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
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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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort is a moderate-tier Walt Disney World hotel that opened in 1997 in the Animal Kingdom Resort Area, themed around Spanish colonial and southwestern architecture spread across a 15-acre lake called Lago Dorado. It’s built as four distinct neighborhoods of guest rooms…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s BoardWalk Inn is a deluxe hotel at Walt Disney World, opened July 1, 1996, set along Crescent Lake in the Epcot Resort Area between Epcot and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Its 378 rooms and suites sit above a quarter-mile boardwalk district styled after early-20th-century Atlantic…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Contemporary Resort is one of the two original hotels that opened alongside Walt Disney World on October 1, 1971, and it’s still one of the most recognizable buildings on property: a towering A-frame on the shore of Bay Lake with the Walt Disney World…
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/ September 18, 2026
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa opened on June 28, 1988, as the Grand Floridian Beach Resort and took its current name in 1997. Built in a Victorian-era Florida beach-house style along the shore of the Seven Seas Lagoon, it’s Walt Disney World’s flagship deluxe…
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/ September 18, 2026
Tropicana Las Vegas stood at 3801 South Las Vegas Boulevard, on the southeast corner of the Strip’s most famous intersection with Tropicana Avenue, directly across from MGM Grand and near the Strip’s southern gateway. It opened April 4, 1957, and operated for 67 years before…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Mirage sat on the Center Strip at 3400 S. Las Vegas Boulevard, between Caesars Palace and Treasure Island, from its opening on November 22, 1989 until its final night on July 17, 2024. Developed by Steve Wynn at a then-record cost of $630 million…
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/ September 18, 2026
Vdara Hotel & Spa is a 57-story, crescent-shaped all-suite tower inside the CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip, directly across from Aria Resort & Casino. It opened on December 2, 2009 as a joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Dubai World; MGM later…
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/ September 18, 2026
Golden Nugget Las Vegas is a Downtown Las Vegas resort at 129 Fremont Street, anchoring the neon canopy of the Fremont Street Experience rather than the Strip. Opened in 1946 and now owned by Tilman Fertitta’s Landry’s, Inc. since 2005, it’s the flagship of the…
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/ September 18, 2026
Durango Casino & Resort is a 209-room hotel-casino in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, built by Station Casinos (owned by Red Rock Resorts) and opened December 5, 2023 as the company’s first new resort in over a decade. It sits at 6915 South Durango Drive…
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/ September 18, 2026
Palms Casino Resort sits about a mile west of the Las Vegas Strip on Flamingo Road, in the unincorporated community of Paradise. Opened in 2001 and completely reimagined before its April 2022 reopening, it’s owned and operated by the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation…
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/ September 18, 2026
Westgate Las Vegas isn’t chasing Strip-front flash — it’s trading on nearly 60 years of Vegas entertainment history, a huge sportsbook, and room rates that undercut comparable Strip towers. It opened in 1969 as the International Hotel, became the Las Vegas Hilton for decades, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Fontainebleau Las Vegas is a 67-story, 3,644-room luxury resort at 2777 South Las Vegas Boulevard, on the north end of the Strip near Wynn, Encore and Resorts World. Opened December 13, 2023 by Fontainebleau Development in partnership with Koch Real Estate Investments, it’s the tallest…
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/ September 18, 2026
Horseshoe Las Vegas occupies one of the most storied addresses on the Strip: 3645 South Las Vegas Boulevard, right at the crossroads of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Avenue. The building opened in 1973 as the MGM Grand, became Bally’s Las Vegas in 1986, and…
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/ September 18, 2026
Harrah’s Las Vegas is a Caesars Entertainment-operated hotel and casino sitting almost dead-center on the Las Vegas Strip, sandwiched between The LINQ and the Wynn/Venetian corridor. The property traces back to 1972 as the Holiday Inn Center Strip before Harrah’s took over the casino and…
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/ September 18, 2026
The LINQ Hotel + Experience sits at 3535 Las Vegas Boulevard South, squeezed onto the center Strip between Flamingo Las Vegas and Harrah’s Las Vegas. Owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment, the property traces back to the Flamingo Capri (1959) and the Imperial Palace (1979)…
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/ September 18, 2026
Park MGM is a 2,993-room resort at 3770 Las Vegas Boulevard South, owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International. It opened in this form on May 9, 2018, after a $550 million reinvention of the former Monte Carlo Resort and Casino, which…
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/ September 18, 2026
Mandalay Bay sits at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip at 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, opened March 2, 1999 by Circus Circus Enterprises on the former Hacienda site, and today is owned by Vici Properties and operated by MGM Resorts International. The…
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/ September 18, 2026
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas is a two-tower luxury resort at 3708 South Las Vegas Boulevard, wedged into the Strip’s most walkable stretch between Bellagio and CityCenter. It opened December 15, 2010, and is managed by MGM Resorts International under ownership by Blackstone, Stonepeak Partners…
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