The only hotel in Las Vegas where the design is quiet enough to let the food do the talking.
Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace occupies its own tower within the Caesars Palace complex on the mid-Strip, connected to the larger resort but operating with its own identity, its own check-in desk, and its own aesthetic that is recognizably not Caesars Palace. The hotel opened as the world's first Nobu Hotel in 2013, and the design premise — Japanese minimalism applied to a Las Vegas hotel room, with the restraint that Las Vegas rarely permits itself — remains the most distinctive design statement in the city's boutique hotel category.
The 181 rooms and suites occupy a dedicated tower and are finished in the palette that Nobu Hotels have established globally: natural wood panels, washi paper wall treatments, shoji-inspired screens, and deep charcoal accents. The rooms are smaller than the all-suite properties on the Strip — standard rooms are approximately 400 square feet — but the design density makes them feel considered rather than cramped. The bathrooms are Japanese in their logic: rainfall shower, deep soaking tub, heated floor. The pillow menu offers Japanese buckwheat alongside the standard options. The blackout curtains are exceptionally effective, which Las Vegas travelers will appreciate at 3am.
The Nobu Restaurant is the anchor and the reason many guests book the hotel in the first place. At 327 seats, it is the largest Nobu restaurant in the world, and the kitchen operates at a scale that would compromise quality at most restaurants but does not here — the black cod miso, the tiradito, and the yellow tail jalapeño remain technically and emotionally consistent across the menu. The Nobu restaurant at Caesars Palace has been open since 1999, and the kitchen's familiarity with the product shows. The hotel's direct access to the restaurant via an interior corridor means that room-to-dinner transitions require no coat, no walk through a casino floor, and no waiting in the general queue — hotel guests have priority reservation access.
The Nobu Hotel occupies a useful mid-Strip position within the Caesars Palace grounds — access to the Garden of the Gods pool complex (seven pools, three hot tubs, a full cabana programme), the Qua Baths & Spa, and the Forum Shops are all part of the Caesars Palace package that Nobu Hotel guests can draw on. The Colosseum, Caesars Palace's 4,298-seat concert venue, is 300 meters from the Nobu Hotel tower: the highest-grossing entertainment venue per seat in the United States, with programming that draws a roster that no other Las Vegas venue can consistently match.
The Nobu Hotel sits inside Caesars Palace — which means Drai's Nightclub, OMNIA, and the poolside programming at Garden of the Gods are within the same complex. The Nobu Restaurant is the ideal group dinner setting before any of these: the long communal tables in the main dining room seat parties of 10 or 12 comfortably, the sake selection is broad, and the kitchen's familiarity with feeding large groups at volume produces a dinner that's both excellent and logistically uncomplicated. The Nobu Hotel's room configuration — individual rooms rather than connecting suites — suits bachelorette groups that want proximity but not enforced togetherness. Book the Nobu Villa suite for the group's leader and standard rooms for the rest. See all bachelor/bachelorette hotels →
The mid-Strip location within the most recognizable address in Las Vegas makes the Nobu Hotel a natural choice for business entertainment. Client dinners at Nobu Restaurant are a reliable choice because the restaurant is known and trusted enough to satisfy without requiring explanation, the private dining room seats 20, and the hotel's position within Caesars Palace means post-dinner entertainment options — the Colosseum, OMNIA, the baccarat tables — are a two-minute walk. The rooms are quieter than the standard Caesars Palace tower rooms because the Nobu tower is positioned away from the main casino noise. The laptop-friendly workspaces and enterprise-grade WiFi complete a business proposition that the hotel's design does not initially suggest. See all business hotels →
Rates from $400/night. Check availability at caesars.com.
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