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No city does summer like Las Vegas; after all, looking glamorous in zillion-degree heat requires some creativity. You’ll find more fabulousness than ever, from dining on the sparkling white modern Italian Futurist table with a built-in cooling system (read on), to the steamiest and most fun-filled nighttime pool scenes, to the return of some legendary divas and one of the country’s most celeb-filled galas.

Cosmopolitan’s Pool District

Every summer on Monday nights, the 65-foot digital marquee at Boulevard Pool overlooking the Strip transforms into a massive movie screen for “Dive-In Movies”. This year, you can watch cult faves like Sixteen Candles while enjoying an alfresco picnic created by José Andrés, which includes a standout paella, gazpacho, and salad. (You’ll also get your own dining table and a daybed to relax/cocktail/pass out on). On other nights, the Cosmopolitan pool district hosts concerts, with artists from Billy Currington to Neon Trees to Counting Crows. Jetsetter Tip: Don’t miss the boozy liquid nitrogen sorbets and spiked ice cream floats from the indoor-outdoor Neapolitan bar at Boulevard Pool.

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Lago

In anticipation of the summer’s dining season, Bellagio has turned the old Circo space into Lago, a bright white, cutting-edge room inspired by 20th-century Italian futurism and designed by hotshot duo Munge Leung. They blew open the former indoor terrace to create some of the most in-demand al fresco dinings on the Strip; it’s so close to the Bellagio Fountains that diners in the three tables closest to the water can actually feel a light spray (just enough to cool you off, but not ruin your hair). In the kitchen, Michelin-starred chef Julian Serrano turns out modern Italian tapas-style dishes, which include an exceptional red wine risotto, tuna Crudo with blood orange, and sublime grilled langoustines.

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Drai’s Live

Drai’s, the rooftop pool at The Cromwell by legendary nightlife king Victor Drai, has been the sexiest summer scene in Vegas since it opened last year. Contrary to other nightlife venues, Drai operates with this motto: the club should be the star. The 35,000 square-foot, bi-level nightly party has 150 VIP tables, nightly swim events, and eight pools. This year, Drai has added live music concerts in the middle of its weekend parties, with up-and-comers like The Weekend and more established acts like Ciara (just announced for June 5th).

Downtown Dining

Only a year ago, only the most adventurous and hip young things were making their way Downtown for mid-century antiques and the Neon Museum – now the neighborhood is a must-stop for foodies. Down Carson Street, you’ll find newcomers Vegetation (proving that vegan can indeed be delicious) and Glutton, whose unfortunate name belies the light, seasonal delicacies cooked in the wood oven. In a back alley nearby, there’s La Comida for tequila nirvana and delicious Mexican-inspired street food, and Le Thai Fremont Street, a tiny joint packed with Downtown’s power brokers and hipsters munching on "Awesome Noodles." Another Downtown obsession: Eat, where Chef Natalie Young infuses American classics with New Mexican and French influences. Don't forget to try O Face Doughnuts, which serves homemade treats like the Mexican chocolate with horchata pudding doughnut.

Nightswim at XS

Every Sunday, the pool at Encore Beach Club stays open after hours, and Wynn’s resident superstar DJs like Avicii, Skrillex, and David Guetta play sets while up to 5,000 partiers drink, splash around and deny that Monday is on the horizon. (Note: If you own a ridiculously expensive bathing suit, this is the place to wear it.) This year, Deadmau5, the multi-Grammy-nominated electronic musician – and major Vegas favorite – plays Nightswim on Sunday, July 5th, and at XS on Saturday, July 11th.

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Graceland in Vegas

Elvis-mania has returned to Vegas (did it ever leave?). A new 28,000-square-foot exhibition at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, “Graceland Presents Elvis: The Exhibition – The Show – The Experience” showcases hundreds of items never before seen outside of the King’s Memphis compound. The rotating collection draws on archival material from Presley’s childhood and beyond—think artifacts ranging from high school yearbooks to the jumpsuit he wore in Viva Las Vegas. In tandem with the exhibition, there’s the Elvis Experience tribute show, and naturally a Graceland-themed wedding chapel.

Electric Daisy Carnival

Like Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) – the three-day festival of electronic dance music – has its own dress code. But it’s less Boho-chic than neon-fabulous: trippy fluorescent and floral getups rule the weekend. It began at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway five years ago, and has since become a behemoth; this year, expect 200 DJs on eight stages, plus pyrotechnics, mindbending special effects, and a first-ever charity auction of experiences like making sushi at Nobu with electronic dance duo Krewella, and a private helicopter ride to the event with DJ Snails. Caveat: The weekend maybe three days, but block out an extra day for recuperating.

