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Hotel Overview

Rat Pack nostalgia with bawdy shows, Vegas fun Half-mile from the Convention Center and one mile from Fashion Show Mall, this Strip hotel provides traditional Las Vegas fun. Bearing its nostalgic name, the Riviera provides classic dining and the traditional Las Vegas trinity of comedy, music, and showgirls. Attractions include an extra-large casino, a quiet pool, a steakhouse, and all-you-can-eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets.

Location

The Strip, Las Vegas
This 3-mile section of Las Vegas Boulevard is the city's bustling primary tourist destination. Impressive casino resorts house major attractions, dining, shopping, nightlife, and entertainment venues. The Guggenheim museums, the Forum Shops, and Cirque du Soliel are here, along with most of the best hotels, offering one-stop vacationing.

Property amenities

An extensive shopping arcade includes high-tech video games, magic shop, candle store, chocolate shop, and a store that sells Russian folk art. The spa has a fitness center, exfoliation treatments, and massages and even provides for in-room massages. An on-site wedding chapel, Riviera Royale, provides a range of wedding options-from a standard ceremony to elaborate packages that include a wedding coordinator.

What to expect: Endowed with a name invoking the Rat Pack Era, the Riviera keeps ties with its past while offering modern services at moderate prices. It emphasizes grace rather than flash, attracting adult guests seeking pleasure without having to endure crowds of sightseers surging through the casino and public areas.

Amenity highlights: In a tranquil, sunny courtyard bordered by a lush grass sunning area, a large pool furnishes hot-weather relief. For pampering, a spa offers a fitness center, massage, body treatments, tanning facility, a women's sauna, and a men's steam room. Shoppers have an arcade to explore. Tennis players enjoy two complimentary lighted courts.

Insider tip: Like all other Las Vegas casinos, the Riviera offers free membership in a player's club that rewards gaming play with points redeemable for cash and comps. Unlike most casinos, however, here players don't have to line up to obtain their rewards at a desk but can utilize ATM-like kiosks.

Dining

Kristofer's - Frequently honored as Las Vegas's best, this all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant offers various international food stations for lunch and dinner, including Italian, American, and Middle Eastern, along with salad/soup stations and a vast dessert station.

Ristorante Italiano - Casual ambience and Northern Italian cuisine featuring myriad pasta choices.

Rik' Shaw - Elegant ambience and traditional Cantonese cuisine.

World's Fare Buffet - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets. Roast baron of beef for dinner. Champagne brunch buffet on weekends.

Kady's Coffee Shop - Open 24 hours for light snacks and full meals. Overlooking pool.

Mardi Gras Food Court - Burger King, Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme donuts, Cold Stone ice cream, cheesesteaks, sub sandwiches, Asian fast food, and Mexican fast food.

Hound Doggie's - 1950's-style snack bar.

Entertainment

Twice nightly in its own showroom, the acclaimed, high-tech, adults-only production Splash entertains with special effects, ice skaters, motorcycle daredevils, dancers, jugglers, acrobats, and showgirls topped by spectacular headdresses.

Like its long-running siblings in New York and Los Angeles, La Cage brings down the house nightly (except Tuesdays) with a combination of comedy and female impersonators. Frank Marino stars as Joan Rivers.

The bawdy revue Crazy Girls features topless dancers, comedy, and music twice nightly (except Mondays). International comedians entertain at the Riviera Comedy Club. The romantic Le Bistro offers classic lounge acts such as Sinatra prote'ge'e Marlene Ricci, Neil Diamond impersonator Jay White, comedy hypnotist Dr. Scott Lewis, and Elvis impersonator Trent Carlini along with a rock-'n'-roll revue.

The casino supplies 125,000 square feet of craps, blackjack, roulette, baccarat, keno, pai gow poker, slots, video poker, and Caribbean poker. The Nickel Town room contains some 330 low-cost slots. A race-and-sports book features individual televisions at each seat.

Riviera Player's Club offers free membership cards that rewards table-game and slot play with cash and comp rooms, meals, shows, and services.

Recreation

Rooms

This hotel offers 2,079 rooms in four towers ranging up 24 stories. Guestroom decor features burgundy or turquoise color schemes. Bathrooms have earth-tone marble vanities and tub/shower combinations. Amenities include pay movies, multi-line phones, and in-room safes.

Standard room
One king or two queen beds. Burgundy or turquoise color scheme. Bathroom with a earth-tone marble vanity and tub/shower combination. Pay movies, multi-line phone, in-room safe.