Caesars to Close Cromwell on Vegas Strip for Final Transition Into Vanderpump

• The Cromwell hotel rooms will close its rooms for two months beginning Feb. 15 for Vanderpump rebranding renovations
• Caesars promises redesigned rooms, suites, bars, and a new Vanderpump‑themed lounge
• Reservations are being accepted again starting April 13
  

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Caesars Entertainment is vander-pumping the brakes on an earlier promise to keep the Cromwell open during its transformation into the Vanderpump Hotel. The Caesars-operated boutique property — which will use Bravo reality star and restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump’s licensed name, design, and branding elements — is closing from February 15 through April 13. That’s according to Caesars’ online reservation system, which is not accepting reservations between those dates.

Now only the casino and Giada, the property’s only restaurant, will remain open during the makeover’s final two-month stretch.

Presumably, April 13 will be opening day for the Vanderpump — right on schedule — though Caesars has made no announcement so far. (That is a Monday, however. So, if this presumption is true, a VIP-only opening gala will probably held the weekend preceding it.)

Pump It Up

In March, Caesars announced mostly the details of the boutique hotel’s redesigned interior — promising new check-in and central bar areas, as well as a renovation for all 188 of its rooms. Nineteen redesigned suites were described by Vanderpump as “attainable luxury.”

An all-new lounge was also promised.

Earlier this year, Casino.org’s own Vital Vegas reported that Vanderpump (the person, not the hotel) and designer Nick Alain are leading the refresh and, according to her licensing deal, she will be obligated to show up for a photo op once a year.

The deal has already resulted in Vanderpump Cocktail Garden at Caesars Palace, Vanderpump à Paris at Paris Las Vegas and Pinky’s by Vanderpump at Flamingo hotel-casino.

Rebrand New

This will be the third rebranding for the property occupying the northeast corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road. The Cromwell opened in 2014 as an upscale redux of Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall and Saloon, a budget-friendly joint opened by Caesars (then called Harrah’s) in 2007 on the site of the Barbary Coast.

That property was opened by casino developer Michael Gaughan in 1979 on the site of the demolished Empey’s Desert Villa, which  opened in 1952 and in 1974 became the Times Square Motel.

Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall was nearly rebranded in 2014 as Gansevoort Las Vegas — until a probe launched by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission found ties between Gansevoort investor Arik Kislin and Russian organized crime.