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CityCenter's Aria Hotel Wants to Redefine Vegas Luxury

Where: 3730 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
June 9, 2009 at 11:57 AM | by Erika Pope | 0 Comments

According to its Web site, the new Aria Resort & Casino at CityCenter is available for bookings starting Thursday, December 17 – one day after its official opening date. Deluxe rooms at Aria, CityCenter’s anchor hotel, start at $199 per night on opening weekend (Friday and Saturday), while the most expensive digs available – the two-bedroom Penthouse Sky Suite – runs $1,300 per night.

And just what sort of rooms is Aria offering that promise to set “the new standard in Las Vegas luxury”? Well, that Deluxe Room – Aria’s entry-level accommodation – has an entry foyer, dressing area with dual closets and twice-daily maid service. Okay. We’ll acknowledge that these features already go a bit beyond your standard room offerings in Vegas, or anywhere that we know of for that matter.

Because this is an MGM MIRAGE property – the same company that brought you the uber-wired Skylofts at MGM Grand and the in-cabana Wii gaming systems at Wet Republic – everything in the room can be controlled through one bedside, touch-screen device. That’d be the 42-inch plasma TV, audio system, draperies, temperature, wake-up calls and room service.

Rounding out the amenities are a workstation with hi-speed wireless and wired Internet access, mini-bar, plush bathrobes, 300 thread-count linens, standing shower and soaking tub.

That two-bedroom Penthouse Suite gets you a more spacious version of all of the above, plus limo service to and from the airport, exclusive porte-cochere entry and private check-in, lounge with food and beverage amenities, personalized concierge service, a wet bar and extra plasma TVs in both wet bar and the bathroom.

We’ve frankly seen this lineup of exclusive suite services before at the parent company’s Skylofts down the street. It’s not surprising they’re appropriating it for Aria when, after all, it helped earn Skylofts Mobil’s coveted five-star rating.

Besides classy rooms, Aria hopes to tempt you away from your current Strip fave with an all-star chef roster (Michael Mina, Julian Serrano, Jean Philippe Maury, Sirio Maccioni), a brand-new Cirque du Soleil show (theme: Elvis), its spa and a nightclub by the folks that brought you Bellagio’s The Bank and Jet at the Mirage. We’ve sort of seen a lot of that before, but if they do as promising a job of re-imagining those amenities as they seem to have done – on paper, at least – with the room features, they might just have landed on the recipe for the next big Vegas thing.

[Photo: Reigh Sierra]

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