Caesars is doing some rearranging of its properties on the Las Vegas Strip. On Monday, the company announced that Horseshoe Las Vegas’ Jubilee Tower will become part of Paris Las Vegas as part of a $100 million renovation project.
The hotel tower will be renamed Versailles Tower and will be connected to the rest of Paris via a new pedestrian bridge. Versailles Tower will house Paris’ highest-end rooms, as well as its largest, starting at 436 square feet.
The wheels for the plan started in motion a while back, when Caesars rebranded Bally’s to Horseshoe.
“As we looked at the landscape of our properties, we saw an opportunity to make it even larger and frankly, more luxurious,” Caesars Entertainment regional president Sean McBurney said.
One change to the Versailles guest rooms will be the addition of 55-foot balconies to the rooms that face West out onto the Strip.
“Imagine what that would look like during all sorts of times of the year, whether it’s Fourth of July fireworks or New Year’s Eve or even Formula One,” McBurney added.
It sounds the renovation process will move along quickly. Work is supposed to begin in July and should be finished by the end of the year. The pedestrian bridge will open early next year.
The 756-room hotel tower was last renovated in 2013-2014. Bally’s officially rebranded to Horseshoe in December 2022, two years after Twin River Worldwide acquired the Bally’s brand from Caesars for $20 million. Twin River allowed Caesars to keep the Bally’s name on the casino resort, but it was inevitable that it would eventually change, especially because Twin River itself rebranded to Bally’s.
Caesars has nine other Horseshoe-branded properties, but as legendary as the name is in American casino history, Horseshoe Las Vegas is the first Horseshoe casino in Sin City since 2005. Binion’s Horseshoe was an iconic casino in downtown Las Vegas and long-time home of the World Series of Poker, but Caesars (then Harrah’s) sold it to MTR Gaming Group in 2004 while retaining the Horseshoe brand. MTR renamed the casinos Binion’s Gambling Hall the following year.
The World Series of Poker and Horseshoe were finally reunited last year, when the WSOP moved out of its second long-time home, the Rio, and to both Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, the first time in history the Series was on the Strip.
The WSOP is back at Horseshoe/Paris again this year (and for many, many years to come) and wouldn’t you believe it, it starts this month. Action kicks off on May 30 with the Casino Employees event and the $25,000 High Roller Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event.