Looking around, it is readily apparent why the Mirage spurred its neighbors on to greater things. The hotel is done in cool Polynesian touches and festooned with tropical greenery; the entrance to the casino is through a 90-foot-high glass atrium filled with royal palms, orchids and banana trees.

The white tigers of Siegfried and Roy-the world-renown magicians who dazzle crowds nightly in the Theatre Mirage-reside near one of the entrances while dolphins swim in an outside pool and live sharks glide stealthily through a tank behind the reception counter.

3,049 rooms fill a Y-shaped tower, and guests have a full spa and a lush pool area to keep them occupied during the day with a number of restaurants, lounges and abundant gaming to appease them at night.

FEATURES:

• Number of rooms: 3,044.
  
• Average room rates: $79-$1,200. Room rates can fluctuatewidely and change without notice.
  
• Casino: Yes. Casino games include Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat, Pai Gow, Pai Gow Poker, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud Poker, Poker, Keno, 2,245 slot machines including Megabucks and Super Megabucks.
  
• Race & sports book: Yes
  
• Restaurants: Kokomo's, Mikado, Moongate, Samba Brazilian Steakhouse, Renoir, Onda, Caribe Cafe, The Mirage Buffet, California Pizza Kitchen, Coconuts Ice Cream Shop, Roasted Bean, Paradise Cafe, The Noodle Kitchen, The Mirage Snack Bar and a variety of bars and lounges.
  
• Attractions: Tiger Habitat, Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat, Mirage Volcano.
  
• Entertainment: 1,500-seat Siegfried & Roy Theatre featuring the two magicians nightly; also, 1,260-seat Danny Gans Theatre featuring "the man of many voices," Danny Gans.
  
• Pool: Yes
  
• Health Club: Yes, offering stationary bicycles, treadmills and stair climbers, a full line of CYBEX weight training machines, free weights, a comfortable lounge and a full service juice bar.
  
• Spa: Yes, The Spa.
  
• Shops: The Street of Shops offers an exclusive collection of designer boutiques for women, featuring high-fashion leisure wear, fine formal wear, swim and resort clothing, leather wear and the work of up and coming designers. Also there is D. Fine, Impulse, Actique, The Mirage Shop and The Mirage Collection.
  
• Wedding Chapel: No.
  
• Parking Garage: Yes
  
• Convention rooms: Yes, over 170,000 square feet of state-of-the-art meeting space will accommodate groups five to 5,000.
  
• Business Center: Yes.
  
• In-room computer data port: No.
  
• Wheelchair accessible rooms: Yes.
  
• RV park: No.
  
• Children allowed in hotel: Yes. No one under the age of 21 is allowed in Las Vegas casinos.
  
• Child care facilities: No.
  
• Pets allowed: No.
  
• Room service: Yes.
  
• Shuttle Service: Shuttle service to the airport available for a fee from an outside company.
  
• Amenities: Dolphin pool, white tiger habitat, 20,000-gallon aquarium, exploding volcano and indoor tropical rainforest, hairdryers in every room.
  
• Interesting facts about the Mirage: There are 1,000 different kinds of fish in the hotel lobby aquarium. Some of the palms in the tropical rainforest are 50 years old. The rainforest uses a horticulture department of 75 people to maintain all the plants and flowers.