The
Playboy Club is a nightclub located on the 52nd floor of the
Fantasy Tower at the
Palms Hotel CasinoThe Palms Casino Resort, also known simply as the Palms, is a casino hotel and residential tower located in Paradise, Nevada. The main tower has 702 rooms and suites and contains a casino, a recording studio and a 2,200 seat showroom...
in , which is located in the
Las Vegas metropolitan areaThe Las Vegas metropolitan area, also known as the Las Vegas-Paradise-Henderson Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, consisting of Clark County. A central part of the metropolitan area is the Las Vegas Valley, a basin in which is...
. The club is a
PlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best...
-themed
casinoA casino is a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions...
and the first official
Playboy ClubA Playboy Club was originally one of a chain of nightclubs owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises until 1991, with the first club opening at 116 E. Walton in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States on February 29, 1960. The clubs were essentially bars with entertainment, featuring Playboy...
in the United States since 1988.
The club features floor-to-ceiling windows, dark colors, leather sofas and Baccarat crystal
chandelierA chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamps and complex arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light....
s. An exclusive VIP area features its own bar, a fireplace and two retro Playboy brand pinball machines.
The
Playboy Club is a nightclub located on the 52nd floor of the
Fantasy Tower at the
Palms Hotel CasinoThe Palms Casino Resort, also known simply as the Palms, is a casino hotel and residential tower located in Paradise, Nevada. The main tower has 702 rooms and suites and contains a casino, a recording studio and a 2,200 seat showroom...
in , which is located in the
Las Vegas metropolitan areaThe Las Vegas metropolitan area, also known as the Las Vegas-Paradise-Henderson Metropolitan Statistical Area, is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, consisting of Clark County. A central part of the metropolitan area is the Las Vegas Valley, a basin in which is...
. The club is a
PlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best...
-themed
casinoA casino is a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions...
and the first official
Playboy ClubA Playboy Club was originally one of a chain of nightclubs owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises until 1991, with the first club opening at 116 E. Walton in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States on February 29, 1960. The clubs were essentially bars with entertainment, featuring Playboy...
in the United States since 1988.
The club features floor-to-ceiling windows, dark colors, leather sofas and Baccarat crystal
chandelierA chandelier is a branched decorative ceiling-mounted light fixture with two or more arms bearing lights. Chandeliers are often ornate, containing dozens of lamps and complex arrays of glass or crystal prisms to illuminate a room with refracted light....
s. An exclusive VIP area features its own bar, a fireplace and two retro Playboy brand pinball machines. The trademark Playboy Bunny logo is prominently displayed throughout the club – from the carpeting and the buttons on the sofas to a giant neon bunny head emblazoned on the side of the building. There is Playboy centerfold wallpaper in the bathrooms and 60
plasma displayA plasma display panel is a type of flat panel display common to large TV displays . Many tiny cells between two panels of glass hold a mixture of noble gases. The gas in the cells is electrically turned into a plasma which then excites phosphors to emit light...
s covering an entire wall displaying visual images from the archives of the magazine. The Playboy Club also offers gaming in the form of
blackjackBlackjack, also known as Twenty-one, Vingt-et-un , or Pontoon, is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. The basic rules of the game involve adding the value of an initial two card hand in hopes of being dealt a value of twenty-one...
and
rouletteRoulette is a casino and gambling game named after a French diminutive for "little wheel". In the game, players may choose to place bets on either a number, a range of numbers, the colors red or black, or whether the number is odd or even....
tables. The space also features a small dance floor and is linked via escalators to MOON Nightclub, a boutique dance club on the 53rd floor.
While
Hugh HefnerHugh Marston Hefner , sometimes known simply as Hef, is an American magazine publisher, founder and chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises...
had input in the design of the Playboy Club, he said most of the credit goes to the
Maloof familyThe Maloof family is an American family of Lebanese descent which owns numerous business properties in the Western United States. They are best known as the owners of the Sacramento Kings of the NBA . The family consists of George J. Maloof, Sr., his wife Colleen, and their children: Adrienne...
and the Las Vegas-based entertainment company that helped open the club,
N9NE GroupThe N9NE Group is a partnership that owns and operates restaurants and nightclubs in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, Chicago and Dallas.The N9NE Group was founded by Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff. The two have been friends since age nine - a fact which explains the company's name...
. Michael Morton, a principal of
N9NE groupThe N9NE Group is a partnership that owns and operates restaurants and nightclubs in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, Chicago and Dallas.The N9NE Group was founded by Michael Morton and Scott DeGraff. The two have been friends since age nine - a fact which explains the company's name...
, is the son of Chicago restaurateur Arnie Morton, one of Hefner's partners in the launch of the original Playboy Club.
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