Las Vegas’ The Mirage Hotel-Casino to Close Permanently in July

The long-awaited finale from Las Vegas’ Mirage Hotel and Casino has a date.

The Mirage will shut its doors permanently on July 17, 2024, marking the end of a 30-year run on the Las Vegas Strip. After that, Hard Rock will begin major work to transform the property into Hard Rock Las Vegas, a new guitar-shaped hotel set to open in 2027.

Mirage revealed the date on Wednesday, writing in a statement that “over the next two months we will bid farewell to this iconic and historic property and then we will commence an incredible transformation. We look forward to the beginning of an exciting journey into a new era as Hard Rock Las Vegas will ignite the Strip with entertainment, innovation, and world-class hospitality.”

The Mirage was opened by Steve Wynn’s Golden Nugget Companies Inc. in 1989, Wynn’s first major casino on The Strip. Over the years, The Mirage played host to some iconic Vegas mainstays, including the Siegfried and Roy show in the 1990s, several Cirque du Soleil shows, the hotel’s iconic volcano, and more.

The property was purchased by Hard Rock in 2021 and Hard Rock quickly revealed plans to transform the hotel into another of its signature guitar-shaped hotels. Still, a timeline of when exactly the Mirage would shutter wasn’t known until this week.

Now, guests will only have a few weeks to say goodbye to the Mirage before the renovation starts. It is the second Vegas mainstay to shut its doors this year, following The Tropicana Las Vegas, which closed in April and is set for demolition by the end of 2024.