Planning a meeting in Las Vegas or attending a convention in Las Vegas and having to organize satellite events?
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New meeting venues, large and small, are popping up all over Las Vegas. Some are grand in scope for the trade show set while others offer smaller, intimate spaces for a corporate retreat or an off-site incentive meeting. Regardless of the event’s purpose, these new and recently renovated event spaces offer ideas and elegant solutions for your meeting needs.
An around-the-clock restaurant, Central Michel Richard at Caesars Palace offers its flexible space to meeting groups. The 9,600-square-foot restaurant seats about 300, particularly great for lunch-meeting buyouts, and has a patio terrace that can be booked for private parties. Central also features two rooms available for smaller events.
The brand-new Las Vegas location of southern Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de Chão offers nine private and semiprivate dining rooms. The rooms all are fully equipped with presentation screens and projectors, making them well suited for meetings. Conveniently, the restaurant is just three miles from McCarran Airport and less than a mile from the Strip in the Hughes Center development.
The House of Blues has reached a “Crossroads” and has renamed the restaurant at all of its locations just that. Although no physical renovations happened at the Las Vegas location, the venue offers a new menu from celebrity chef Aarón Sanchez. In addition, the space has audiovisual capabilities throughout, including monitors and a video screen on the stage, making it great for booking a festive evening meeting.
The M Resort Spa Casino has expanded its meeting space to 85,000 square feet with the addition of the M Pavilion, a 25,000-square-foot ground-level structure accessible from the resort’s Milan ballroom. Touted as a flexible, pillar-free space equipped with full audiovisual connectivity, the new pavilion features 40-foot ceilings and space for 2,300 attendees, making it perfect for large-scale galas or conventions.
A new meeting space has popped up near the Venetian and Sands Expo at the Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes. Public House, a take on an old-school tavern or gastropub, features a private space that includes a boardroom with room for 11. Also available is a semiprivate space seating about 30 that is created by closing sliding doors. Both areas have audiovisual capabilities.
Rice & Company is a 10,000-square-foot restaurant, sushi bar and lounge at Luxor Las Vegas that offers three private rooms holding 10, 30 and 40 guests. Great spaces for meetings and events, the restaurant offers contemporary Chinese and Japanese cuisine, an array of sushi and sashimi and an expansive sake menu.
Just steps from the new Symphony Park, The Smith Center features an array of event venues. The 2,050-seat Reynolds Hall is a theater with stunning balconies, a dramatic stage and a full orchestra pit. Rent the entire hall or just the stage for special dinners or smaller functions. The 5,000-square-foot Grand Lobby is a gateway to the center as well as a venue perfect for weddings, receptions or seated dinners. For smaller events, The Smith Center offers the Founders Room, the Mezzanine Lounge and three conferences rooms for 10–30 people. The 6,200-square-foot Courtyard is perfect for outdoor events and connects Reynolds Halls with the Boman Pavilion, which houses the flexible 3,000-square-foot Troesh Studio Theater, a “black box” space great for all kinds of events, including meetings, social gatherings or seated dinners for up to 240. The pavilion also has the versatile Cabaret Jazz, a 3,8000-square-foot space with a U-shaped second tier that overlooks Symphony Park.
The two dining suites at the STK steakhouse offer an intimate setting for your event. Available for dinner events of up to 24 or cocktail receptions of up to 40 people, the Tempest Storm and Candy Barr are named after burlesque stars. For meeting flexibility, they can be used separately for small gatherings or combined for larger meeting needs.
Caesars Palace opened its sixth tower, Octavius Tower, which includes six luxury villas where groups can convene meetings. The tower has a private entrance, separate hotel lobby and direct access to the Garden of the Gods pool complex and gardens. Each villa averages 8,800 square feet, has a thematic design scheme of a European country and is named for a Roman emperor who resided in that region.
Vdara’s Silk Road, formerly a restaurant, transformed this past year into a private event space. The venue boasts floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking “Big Edge,” Nancy Rubin’s kayak-and-canoe sculpture, and more than 4,000 square feet of available meeting space with room for 200 guests. Smaller groups of as many as 14 can take advantage of another private dining room at the venue.
For very intimate meetings or corporate retreats, The Villas at The Mirage offer posh spaces that include up to three bedrooms and 4,545 square feet. Amenities making these great for meetings include a music system, all-in-one printer-fax-scanner-copiers, private fax numbers and Dell XPS desktop PCs. Butler service also is available 24 hours a day.
Whether expansive or intimate, these spaces offer new ways to enhance your next meeting with style. Not only are they technologically capable, but they add an element of luxury and class that will be sure to impress.
