If you're going to Vegas and don't like rock 'n' roll, then don't stay at the Hard Rock. If you do like that type of music, then escape from the excess of the strip to the intimacy of the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
This plush eleven-story resort has only 340 rooms, few by Vegas standards. Yet despite its relatively small size, the resort cost nearly 100 million USD to build. As a result, you are rewarded with large comfortable rooms done in soothing desert tones. You'll even discover that your windows open (a rarity in Vegas where casinos pump extra oxygen into the rooms to help keep their guests awake and at the gaming tables) to let in the fresh desert air. Be sure to get a room overlooking the gorgeous pool area complete with a wave pool, white sand beach, and volleyball.
Music and the casino are the main attractions at the Hard Rock. Besides the music-influenced decor, like saxophone-shaped chandeliers, the Hard Rock houses The Joint. The Joint is a 1,200-seat theater featuring the top acts in rock. Recent performers have included Santana, George Thorogood, the Indigo Girls, and the Rolling Stones. Where else will you get to see Mick and Keith perform up close? Rock music is also played in the background in the 30,000-square-foot casino. Even the chips have rock motifs based on such bands as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jimi Hendrix.
Mortoni's offers fine Italian cuisine. You'll enjoy their regally appointed dining room, but in warm weather, they also serve dinner in perhaps Vegas's most romantic setting-near the pool's beach area.
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