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The
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is a hotel-casino located in Las
Vegas, Nevada. The property has a 650 room hotel and 30,000ft²
(3,000m²) casino.
The
Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is an expansion of the Hard Rock
Cafe franchise.
It
is known for its youthful appeal, elaborate swimming pool
area, and exclusive nightclub Body English. Along with the
The Palms (another off-strip resort) the Hard Rock both appeals
to the 21 to 30 crowd and those who enjoy the Neo Retro feel
of Las Vegas.
The
Hard Rock Cafe (which sits on an adjacent land parcel to the
hotel) was featured prominently in the 1992 Disney movie Honey,
I Blew Up the Kid. The "blown-up" toddler in question
grows to giant size and plays with the cafe's huge Fender
Stratocaster guitar before wrecking it. The hotel itself was
featured in the film Con Air with Nicholas Cage- the fugitive
plane crashes through the hotel's prominent Stratocaster guitar.
The
hotel is featured prominently on the episode "Vegas Baby,
Vegas" of the HBO series Entourage
The hotel was opened in 1995 by Peter Morton, a co-founder
of the Hard Rock Cafe franchise.
On
April 6, 2006, professional skateboarder Danny Way acid-dropped
off the guitar on the cafe into a quarter pipe setting a world
record.
On
May 11, 2006, Morton agreed to sell the property to Morgans
Hotel Group for $770 million. The sale and transfer of ownership
is expected to be completed by early 2007.
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