The hotel also helped relaunch Elvis Presley's career in 1969 with what would become a seven-year string of concerts. The hotel supplements its convention-friendly amenities with the same kind of gambling and entertainment options that tourist-magnet Strip hotel-casinos offer. In fact, this hotel has a proud history of drawing iconic Vegas entertainers: The Westgate, then called the International Hotel, booked Barbra Streisand for its 1969 opening night.
Unlike smaller neighboring business hotels like Renaissance Las Vegas or Las Vegas Marriott, Westgate doesn't skimp on Vegas fixings. The largest off-the-Strip Vegas hotel, the 30-story structure sits on 64 acres of land, dwarfing other properties by the convention center. The beer-bong-toting youth brigade found at Strip hotels doesn't tend to make it this far afield. So it's no surprise that clip-on name tags are the most common fashion accessory among guests. With 200,000 square feet of its own meeting space (including nearly 10,000 square feet of flexible conference rooms and a 35,000-square-foot ballroom) and a full-service business center, the Westgate touts a business-friendly infrastructure. Like other off-the-Strip hotels near the Las Vegas Convention Center, the 3,174-room Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino aims to attract the business travelers who congregate regularly at the 3.2-million-square-foot facility.
