Nowadays the Las Vegas Strip today is a bustling area filled with sprawling luxury resorts and the hotel bills can be so high that you might feel like you need to hit a jackpot at a slot machine just to ease the financial strain. The Aria Las Vegas Hotel offers “flashy and classy” at a reasonable price. The hotel’s sleek glass towers create a striking, modern silhouette against the diverse architectural styles that define the Las Vegas skyline.

MGM Resorts’ Aria Resort & Casino really stands out among the newer Las Vegas resorts because it was one of the first to move away from a specific theme and can still offer a hotel room on the strip from $129 a night with many in-room technologies. This flashy, glassy complex focuses on attracting guests with a variety of bars and restaurants, pools, a spa, and, of course, a massive casino floor.

Aria intentionally avoids the various themes that its competitors or sister properties adopt, like the Bellagio (Italy’s Lake Como), Paris Las Vegas (France), Luxor (Egypt), or Excalibur (medieval times). Instead, this MGM Resorts property is the namesake of Aria Campus — a high-end hotel and casino complex that includes the Aria Resort & Casino, along with the Aria Sky Suites and Vdara Hotel & Spa. The Shops at Crystals, a luxury shopping mall featuring brands like Dior and Gucci, are connected to the hotel.

While the Aria on the Las Vegas Strip is set back farther than some of its siblings and competitors, the Aria Express Tram connects visitors from Aria and the Shops at Crystals to the Bellagio and Park MGM (both part of MGM Resorts along with Aria).

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