Vanderpump Hotel Las Vegas Sneak Peek

The final renderings of how the Cromwell will look after transforming into the Vanderpump Hotel have leaked, thanks to excellent sleuthing by the “Five Hundy by Midnight” podcast. The casino resort is being rebranded by owner Caesars Entertainment via a license with Bravo reality star and restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump. The rebrand is on track to debut next spring with no closure to the Cromwell.

The renderings, which accompany Clark County building permit filings, show no major architectural or color scheme changes to the hotel’s exterior, mostly just new signage.

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. Caesars will operate the hotel entirely on its own.

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.

How Drai’s Plays

The renderings reveal the sign for Drai’s as scaled back, which is not surprising since the nightclub was evicted in October from the 65K square-foot rooftop expansion it has occupied since 2014.

Drai’s now occupies only its original 13K square-foot basement space opened by Victor Drai in 2007.

Drai’s has brought Caesars Entertainment a steady onslaught of almost exclusively negative national publicity over the years — including a fatal shooting in 2013, a large brawl following the Mayweather-McGregor boxing match in 2017, and a violent assault by New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara that left his victim severely injured in 2022.