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Wynn hotels

Gardens, fine art and elaborate interiors wrap the casino floor in a carefully staged resort world.

Wynn makes a large resort around gardens, art, restaurants, and carefully composed interiors, with entertainment and casino life part of the same setting. Steve Wynn established the company in 2002 after decades of shaping Las Vegas, creating a small group of substantial resorts whose identity comes from the whole experience.

10 Wynn hotels in 3 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas (1 not open yet), each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by Wynn Resorts
• Worldwide: 4 operating resort properties — Las Vegas Operations, Wynn Macau, Wynn Palace, and Encore Boston Harbor; Wynn/Encore towers, suites and villas are components rather than separate properties, while Wynn Mayfair's roomless club and Wynn Al Marjan's pipeline are excluded. Wynn Resorts 2025 Form 10-K
• On the atlas: 2 Grand Luxury, 6 High Luxury, 1 Core Luxury, 1 Accessible Luxury

History

Steve Wynn’s earlier Las Vegas projects helped shape the resort company he founded in 2002. A second Las Vegas tower, Macau resorts, and an East Coast property later gave the collection a small number of substantial destinations. After his 2018 departure, the company continued under new leadership with further development announced in the UAE.

Timeline

• 1973–2000 — Steve Wynn builds and runs the Golden Nugget, then Mirage Resorts, opening The Mirage (1989), Treasure Island (1993), and Bellagio (1998), before selling Mirage Resorts to MGM Grand for roughly $6.6 billion in 2000.
• 2000 — Five weeks before the MGM sale closes, Wynn buys the former Desert Inn site on the Strip for $270 million and begins planning his next resort.
• 2002 — Wynn Resorts, Limited is founded by Steve Wynn, Elaine Wynn, and Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada; the company goes public on Nasdaq on October 25, 2002.
• 2005 — Wynn Las Vegas opens April 28 on the former Desert Inn site, a $2.7 billion bet that bronze warmth, manicured gardens, and obsessive material quality could out-luxury a Strip built on theming.
• 2006 — Wynn Macau opens September 6, the first Las Vegas-style integrated resort in Asia and the company's first international address.
• 2008 — Encore at Wynn Las Vegas opens in December, a deliberate aesthetic counterpoint to the original tower, with red Murano glass and lime-green accents replacing Wynn's bronze palette.
• 2010 — Encore Macau opens April 21 as an all-suite tower beside Wynn Macau, with interiors by Roger Thomas including a chandelier built from more than 1,300 Brazilian rock crystals.
• February 2018 — Following a Wall Street Journal investigation detailing decades of sexual misconduct allegations, Steve Wynn resigns as chairman and CEO; the board appoints president Matt Maddox as CEO. The company keeps the Wynn name
• 2019 — Encore Boston Harbor opens June 23 on a remediated former industrial site along the Mystic River, the largest private single-phase construction project in Massachusetts history.
• 2016 — Wynn Palace opens August 22 in Cotai, Macau, a $4.2 billion floral-themed resort with SkyCab gondolas over an eight-acre Performance Lake.
• 2022 — Wynn Resorts announces Wynn Al Marjan Island, a joint venture with Marjan LLC and Island 3 AMI FZ-LLC to build the first integrated resort in the Middle East, in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
• Late 2024–2025 — Tilman Fertitta acquires 9.9%, then 12.3%, of Wynn Resorts, becoming its largest shareholder
• June 2025 — Wynn Resorts completes its purchase of the historic Mayfair private members' club in London, formerly Aspinall's and Crown London, renaming it Wynn Mayfair: the company's first European property and its first without a hotel
• 2026 — Construction on Wynn Al Marjan Island advances past 60 floors of its signature tower while Wynn simultaneously begins a 12-month, $330 million remodel of the Encore tower in Las Vegas and refreshes Wynn Tower rooms at Wynn Macau.

The houses to know

1. Wynn Palace, Macau, Macau — Steve Wynn's $4.2 billion floral fantasy in Cotai, SkyCabs, Jeff Koons, and a Michelin-starred gilt dining room.
2. Wynn Palace Garden Villas, Macau, Macau — Five private villas offer an invitation-only stay within Wynn Palace.
3. Encore Boston Harbor, Boston, United States — The Boston Harbor tower brings Wynn to the East Coast, on a site that underwent environmental remediation.
4. Encore Tower Suites, Las Vegas, United States — Encore's own Forbes Five-Star suite enclave, the younger, more theatrical sibling to Wynn Tower Suites.
5. Wynn Tower Suites, Las Vegas, United States — The longest continuously held Forbes Five-Star rating on the Las Vegas Strip, twenty years running as of 2026.
6. Encore Macau, Macau, Macau — A lobby wall of live jellyfish and a 19th-century French Empire chandelier Roger Thomas found in Brussels.
7. Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States — The 2005 flagship that reset the Strip toward bronze, gardens, and quiet material luxury, and made a Chinese restaurant into a Michelin landmark.
8. Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States — Steve Wynn's deliberate feminine counterpoint to his own flagship, red Murano glass and lime accents where Wynn runs bronze and warm.

Newest openings

• Wynn Mayfair — London, England — opened under the Wynn name June 2025 — Wynn's first property in Europe and its first ever without a hotel component. The two-townhouse private members' club at 27–28 Curzon Street has operated as an elite London gaming address since the 1960s (as the White Elephant Club, later Aspinall's and Crown London); Wynn acquired it from Crown Resorts explicitly to build a European customer database ahead of Wynn Al Marjan Island's 2027 opening. CEO Craig Billings has said that once Al Marjan opens, "95% of the world's population" will be within an eight-hour flight of a Wynn property.

Opening next

• Enclave at Wynn Palace — Cotai, Macau — expected opening year not yet announced — A newly announced 432-suite, all-suite tower connecting to Wynn Palace's east entrance, budgeted at $900–950 million and projected to lift the resort's total room count by roughly 25% and its suite count by roughly 50%.
• Wynn Palace Event and Entertainment Center — Cotai, Macau — tentative opening early 2028, pending government approval — A large-scale events and resident-show venue planned for the north edge of the Wynn Palace campus, part of a broader package of Macau concession-related capital commitments running through 2026.
• Thailand (unconfirmed) — Bangkok has been mentioned by CEO Craig Billings as an active area of exploration once Thailand finalizes its Entertainment Complex Business Act, but Wynn has not filed a bid or confirmed a project; this remains speculative pending Thai legislation.

Every Wynn hotel on the atlas

United States

• Encore at Wynn Las Vegas — Las Vegas · High Luxury
• Encore Boston Harbor — Boston · High Luxury
• Encore Tower Suites — Las Vegas · High Luxury
• Wynn Las Vegas — Las Vegas · High Luxury
• Wynn Tower Suites — Las Vegas · High Luxury

Macau

• Wynn Palace — Macau · Grand Luxury
• Wynn Palace Garden Villas — Macau · Grand Luxury
• Encore Macau — Macau · High Luxury
• Wynn Macau — Macau · Core Luxury

United Arab Emirates

• Wynn Al Marjan Island — Ras Al Khaimah · Accessible Luxury · Opening soon

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