Celine Dion

After a yearlong hiatus, Celine Dion – who was once credited with being a one-woman economic stimulus package for Vegas – returns to the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The show will be filled with all her greatest hits, plus some surprise appearances by friends. If we can’t wait to see Celine’s “My Heart Will Go On” encore from Titanic, complete with blue Atelier Versace gown and actual rainstorms on stage.

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Pawn Plaza

Love the History Channel’s Pawn Stars? You’re not the only one: the line to get into owner Rick Harrison’s Gold and Silver Pawn Shop regularly runs one hundred-plus people deep. Now Harrison, along with Chumlee, Corey Harrison, and The Old Man, is opening Pawn Plaza, a 16-store ode to all things Pawn Stars. The highlights: Rick’s Rollin’ Smoke Barbeque & Tavern, a restaurant devoted to Poutine, and Rita’s Italian Ice, among others, all housed in portable neon cubes.

Power of Love Gala

The event of the year in Vegas, the Power of Love Gala partners with celebrated chefs and entertainers to raise funds in support of the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health – which does some of the most groundbreaking research in the country. The 16,000 seat MGM Grand Garden Arena transforms into one huge dinner venue with live music and an over-the-top auction (past items have included a spin on Steve Wynn’s own yacht). This year, Andrea Bocelli will be reunited on stage with Celine Dion for the first time since 2011, and special appearances will include Martina McBride and 2014 Power of Love honoree Gloria Estefan. Vegas attracts a lot of celebs, but you’ll rarely see so many in one room outside of a Hollywood awards show.

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What do you get when you combine a city world-famous for its frenetic nightlife and unrestrained glitz with a strip of massive casino resorts all trying to outdo each other? Penthouse suites and villas as gaudy and gorgeous as the city they lord over, with the kind of next-level extras designed to make your jaw drop. Do the most expensive hotel suites in Vegas live up to their price tag? We'll let you be the judge.

The Nobu Villa, Nobu Hotel

Starting rate: $35,000 a night

If it's good enough for the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus, and Justin Bieber, then it must be worth the splurge, right? We'll let you decide: The Nobu's crown jewel, the David Rockwell-designed Nobu Villa, clocks in at a whopping 10,500 square feet of unrestrained extravagance. The $35,000-a-night bill pays for three bedrooms including a master suite with its own private deck featuring a Japanese maple tree and an onsen, a sauna and massage room, a massive terrace with its own bar, a Zen garden, and multiple dining areas including a sushi bar lined with stools and an outdoor kitchen (you're staying at a Nobu, after all) that looks out over the Strip. A personal butler is included to make your stay seamless, but around-the-clock room service from the Nobu restaurant downstairs—if you can believe it—costs extra.

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Sky Villa, Palms Casino Resort

Starting rate: $35,000 per night

Throwing the bachelor(ette) party of the millennium? For you and your 11 closest friends, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot Sky Villa at the Palms Casino Resort is the party pad of your wildest dreams. It starts off with a private airport transfer before a VIP check-in right in your own double-height parlor. While the Palms is not actually on the Strip (it's about a mile and a half away), you might never even make it out the door—and it might be for the best. There’s more here to entertain than one night can allow: a cantilevered pool extends over the building’s edge, there are massage and fitness rooms and a dry sauna for anyone looking to tone up before a night on the town (don’t let those daily VIP All-Access nightclub passes go to waste), and an in-suite glass elevator makes it so you never have to take your eyes off what you just paid $35,000 a night to enjoy.

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Bentel & Bentel Penthouse Suites, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas

Starting rate: $25,000 per night

The Cosmopolitan is well-known for its edgy marketing campaign and hip young vibes, but the hotel's four elite 70th-floor suites, designed by Bentel & Bentel Architects, are as austere as they come—a swift departure from the Jonathan Adler-like colors of its lower-tier guest rooms. That's not to say you won't be absolutely floored. Our two favorites include The Foxglove—inspired by classic black-and-white movies like Jean-Luc Godard's A Place in the Sun, it features lighting meant to evoke spotlights and moving filmstrips, a bathroom projector that screens films while you soak, and hanging images of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift—and The Hemlock, whose design borrows from the mid-century modern estates of Palm Springs and includes extras like a sit-down theater and an indoor hammock made of wolf hide.

