I've stayed in both a Deluxe Strip View King in Aria and a One Bedroom Aria Suite in its Sky Suites. In general, guests at Aria have paid a premium over other hotels, so they're often professionals here on business, or well-heeled vacationers. The rooms are also completely non-smoking (there's a serious fine if they catch you), so you don't have that lingering 1980s-era smoke smell that some casino rooms have, even when they claim to be nonsmoking. What’s the crowd like? The people who are checking into Aria are generally keen on staying in a more modern building, and like the proximity to high-end shopping (it's in the same Cit圜enter complex as The Shops at Crystals ). It's a totally contemporary-feeling space. There's a serene wall of water right before you walk inside, and monumental pieces of public art are all over. There's almost never a wait at registration, and the lobby feels so spacious that it never has that cramped, crowded feeling that other casinos have.
It was designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, using a lot of stone and glass. How did it strike you on arrival? Aria is a sleek, curvilinear glass building, and when you walk in from the valet, you feel like you're in a monumental glass atrium.
