Fontainebleau Las Vegas Map: A Convention Hotel That Happens to Be on the Strip

Fontainebleau is the newest major resort on the Las Vegas Strip and the one most people have never set foot in. It opened on December 13, 2023, sixteen years after construction started and fourteen after it stopped. That matters for navigation in a way it does not for older properties: nobody has muscle memory here. There is no “everyone knows you cut through by the sportsbook” folklore yet.

The more useful fact is where it sits. Fontainebleau is at 2777 South Las Vegas Boulevard, on the east side — the Convention Center side. Combine that with more than 550,000 square feet of its own meeting space and the shape of the place becomes obvious: this is a convention hotel that happens to have a casino, not a Strip resort that happens to host events. Almost every navigation decision here follows from that.

The Casino: Big Floor, Very High Ceiling

The gaming floor runs about 173,000 square feet with 1,300 slot machines and 128 table games, under 42-foot ceilings. It is one of the largest floors on the Strip — roughly three and a half times a compact floor like Treasure Island's.

The ceiling height is the part that catches people out. Most casino floors are deliberately low and broken up, which makes them feel enclosed but gives you constant local landmarks. Fontainebleau does the opposite: one enormous open volume where you can see a long way. The effect is that distances read as shorter than they walk. A bar you can clearly see across the floor is further than it looks.

The design compounds it. Bow-tie motifs, a nod to the original Fontainebleau architect Morris Lapidus, repeat throughout the property. They are handsome and they are everywhere, which means they work poorly as landmarks — the thing you are using to orient yourself looks the same sixty feet later.

One Tower, 67 Floors

Fontainebleau has 3,644 rooms in a single 67-story tower, 737 feet tall. That simplifies one problem and creates another. Unlike the multi-tower resorts further south, you are never choosing between separate elevator banks in different wings — there is one vertical core. But 67 floors is a lot of vertical, and lift waits at convention check-in and check-out times are the real bottleneck rather than walking distance.

Getting In and Out

This is where the east-side position pays off and costs you, depending on where you are going.

The Vegas Loop station at Fontainebleau is usually the most useful way out of the building for a convention stay. Where to find it, what it costs and the hours are in our Vegas Loop guide. For the monorail, see the Las Vegas Monorail guide — Westgate is the station to know.

What's Inside

Read that as a navigation fact rather than a brochure. At this density almost everything a guest needs is inside the building, which is exactly why Fontainebleau guests tend to stay in Fontainebleau — and why knowing the interior matters more here than knowing the surrounding block. Current venues and hours are on the official Fontainebleau site.

Wheelchair, scooter, and stroller access

As a 2023 build, Fontainebleau is the most modern accessible design on the Strip — wide circulation, level floors, and a single vertical core rather than the stitched-together additions that make older properties awkward. The Vegas Loop station is on the resort's Level V1, by the rideshare pickup, so reaching the Convention Center involves no Boulevard crossing at all, which is a genuine advantage over almost every other Strip property.

The constraint is vertical throughput. With 67 floors on one elevator core, lift waits at peak convention times are the thing to plan around, not distance.

Common Navigation Mistakes

Trusting sightlines. Under 42-foot ceilings you can see much further than you can conveniently walk. Judge by the map, not by eye.

Using the bow-tie motif as a landmark. It repeats across the whole property. Pick something singular instead.

Planning to walk the Strip from here. The north end is not the mid-Strip cluster. Distances that are a five-minute hop between Bellagio and Caesars are a genuine trek up here.

Forgetting which side you are on. Fontainebleau is east side. Anything on the west side means crossing the Boulevard, which at this end of the Strip is not the frequent-bridge situation you get further south.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Fontainebleau on the Las Vegas Strip?

Fontainebleau sits at 2777 South Las Vegas Boulevard, at the north end of the Strip, on the east side of the Boulevard. That side matters more than it sounds: it puts the resort on the same side as the Las Vegas Convention Center and the monorail, and away from the dense mid-Strip walking cluster. Its closest same-side neighbor is Sahara, just to the north. Circus Circus and Resorts World are across the Boulevard on the west side, and Wynn and Encore are further south on this side. The site was formerly the El Rancho and the Algiers.

How big is the Fontainebleau casino floor?

About 173,000 square feet, with 1,300 slot machines and 128 table games under 42-foot ceilings — one of the largest on the Strip, roughly three and a half times a compact floor like Treasure Island's. The height makes distances read shorter than they walk.

Is Fontainebleau connected to the Las Vegas Convention Center?

Adjacent to it rather than joined by an indoor walkway. Fontainebleau sits on the Convention Center side of the Strip and carries 550,000+ square feet of its own meeting space. For getting to the Convention Center, the Vegas Loop station is the fastest option.

Does Fontainebleau have a Vegas Loop station?

Yes. It is on Level V1, in the far lane of the rideshare pickup, reached from the South Lobby escalators or elevators. Rides go to the Las Vegas Convention Center, Encore, Resorts World and the airport. For a convention stay this is usually the most useful way in and out of the building, more so than walking the Boulevard. Prices and hours are in our Vegas Loop guide.

When did Fontainebleau Las Vegas open?

December 13, 2023. Construction began in February 2007, the tower topped out in November 2008, and work stopped in June 2009 at about 70 percent complete. The project was called The Drew Las Vegas from 2018 to 2021 before restarting under its original name.

How many rooms does Fontainebleau Las Vegas have?

3,644 rooms in one 67-story tower, 737 feet tall. One tower means the room-finding problem is vertical, not horizontal — you are getting to the right floor, not the right wing.

What is at Fontainebleau Las Vegas?

Thirty-six restaurants and bars, the 3,800-seat BleauLive Theater, LIV nightclub (50,000 sq ft) and LIV Beach, the 55,000 sq ft Lapis Spa with 44 treatment rooms, and a six-acre pool complex with seven pools.

Can you walk from Fontainebleau to the rest of the Strip?

You can, but it is the weakest part of the position. The north end is where the Strip's walking density thins out, so distances to the mid-Strip cluster are real. The Westgate monorail station is walking distance on the same side, and the Vegas Loop station is on the resort's Level V1, by the rideshare pickup. For most trips out of Fontainebleau, one of those two beats walking.

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