Foundation Room Closes for Renovations at Mandalay Bay

By Scott Roeben, on September 08 2025
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The quasi-exclusive Foundation Room has closed at Mandalay Bay for a renovation.

Details are scant about the anticipated duration of the closure, but we’re told the venue could be closed for up to a year.

This is the place that laughably claims it owns the copyright to its jaw-dropping views of the Las Vegas Strip. Dopes.

It might not look like it, but we just stuck it to The Man.

We were the first media outlet to share the looming closure, naturally. We have no life.

The closure hasn’t officially been announced as far as we can tell, but the official Web site discreetly notes the Foundation Room is temporarily closed.

Foundation Room’s Facebook page says in a Sept. 8, 2025 post, “We’re working on some exciting changes and will be back soon. In the meantime, join us in B Side at House of Blues for nightly entertainment and an elevated food & beverage experience.”

The Foundation Room at House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay is touted as being members-only, but that’s only sort of the case. Commoners can get in with concert tickets, VIP upgrades or, y’know, a reservations.

The annual membership fees ($1,500 to $3,500) get additional perks, like private entrances, priority entry, priority ticket pickups, concert presale access, reserved lounge areas, private restrooms, concierge services, bottle service, discounted food and beverage, along with access to member-only events, artist meet-and-greets and other goodies.

Anyway, it’s mostly about the view.

Foundation Room claims to be on the 63rd floor of Mandalay Bay, which is a neat trick given the hotel has 43 physical floors. This kind of marketing bullshittery is pretty common in Las Vegas. The whole floor numbering thing gets even more awkward because after the 2017 mass shooting from the hotel’s 32nd floor, the resort renumbered some floors (31-34 became 56-59 to avoid association with the incident).

This is why people trust blogs more than marketers. As well they should.

Our fellow cool kids use the express elevator.

In further WTF, we weren’t joking about the copyrighted view thing.

Look, we have to try and make this otherwise boring story more interesting, and making it about us always helps with that, so here we are.

This was back in the day, when photographers used real cameras. We were at some event and tried taking a photo from the Foundation Room. A security guard approached and said sternly, “You can’t take that photo.”

How we laughed and laughed because we naturally thought he was joking.

Nope.

We were informed the view was copyrighted, so photos were prohibited.

It’s maybe one of the dumbest things we’ve ever heard, and we’ve heard Criss Angel claim his show is the best in Las Vegas.

We vowed to never go there again. Our last visit to the Foundation Room was in 2012.

Still, Foundation Room is a popular spot.

Foundation Room Las Vegas: All chill, no Netflix.

It’s unusual to hear a venue could take nearly a year to do an renovation, but that’s what we’ve been told.

We’re putting the over/under for the renovation cost at $4 million, mostly because if you sneeze in the general direction of a contractor in Las Vegas now, it costs at least $4 million. Back when Eater Vegas was good, they’d have dug up the planning documents and cost. Now, it’s just us, toiling away by ourself. And by “toiling,” of course, we mean “not exerting any actual effort unless it involves chicken parm.”

If we get further details about the Foundation Room renovation, you know you’ll hear about them.

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