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We probably should have guessed, but a search on "largest hotel in the world" (including the quotation marks) lead us to Las Vegas, of course. Going by the number of guest rooms, three of the largest hotels in the world all spring up from Sin City, the land of extravagance and larger-than-life everything. Although we heard rumors of a hotel in Thailand with 5100 rooms, we could find scant evidence of anything larger than the MGM Grand, which boasts a whopping 5034 rooms. Amenities include a sports
arena, entertainment dome, and a wedding chapel, not to mention numerous bars and restaurants. With 4,408 rooms, the distinctively shaped Luxor is the second largest hotel in the world. The 30-story pyramid is topped by one of the world's brightest beams of light, which illuminates the Veags skyline. The Venetian, a mammoth 12-million-square-foot casino, convention center, resort, and entertainment complex comes in third place. Opened in May of 1999, the hotel offers 4049 guest suites, a 65,000 square foot spa, 16 restaurants, 2 museums, a mall, and recreations of all of Venice's major attractions, right down to the Grand
Canal. And its standard guest suites have been dubbed the largest standard hotel rooms by the Guiness Book of World Records. If completed as planned, the First World Hotel and Resorts complex in Payang, Malaysia, may wrest the title of largest hotel from the MGM. It currently offers 3228 rooms, but plans call for a grand total of 6300 rooms.
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