Bally's Las Vegas

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This article is about the Bally's Las Vegas hotel/casino. For other uses, see Bally (disambiguation).

Bally's Las Vegas is a hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada on the Las Vegas Strip. The hotel has 2,814 rooms that are 450 square feet (42 m²) or larger. The hotel has over 175,000 square feet of banquet and meeting space. It also has a 67,000 square foot (6,000 m²) casino.

Bally's is host to the long running production show Jubilee!.

One of the signature features of this hotel is the neon lighting wrapped around the covered moving sidewalk that brings guests from Las Vegas Boulevard to the entrance of the casino.

The hotel has a Las Vegas Monorail station at the rear of the property.

History

The property opened July 5, 1973 as the MGM Grand with 2,084 rooms, the largest hotel in the world at that time. Kirk Kerkorian was the owner. The hotel had a movie theme when it opened.

It suffered a fire in the casino that traveled up into the hotel, killing 87 guests on November 21, 1980, it was rebuilt in only eight months.

The hotel was later sold in 1985 to Bally Entertainment Corporation and the name changed to Bally's.

External links

• Bally's homepage (http://www.caesars.com/ballys/lasvegas/)
• Ballys Hotel virtual tour (http://www.las-vegas-hotel-tours.com/ballys-hotel.php)

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