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Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States · Waldorf Astoria · Grand Luxury
Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas is the 47-story Kohn Pedersen Fox tower that opened on 4 December 2009 as Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, inside CityCenter, on the site of the old Boardwalk Hotel. Adam Tihany did the original hotel interiors, and Pierre Gagnaire opened Twist here, his first U.S. restaurant. In 2018 Tiffany Lam and Andrew and Peggy Cherng bought the tower for $214 million, and Hilton reopened it as a Waldorf Astoria without a casino. AAA rates it Five Diamond in 2026, Forbes rates it Five-Star, and Michelin gave it One Key the same year.
- 389 rooms
- Opened 2009
- Neighborhood: The Strip
- Rooms from 500 sq ft (46 m²)
- Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox
- Interiors: Adam Tihany
About Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas
- Kohn Pedersen Fox designed the 47-story tower, which opened on 4 December 2009 as Mandarin Oriental inside CityCenter.
- In 2018 Andrew and Peggy Cherng and Tiffany Lam bought it for $214 million, and Hilton reopened the non-gaming house as a Waldorf Astoria.
History
The site of Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas was occupied for decades by the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino, a midscale property on the Strip that opened in 1967 and was eventually acquired by MGM Mirage as part of its long-term vision for a major mixed-use development. The Boardwalk was demolished in 2006 to clear the way for CityCenter, the largest privately financed construction project in American history at the time of its development, a 67-acre urban campus on the Las Vegas Strip that ultimately cost around $8.5 billion and encompassed hotels, residences, a shopping mall, and public art installations on a scale never before attempted in hospitality development.
The tower that would become Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas was announced in September 2005 as part of the CityCenter plan, to be designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox — the New York architecture firm also responsible for the broader CityCenter master plan — with hotel interiors by Adam Tihany, one of the most celebrated designers in luxury hospitality. The hotel was originally conceived and managed as Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas, operated by the Hong Kong-based Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group in partnership with MGM Mirage and Dubai World. It opened on December 4, 2009, as the third component of CityCenter to open, following Vdara and Crystals.
The property earned its AAA Five Diamond Award within a year of opening, one of only a handful of Las Vegas hotels to hold that distinction. Its positioning as a non-gaming, non-smoking luxury property in a market defined by casino culture made it unique on the Strip: guests came for the spa, the pools, the panoramic Strip views from Kohn Pedersen Fox's 47-story tower, and for chef Pierre Gagnaire's Twist restaurant, which marked his U.S. debut when the hotel opened.
In 2018, Tiffany Lam and Andrew and Peggy Cherng — co-founders of the Panda Express restaurant chain — purchased the property from a MGM Resorts subsidiary for $214 million. Mandarin Oriental's management agreement was cancelled, and Hilton assumed operations, rebranding the hotel as Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas. The renovation and rebranding that followed gradually replaced the strong Asian aesthetic of the Mandarin era with the quieter, more classically European sensibility of the Waldorf standard. The building's fundamental advantages — its silence, its non-gaming atmosphere, its extraordinary skyline position above the controlled chaos of the Strip — remained unchanged, and its Five Diamond rating has been maintained continuously since that first year of operation.
The setting
Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas rises 47 stories at 3752 Las Vegas Boulevard South within CityCenter, the $8.5 billion mixed-use complex built on the former Boardwalk Hotel site — a mid-Strip property that operated from 1966 until its May 2006 demolition. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and opened in December 2009 as the Mandarin Oriental before rebranding in 2018, the non-gaming tower is flanked by ARIA Resort and the Crystals retail district. MGM Grand is nine minutes on foot, The Cosmopolitan is 15 minutes away, and the Fountains of Bellagio are a 16-minute walk — placing the hotel at the precise center of the Strip's most concentrated luxury mile, with multiple landmark properties clustered immediately nearby. 3 miles from McCarran International Airport.
Amenities
- Spa
- Pool
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Yoga
Awards
- AAA Five Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Recommended (2026)
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
- Nevada's Leading Business Hotel 2025 (World Travel Awards) (2025)
- Travel + Leisure World's Best Hotels (2025)
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