Currently, there are several significant hotels in Las Vegas – including Trump International, Platinum, Signature at MGM Grand, Vdara, and the off-Strip Westin Las Vegas and Platinum – that are non-smoking, but these also happen to be non-casino properties. That could be changing, however. One casino-hotel that we know about for certain is Luxor, which is going to a no-smoking policy on January 1. If you get caught having lit up in the room, you’ll get dinged with an extra $300 (minimum) added to your bill, to pay for the necessary deep cleaning.
Among other MGM Resorts International properties, Aria is already a non-smoking hotel (and does it utmost to keep the casino as smoke-free as possible -- see QoD 10/23/15) while Bellagio is phasing out its smoking rooms … but still has plenty in its inventory. You can smoke on the 19th floor and on all but two of the suite floors (numbers 21 through 30). Circus Circus and the Delano have also quietly gone the smoke-free route, as have Monte Carlo and New York-New York. Not making the transition are Excalibur, where you can smoke on the first three floors, Mandalay Bay, which permits smoking on its 10th and 61st floors, and MGM Grand and The Mirage, which have two smoking floors apiece.
If MGM is trending toward going smoke-free, Caesars Entertainment is standing pat. Only its newest hotel, The Cromwell, bans smoking in the hotel rooms. Bally’s Las Vegas permits it on the 25th floor of the Indigo Tower and the 12th floor of the Jubilee Tower. The air was cloudier at Caesars Palace, where we were told, "We don’t have too, too many [smoking rooms] but don’t have the exact information." At the Flamingo Las Vegas, the 11th and 26th floors allow smoking, while Harrah’s Las Vegas permits it on four floors of the Carnival Tower. The LINQ's seventh floor is smoker-friendly but Nobu Hotel is smoke-free. Paris Las Vegas’ newly redone "red rooms" on the 27th floor still allow smoking and there are smoking floors at Planet Hollywood, but staff couldn’t give us a number as to how many. The Rio has five smoking floors in the Masquerade Tower.
Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian and Palazzo are smoker-friendly turf, with three smoking floors in Palazzo, two in The Venetian, and one in the Venezia Tower. Both Wynn Las Vegas and Encore have two smoking floors per tower.
Among the newer hotels, Mandarin Oriental is totally smoke-free, as is the Cosmopolitan, although in the summer of 2014 a fire caused by an improperly extinguished cigarette on a hotel-room balcony caused $10,000-worth of damage, while last summer the massive blaze on its Bamboo Pool deck, which injured two and caused around $2 million in damages, was attributed to the same, although the exact cause could not be unequivocally proven. It's no smoking too at the (slightly older) Four Seasons, where lighting up in the room will net you a $250 fine.
Struggling newbie SLS Las Vegas has one smoking floor in each of its three towers (but whether this will endure under the new Starwood management regimen remains to be seen). Downtown, you won’t find a smoke-free hotel. The Downtown Grand estimates it has six or seven smoking floors out of 26 total, while the Four Queens has four floors in one tower, one smoking floor in the second. If you're looking for non-smoking accommodation, your best bet is probably the Golden Nugget, where the Golden and Rush towers are smoke-free, although two floors of the Carson Tower permit smoking. The Golden Gate has only one smoking floor while The D – owned by the same company – is rife with smoking: "12 to 13 [floors] … like every other floor." Staff at the Plaza Hotel knew they had smoking floors but were unsure of the number.
Among the independents and outliers, the Hard Rock Hotel has "about five floors" of smoking, the Palms has three in its Ivory Tower and Stratosphere allows smoking on its 10th and 22nd floors. Treasure Island permits smoking on three floors, and the Tropicana lets you smoke on the second floor of the Paradise Tower and the 18th floor of the Club Tower (also known as the Island Tower). Westgate Las Vegas only allows smoking on its 12th floor. M Resort restricts smoking to its third floor, while main rival South Point also has only one floor of smoking rooms. The Silverton has just 19 smoking rooms, while Tuscany estimates that 10 percent of its 625 rooms are smoker-friendly.
Bucking any trend to go smoke-free is Boyd Gaming. "We have no current plans to go in that direction," says spokesman David Strow. "All of our hotels currently have both smoking and non-smoking rooms, and customers are offered a choice between the two (subject to availability, of course) when they book their room." Station Casinos media representative Lori Nelson said, "It's not a hotel policy, however while the overwhelming majority of our hotel rooms are designated non-smoking, there’s still a handful of rooms at each property that allows for smoking for those guests requesting one."
