MGM hotels

Casino resorts turn a night away into a circuit of shows, restaurants and spectacle.

MGM makes the resort a world of entertainment, with casinos, shows, restaurants, and large hotels at the heart of the experience. The familiar Hollywood lion came to hospitality through Kirk Kerkorian’s Las Vegas projects, and the brand now carries that sense of spectacle to the Strip and Macau.

14 MGM hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

Owned by MGM Resorts International
Worldwide: 16 operating hotel properties derived from MGM's 17-property operator portfolio in Q2 2026; roomless Empire City is excluded, as are online-gaming jurisdictions and pipeline. MGM Q2 2026 investor presentation
On the atlas: 4 Grand Luxury, 1 High Luxury, 2 Core Luxury, 4 Accessible Luxury, 3 Near Luxury

History

Kirk Kerkorian’s Las Vegas projects grew in scale from the International Hotel to the two MGM Grands and CityCenter. Acquisitions later brought Mirage Resorts and Mandalay into the company. Hotels such as Bellagio and Beau Rivage added individual identities within a larger world of resorts, entertainment, and casinos.

Timeline

1969 — Kirk Kerkorian buys control of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio. The lion later becomes the resort mark. The studio and the hotel company are separate firms.
1973 — The original MGM Grand Hotel opens in Las Vegas, then the largest hotel, later renamed under Bally and known now as Horseshoe. The MGM Grand in Reno follows in 1978.
1986 — Bally buys the original Las Vegas and Reno hotels. Kerkorian keeps the MGM Grand name.
1987 — MGM Grand, Inc. begins, the company that becomes today's parent.
1991–1993 — Construction starts in October 1991 on the Marina Hotel site and the old Tropicana Country Club. The present MGM Grand opens on 18 December 1993, about 5,005 rooms, a final cost of about $1 billion. Barbra Streisand plays the Grand Garden Arena.
1999 — Mandalay Bay opens on 2 March for Circus Circus Enterprises. The Mansion at MGM Grand opens on the south Strip, 29 villas. MGM Grand Detroit opens in July. Beau Rivage is already a new Mirage Resorts house on the Gulf by the time sale talks start.
2000 — MGM Grand buys Mirage Resorts. The merger closes in May, at $4.4 billion plus about $2 billion of debt, and brings Bellagio, The Mirage, Treasure Island, and Beau Rivage into the parent. In August the company becomes MGM Mirage.
2004 — A joint venture with Pansy Ho, on a sub-concession from her father Stanley Ho, sets up the Macau project. Nevada regulators approve the partnership.
2004–2005 — Skylofts at MGM Grand open in phases from 23 December 2004 on the top floors of the 1993 tower. The atlas file dates that product to 1993, the tower's year.
2005 — The Mandalay Resort Group merger brings Mandalay Bay into the parent. Construction of MGM Grand Macau starts in June. The Signature's first tower year is 2005.
2005–2008 — The Signature at MGM Grand opens three all-suite towers behind the green hotel.
2007 — MGM Macau opens on 18 December, a 35-story house completed at about $1.25 billion.
2008 — The Water Club opens at Borgata, the tower later renamed MGM Tower. A large Atlantic City project beside Borgata is halted.
2009 — Vdara opens on 1 December as the first CityCenter hotel to take guests. The Kerkorian-era account of CityCenter puts the campus at $8.5 billion. Treasure Island is sold to Phil Ruffin, the sale completed on 20 March.
2010 — On 15 June, shareholders approve the name MGM Resorts International.
2015 — Kirk Kerkorian dies at 98. He had been Director Emeritus since 2011.
2016 — MGM National Harbor opens on 8 December. T-Mobile Arena, a partnership with AEG, opens on 6 April behind New York-New York.
2018 — MGM Cotai opens on 13 February after months of delays. MGM Springfield opens on 24 August.
2019 — On 19 January, MGM dates the Guinness record for the Spectacle's free-span gridshell glazed roof at MGM Cotai.
2021 — The parent sells The Mirage, a separate resort name, to Hard Rock. Real estate at Aria and Vdara is sold while the hotels keep operating.
2023 — MGM Shanghai West Bund opens, the first MGM city hotel in mainland China. The Water Club takes the name MGM Tower at Borgata. In July the parent agrees the MGM Collection with Marriott Bonvoy.
2024 — The Poly MGM Museum opens inside MGM Macau in November.
2025 — On 13 November the MGM Grand main tower finishes a $300 million remodel of 3,969 rooms and suites. Ground breaks on MGM Osaka in April.
2026 — Beau Rivage's EIGHT75 lounge reopens on 14 August after a spring closure. On 21 April the parent completes the sale of MGM Northfield Park's operations.

