Hotel guides for the resort destinations ThrillZing covers — every Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando resort, the Disneyland hotels, Disneyland Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai, and the casino resorts of the Las Vegas Strip. Each guide covers rooms and theming, how you reach the parks or the Strip, the perks a stay unlocks, price tier and who it suits.
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/ October 6, 2026
The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower sits at 2000 S. Las Vegas Blvd., anchoring the northern end of the Strip beneath its 1,149-foot tower, the tallest freestanding observation tower in the United States. Opened April 30, 1996 as the Stratosphere, the resort has been owned…
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/ October 1, 2026
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas sits at 4455 Paradise Road in Paradise, Nevada, a short drive east of the Las Vegas Strip on the former site of the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, which operated there from 1995 until its 2020 conversion. The 1,504-room resort reopened…
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/ October 1, 2026
Rio Hotel & Casino sits at 3700 West Flamingo Road, just west of Interstate 15 and about a mile off the Las Vegas Strip. Opened January 15, 1990, it was the valley’s first all-suite hotel-casino, and every one of its rooms is still a suite…
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/ September 29, 2026
Tokyo DisneySea Fantasy Springs Hotel opened on June 6, 2024, as part of the Fantasy Springs expansion, the eighth themed port at Tokyo DisneySea. Unlike most Disney hotels, which sit near a park, this one is built inside Tokyo DisneySea itself, tucked beside the fairy-tale-spring…
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/ September 29, 2026
Resorts World Las Vegas is a 3,506-room casino resort at 3000 South Las Vegas Boulevard on the northern end of the Strip, near the Las Vegas Convention Center. Opened June 24, 2021, it was the first ground-up Strip resort since the Cosmopolitan in 2010 and…
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/ September 29, 2026
Plaza Hotel & Casino anchors the western end of the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, built on the site of the old Union Pacific rail depot. It opened as the Union Plaza on July 2, 1971, backed by downtown casino pioneers Sam Boyd…
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/ September 27, 2026
Disney’s Art of Animation Resort is a value-tier hotel on Bay Lake in Walt Disney World, built around four courtyards themed to Finding Nemo, Cars, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid. Family suites opened in stages starting May 31, 2012, with the standard rooms…
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/ September 27, 2026
Luxor Las Vegas is the 30-story black glass pyramid anchoring the south end of the Las Vegas Strip at 3900 South Las Vegas Boulevard, fronted by a 106-foot recreation of the Great Sphinx and topped by the Luxor Sky Beam, billed as the most powerful…
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/ September 26, 2026
Caesars Palace opened on August 5, 1966, on the west side of the Las Vegas Strip and remains one of the city’s most recognizable resorts. Owned by Vici Properties and operated by Caesars Entertainment, it has grown from an original 680-room hotel into a sprawling…
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/ September 26, 2026
The Disneyland Hotel is the original Disney resort hotel, opened October 5, 1955, and now operated directly by Disney beside Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California. It’s built around three main towers named for Disneyland lands – Adventure, Fantasy, and Frontier – plus the Discovery Tower…
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/ September 26, 2026
MGM Grand Las Vegas is the sprawling green-glass megaresort anchoring the south end of the Strip at 3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South, near the Tropicana Avenue intersection. Opened December 18, 1993, and developed by Kirk Kerkorian, it’s owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM…
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/ September 25, 2026
The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin is a pair of connected hotels (plus a newer third tower, the Swan Reserve) sitting on Epcot Resorts Boulevard, wedged directly between Epcot’s International Gateway and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Designed by architect Michael Graves and opened in 1990…
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/ September 21, 2026
The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower sits at 2000 Las Vegas Blvd S, anchoring the north end of the boulevard with a 1,149-foot tower that’s the tallest freestanding observation structure in the United States. Opened in 1996 as the Stratosphere and rebranded The Strat in…
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/ September 21, 2026
Universal’s Endless Summer Resort – Dockside Inn and Suites is a beach-themed, value-tier hotel on Universal Orlando property, sharing its 2,050-room complex with the sister Surfside Inn and Suites. It opened December 15, 2020, and sits just off Universal Boulevard, a few minutes’ drive from…
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/ September 20, 2026
Circa Resort & Casino sits at 8 Fremont Street in Downtown Las Vegas, a 35-story, 618-room tower built from the ground up by owners Derek and Greg Stevens on the former site of the Las Vegas Club. It opened its casino floor on October 28…
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/ September 20, 2026
Paris Las Vegas is the Caesars Entertainment resort built around a 540-foot, half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower that rises straight out of its casino floor and punches through the roof onto the Strip skyline. Opened September 1, 1999, the resort recreates 1920s Paris with…
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/ September 20, 2026
Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel is the flagship deluxe hotel of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, opened September 12, 2005 on Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island, the same day the park itself debuted. Its 400 guestrooms sit inside a grand Victorian-seaside building that Walt Disney Imagineering modeled on…
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/ September 20, 2026
Tokyo Disney Resort Toy Story Hotel opened April 5, 2022, as the resort’s fifth official Disney-branded hotel and its first “Moderate Type” property, priced below the deluxe Tokyo Disneyland Hotel and DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta but above the resort’s official “Value Type” hotel, Celebration Hotel, which…
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/ September 18, 2026
Delano Las Vegas was an all-suite, non-gaming hotel tower on the Mandalay Bay resort campus at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. Opened in 2003 as THEhotel at Mandalay Bay and reimagined as Delano after an $80 million renovation in September 2014, the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Circus Circus Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the north Las Vegas Strip at 2880 South Las Vegas Boulevard, sitting just south of the Sahara and north of the Stratosphere. Opened October 18, 1968 by Jay Sarno, it’s one of the oldest resorts…
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