Resorts World Hotel & Casino

The Resorts World Hotel & Casino is an 138-room, Chinese-themed mega resort on the Las Vegas Strip. It was proposed on December 5th, 2017 and broke ground on January 3rd, 2018. It opened on October 18th, 2018, completing two years before the real Las Vegas Casino opens in late 2020. The replica shown is home to 138 rooms and suites, being the biggest resort in Vegas history to open and the second biggest resort in Las Vegas. It features its own indoor gardens, shops, restaurants, water park, convention center, two spas, and two fitness centers.

History
In the effort to build a new mega-project north of the Luxor Resort & Casino and expand the strip to the north, multiple different developments were planned at the site of where Resorts World, and where the Stardust Hotel & Casino sit today. In early 2017, marks were drawn to build a replica of CityCenter, but it was later determined in October 2017 that CityCenter would be built somewhere else. It was later planned to build a replica of the Caesars Palace Resort & Casino, until it settled for the plan to build a replica of the Stardust Hotel & Casino on the southern edge of the property in December 2017.

The Stardust Hotel & Casino broke ground on December 5th, 2017, the same day the proposal of building Resorts World was made. It was set to break ground in January 2018, and to complete two years before the real Las Vegas casino opens in 2020.

The project broke ground on January 3rd, 2018, and noticeable construction started on January 22nd. The Resorts World was originally proposed as a single-tower resort, but the addition of a thinner, hotel tower south of the one already being built broke ground in early February 2018. Construction on the site moved slowly until late March of 2018, when paved roads were added surrounding Resorts World. The two towers had both topped out in early April 2018. Later that month, all casino structures on site had also topped out. At this point the status of the Resorts World was more than halfway complete.

In May 2018, the opening date for Resorts World was pushed to Early 2019, but after construction at the real Las Vegas Resorts World started taking shape, the opening date was changed back to December 2018, and major construction on the interior of the hotel began in September 2018. However, the interior was coming together quickly, so the opening date was changed to October 2018.

Resorts World officially opened its doors on October 18th, 2018, being the biggest resort in Las Vegas history to open.