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The Mirage was the first megaresort to open on the Las Vegas Strip, and its success prompted a building boom in the 1990s for other large resorts along the Strip. The Mirage opened with several non-traditional attractions for a Las Vegas casino, including animal habitats for dolphins and tigers, and an indoor tropical forest display.
One of the dolphins, which was born at the hotel, was being treated for a respiratory illness.
By 2000, more than 30,000 new hotel rooms were added as new Las Vegas Strip resorts went up: Excalibur, Luxor, Treasure Island, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Monte Carlo, Bellagio, Mandalay Bay ...
The Mirage casino resort will close its doors in July 2024. 'A new era' The hotel is known for its man-made Mirage Volcano spewing fire and water since the hotel’s 1989 opening.
It was scheduled to be demolished in the months ahead to make way for Wynn's new resort, [75] which opened as The Mirage in 1989. The Mirage's northern edge on Las Vegas Boulevard occupies the former Castaways property. [76] The Castaways name would later be used for the Showboat Hotel and Casino on Boulder Highway, starting in 2001. [77]
The Mirage-Treasure Island Tram is a temporarily closed 1,000-foot-long (300 m) people mover connecting the adjacent Las Vegas Strip casinos The Mirage and Treasure Island. [2] The tram took about 90 seconds to go from one end to the other, and was free to ride. [3] The tram opened in 1993 along with the opening of the Treasure Island casino. [4]
The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an era for a property credited with helping transform Sin City into an ultra-luxury resort ...
The company's first project, Wynn Las Vegas, opened on April 28, 2005. Wynn Macau , the company's second project started construction on June 28, 2004. It opened September 6, 2006 and is now the largest-grossing casino in the region.