Queen Las Vegas, a boutique lodge and gaming lounge tailor-made for the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, is slated to open this fall on S. Las Vegas Blvd. north of the Strip.
An artist’s rendering of the forthcoming Queen Las Vegas bar. The LGBTQ+-oriented boutique lodge and gaming lounge is being constructed throughout the Thunderbird Las Vegas lodge. (Picture: Q Group Hospitality)
The property at 1215 S. Las Vegas Blvd. is positioned within the Gateway District simply north of the historic Little White Marriage ceremony Chapel. The Queen boutique lodge is a part of the Thunderbird Resort complicated, a 100-room facility.
Owned and operated by Q Group Hospitality and its CEO Eduardo Cordova, a acknowledged LGBTQ+ nightlife promoter in Southern Nevada, Queen Las Vegas will occupy 28 rooms of the Thunderbird. The designated rooms will cater to LGBTQ+ folks and moreover supply a particular gaming lounge, restaurant and bar, and nightclub.
It has been my mission to create a vibrant and inclusive leisure district for our LGBTQ+ neighborhood, and I’m thrilled to announce that Q Hospitality Group has secured a main location … to create the gayest vacation spot in Las Vegas,” mentioned Cordova.
Queen Las Vegas will function every day “high-energy drag performances” with a DJ evoking the “occasion life-style whereas the women, gays, and ‘theys’ take pleasure in brunch or dinner over a lineup of resident queens, delectable dishes, bottomless mimosas and vibrant craft cocktails, and a world-class nightclub that includes over 50,000 LED lights.”
Thunderbird Staying
For Thunderbird’s loyal visitors, the boutique property isn’t going wherever, although it can see its room allotment diminished to 72.
The Thunderbird is fashionable amongst finances vacationers. A final-minute reserving for a room Friday evening prices $165 inclusive of all taxes and a $17 nightly facilities payment. An analogous king-bed guestroom on the close by Strat on the Strip’s northern edge prices $226 all-in.
Whereas many hostels and motels between the Strip and downtown Las Vegas are in poor situation and visitors incessantly cite uncleanly rooms, the Thunderbird maintains a 3.6/5 ranking on almost 1,000 Google evaluations. Although security and noise complaints are frequent, Thunderbird visitors have given the lodge excessive marks for cleanliness, the pool providing, and close by eating choices.
Queen LV will deliver a small gaming lounge to the property, one thing the Thunderbird has lacked. Q Hospitality, nonetheless, does preserve a gaming license for the property for its bar-top gaming machines.
Q Hospitality didn’t present specifics on the scope of Queen Las Vegas’ gaming lounge. The corporate mentioned solely {that a} “gaming lounge” can be included within the LGBTQ+ undertaking.
Fall 2023 Opening
Q Hospitality is shifting shortly to open Queen Las Vegas. The corporate plans to open the LGBTQ+ Las Vegas boutique someday this fall.
Queen Las Vegas is holding a job truthful Friday from 2 to five p.m. PST. Obtainable positions embody a normal supervisor, an assistant normal supervisor, bartenders, servers, and kitchen workers.
The forthcoming lodge’s web site, queenlv.com, dubs the property as “The Gayest Vacation spot on the Strip,” although the Thunderbird/Queen just isn’t really on the outlined Strip.
In April, the Bent Inn at 207 N. eleventh Road close to the Fremont Road Expertise introduced that it will overhaul its idea to turn out to be “the one LGBTQ+-owned and operated boutique lodge in Las Vegas. The property’s 33 “playfully designed” rooms which might be “bending the LGBTQ+ Las Vegas expertise” are anticipated to open later this summer time.
