The Hard Rock, which contains a 3-acre water playground well-liked with the young and the hip, is 2 miles south of the Las Vegas Strip and Convention Center and 2 miles north of McCarran Airport. The Hard Rock features five restaurants, including Nobu's sushi bar, Simon, which serves new American cuisine, and AJ's Steakhouse with live piano, steaks and smooth martinis. The hotel is home to more than 600 pieces of rock-n-roll memorabilia, a 30,000-square-foot circular casino, 1,100-seat concert venue hosting major recording acts, and the subterranean nightclub Body English, featuring a retro-industrial ceiling, glowing violet tables and green vinyl booths.

Pampering treatments at the property's Rock Spa include the signature Mediterranean Organic Veggie Wrap, Monticello Mud and Thermo Freeze therapies. The facility as well hosts Vichy showers, steam rooms, spas for a fee and a fitness center. For recreation, a three-acre tropical pool area with a sandy beach is obtainable, as is a Beach Club pool with three swim-up blackjack tables. Adjacent thatch-roofed cabanas feature flat-screen televisions, telephones and ceiling fans.

The rock-n-roll motif continues in the 648 guest rooms which characteristic sea-green carpeting, eggplant-colored drapes, velor furnishings, color rock-n-roll portraiture and French doors. Rooms offer platform beds with skin headboards, 310-thread count bed linens and soft cotton robes. Amenities include Bose CD players, flat-panel televisions and television Internet access with a wireless keyboard. The penthouse boasts a dining area for 12, a stocked bar, pool table, flat-panel televisions and a single-lane automated bowling alley.