I just received a postcard to stay at the Waldorf Astoria in Las Vegas with pictures of the Strip.Never heard of a Waldorf Astoria on the Strip. Where is it and how did it get there?
The 47-story building on the Las Vegas Strip that now houses the Waldorf Astoria arrived in December 2009 with the rest of City Center (Aria, Vdara, Veer Towers, Crystals Mall, and the Harmon, which was later removed), though at that time and up until August 2018, it was known as the Mandarin Oriental.
City Center Holdings, a joint venture between MGM Resorts and Dubai World, sold the building last year for $214 million to the Cherng Family Trust, owned by Andrew and Peggy Cherng, co-founders of Panda Express. Mandarin Oriental’s management contract was terminated in the aftermath; it was taken over by parent company Hilton Worldwide as part of Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts brand.
The building houses 390 guest rooms and 225 private residences on the top floors (the average price in 2010 was $2 million). It doesn’t have a casino, but it does have a 27,000-square-foot spa and a pool complex on the eighth floor. Its restaurant is Twist, Michelin-award-winning chef Pierre Gagnaire’s only eatery in the U.S.; that didn’t change with the new owner. The bar on the 23rd floor was renamed the SkyBar and the old Mozen restaurant is now Zen Kitchen.
