MGM Grand Las Vegas Named World’s Largest Hotel Building

The MGM Grand Las Vegas isn’t just the largest casino inwards Sin City. It’s the largest single(a) hotel edifice inwards the world, according to the World Record Academy.

The Academy, which logs a change of business concern and personal records, notes MGM Grand sits on 6.6 acres, overlooking 380,000 square toes feet, making it the largest hotel body structure in the world.

(MGM Grand) has 6,852 rooms and includes v outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that compensate 6.6 acres (2.7 ha), a 380,000 second power feet  (35,000 m2) convening center, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and the Grand Spa; it also houses numerous shops, night clubs, restaurants and the largest gambling casino inward Clark County, which occupies 171,500 straight feet  (15,930 m2),” notes the Academy.

By list of rooms, MGM Grand is non the largest hotel in the world. That distinction belongs to the First World Hotel inwards Malaysia, which has 7,351 rooms.

MGM Grand History

MGM Grand opened on the Strip in December 1993 and be an estimated $1.1 billion to build.

In Jan 2020, MGM announced the sale of Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand to a reefer adventure controlled past MGM Growth Properties (MGP) and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust (BREIT). At that time, the crack-up was a 50.1% post to MGP, with BREIT owning the remainder.

That 50.1% was inherited by VICI Properties  when it shut its $17.2 1000000000 acquisition of MGM Growth inwards Apr 2022 — a transaction that created the largest gaming REIT in the US, as swell as the largest landlord on the Strip.

Last December, VICI announced it would acquire the remaining 49.9% inwards Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand for $4.27 1000000000 as BREIT faced a liquidity crunch. That figure includes a immediate payment consideration of $1.27 1000000000000 and the supposal of $3 1000000000 inwards BREIT debt.

Translation: VICI Properties owns the existent acres of MGM Grand while MGM Resorts remains the operator of the integrated resort. Another head worth noting: MGM Grand is the largest single hotel composite in the US. Overall, the biggest is the combined Venetian and Palazzo — also on the Strip and also owned by VICI.

Other Las Vegas Accolades

In addition to the MGM Grand’s accolades, on that point are some others from the World Record Academy that appertain to Las Vegas and Nevada. For example, the Academy says the Bonanza Gift Shop, located on the Las Vegas Strip betwixt the Sahara Desert Las Vegas and the Strat, is the world’s largest fund of its kind.

Additionally, the world’s largest fireworks body structure is found inwards Amargosa Valley, Nevada. The 28-foot tall “M-800” firecracker covers a H2O tank.

As for the world’s largest hotels ranked past number of rooms, xi of the top of the inning 20, including MGM Grand, and all of the US-based venues are located inward Las Vegas. That mathematical group also includes the Venetian,  Wynn and Encore, Caesars Palace and MGM’s Aria, among others. Las Vegas Sands’ Londoner Macau ranks by list rooms.