Are There any tours of High-Roller Suites at Upscale Las Vegas Hotels?

Are there any tours of the high-roller suites at MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, or the other upscale hotel-casinos in Las Vegas? I'd pay to walk through the most opulent of them.

High-roller suites -- penthouses, villas, bungalows, palazzos, mansions, sky palaces, or whatever high-falutin' appellation architects, interior decorators, and casino marketers can dream up for these hypersteroidal sleepers -- are definitely worthy of tours for the hoi polloi such as ourselves.

And not just because they're among the largest and most luxurious hotel accommodations in the world, chockablock with museum-quality collections (nothing so pedestrian as mere furnishings).

But also because, from what we understand, many of them are vacant 180 or so nights a year, given that you can't rent them for any price, reserved as they are for the whales of the world, who might show up unannounced at any time and won't settle for anything less for their $150,000 bets at the baccarat table.

So why hasn't (to answer your question) some $60,000-a-year accounting-department manager, expert in the fine art of vacuuming every last nickel out of every last sucker, come up with the idea of charging for tours of the suites? Install a few stanchions, employ a guide and a guard, and visitors like you would pay good money just to traipse through them when they're not occupied.

Alas, that hasn't happened, at least to our knowledge. Yet. It's certainly a good idea for which someone at some casino on the Strip, or at the Palms, which has a few of the best, should sometime take credit.

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Donzack Jun-21-2022

Reasons

How large would the groups be? Theft of souvenirs and contamination would be two reasons. During the Covid event it was difficult to inspect a basic room. As if a housekeeper would again clean the room.

salukidean Jun-21-2022

Westgate does this (or at least used to do so)

Several years back, I did a tour of the Elvis suite at the Westgate.    I haven’t been in the property in years so I’m not sure if it’s still offered, but it definitely was an option 5 or so years ago.

Dave_Miller_DJTB Jun-21-2022

Tours? No way.

Yes sir Mr Whale. This way to your suite.
or
Sorry Mr Whale, but a bunch of red chip tourists are in your suite, checking to see how comfortable your bed is.

Yeah, that won't fly.

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The Westgate also has timeshares. The tour of the Elvis suite was probably a room designated for sales tours only, and probably not even near the actual high roller suites.

Sharon Jun-21-2022

WOW!!

Hoi polloi …. Had to look that one up!  Must have been Deke who responded!!  A new one for me!

Brian Jun-21-2022

Suite Holidays

Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada used to put on a 'Suite Holidays' charity event that was basically a pub crawl set in several high-roller suites on a quiet Saturday in December. 

The last one was held in 2016 and JA staff told me Suite Holidays is retired for now. The two times I attended were among the best nights I've had in Vegas so I hope it comes back in some form.

O2bnVegas Jun-21-2022

Rain Man Suite

Wasn't the Rain Man Suite available for tours many years ago?

Due to dumb luck I ended up in one of the top suites at Harrah's years ago, and several times in suites at Bellagio, though not the kind with bowling alleys and basketball courts and private butlers.  

I've always been curious about the Villas at Bellagio that we could look down and see from our hoi polloi room (Fountain side).  Never have seen a human moving about in their private courtyards and pools.  But access to those is by private elevator so wouldn't see any guests entering or leaving, I suppose.  Also, looks like they wouldn't have much of a view of the fountains due to big foliage in the 'front' yard, but surely I'm wrong about that.  Steve Wynn would not have overlooked that detail.  That's the only one I'm curious about by now.

Candy

yukondon Jun-21-2022

YukonDon

Several years ago Caesars had tours of their Fantasy Suites.  Four bedrooms etc. At that time they were going for $800 a night.

Carey Jun-21-2022

Was able to see many

I will preface this comment with the fact that this experience was about a decade ago so take that into account. I was legitimately shopping for a high end room to host a party. Most places required a reservation to view the rooms, and it was usually between check out time and check in time, but I was able too see many many properties on the strip. The Palms at the time was the most accommodating, they even showed me all famous suites just for fun as they knew it was out of my price range.

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