The guitar hotel officially opened this past October and hopes to entice a world-class clientele, not only with its oasis of meandering pools and private cabanas, but also with a concert hall dubbed Hard Rock Live, a venue that can accommodate up to 7,000 people. In April, the hotel will become cigar central when it hosts Big Smoke Meets WhiskyFest, an unprecedented, cigar-friendly event that combines the best of the premium cigar world with the finest in Scotch, Bourbon and other craft spirits. Smoking is allowed in most of the casino areas, and the retail promenade has a Davidoff cigar shop and lounge where you can light up before and after dinner. The colossal guitar not only holds 638 new hotel rooms, but is part of Hard Rock’s $1.5 billion expansion that includes lagoon-like pool areas, 150,000 square feet of gambling, and a gleaming marble promenade lined with boutique retail shops.ĭining, as you’d expect, runs the gamut from high-end restaurants to more approachable, casual fare. Instead, this spectacle rises 450 feet into the sky from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood-that’s Hollywood, Florida, not Tinseltown.
You might think that the world’s first guitar-shaped hotel would land in a place like Nashville or Las Vegas or maybe somewhere near the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.
