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 closing April 2, 2024, and being imploded on October 9, 2024, making it the third-oldest resort on the Strip at the time it fell.
This entry is preserved for travelers researching Las Vegas Strip history and tracking what’s replacing the site: the Tropicana’s 35-acre footprint is being redeveloped into a new Las Vegas Stadium for the relocated Oakland Athletics, alongside a planned new Bally’s Las Vegas resort with roughly 3,005 rooms — a genuine changing-of-the-guard moment for the southern Strip corridor near T-Mobile Arena and Allegiant Stadium.
Stats at a Glance
- Location: 3801 S Las Vegas Blvd, southeast corner of Tropicana Ave & Las Vegas Blvd (Strip)
- Operator: Bally’s Corporation (final owner, 2022–2024)
- Opened: April 4, 1957
- Closed / Demolished: Closed April 2, 2024; towers imploded October 9, 2024
- Rooms: 1,467 across two towers (Paradise Tower, opened 1979; Club Tower, opened 1986)
- Casino: 44,570 sq ft casino floor
- Signature attraction: Five-acre lagoon pool complex with waterfalls, islands and floating blackjack tables
- Headline venue (historic): Folies Bergere revue (1959–2009), Las Vegas’s longest-running show
Rooms, Pool and Casino
In its final configuration, the Tropicana held 1,467 rooms across two towers: the Paradise Tower (built 1979, originally Tiffany Tower) and the Club Tower (built 1986, originally Island Tower). That final count reflects a roughly $180 million 2009–2011 renovation that demolished the resort’s original low-rise 1957-era Garden Rooms and reworked upper floors of both towers — including converting part of the Paradise Tower’s 20th floor into luxury villas — bringing the property down from a peak of well over 1,800 rooms. The resort’s calling card was its South Seas-themed five-acre pool area, a network of man-made lagoons, waterfalls and islands unusual for the Strip, complete with swim-up blackjack tables and underwater speakers. The 44,570-square-foot casino was considered the largest on the Strip when the property debuted in 1957.
Shows, Attractions and Dining
The Tropicana earned its ‘Tiffany of the Strip’ nickname in the Rat Pack era and became synonymous with Les Folies Bergere, a topless Parisian-style showgirl revue that ran from Christmas Eve 1959 until March 2009, making it the longest-running production show in Las Vegas history. Later years brought a Laugh Factory comedy club franchise and a steady lineup of lounge acts, but by the time of closure the resort’s marquee draw had shifted from headline entertainment to its pool grounds and mob-history nostalgia — it was noted at closing as the last building on the Strip with direct ties to the city’s organized-crime past.
Location and Who Should Stay Here
You can no longer book a room here: the Tropicana closed in April 2024 and its towers were demolished that October to clear the site now under construction for a new Las Vegas Stadium (targeted for the Athletics’ 2028 season), part of a planned new Bally’s Las Vegas resort on the remaining acreage. The corner it once anchored sits within walking distance of MGM Grand, T-Mobile Arena, and Allegiant Stadium, and travelers who remember the Tropicana’s tropical pool and mid-century charm should look to comparable current Strip resorts — or check ThrillZing’s Where to Stay hub — for today’s options in that same southern-Strip stretch.
Explore more: Compare current Las Vegas Strip resorts, See Allegiant Stadium near the former Tropicana site, T-Mobile Arena, steps from the old Tropicana corner.
Tropicana Las Vegas FAQs
Is Tropicana Las Vegas still open?
No. It closed permanently on April 2, 2024, after 67 years, and its two towers were imploded on October 9, 2024, to clear the site for a new baseball stadium and future Bally’s resort.
What did resort fees and parking cost at the Tropicana before it closed?
Like most Strip resorts in its final years, the Tropicana charged a nightly resort fee and self-parking fee typical of mid-range Strip casino-hotels; exact final-year rates are no longer published since the property is closed.
Where was the Tropicana located relative to the rest of the Strip?
It sat at the Strip’s southeast corner at Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard, across from MGM Grand and within easy walking distance of T-Mobile Arena and a short rideshare from Allegiant Stadium and the Sphere.
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