The houses to know

MGM Macau, Macau, Macau — A 35-story glass hotel on the peninsula, opened in 2007, with the Grande Praça under a dome.
Skylofts at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, United States — Fifty-one lofts on the top floors of the green tower, Forbes Five-Star for 2026.
Emerald Tower at MGM COTAI, Macau, Macau — Kohn Pedersen Fox's stack of nine jewellery boxes, Forbes Five-Star for 2026.
Skylofts at MGM COTAI, Macau, Macau — Sixteen penthouse lofts, about 147,500 square feet, on the Cotai resort that opened in 2018.
MGM Cotai, Macau, Macau — The 2018 jewelry-box resort, about 1,390 keys, under the Spectacle roof.
MGM Shanghai West Bund, Shanghai, China — A 219-room city hotel on the West Bund, lobby on the 57th floor, opened in 2023.
Vdara Hotel & Spa, Las Vegas, United States — Rafael Viñoly's 57-story crescent of suites at CityCenter, opened in 2009.
The Signature at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, United States — Three all-suite towers behind the green hotel, opened from 2005 to 2008.
MGM Grand Sanya, Sanya, China — MGM Grand Sanya is a beach resort on Hainan Island built in 2011, with 676 rooms over eight floors plus suites and villas.
MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino, National Harbor, United States — A 308-room casino resort on the Potomac, opened in 2016, looking toward Washington.

Newest openings

MGM Shanghai West Bund — Shanghai, China — opened 2023 — The 219-room hotel was MGM’s first non-gaming city address in mainland China. Diaoyutai MGM Hospitality signed the management agreement in 2022, and Forbes Travel Guide awarded the hotel Four Stars for 2026.
Poly MGM Museum (Macau, Macau), opened November 2024: a museum of nearly 2,000 square meters inside MGM Macau, built to show Grade-One cultural relics. It is a museum inside the 2007 resort.

Opening next

MGM Osaka — Osaka, Japan — expected autumn 2030 — Japan’s first casino resort is being developed with ORIX and other investors on Yumeshima. Construction began in April 2025. Early briefings described about 2,500 hotel rooms; a later prefectural update listed 1,829 rooms and 10 villas. The final room count needs confirmation.
MGM Dubai — Dubai, United Arab Emirates — opening date unconfirmed — An MGM Dubai appears in published lists of planned projects, but a 2028 opening has not been confirmed in the sources reviewed. The proposed Bellagio and Aria hotels would belong to separate brands.
Empire City — Yonkers, United States — hotel opening date unconfirmed — MGM operates the racetrack casino and has pursued a broader New York casino licence. A community advisory committee supported the bid on 25 September 2025, but that vote did not confirm a new hotel tower.

Every MGM hotel on the atlas

United States

Skylofts at MGM Grand — Las Vegas · Grand Luxury
Vdara Hotel & Spa — Las Vegas · Core Luxury
MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino — National Harbor · Accessible Luxury
The Mansion at MGM Grand — Las Vegas · Accessible Luxury
The Signature at MGM Grand — Las Vegas · Accessible Luxury
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino — Biloxi · Near Luxury
Mandalay Bay — Las Vegas · Near Luxury
MGM Tower at Borgata — Atlantic City · Near Luxury

Macau

Emerald Tower at MGM COTAI — Macau · Grand Luxury
MGM Macau — Macau · Grand Luxury
Skylofts at MGM COTAI — Macau · Grand Luxury
MGM Cotai — Macau · High Luxury

China

MGM Shanghai West Bund — Shanghai · Core Luxury
MGM Grand Sanya — Sanya · Accessible Luxury

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