Question of the Day - 22 October 2017

We doubt that the MGM Park will quite match up to rooms at Bellagio, Wynn, or especially the Venetian. The Venetian's rooms are 650-square-foot suites, while MGM Park's will be a little more than 400. As far as we know, the size of the rooms at the new hotel remains the same as the old, so not much more can be done, other than new furnishings and fixtures. You can see a photo or two of these "preview" rooms at the Monte Carlo website and they look like regular hotel rooms to us.

As for Hotel 32, it will become NoMad (which stands for “north of Madison Square Park" in Manhattan) as part of MGM Resorts' partnership with the Sydell Group. MGM completely stonewalled us regarding details of those new rooms, which won’t be available until late next year, according to an MGM press release.

But you might get a hint of their look from Sydell’s New York version of NoMad, which it describes as “inspired by the Parisian flat of [French interior designer Jacques] Garcia’s youth. The 168 rooms are residential in feel and decorated in his classic timeless style. Each room is appointed with hand-selected, richly textured, custom-designed furnishings and original artwork.”

The original NoMad has eight discrete types of room, ranging from "classic" to "suite royale." If we had to surmise, the 292 Park MGM NoMad rooms will probably skew toward the upper end and larger size, with maybe a smattering of affordable ones thrown into the mix.

In style, the NoMad room plans fall roughly between the overstuffed plushness of Venetian and the spare but elegant feel of Wynn/Encore. The ex-Monte Carlo will be “conceived to target a younger well-traveled demographic seeking unique experiences and innovative design. Park MGM will appeal to this growing audience's desire to be more social, connected, and culturally aware.”

Or, as VitalVegas blogger Scott Roeben puts it, Millennials are finally being given a hotel of their own. 

Sydell Group is even more tight-lipped than MGM, but Condé Nast Traveler gives us a foretaste of what to expect. It describes Garcia’s post-Victorian aesthetic as “unabashedly retro … guest rooms are outfitted with vintage rugs, mahogany writing desks, and clawfoot bathtubs.”

We don’t know whether or not MGM is committed to maintaining that aesthetic or why it's at such at pains to keep the style of NoMad under wraps, but it looks to us like it might be worth the outlay to stay there once it's rolled out, a little more than a year from now.