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Vdara Hotel & Spa
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · MGM · Core Luxury
Vdara Hotel & Spa opened on December 1, 2009, the first CityCenter hotel to take guests: Rafael Viñoly's 57-story crescent of all suites, with no casino in the building and the ESPA spa on site. The quiet tower shares the campus with ARIA and Waldorf Astoria and still reads as sculpture from Harmon Avenue.
- 1,495 rooms
- Opened 2009
- Neighborhood: The Strip
- Architect: Rafael Viñoly (Rafael Viñoly Architects)
- Interiors: Rockwell Group
About Vdara Hotel & Spa
- Rafael Viñoly designed the 57-story convex crescent, and the tower opened December 1, 2009 as CityCenter's first hotel.
- Every room is a suite with a kitchenette, and there is no casino anywhere in the building.
- The ESPA spa ranks among the largest in Las Vegas and anchors the all-suite tower.
- Rockwell Group interiors use warm neutrals and a residential scale.
- CityCenter cost $8.5 billion. Vdara shares the campus with Waldorf Astoria, ARIA, and Crystals.
History
Vdara Hotel & Spa opened on December 1, 2009, as the first component of CityCenter to welcome guests — a deliberate statement that MGM Mirage's US$8.5 billion megaproject would include hospitality products that broke every Strip convention. Where ARIA next door would embrace casino energy and Waldorf Astoria (then Mandarin Oriental) would pursue urban luxury, Vdara was conceived as a wellness-forward, entirely non-gaming all-suite hotel for guests who wanted Las Vegas proximity without Las Vegas noise.
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly designed the tower as a convex crescent — a 57-story arc that curves away from the Strip, its glass skin reflecting the desert sky and framing views of the mountains or the boulevard depending on orientation. The building's form is among the most recognizable silhouettes on the mid-Strip: neither the vertical slab of a standard casino tower nor the themed fantasy of an earlier era, but a piece of contemporary architecture that could credibly stand in Midtown Manhattan or Dubai.
Rockwell Group handled the interiors with a palette of warm neutrals, natural materials, and residential-scale furnishing that reinforced Vdara's positioning as a retreat rather than a playground. Every room is a suite — there are no standard hotel rooms in the conventional sense — with kitchenettes, separate living areas, and floor-to-ceiling windows that take full advantage of Viñoly's curved facade. The ESPA spa, one of the largest in Las Vegas, anchors the wellness proposition with treatment rooms, a salon, and fitness facilities that give Vdara a reason to exist independent of any casino floor.
CityCenter's ownership story — MGM Resorts, Dubai World, and later the complex's evolution through the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent rebrands of sibling towers — did not alter Vdara's essential identity. The hotel remains non-smoking and non-gaming, connected to Bellagio, ARIA, and Crystals via the CityCenter tram and pedestrian network while maintaining its own porte-cochère and check-in experience. For business travelers, extended-stay guests, and luxury visitors who treat the Strip as a dining-and-entertainment campus rather than a casino destination, Vdara has become the quiet anchor of CityCenter — the tower you choose when Waldorf Astoria's formality or ARIA's energy is not the right mood.
In a market that still assumes every Strip hotel must have slot machines on the ground floor, Vdara's fifteen-year survival as a pure suite-and-spa product is its own argument: there is a durable luxury segment in Las Vegas that values silence, architecture, and wellness over gaming volume.
The setting
Vdara Hotel & Spa rises at 2600 West Harmon Avenue within CityCenter, the 67-acre mixed-use campus MGM Mirage developed on the former Boardwalk Hotel site at the mid-Strip. The crescent tower sits between ARIA Resort and the Waldorf Astoria tower, connected to Bellagio and Monte Carlo/Park MGM via the free CityCenter tram. The Cosmopolitan is an eight-minute walk, Bellagio's fountains are ten minutes on foot, and Crystals retail sits at the base of the campus — placing Vdara at the center of the Strip's densest luxury cluster while remaining physically separated from any casino floor.
Restaurants and bars
- Market Café — Café · American
- Vdara Pool & Lounge — Poolside · Poolside
- ARIA dining access — Restaurant · Various
Amenities
- All-suite hotel — no standard rooms
- Non-gaming, non-smoking property
- ESPA at Vdara — full-service spa and salon
- Rooftop pool and deck with cabanas
- Fitness center and wellness programming
- In-suite kitchenettes with Sub-Zero and Miele appliances
- CityCenter tram access to Bellagio and Monte Carlo
- Valet parking and dedicated porte-cochère
- Pet-friendly accommodations
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2025)
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