Tropicana

"The Trop," as it is locally known, is a classic Las Vegas Strip resort, offering 1,680 rooms and 198 suites, tropical landscaping, the famous Folies Bergère with its trademark show-girls, and a five-acre pool complete with lagoons, waterfalls and swim-up blackjack. It is scheduled for a $2 billion renovation in 2008 that will add four towers to the existing two. The hotel will then have over 8,000 rooms and a 600,000 square foot convention center.

This storied location built a headliner theatre to the specifications of Sammy Davis Jr., who was a major performer there. Pearl Bailey, Jack Benny, Vikki Carr, Phyllis Diller, Peggy Fleming, Mitzi Gaynor, Ann Margaret, the Osmonds, and Lou Rawls have all been featured in performance by the Tropicana.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Although the "ship of dreams" met its fate almost a century ago, the spirit of the Titanic lives on. Many items from the wreckage have been recovered and are on display in this 25,000 square foot exhibit. There is also a full-scale re-creation of the Grand Staircase and an outer Promenade Deck, complete with frigid temperatures. The exhibit concludes with a memorial wall to honor all those who died.

Bodies...The Exhibition. Twenty-one whole-body specimens are on display in poses that illustrate the body in motion, including throwing darts, conducting music, pitching a base-ball and hurling a discus. More than 260 organs and partial-body specimens are on display, using a method known as polymer preservation. Visitors have the chance to view the beauty and complexity of the human body as never before.

The Las Vegas Tropicana has been a favorite gaming location for three generations, offering all the best in table action and one of the most established poker rooms in town. craps, blackjack, roulette, and all the popular poker games (Texas Hold'em, three card poker and Let It Ride!) are available. The Winners Club allows players to earn cash back bonuses, comps and discounts. The traditional slot machines can be found at the Tropicana, including themed Las Vegas slots like Wheel of Fortune, as well as the newer videos. A full-service sport and race book area is available in the casino.

Legends Steak & Seafood offers a lot of variety on its menu. Special dishes include tourne-dos of filet mignon Oscar and walnut-encrusted sea bass.

Mizuno's features teppan dining where the chef prepares tableside dinners.

The Tuscany Italian Café provides great Italian food served in a casual and friendly environment.

There is the Island Buffet, in the classic Las Vegas tradition, and the Garden Café, which boasts a low-carb menu.

The Folies Bergère is Las Vegas' longest-running show. It has been recently revamped with new costumes and choreography. The show starts in the elegant age of 150 years ago, when dances, gowns and the women were all very formal. The cast appears in evening gowns of all colors of the rainbow, hats and parasols. Eventually the show enters the 20th century with a scene taken out of Offenbach: high-kicking petticoated showgirls and acrobatic waiters. Then fashions change again, and the undergarmets go away, the hemlines go up, and the flapper era begins with a focus on a new glamour trend from a place called Hollywood. The girls then make a tribute to the Tropicana's own history with a number set in the 1950s. For the finale, the dancers don their traditional costumes and showcase their beauty in a modern take on the traditional showgirl number.

The Comedy Stop features the brightest new comedy stars, including three who rotate weekly, including Al Romas, Mitch Fatel, and Tommy Blaze, all of whom have proved to be up-and-comers. Other comedians and popular performers tend to pop into the club's rotation at various times during the year.

Xtreme Magic encourages the audience to stretch the imagination. Dirk Arthur's show of exotic animals, helicopters and a Lamborghini incorporates elements made famous by Las Vegas magicians. The magician takes an enormous, flaming ball and causes a panther to appear right out of it. In other illusions, a white tiger seems to have lost his stripes, a duck appears in a bucket, and a chicken fired out of a slingshot shows up inside a balloon.

Guests at the Spa Tropicana can just relax or choose from a large variety of spa services and body treatments. Aromatherapy (lavender, rosemary and citrus) is offered. The shower areas have saunas, steam rooms and a hot tub. Clients can also enjoy different sorts of facials, body wraps, scrubs and spray tanning. Couples massage is also offered. The full gym facilities at the spa include cardiovascular workout machines like exercise bikes, treadmills and elliptical trainers, as well as free weights.

The Tropicana has 110,000 sq ft of available space for meetings and conventions, including ballrooms, exhibition space meeting and breakout session rooms, all with state of the art audio-visual equipment and the support of a fully-equipped business staff.

The Tropicana is well-known for the best in lounge entertainment, with no cover charges ever. At the Celebration Lounge guests can meet for a cold drink, play slots, watch sports on the 15-foot screen or listen to tunes performed by "Friends," the lounge's band. Tropics provides unusual specialty drinks and, of course, slot machines. Karaoke is offered several nights per week with a stage, microphone and back-up music.

The Tropicana's pool area has winding pathways, waterfalls and lush landscaping. Shaded dining areas and Jacuzzis are on hand for guests. The adults-only lagoon pool, swim-up blackjack table and bar are perennial favorites.

The Island Wedding Chapel and the wedding planning professionals are available to arrange all the details, including photographer, flowers, limousine service, wedding cakes, wedding dress and tuxedo rentals, and reception arrangements. Many different packages are available. Brides may choose between chapel and garden gazebo ceremonies in a tropical setting.