Remember that Real World suite? It’s still there-complete with the original confessional room-at a $1,500 nightly rate.
“But as we looked at the larger picture for Palms, we knew this was going to be a reimagination of the entire property.”Īnd then, there are the accommodations. “Palms always had good bones, but going on its 18th year of operation, it did require a massive overhaul-which started as, what you call in the hospitality industry, a ‘refresh,’ ” Finch says. At first, the budget was set for $146 million, but Station Casinos decided-as they do in Vegas-to go big.
While other properties stepped up their game by creating enticing culinary projects or developing world-class entertainment, Palms languished behind after all, there’s only so much you can do with Real World nostalgia.īut with Station Casinos at the helm in 2016, Palms entered into what would become the priciest resort renovation in the history of the destination-with a final price tag of $690 million.Īdmittedly, plans for the transformation weren’t originally that ambitious. But what worked well enough to make the casino iconic in the early noughties didn’t keep apace with all the changes Vegas would eventually go through.
