The Best Hotels in Las Vegas for a Girls Weekend

By Leah Still

Las Vegas, with its ample shopping, fantastic pools and designer food, is an exciting locale for a good old-fashioned girls' weekend. The hotels on the Strip are constantly competing with each other. As they get flashier, your options for female fun get more and more varied. Almost every hotel can offer you a nice big pool, a day spa, sweets and shopping to satisfy all your girl-time needs, but some are better than others. The following hotels are especially girl-friendly.

Caesar's Palace
This Las Vegas institution has a beautifully landscaped, Roman-inspired pool area, where you and your girlfriends can channel your inner goddesses while working on your tans. Caesar's Palace is also home to the famous Forum Shops. This is a mall like no other--the ceiling changes from daytime to nighttime scenes, and a giant Trojan horse towers above shoppers. You'll have no problem giving your credit card a workout at stores like Marc Jacobs, Anthropologie and DKNY, while ogling the goodies at Harry Winston and Cartier.3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 866-227-5938, www.caesarspalace.com.

Paris Las Vegas
Pleasure and pampering are the keys at the Paris Las Vegas hotel. Spend quality girl time with your friends while you receive massages and manicures at the Paris Spa by Mandera. Then indulge in French pastries and chocolates at Lenôtre in Le Boulevard shops. And no girls' trip to Paris is complete without champagne. Napoleon's Champagne bar offers more than 100 varieties to keep you and your girls in bubbles all night long. 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 877-603-4386, www.parislasvegas.com.

Mandalay Bay
If sunning and relaxing are the top priorities for your Vegas girls' weekend, book the Mandalay Bay hotel. The pool at Mandalay Bay--also known as The Beach--is second to none on the Strip. You'll have 11 acres of soft sand and turquoise water, where you and your girlfriends can lay back with your tropical drinks and gossip. After hours, put on your heels and head to the trendy Mix Lounge on the 64th floor of THEHotel at Mandalay Bay, which offers cocktails and a view. 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, 877-632-7800, www.mandalaybay.com.

The Best Hotels in Las Vegas for a Girls Weekend originally published on Travels.com

About the Author:
Leah Still got a journalism degree from the University of Missouri in 2004. Since then she has gone from editing an online travel guide to doing more travel herself. After spending two winters in Vail, Colorado, she backpacked around Mexico and Central America, road-tripped around the western U.S., and finally headed to Australia. She is currently learning her way around Perth.

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