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The Laurel Collection at Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The Laurel Collection is the premium pair of towers inside Caesars Palace: Augustus, opened in 2005, and Octavius, opened in 2012, together 949 rooms with a private valet, a separate check-in, and key cards for their own elevators. Laurel guests walk out to the Jupiter pool in the Garden of the Gods. Jay Sarno opened the Roman resort around them in 1966.
- 949 rooms
- Opened 2005
- Neighborhood: The Strip
- Architect: Klai Juba Wald; original Caesars expansion architects
About The Laurel Collection at Caesars Palace
- Octavius rooms are numbered on floors 50 through 69 even though the tower is 23 stories, a Las Vegas habit of numbering for height.
- The Laurel Collection Penthouse is 2,040 square feet, and the Octavius Premium Penthouse reaches 2,370 square feet with a pool table and a wet bar.
History
The Laurel Collection at Caesars Palace is the name Caesars Entertainment applies to its two premium hotel towers — Augustus and Octavius — within the sprawling 85-acre resort Jay Sarno opened on August 5, 1966. Where the original Palace, Forum, and Palace Tower rooms serve the mass Strip market, and where Nobu Hotel occupies a boutique 182-room tower with its own design identity, The Laurel Collection represents Caesars' attempt to create a contiguous premium footprint: nearly a thousand rooms that share exclusive arrival privileges, a dedicated check-in experience, and direct access to the best pool real estate on the property without requiring guests to navigate the full chaos of the main casino floor.
The Augustus Tower opened in 2005 as part of Caesars' long-running expansion program, adding rooms decorated in cool grey tones with royal blue and champagne-gold accents — a contemporary reading of the resort's Roman theme that feels more residential than the original 1960s towers. Augustus rooms begin at 650 square feet with separate seating areas, spa-style bathrooms with dual sinks and soaking tubs, and in many categories fountain or Strip views. The tower's suites scale through Executive, Premium, and Spa categories to a 2,040-square-foot Laurel Collection Penthouse with private dining room, media room, and eight-seat table.
The Octavius Tower followed in 2012 — a US$550 million addition that added one of the Strip's most spacious standard room products at 550 square feet, with modern decor, dual vanities, walk-in showers, and floor numbering that reflects Vegas convention rather than physical height (rooms on "floors" 50 through 69 occupy a 23-story tower). Octavius and Augustus share a lobby and are booked collectively as The Laurel Collection on Caesars' website, a naming convention that signals to guests they are purchasing a premium tier rather than a generic Caesars room assignment.
Laurel Collection guests use a private valet entrance on the resort's southern end, check in at a dedicated desk away from the main casino registration queues, and receive Laurel-branded key cards that unlock tower-specific elevator banks. The payoff is physical as well as procedural: direct access to the Garden of the Gods pool complex, including Jupiter — a pool reserved exclusively for Laurel Collection guests — alongside Neptune and Venus pools available to the broader resort. The positioning is deliberately less exclusive than Nobu Hotel's boutique tower or The Villas at Caesars Palace's ultra-luxury estates, but materially better than the Forum Tower and Palace Tower products that most of Caesars' 3,980 rooms represent.
In the hierarchy of Caesars Palace accommodation — a campus that now spans Nobu Hotel, The Villas, The Laurel Collection, and the mass-market towers — The Laurel Collection occupies the premium middle: not the invitation-only apex, not the mass floor, but the tier a discerning guest selects when they want Caesars' location and entertainment infrastructure without the congestion of the resort's default room product. On the center Strip, where Caesars Palace remains one of the most recognized addresses in global hospitality, The Laurel Collection is how the property competes with the hotel-within-a-hotel model that Wynn, MGM, and Marriott have made the defining luxury strategy of modern Las Vegas.
The setting
The Laurel Collection occupies the Augustus and Octavius towers at the southern end of Caesars Palace, 3570 South Las Vegas Boulevard — the Roman-themed resort Jay Sarno opened in 1966 between Bellagio and The Mirage at the center Strip's most storied intersection. Laurel guests enter via a private valet on the resort's south side and walk directly into the Garden of the Gods pool complex, bypassing the main casino registration area. The High Roller observation wheel is eleven minutes on foot, Nobu Hotel within the same campus is three minutes away, and Bellagio's fountains are a seven-minute walk, placing The Laurel Collection at the geographic and cultural heart of the Strip. 14 miles from Rio Secco Golf Club.
Restaurants and bars
- Nobu Restaurant — Restaurant · Japanese-Peruvian · Chef Nobu Matsuhisa
- Gordon Ramsay Hell's Kitchen — Restaurant · American · Chef Gordon Ramsay
- Restaurant Guy Savoy — Restaurant · French · Chef Guy Savoy · One MICHELIN Star
- Old Homestead Steakhouse — Restaurant · Steakhouse
- Venus Pool Lounge — Poolside · Poolside
Amenities
- 949 rooms and suites across Augustus and Octavius towers
- Private valet entrance and dedicated Laurel Collection check-in
- Laurel-branded key cards and tower-specific elevator access
- Direct access to Garden of the Gods pool complex
- Exclusive Jupiter pool for Laurel Collection guests
- Augustus rooms from 650 square feet; Octavius from 550 square feet
- Laurel Collection Penthouse up to 2,040 square feet
- Octavius Premium Penthouse up to 2,370 square feet
- Access to QUA Baths & Spa and The Colosseum entertainment
- Forum Shops at Caesars retail and dining
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