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ARIA Resort & Casino is an MGM Resorts casino property in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas · United States | Research snapshot: 25 October 2026
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Overview & address
Address
3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89158, United States
Official property / operator website. Check the operator for current opening hours, access requirements and facilities.
ARIA: the resort and its location
ARIA and its place on the Strip
ARIA Resort & Casino occupies a distinctive place in the central Las Vegas Strip: it is a major casino hotel within a larger collection of neighbouring buildings, shopping areas and pedestrian connections. MGM’s opening announcement records its opening on 16 December 2009. The announcement describes CityCenter as the wider development, which at its opening included ARIA, Vdara, Crystals and Veer Towers. Those names still help explain the setting, even when an individual destination has its own identity, entrance or operator.
For readers researching the resort, the useful starting point is that ARIA is neither an isolated hotel nor a synonym for every surrounding building. Its accommodation, casino, restaurants and meeting facilities sit within a connected urban resort environment. Understanding the larger setting helps make sense of directions, property maps and the different venues associated with the campus.
Source: MGM Resorts opening announcement
Understanding the property layout
The official map separates the casino level from the promenade, pool and convention areas. It identifies the poker room, main registration, restaurants, lounges and the routes toward neighbouring properties. These are useful distinctions for visitors attending a meeting or researching the resort’s non-gaming facilities: a familiar hotel name does not mean every destination is beside the lobby.
The map also marks connections toward Vdara, Bellagio, The Cosmopolitan, The Shops at Crystals and the tram. PokerGO Studio is signposted separately from ARIA’s poker room, an important detail for anyone looking for the production venue rather than a conventional casino-floor destination. A campus map is the clearest way to distinguish these spaces without relying on an approximate street-level impression.
Rooms, suites and digital controls
ARIA’s current accommodation directory distinguishes Deluxe Rooms, Tower Suites and Sky Suites rather than presenting the hotel as a single room type. The Deluxe King and Deluxe Two Queen listings each specify 520 square feet, with different bedding arrangements. The hotel describes floor-to-ceiling windows and in-room tablets that combine ordering functions with room controls. These features help explain the property’s emphasis on technology within the guest experience.
Room categories matter when comparing descriptions or customer reviews. A comment about a particular suite, view or service package should not automatically be applied to every room in the building. The official accommodation pages provide category-specific details, while actual availability and included services need checking for the relevant stay. This directory does not infer current room condition from marketing photography or make a firsthand assessment of comfort.
Art as part of the resort experience
The ARIA Fine Art Collection gives the property a reason to be explored beyond its casino. The operator identifies works by painters, sculptors and installation artists including Maya Lin, Jenny Holzer, Nancy Rubins, Frank Stella, James Turrell, Sanford Biggers and Rashid Johnson. The collection is presented as a walking experience, with an official guide available through the resort’s art page.
This is useful context for understanding the public spaces. Art is not confined to a single gallery entrance; it forms part of the wider experience of moving through the property. Using the collection guide helps distinguish a commissioned artwork from ordinary decoration and gives an independent focus to a visit. Access arrangements should still be checked where works sit within particular venues.
Three works that explain the location
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s art itinerary highlights Maya Lin’s Silver River above ARIA’s registration desk, describing its use of reclaimed silver to represent the Colorado River. The same guide identifies Jenny Holzer’s VEGAS installation at the North Valet pickup and Nancy Rubins’ Big Edge, assembled from salvaged boats, in Harmon Circle.
Together, those examples connect the interior lobby, an arrival area and an outdoor campus space. They illustrate why an art route here can also serve as an introduction to the property’s geography. The itinerary is a cultural reference rather than a claim that every artwork is continuously accessible or that a guided tour is included with a hotel stay.
Design and environmental infrastructure
MGM describes the ARIA campus as an important stage in its approach to environmentally focused resort development. Its design history associates the project with LEED Gold certifications and an on-site plant that captures waste heat for water heating. These are specific design and infrastructure claims from the operator, not a statement that a large resort has no environmental footprint. They are most useful when read alongside the scale and mixed uses of the development.
The company describes CityCenter as a mixed-use project combining hotels, convention space, retail, residences, streets, parks and art. That mix helps explain why the experience of ARIA extends beyond its own entrance. Different activities share a relatively concentrated setting, while individual properties retain their own functions. From a planning perspective, this is a useful contrast with a single-purpose casino building: accommodation, public spaces and commercial activity were considered together as elements of a larger development, rather than simply as separate neighbouring attractions.
A shared campus energy system
MGM’s environmental profile describes an 8.2-megawatt combined heat and power plant serving the ARIA campus. It also explains that the central system supplies heating and cooling to neighbouring destinations, including New York-New York, T-Mobile Arena and Dolby Live. This makes the campus relationship more than a matter of pedestrian routes. Some infrastructure operates across property boundaries, a useful detail for understanding the resort as part of a larger interconnected hospitality district.
