EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a incentive Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry inward our on-going serial publication originally ran on Sept. 11, 2023

If your room at The Wynn is on the 60th floor, you don’t make a 60th-floor view. You hold a 48th-floor one. That’s because thither are no 40-49th floors at that cassino resort hotel or its twin, Encore. Also missing are their 4th and 13th floors.

Most Americans translate skipping the 13th floor. Why would you require to rip a elbow room there when you probably came to Las Vegas to track ripe luck inward a casino?

Rio elevator panel, Las Vegas
The floors at the Rio skip from 39 to 50. (Image: Scott Roeben/Vital Vegas)

But the 4th and the 40s are banished because, to many Asian visitors, the number 4 is just as luckless as 13 is to Westerners. And that’s because it sounds similar to the word for “death.” Both are transliterated as “si” inwards Mandarin, and as “shi” in Japanese.

Also followers this hotel-heightening pattern are Planet Hollywood, Aria, Delano, Resorts World, the Rio, and the Palms, which are all at least 10 stories shorter than they lay claim to be on their driver’s licenses.

The Window Trick

Strangely enough, counting Las Vegas Strip resort hotel floors from the outside reveals the opposite deception. Most of the towers pretend to be practically shorter than they in reality are.

The Bellagio, for example, appears to have 14 stories higher up its third house floor, but really has 36. That’s because apiece window on its firstly ii “floors” is a pigeonholing of Captain Hicks way windows spanning troika floors. You can’t really recite unless you appear from shut upward at night, with plenty midland lights turned on since the intemperately tinted windows hinder daytime viewing.

For the sleep of its 12 “floors,” apiece Bellagio window serves IV rooms spanning deuce floors.

Bellagio, Las Vegas, window trick
From a distance, especially by day, these seem ilk item-by-item way windows on the Bellagio. But the lour ones are really three-story groupings of hexad windows each. The upper ones are two-story groupings of 4 windows each. (Image: Wikipedia)

Treasure Island and Caesars Palace also employ what’s known inward the hospitality manufacture as “the window trick.” And the Wynn and Encore’s twist on it is to set I dividing stripe every 2 stories.

This architectural optical fantasy produces a cleaner looking and functions to saphead you into regarding a tower as littler than it really is, and therefore, a shorter walk from your stream location on the Strip.

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