The Cromwell Is Now The Vanderpump Hotel. The Rooms Were Redone, the Rooftop Club Left, and Giada Stayed.

Caesars announced it in March 2025, took the rooms offline in March 2026, sold the first nights under the new name on May 29 and cut the ribbon on June 11. The casino never closed, and it is the same 40,000 square feet on the same card.

Published 2026-11-02.

The sign on the northeast corner of Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard now reads The Vanderpump Hotel. Caesars Entertainment announced the change on March 12, 2025, took the 188 rooms out of inventory on March 22, 2026, sold the first nights under the new name on May 29, and held the grand opening on Thursday, June 11, 2026, with a 600-drone show and Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom handing Lisa Vanderpump a "Key to The Strip." Our directory lists the property as The Vanderpump Hotel from June 2026, and that is the right month for the ribbon, though the first paying guests arrived two weeks earlier.

The casino did not close for a day. It is the same roughly 40,000 square feet it was as The Cromwell, on Caesars Rewards, with the original chandeliers rehung with new crystals. What changed is upstairs and on the roof.

Michael Gaughan opened the Barbary Coast on this corner on March 2, 1979. Harrah's took it in a 2007 property swap and reopened it that March as Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon, named for Bill Harrah. Bill's closed on February 4, 2013, and after a false start with a Gansevoort branding deal that ended in October 2013, the building reopened as The Cromwell in the spring of 2014, with a low-key opening on April 21 and the full opening a month later. Caesars' 2025 announcement called it "a standalone boutique hotel," which it has been through every name.

Vanderpump is not new to Caesars. Vanderpump Cocktail Garden is at Caesars Palace, Vanderpump à Paris is at Paris, and Pinky's by Vanderpump opened at the Flamingo next door in December 2024. The hotel is, by Caesars' count, the Vanderpumps' fortieth concept, and in the announcement she described it as her first venture into the hotel business.

The rooms. All 188, including 21 suites, were redesigned by Lisa Vanderpump and Nick Alain through their firm Vanderpump Alain in a style the release calls "industrial romantic," in moss greens and dusty lilac. Reservations opened in late March 2026 for stays from May, with a soft launch for selected Caesars Rewards members on May 26 and the public opening on May 29. Early rates were reported at around $500 a night by Vital Vegas in April; we have not checked current ones.

The bars. Gigolo is a new lounge named for Vanderpump's late Pomeranian, Giggy. The Bar at The Vanderpump Hotel sits in the center of the casino floor. The Caesars Sportsbook is described as "boutique, lounge-style." New carpet, Vanderpump-branded felts and new chips arrived in May; old Cromwell chips remain redeemable.

The roof. Drai's Beachclub and Nightclub, which ran on the rooftop from 2014, closed there on October 31, 2025, with Victor Drai calling the decade "nothing short of legendary" and 8 News Now reporting 351 layoffs across the nightclub, beach club and after-hours operations. The nightclub moved downstairs on November 2, 2025, and Drai's After Hours stays "in its original home beneath the hotel." The rooftop is now Soleia, a 65,000-square-foot pool and event space eleven stories up. Caesars' June release describes it; no opening date for it appears in any Caesars release or news report we could find.

The restaurant. Giada, the flagship Italian restaurant from Giada De Laurentiis that opened with The Cromwell in 2014, is still there. Caesars told Casino.org in March 2026 that it would stay, and the hotel's restaurant page on November 2, 2026 lists Giada and a Starbucks and nothing else. The counter-service Eatwell closed in May 2025.

Caesars Entertainment operates the hotel through a subsidiary and describes the arrangement with Vanderpump as a partnership; Casino.org and Vital Vegas, reading the same documents, call it a license, with Caesars running every part of the operation. The building itself is Caesars' own. Its 2025 annual report lists The Cromwell under owned domestic properties, alongside Flamingo, Horseshoe, LINQ, Paris and Planet Hollywood, while Caesars Palace and Harrah's Las Vegas are the two Strip properties it leases from VICI. For a boutique across the street from Bellagio, that is an unusually clean title.

It may not be Caesars' for long. Tilman Fertitta's Fertitta Entertainment agreed on May 28, 2026 to buy Caesars for $31 a share, about $17.6 billion including roughly $12 billion of debt, and Caesars shareholders approved it on September 22, 2026, 133.3 million shares to 4.3 million. The Federal Trade Commission has asked for more information and state regulators have yet to rule; Caesars expects to close on or before June 26, 2027. The Vanderpump Hotel could change parent companies within a year of its grand opening, and the Golden Nugget's owner would then hold the boutique on the corner of Flamingo and the Strip.

Three things people will want to know are not in any document we trust. The renovation cost: none of Caesars' three releases gives a figure and no outlet reports one. The resort fee and parking rates under the new name: Caesars' hotel pages render only their titles to our tools, and our resort-fee tracker last recorded The Cromwell at $51.95 a night with $25 self-parking and $40 valet on April 29, 2026, before the reopening, so treat those as the old numbers. The age policy: The Cromwell went adults-only when it reopened from the pandemic in October 2020, and the June 2026 release says only that guests must be 21 to gamble, so whether the hotel itself remains 21-and-over is something to confirm when you book.

The reception was quieter than the drone show. Casino.org's headline on the grand opening noted the modest star power, with Sharon Osbourne and Lance Bass on the carpet and neither Victor Drai nor Giada De Laurentiis present. Bravo's three-part special on the project, "Vanderpump Rules: Lisa Las Vegas," aired on October 20 and 21, 2026. Caesars sources told Vital Vegas in May that early bookings had exceeded expectations, which is what sources say in May.

The intersection has had a busy two years. The Flamingo's Go Pool reopened after a $20 million overhaul in May 2025, its lobby and Bugsy's Bar were redone that November, and Luke Combs' Category 10 was set to open in the old Margaritaville space on October 15, 2026. Horseshoe opened a 250-seat Laugh Factory in February 2026 and Caesars took full control of the Grand Bazaar Shops out front on May 1. The LINQ Promenade was sold to TPG and Acadia on December 12, 2024. Across the boulevard, Bellagio shelved its Project Mojave expansion in March 2025 and closed Le Cirque on August 23, 2026 after 28 years. Caesars Palace lost Mr. Chow in 2025 and was reported fined $7.8 million by Nevada regulators in November of that year.

The usual take on the Vanderpump is that it is a coat of paint on a tired boutique. That undersells it: the rooms were offline for two months, the rooftop economy that defined the building for a decade is gone, and the lounge and bar are new. The opposite take, that it is now a Vanderpump property, oversells it: it is a Caesars hotel under license, with Caesars Rewards earning, Caesars resort fees and, soon, possibly a Fertitta balance sheet. For a player, the floor is the same small floor it was, the card is the same card, and the appeal is what it was as The Cromwell, which is a quiet room across from the fountains on the Caesars network. Our Strip ranking grouped The Cromwell with the Caesars mid-tier for gaming; nothing about the rebrand moves it.

What the corner lost is a rooftop you could go to without a room key. What it gained is a pool with no published opening date. Check that before you book for the pool.

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• las-vegas
• vanderpump-hotel
• cromwell
• caesars
• strip

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