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Hardwood Suite, Palms Casino Resort

Starting rate: $25,000 per night

Want to live like basketball royalty? The 10,000-square-foot Hardwood Suite at the Palms invites you to break out your best athleisure outfits and party with aspiring Lebrons (or Lebron himself). Along with two master bedrooms, the two-floor suite has its own locker room and indoor basketball court (yes, there’s a scoreboard), where three NBA-sized Murphy Beds fold out for court-side zzz’s. After shooting some hoops, recharge in the Jacuzzi, kick back and watch a game on one of the plasma TVs, or shoot some pool at your billiards table. Want a snack during halftime or a car to the Cirque du Soleil show? 24-hour butler service ensures you never have to lift a finger.

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Chairman Suite, The Bellagio

Starting rate: $7,000 per night

For a hotel as iconic as the Bellagio, with its looming palatial façade and dancing fountains, we'd expect nothing less than high-roller guest rooms that live up to its name. The 4,075-square-foot, two-bedroom Chairman Suite, which sits at the top of the Spa Tower, delivers. Expect your own fireplace, solarium, indoor garden (with a fountain all its own), and an L-shaped bar for entertaining groups up to six. The best way to pass the time, however, might be to simply escape the world during a soak in your bathroom's whirlpool tub, which looks out over the sleepless cityscape.

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Mandarin Suite, Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas

Starting rate: $5,000 per night

The Mandarin Oriental, Las Vegas has not one but three top-tier rooms on its upper levels, but the 22nd floor's Mandarin Suite might be our favorite. Sure, they all come with incredible living spaces including dining tables for eight, a fitness room, lounges with their own cocktail bars, and Art Deco bedrooms awash in dark woods and patterned rugs. But it's the Mandarin's exclusive feature—a massive bathroom whose oversize sunken bath looks out over the Strip—that truly sets it apart. If you can tear yourself away from the view, free usage of the Tian Quan Thermal and Water Experience awaits Suite guests in the spa. After a long night hitting the tables, recharge over breakfast (included in the rate) at MOzen Bistro.

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Presidential Strip-View Suite, Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas

Starting rate: $3,000 per night

What better way to kickstart—and cap off—a night in Sin City than with your own floor-to-ceiling, panoramic view of the Strip? For just $3,000 a night, the Four Seasons' 2,225-square-foot Strip-View Suite can be yours, complete with a dining room, living room, pantry, home office, and master bedroom whose walk-in closet is the stuff of Jetsetter dreams. The windows are curved in such a way that you can watch both the sunrise and the sunset from the comfort of your own bed. We suggest starting things off with a cocktail from the bar while the staff unpacks your bags.

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Three-Bedroom Villas, The Mirage Resort & Casino

Starting rate: $3,000 per night

Arriving at one of the Villas at The Mirage, in a secluded hotel wing reached via a gated driveway (or through an unmarked door in the casino) feels like you're returning to your own private mansion, tucked away from the paparazzi. Interiors are lavish—think hues of gold and cream, gilt-framed mirrors, classic portraits, claw-foot nightstands, and low-hanging chandeliers—but you'll probably spend most of your time in the backyard, which is littered with chaise lounges and umbrellas and has its own plunge pool perfect for cooling off from the desert heat (or post-Blackjack nerves). Don't even think about calling room service—your 24-hour personal chef awaits your order.

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Nothing can be more daunting than too many choices, and when you're planning a trip to Vegas, you'll definitely feel some analysis paralysis. But don't sweat it! Your Vegas experts are on the case, and we have planning a Vegas trip down to a science. So pack those bags and get ready for one hell of a good time with our breakdown of the perfect Vegas vacation.

Let's face it—visiting Sin City conjures enough opportunities for risk-taking without having to gamble on the comfort of your own bed. Lucky for you, we've scouted 10 favorite Las Vegas hotels with serious game. Get packing.

The Cosmopolitan

You might say the hippest hotel on the Strip is equal parts swanky and theatrical: there's morphing digital art-wrapped columns in the lobby, nouveau Baroque chandeliers and marble floors, and, in the 2,995 guest rooms, blue alligator side tables and Pop Art wallpaper. Every space here is designed to make a statement, from the three-level casino floor bar built inside a massive crystal chandelier to the Marquee Nightclub & (poolside) Dayclub that keeps the energy thumping at all hours to experimental performance Rose.Rabbit.Lie. that has to be seen to be believed. For those looking to escape the madness, the serene Sahra Spa offers 30 treatments rooms and its own hammam.

