Mention the worlds “resort casinos” and only one place immediately comes to mind – Las Vegas, home of the world’s most glittering resort casinos, where millions of dollars exchange hands every night in high-stake casino gambling.
The Strip, a section of the city’s South Boulevard, is home to high-profile casino hotels like the MGM Grand, The Mirage, Wynn Las Vegas, The Venetian, Caesars Palace, Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, and the Mandalay Bay, among others. Las Vegas’ casino paradise has been the inspiration for many themed resorts and high-class getaways elsewhere in the United States and in the world, and some of them are much bigger than the resort casinos in the Strip
Connecticut is home to the second and third largest casino resorts in the world. First is the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, with 364,000 square feet of gaming space located on 240 acres of land. It has over 6,500 slot machines, tables and racebook rooms, apart from the new Casino of The Wind gaming area.
The other one is the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, occupying a gaming space of 340,000 square feet while the whole resort covers a sprawling 4.7 million square feet of land. It is now the third largest resort casinos in the world with the addition of a new hotel, the MGM Grand at Foxwoods.
However, the largest resort casino in the world is The Venetian Macau located in China. This is a Renaissance-themed luxury hotel and casino resort patterned after the original Venetian in Las Vegas. It consists of 7 resort hotels and boasts of 550,000 square feet of casino space divided into four high-end gaming sections – Golden Fish, Imperial House, Red Dragon and Phoenix.