Dining and the changing resort
The resort’s dining identity continues to evolve. On 4 December 2025, MGM and JKS Restaurants announced the opening of Gymkhana at ARIA, identifying it as the London restaurant’s first United States location. That is a dated example of a property development, not a current review of the food or service. Restaurant names, operating arrangements and menus should be checked directly, especially when older visitor accounts describe a different version of the dining portfolio.
Source: newsroom.mgmresorts.com
Getting around the neighbouring resorts
ARIA’s transportation page identifies the ARIA Express Tram and connections serving the surrounding resort cluster. It also carries notices about changes associated with construction, illustrating why a current transport page is more reliable than an old timetable. The practical approach is to identify the precise venue, consult the property map and check current access information. That is particularly useful when moving between a hotel entrance, a conference space and a separately accessed venue such as PokerGO Studio.
PokerGO Studio at the ARIA campus
PokerGO Studio: next to ARIA, not the casino poker room
PokerGO Studio is closely associated with ARIA, but its location deserves precise wording. The studio’s own website places it at CityCenter, a few steps outside ARIA Resort & Casino, and records its opening in May 2018. It describes a 10,000-square-foot venue originally developed for poker tournaments and cash-game production. This is therefore a dedicated studio and event space near the resort, not simply another name for ARIA’s casino-floor poker room.
The venue identifies television productions including High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark and No Gamble, No Future among its hosted shows. Its history also describes corporate events, award ceremonies and esports activities. For a business audience, the important point is the combination of a recognizable Las Vegas location with an adaptable production environment. The building’s role extends beyond the tables seen in an individual programme.
How the production venue was conceived
Poker Central’s announcement of 5 April 2018 described a purpose-built facility with multiple sound stages, a main studio, a break desk and a streaming lounge. It also described room for nine poker tables and an audience area. These details explain the original production concept: a space designed to support televised events, commentary and related programming rather than relying on a temporary installation in a conventional ballroom.
The same announcement said public access would be determined event by event. That historical wording should not be converted into a promise of unrestricted admission today. A broadcast schedule, a studio rental and a spectator opportunity are separate arrangements. Readers interested in attending should confirm the specific event’s currently published visitor access information rather than assume that proximity to ARIA makes the studio a walk-in visitor attraction.
Technology, flexibility and practical limitations
The current venue website describes live-broadcast capabilities and a production control room able to manage lighting and technology throughout the space, including the large LED wall in the main room. It also presents a flexible layout for uses such as corporate ceremonies, receptions and video-game competitions. These are the operator’s descriptions of available capabilities; a particular event would still require its own technical and operational specification.
That distinction matters when assessing the studio as a media facility. The presence of a control room or display wall does not establish which cameras, crew, graphics package or distribution services are included in a particular booking. Nor does a televised programme demonstrate that every production uses the same configuration. The venue offers a useful example of a specialist studio adapting to multiple event formats, but its suitability depends on the actual brief. Confirm equipment, staffing, access and production requirements directly before treating the setting as a complete solution.
A venue built around the broadcast
PGT’s own studio description distinguishes a main feature-table stage from the other tables and also identifies spectator space, a bar and a lounge. Those elements support different parts of a televised event: activity on the floor, presentation around a featured table and the experience of people attending in person. They help explain the facility’s media identity, while remaining a description of the venue rather than a guarantee about access, seating or technical inclusions for any particular production.
Property and PokerGO Studio descriptions researched on 26 October 2026. The photographs, dated news and selected customer-review context below are retained from the earlier directory research.
Property news & developments
A dated editorial selection, not a live news feed. Older items are included as background, not presented as breaking news.
Gymkhana opens at ARIA
MGM and JKS Restaurants announced the opening of Gymkhana at ARIA, the London restaurant’s first United States location. The operator’s announcement places the restaurant within ARIA’s dining portfolio; it is not our firsthand restaurant review.
Published: 2025-12-04. MGM Resorts newsroom.
Dated source report; publication or event date is identified separately. Not a claim of current availability.
Customer reviews
Guest opinions are subjective and may concern the wider hotel or resort rather than the gaming floor. They are not our first-hand inspection, a representative survey or a prediction of your experience. We do not reproduce a platform rating or review count.
Tripadvisor — Shawn U
Shawn U liked the spacious rooms and restaurant choice, while noting the walk to the conference centre and feeling that the stay was expensive.
Review / stay date: 2026-05.
Individual visitor opinion, not independently verified or representative of every stay. Business-stay review.
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Sources & editorial notes
Property and address sources: Source 1.
Reviewed on 25 October 2026. This independent directory is informational, not an endorsement or a commercial relationship. Source statements and customer opinions remain attributed. Photos and historical news may not reflect current conditions. No booking, wagering or financial-return promise is made.