ARIA Resort & Casino

ARIA was a showstopper when it debuted in 2009 with its never-before-seen curvilinear glass tower in the heart of the Strip. And the hotel is still making waves: it's now the world's largest LEED Gold-certified building, with a leafy lobby and a refreshing amount of natural light in its public spaces and all 4,004 rooms. Of course, there's no end to all one can get up to in this city, but you can get by without ever leaving this mega-resort, which houses no less than 16 restaurants, eight bars, three pools, and its own in-house Cirque du Soleil show, Zarkana.

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The Venetian Resort Hotel & Casino

Some might balk at the thought of a themed casino resort, but the Venetian, modeled after the famed Italian city, defies expectations with its painstaking attention to detail. The 4,000-suite palace comes with a grand entrance à la Piazza San Marco, gilded interiors with elaborate ceiling frescoes, and even its own shop-lined canals and gondola rides. But nothing is overdone: clean-lined rooms are spacious and modern with sunken living rooms and big bathrooms, while the Canyon Ranch SpaClub is one of the largest—and among the best ranked—day spas in North America.

The Palazzo Resort Hotel & Casino

The Venetian's sister hotel and next-door neighbor is just as impressive—if slightly more understated—and we're not just talking about the Roman pools on its five-acre roof deck. Palatial suites have the same sunken living rooms, deep bathtubs, and luxuriously stocked mini-bars (think champagne and artisan chocolates—for those special occasions), while restaurants from Emeril Lagasse and Wolfgang Puck keep the luxury factor thoroughly in check.

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Bellagio

Few properties nail that first impression quite like the Bellagio, best known for those iconic dancing fountains that put on a choreographed show over the eight-acre lake fronting the property. The glamour continues inside, where a Chihuly hand-blown glass sculpture dominates the entryway, 400 main tower suites are fresh off a $165 million makeover, a high-stakes poker room on the casino floor is still the stuff of legend, and Cirque du Soleil's water-themed production, O—the resident show since it premiered in 1998—is as alluring as ever.

Mirage Resort & Casino

Despite being the elder among its shiny Strip neighbors, the Mirage—Vegas's original megaresort—stays true (rightly) to its roots to attract a multi-gen crowd with amenities everyone will appreciate, from an expansive (and party-free) heated pool and comfortably spacious rooms to stellar service, tropical décor including an exotic wildlife sanctuary, and Cirque du Soleil's Beatles-themed hit show, Love. Plus, the nightly eruption of the property's iconic faux volcano near the main entrance never gets old—a solid indicator that this property is here to stay.

SLS Las Vegas

The former Sahara Hotel & Casino has been reborn as the SLS Las Vegas and the result is a futuristic twist on high fashion. There's digital installations in the lobby and color-changing floor tiles that lead to various points of interest, while rooms are everything you'd expect from the brand—seductively opulent interiors by Philippe Starck feature mirrored ceilings, white-lacquered chandeliers, and peekaboo showers. Downstairs, it's a see-and-be-seen crowd at The Foundry, the rooftop pool and nightclub, as well as the swanky Sayers Club lounge. Expect SLS cuisine regulars, too, including Bazaar Meat by José Andrés, Umami Burger & Beer Garden, and Katsuya by Starck.

Encore at Wynn Las Vegas

Encore is decidedly smaller and far less glitzy than Wynn, its sister property, instead prioritizing hospitality over gimmicks. The property opted for a more luxurious take on desert digs and a more intimate—but sunny—casino space in order to make room for 2,034 massive, 700-square-foot guest rooms (all suites), each with remote-control blinds, rotating TVs, and do-not-disturb door lights than can be activated while you’re still under the covers.

Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas

The Four Seasons, a sophisticated oasis on the southern end of the Strip, was the first property to show Las Vegas isn’t all about casinos. Guests enter a hushed marble lobby and pass a landscaped private pool before being whisked by express elevator to their elegant, plush rooms (think silk and velvet ottomans and dark wood furnishings). Other notable perks: a Charlie Palmer steakhouse, one of the hottest brunch spots in town (Veranda), and priority tee times at the next-door golf club.

Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace

With two more locations pending in Chicago and Malibu, star chef Nobu Matsuhisa has etched his name in the hotel business. The property that started it all opened off the casino floor of Caesars Palace in 2013, anchored by—what else?—Matsuhisa's own restaurant. Upstairs, 181 rooms are a blend of Japanese influences, from Umi tiles and grass cloth to ink brushwork on the walls, and feature—perhaps our favorite amenity—Nobu in-room dining at any hour of the day or night.