The Rush Tower is the latest expansion at the Golden Nugget
It isn’t your grandparents’ Golden Nugget. For that matter, it isn’t your parents’ either. Since Houston-based Landry’s Restaurants bought the 60-plus-year-old downtown Las Vegas property in 2005, it has pumped more than $300 million into renovations, new amenities and expansions—including the $150 million Rush Tower, which opened in November. The revamp has transformed it from an old-school warhorse to a contemporary, hip and upscale property.
The Rush Tower is almost like a separate hotel, with a distinct, landscaped porte cochère and registration lobby at First and Carson streets, around the corner from Fremont Street. Yet it’s connected to the three other towers and the Golden Nugget’s public spaces, allowing guests to move seamlessly throughout the eight-acre property. And although the Rush Tower offers more than 500 guestrooms and suites, it feels much more intimate.
ACCOMMODATIONS: The Rush Tower’s guestrooms are 20 percent larger than those of the Gold and Carson (formerly North and South) Towers. (The Spa Tower offers all suites.) Rush Tower amenities include pillow-top mattresses with down comforters and six-foot-long soaking tubs with rain showerheads. Each guestroom also features a quartz-topped info-tainment system with a flat-screen TV, DVD player, desk, laptop-sized safe, and outlets for electric plugs and Ethernet cables. Wireless Internet service is available for $12.99 a day.
The décor is modern, with a color palette of ochre and deep brown accented by burnt orange and olive green. Among the other design elements are rich, dark woods; a wood-and-leather headboard built into the wall; modern, abstract art; and a corner brown-leather sofa. In addition to the luxury shower tubs, the large bathrooms feature Gilchrist & Soames bath products, makeup mirrors, plush towels and bath sheets, and bowl-like double basins perched on quartz-topped vanities.
The Rush Tower also includes four Penthouse suites and 70 Junior Corner suites with ample sitting areas, additional flat-screen TVs, dining tables, large entryways, and separate showers and tubs.