During my visit on Thursday, October 9, 2009, I found blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Three Card Poker, Asia Poker, War, Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em, Blackjack Switch, Chuck-a-Luck, Asia Poker, Texas Hold 'Em Bonus Poker, Caribbean Stud Poker, Let it Ride, Crazy 4 Poker, Pai Gow, EZ Baccarat, and Mississippi Stud Poker. The list of table games in the casino is long. The bottom line for me is that I would much rather gamble in the Paris’s open, airy, classic Parisian environment than in a place with low ceilings, dim lights and dark colors.Īs for the gaming, Paris is interested in attracting all players it seems, as is evidenced by the diversity of games and the variety of table/machine limits. For size comparison, the MGM Grand has 156,023 square feet of gaming space, while Paris boasts 95,195 square feet. From the middle, you can almost see every corner of the gaming floor. Instead of sprawling endlessly like the MGM Grand or sister property Rio, Paris seems compact, easy to get around. The fountains interspersed here and there throughout the casino and non-gaming areas make me smile, and the beauty of the reception area simply floors me.īesides being, in my opinion, stunningly beautiful and comfortably airy, Paris’s casino is medium in size - big enough to keep your interest but not so huge that you feel overwhelmed. I also appreciate the very tall height of the ceilings in the casino, tall enough for some impressive, probably fake, trees and classic looking streetlamps. I like the sky-painted ceiling above the casino and the cobblestone pathways around the perimeter of the gaming floor. Now some people might view the heavy theme as overkill, but I dig it.

From the crystal chandeliers in the lobby to the Eiffel Tower legs in the casino to the quant Paris street scene along the shopping and restaurant row, the theme’s details are attended to.

The Paris theme continues strongly inside the property. Between the 5/8ths scale replica of the Eiffel Tower dominating the outside of the property, the street sign modeled after the Montgolfier Balloon, and the 2/3rds replica of the Arc de Triomphe in the portico, you have no question as you approach Paris as to the feel they are going for. As its name suggests, Paris’s theme is, well, Paris. Paris Las Vegas Casino & Resort, part of the Harrah’s Entertainment conglomerate, opened in September 1999.

Paris casino las vegas shopping