Book a night at a museum
If your group is tired of the basic hotel ballroom and convention-center venues, consider an artful change of atmosphere for your next meeting or event. Add flair to your function by holding the event in a museum space. All around Las Vegas, museums—featuring art, entertainment, nature, cars and history—offer up their exhibition spaces for private event bookings large and small.
An around-the-clock restaurant, Central Michel Richard at Caesars Palace offers its flexible space to meeting groups. The 9,600-square-foot restaurant seats about 300, particularly great for lunch-meeting buyouts, and has a patio terrace that can be booked for private parties. Central also features two rooms available for smaller events.
The brand-new Las Vegas location of southern Brazilian steakhouse Fogo de Chão offers nine private and semiprivate dining rooms. The rooms all are fully equipped with presentation screens and projectors, making them well suited for meetings. Conveniently, the restaurant is just three miles from McCarran Airport and less than a mile from the Strip in the Hughes Center development.
The House of Blues has reached a “Crossroads” and has renamed the restaurant at all of its locations just that. Although no physical renovations happened at the Las Vegas location, the venue offers a new menu from celebrity chef Aarón Sanchez. In addition, the space has audiovisual capabilities throughout, including monitors and a video screen on the stage, making it great for booking a festive evening meeting.
The M Resort Spa Casino has expanded its meeting space to 85,000 square feet with the addition of the M Pavilion, a 25,000-square-foot ground-level structure accessible from the resort’s Milan ballroom. Touted as a flexible, pillar-free space equipped with full audiovisual connectivity, the new pavilion features 40-foot ceilings and space for 2,300 attendees, making it perfect for large-scale galas or conventions.
A new meeting space has popped up near the Venetian and Sands Expo at the Venetian’s Grand Canal Shoppes. Public House, a take on an old-school tavern or gastropub, features a private space that includes a boardroom with room for 11. Also available is a semiprivate space seating about 30 that is created by closing sliding doors. Both areas have audiovisual capabilities.
Rice & Company is a 10,000-square-foot restaurant, sushi bar and lounge at Luxor Las Vegas that offers three private rooms holding 10, 30 and 40 guests. Great spaces for meetings and events, the restaurant offers contemporary Chinese and Japanese cuisine, an array of sushi and sashimi and an expansive sake menu.
Just steps from the new Symphony Park, The Smith Center features an array of event venues. The 2,050-seat Reynolds Hall is a theater with stunning balconies, a dramatic stage and a full orchestra pit. Rent the entire hall or just the stage for special dinners or smaller functions. The 5,000-square-foot Grand Lobby is a gateway to the center as well as a venue perfect for weddings, receptions or seated dinners. For smaller events, The Smith Center offers the Founders Room, the Mezzanine Lounge and three conferences rooms for 10–30 people. The 6,200-square-foot Courtyard is perfect for outdoor events and connects Reynolds Halls with the Boman Pavilion, which houses the flexible 3,000-square-foot Troesh Studio Theater, a “black box” space great for all kinds of events, including meetings, social gatherings or seated dinners for up to 240. The pavilion also has the versatile Cabaret Jazz, a 3,8000-square-foot space with a U-shaped second tier that overlooks Symphony Park.
The two dining suites at the STK steakhouse offer an intimate setting for your event. Available for dinner events of up to 24 or cocktail receptions of up to 40 people, the Tempest Storm and Candy Barr are named after burlesque stars. For meeting flexibility, they can be used separately for small gatherings or combined for larger meeting needs.
Caesars Palace opened its sixth tower, Octavius Tower, which includes six luxury villas where groups can convene meetings. The tower has a private entrance, separate hotel lobby and direct access to the Garden of the Gods pool complex and gardens. Each villa averages 8,800 square feet, has a thematic design scheme of a European country and is named for a Roman emperor who resided in that region.
Vdara’s Silk Road, formerly a restaurant, transformed this past year into a private event space. The venue boasts floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking “Big Edge,” Nancy Rubin’s kayak-and-canoe sculpture, and more than 4,000 square feet of available meeting space with room for 200 guests. Smaller groups of as many as 14 can take advantage of another private dining room at the venue.
For very intimate meetings or corporate retreats, The Villas at The Mirage offer posh spaces that include up to three bedrooms and 4,545 square feet. Amenities making these great for meetings include a music system, all-in-one printer-fax-scanner-copiers, private fax numbers and Dell XPS desktop PCs. Butler service also is available 24 hours a day.
Whether expansive or intimate, these spaces offer new ways to enhance your next meeting with style. Not only are they technologically capable, but they add an element of luxury and class that will be sure to impress.
Book a night at a museum
If your group is tired of the basic hotel ballroom and convention-center venues, consider an artful change of atmosphere for your next meeting or event. Add flair to your function by holding the event in a museum space. All around Las Vegas, museums—featuring art, entertainment, nature, cars and history—offer up their exhibition spaces for private event bookings large and small.
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