For size comparison, the MGM Grand has 156,023 square feet of gaming space, while Paris boasts 95,195 square feet. From the middle, you can almost see every corner of the gaming floor. Instead of sprawling endlessly like the MGM Grand or sister property Rio, Paris seems compact, easy to get around. The fountains interspersed here and there throughout the casino and non-gaming areas make me smile, and the beauty of the reception area simply floors me.īesides being, in my opinion, stunningly beautiful and comfortably airy, Paris’s casino is medium in size - big enough to keep your interest but not so huge that you feel overwhelmed. I also appreciate the very tall height of the ceilings in the casino, tall enough for some impressive, probably fake, trees and classic looking streetlamps.

I like the sky-painted ceiling above the casino and the cobblestone pathways around the perimeter of the gaming floor. Now some people might view the heavy theme as overkill, but I dig it. From the crystal chandeliers in the lobby to the Eiffel Tower legs in the casino to the quant Paris street scene along the shopping and restaurant row, the theme’s details are attended to. The Paris theme continues strongly inside the property.

Between the 5/8ths scale replica of the Eiffel Tower dominating the outside of the property, the street sign modeled after the Montgolfier Balloon, and the 2/3rds replica of the Arc de Triomphe in the portico, you have no question as you approach Paris as to the feel they are going for. As its name suggests, Paris’s theme is, well, Paris. Paris Las Vegas Casino & Resort, part of the Harrah’s Entertainment conglomerate, opened in September 1999.

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