In our effort to find out which casino has the most floor space and which has the least, we were surprised to discover that even the casinos themselves sometimes don’t know their exact size for sure. Nothing ever stays the same for long in this town and when it comes to room counts, numbers of slot machines, or even square footage, pinning down definitive numbers is like trying to herd cats. However, although small fluctuations are continually taking place, the ends of the spectrum remain pretty constant. The MGM Grand easily comes out on top, weighing in with a staggering 171,500 square feet of gambling space (give or take). This vast area is host to about 3,000 slots and around 200 table games.
Some other heavyweights include: Mandalay Bay, at around 135,000 square feet, and Luxor with 120,000, approximately. None of them comes close to competing with the gargantuan Foxwoods casino in Connecticut, however, which at 340,000 square feet is the biggest in the world (see: QoD 07/26/2005).
What we believe to be, and what was confirmed to us as the smallest casino in town, is the Gold Spike, located downtown, with a mere 5,800 square feet of gambling space. Still, even the tiny Gold Spike manages to fit more than 300 slots into its diminutive casino.
