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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/ September 18, 2026
Treasure Island, commonly called TI, is a 2,885-room resort at 3300 South Las Vegas Boulevard on the North Strip, opened by Mirage Resorts on October 26, 1993 and independently owned and operated by Phil Ruffin since 2009. The single 36-story tower sits beside Fashion Show…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Sequoia Lodge is a 1,011-room moderate resort at Disneyland Paris, built around a main lodge and six smaller timber lodges spread across the shore of Lake Disney in Coupvray, France. Opened in April 1992 and designed by French architect Antoine Grumbach, the hotel deliberately…
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/ September 18, 2026
Universal Helios Grand Hotel, a Loews Hotel, sits at the edge of Celestial Park inside Universal Epic Universe itself, making it Universal Orlando Resort’s first-ever in-park hotel. It opened May 22, 2025 alongside Epic Universe, is co-owned and operated by Loews Hotels & Co, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort opened on October 1, 1988, in the Epcot Resort Area of Walt Disney World near Bay Lake, Florida. Spread across five Caribbean-island-themed villages — Martinique, Barbados, Aruba, Jamaica, and Trinidad — the sprawling 1,536-room moderate resort wraps around Barefoot Bay, a…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Wilderness Lodge is a deluxe Walt Disney World resort on the shore of Bay Lake, built to evoke the great lodges of the American national parks. It opened on May 28, 1994, and its lobby centers on an 82-foot fireplace styled after the rock…
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/ September 18, 2026
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Las Vegas is under construction at 3400 South Las Vegas Boulevard, the site of the former Mirage, which closed on July 17, 2024, to make way for the rebuild. Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas is a 47-story, 389-room luxury hotel occupying the southeastern corner of the CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip. It opened in December 2009 as the Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas and was rebranded Waldorf Astoria in August 2018 after CCLV Luxury…
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/ September 18, 2026
Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa and Casino is a Station Casinos property in Henderson, Nevada, about 12 miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip. It opened on December 18, 2001, and has grown from an original 201 rooms to 497 rooms spread across Mediterranean-style towers…
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/ September 18, 2026
Red Rock Casino, Resort & Spa is a 796-room casino hotel in Summerlin South, about 10 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. Opened April 18, 2006 and built at a cost of roughly $925 million, it is the flagship property of Station Casinos, the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Flamingo Las Vegas is the oldest continuously operating resort on the Las Vegas Strip, opened December 26, 1946, and now owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. Its 3,460 rooms are spread across several towers built between 1978 and 1995 on a 19-acre center-Strip site, with…
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/ September 18, 2026
Planet Hollywood Las Vegas is a Caesars Entertainment resort and casino sitting mid-Strip at 3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard, on the site of the original Aladdin hotel. The current tower opened in 2000 as the New Aladdin, underwent a Hollywood-themed overhaul, and was rebranded Planet…
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/ September 18, 2026
New York-New York Hotel & Casino is the Manhattan-themed MGM Resorts property on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, instantly recognizable for its skyline of scaled-down New York landmarks — a 47-story Empire State Building replica, the Chrysler Building, a 150-foot Statue of…
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/ September 18, 2026
Excalibur Hotel and Casino is the medieval castle-themed resort on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, opened June 19, 1990, and operated today by MGM Resorts International (owned by Vici Properties). Its turreted, Neuschwanstein-inspired towers and 3,981 rooms have made it one of…
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/ September 18, 2026
Aria Resort & Casino is the centerpiece of CityCenter, the 67-acre mixed-use complex MGM Resorts built at 3730 South Las Vegas Boulevard on the South Strip. Two curved glass towers rise 50 stories above a 150,000-square-foot casino floor, and the resort has been owned by…
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/ September 18, 2026
Toy Story Hotel is one of two on-site hotels at Shanghai Disney Resort in Pudong, Shanghai, opening June 16, 2016 as the first hotel anywhere themed entirely around Pixar’s Toy Story franchise. Built in two wings — Sheriff Woody and Buzz Lightyear — that form…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney Hotel Cheyenne is a 1,000-room value resort at Disneyland Paris, built in 1992 and designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern to look like a sprawling Old West frontier town rather than a single hotel building. Fourteen wooden lodges named after Wild West staples like…
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/ September 18, 2026
Pixar Place Hotel is the 15-story, roughly 470-room Disneyland Resort hotel at 1717 Disneyland Drive in Anaheim, California, directly overlooking Disney California Adventure Park. Formerly Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel (and before that a Pan Pacific property Disney bought in 1995), the building was reimagined and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa is the deluxe flagship of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, built in an American Craftsman style with a soaring timber-beamed lobby modeled loosely on national park lodges. It opened January 2, 2001, alongside Disney California Adventure Park, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort is the value-tier hotel inside Universal Orlando Resort, built around a playful 1950s-and-60s beach-motel theme complete with mid-century color blocks, a 10-lane bowling alley called Galaxy Bowl, and two large pools with a lazy river and waterslide. It opened in…
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/ September 18, 2026
Hard Rock Hotel Orlando is one of Universal Orlando Resort’s on-property hotels, sitting on the CityWalk side of the resort between Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure. It opened in January 2001 as a joint venture between Loews Hotels and Hard Rock International, and…
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