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The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino is a Venetian-themed resort, hotel and casino located in Las Vegas, Nevada, on the site of the old Sands Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. The Venetian is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

The Venetian has 4,049 suites and a 120,000 square foot (11 000 m²) casino. It is located on the east side of the Strip, between Harrah's and the Wynn Las Vegas.

History

Ground was broken on April 14, 1997 and the resort officially opened on May 3, 1999. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion, it is one of the most expensive resorts of its kind ever built at the time it opened. A brief timeline of the hotel's history:

November 26, 1996—The Sands Hotel was imploded to make way for The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino.

April 14, 1997—Ground breaking for the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino Complex.

November 14, 1997—$1,000,000,000 financial package secured.

September 24, 1997—Announcement that the Venetian's Grand Canal Shoppes will be managed by Forest City Commercial Management.

August 18, 1998—Venetian Resort tops out.

August 24, 1998—Venetian begins accepting room reservations, by phone and on-line.

May 3, 1999—Grand opening of first phase of complex.

October 7 2001—The Guggenheim Hermitage Museum opened within the resort, featuring its first collection: Masterpieces and Master Collectors: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings.

August 30, 2002—The museum opened its second collection: Art Through the Ages: Masterpieces of Painting from Titian to Picasso.

May 15, 2003—Museum opens third exhibit: American Pop Icons.

June 27, 2003—The Venezia at the Venetian opened as an additional tower, adding 1,013 suites and a new wedding chapel.

November 7, 2003—Museum opens exhibit: A Century of Painting: From Renoir to Rothko, featuring paintings by Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, van Gogh, Renoir, and others.

October 10, 2005-Blue Man Group officially opens at the Blue Man Theatre.

Casino and other attractions

The Casino at the Venetian offers more than 122 casino games. In addition to slot machines and table games, there is a state-of-the-art sports lounge. The Venetian has an extensive indoor retail mall called "The Grand Canal Shoppes", which covers 500,000 square feet (50 000 m²). In addition to the lake in front of the casino, canals on the second floor of building, in the shopping mall, are used to provide gondola rides. The hotel also hosts the Las Vegas Madame Tussauds wax museum.

Dining

The Venetian hosts 17 acclaimed restaurants, including Bouchon, which is the vision of Time Magazine's “America's Best Chef”, Thomas Keller. There is also a food court in the Grand Canal Shoppes. Because the hotel is composed of suites, the hotel contains an upscale "grocery" store that sales produce, meats, and other items for cooking.

Amenities and Entertainment

In addition to shopping at the Grand Canal Shoppes, The Venetian offers plenty of other things to do, including:

Blue Man Group—explosive show in brand-new 1760-seat Blue Man Theatre
Canyon Ranch SpaClub—69,000-square-foot (6 400 m²) health spa and fitness center
Convention space—1.9 million square feet (180 000 m²) total, including the 1.2 million-square-foot (110 000 m²) Sands Expo convention center
Golf Concierge
Pool Deck—a five-acre deck above the fourth level of the Venetian Tower, featuring 3 pools and a hot tub
Tao Nightclub—10,000 square foot (1 000 m²) high-energy nightclub located within the Tao “Asian Temple” Entertainment Complex

Trivia

Each suite in the Venetian has a fax machine/printer, and guests receive a personal greeting fax with their own personal fax number. This costs $0.25 USD and will be billed to the guest room folio
When finished, the Venetian, the Sands Expo, and the upcoming Palazzo
will be the largest resort and hotel complex in the world.
Building the Venetian was the subject of an episode of the show MegaStructures.

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