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Las Vegas myth fixed: Know which floor your hotel room is really on

Editor's note: Vegas Mythbusters releases new entries every Monday, plus a bonus Friday Flashback edition. Today is the entry in our ongoing series

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Apr 8, 2024

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From a distance, especially during the day, these look like individual room windows at the Bellagio....aussiedlerbote.de — From a distance, especially during the day, these look like individual room windows at the Bellagio Hotel. But what's underneath is actually a cluster of three floors, each with six windows. The upper floor is a two-story complex with four windows on each floor..aussiedlerbote.de

Las Vegas myth fixed: Know which floor your hotel room is really on

Editor's Note: Vegas Mythbusters releases new entries every Monday, with a bonus Friday flashback edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series was originally published on September 11, 2023

If your room at the Wynn is on the 60th floor, you won't have a 60th floor view. They have one on the 48th floor. That’s because there are no floors 40 to 49 at this casino resort or its counterpart, the Encore Resort. The 4th and 13th floors were also missing.

Most Americans know how to jump over the 13th floor. Why rent a room there when you come to Las Vegas to try your luck at the casinos?

But numbers 4 and 40 are prohibited because number 4 is unlucky for many Asian tourists, just like number 13 is unlucky for Westerners. That's because it sounds similar to the word "death." Both are transliterated as "si" in Mandarin and "shi" in Japanese.

Planet Hollywood, Aria, Delano, Resorts World, Rio and Palms also follow this hotel lift Design, all of these hotels are at least ten stories shorter than what is listed on the driver's license.

Window Tips

Strangely, counting the floors of the Las Vegas Strip resort from the outside revealed the opposite deception. Most towers pretend to be much shorter than they actually are.

For example, the Bellagio looks like it has 14 floors above the lobby level, but it actually has 36 floors. This is because each window on the first two "levels" is a set of six room windows spanning three floors. Unless you look closely at night and turn on enough indoor lighting, you can't really see it because the heavily tinted windows block your view during the day.

On the remaining 12 "floors," each Bellagio window serves four rooms spanning two floors.

Treasure Island and Caesars Palace also employ what the hotel industry calls the "window trick." Wynn and Encore's approach is to install a divider strip every two floors.

This architectural optical illusion creates a cleaner look and tricks you into seeing a tower that is smaller than it actually is and therefore a shorter walk from your current location on the Las Vegas Strip.

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