He Westgate Las Vegas It has a huge casino and a total of 3,174 rooms hotelwhich makes it one of the most important venues in this Nevada city.
It is also known for the legendary and numerous presentations that Elvis Presley he did in there.
He Westgate Las Vegas was inaugurated in 1969 and, at the time of its creation, it knew how to be the hotel biggest in the world. Barbra Streisand was at its presentation and began a series of performances by important figures in music and singing.
By then Elvis Presley He was already an established artist and a total star. At this international hotel and casino, the King of Rock He was able to give many of the most memorable presentations of his career.
In the same 1969, Elvis appeared on 57 consecutive occasions, achieving the Las Vegas attendance record. In February 1970 he broke his own record and the same thing happened in August of the same year and in 1972.
The performer of songs like Heartbreak Hotel, Jailhouse Rock y Can’t help falling in love He had his own suite in the hotel and he was there from 1969 to December 1976when he gave the last of the 636 presentations which always performed with sold out tickets.
Westgate Las Vegas: these were the years after Elvis left
In 1971, the Westgate Las Vegas gained worldwide fame by presenting itself as the casino Whyte House in Diamonds are eternalthe last of the official films that has Sean Connery as James Bondhe Agent 007.
Over the years and decades, the complex changed owners and also names, until it reached its current identity.
Formerly known as Las Vegas Hiltonthe Westgate continues to operate as hotel, casino and convention centerand also provides first-class shows.
It’s not easy to describe the luxury inside room 300 of the Westgate hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Its pool, rooms, jacuzzis, saunas and views of the strip leave you breathless. Some might say that it was designed to receive a monarch and they would not be wrong. The “King of Rock”, Elvis Presley, spent his last days there. Ironically, its walls are testimony to the decline and loneliness in which the glory of one of the greatest artists in the history of the West ended.
Room 300 of the then International Hotel in Las Vegas was the lair of an artist who took pills to be able to give concerts and more pills to be able to sleep. All under Parker’s complacency.
Elvis’ suite then measured 464 square meters. After a remodeling in 1995 it was expanded to 1,207 square meters, however it retains the magic of the late 70s when it was a privilege to be able to listen to the singer of “That’s All Right.”
Touring the immensity of the suite helps to understand the last days of the “King of Rock”, a man born in one of the poorest towns in the United States (Tupelo), who achieved a degree of fame unknown at that time to anyone. human, he had been left alone, surrounded by luxuries but without control of his artistic career, exploited like a machine capable of making thousands of dollars every night.
Today you can rent “Elvis'” suite for $1,500 dollars (approximately 30,000 pesos) a night, as a reminder that 45 years after his death, the “King” remains a money-making machine above his musical legacy. .
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