The top of Mandalay Bay is trading bottle service for crate digging, as the Vinyl Room readies its Las Vegas debut with thousands of records, late-night DJs and a cocktail-heavy menu set to arrive in August. The new music-first lounge is moving into the long-running rooftop space once home to the Foundation Room and aims to blend a private club vibe with easy walk-up access for Strip wanderers and hotel guests.
Reporter John Katsilometes of the Las Vegas Review‑Journal writes that the Vinyl Room is taking over the 63rd floor and is scheduled to open in August. The paper notes that the venue will lean hard into live late-night entertainment and a design centered on analog records. “Vinyl Room celebrates Las Vegas and its rich music history. There’s no other lounge on the Strip quite like this one,” Kurt Melien said in a statement, according to the Review‑Journal.
The Las Vegas lounge is positioned as a sibling to the existing Vinyl Room inside Los Angeles’s Hollywood Palladium, with industry reports indicating Live Nation as a key ownership partner and operator and MGM Resorts listed as a partner. Early renderings briefly surfaced on Live Nation’s site, and Casino.org notes that tiered memberships, VIP perks and other members-style benefits are expected to anchor the business model. That blend of concert access and club atmosphere has been gaining traction up and down the Strip…