 750 square feet (70 m2). The top floor of THEhotel is a restaurant and bar called Mix. The bar has an age restriction of 21+.

Mandalay Bay is connected to Luxor by both a monorail and shopping mall called Mandalay Place which also features restaurants.

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that a condo-hotel called THEplace is planned on land across from the hotel belonging to the Luxor.