Standard room - Rooms contain one king or two queen beds and are decorated in a burgundy or turquoise color scheme. Bathrooms feature a brown-marble vanity and tub/shower combination.

Ristorante Italiano - Casual ambience and Northern Italian cuisine featuring myriad pasta choices.

Rik' Shaw - Elegant ambience and traditional Cantonese cuisine.

World's Fare Buffet - Breakfast, lunch, and dinner buffets. Roast baron of beef for dinner. Champagne brunch buffet on weekends.

Kady's Coffee Shop - Open 24 hours for light snacks and full meals. Overlooking pool.

Mardi Gras Food Court - Burger King, Pizza Hut, Krispy Kreme donuts, Cold Stone ice cream, cheesesteaks, sub sandwiches, Asian fast food, and Mexican fast food.

Hound Doggie's - 1950's-style snack bar.

Room service is available 24 hours. Casino

Amenity highlights: In a tranquil, sunny courtyard bordered by a lush grass sunning area, a large pool furnishes hot-weather relief. For pampering, a spa offers a fitness center, massage, body treatments, tanning facility, a women's sauna, and a men's steam room. Shoppers have an arcade to explore. Tennis players enjoy two complimentary lighted courts.

Insider tip: Like all other Las Vegas casinos, the Riviera offers free membership in a player's club that rewards gaming play with points redeemable for cash and comps. Unlike most casinos, however, here players don't have to line up to obtain their rewards at a desk but can utilize ATM-like kiosks. Twice nightly in its own showroom, the acclaimed, high-tech, adults-only production Splash entertains with special effects, ice skaters, motorcycle daredevils, dancers, jugglers, acrobats, and showgirls topped by spectacular headdresses.

Like its long-running siblings in New York and Los Angeles, La Cage brings down the house nightly (except Tuesdays) with a combination of comedy and female impersonators. Frank Marino stars as Joan Rivers.

The bawdy revue Crazy Girls features topless dancers, comedy, and music twice nightly (except Mondays). International comedians entertain at the Riviera Comedy Club. The romantic Le Bistro offers classic lounge acts such as Sinatra prot?g?e Marlene Ricci, Neil Diamond impersonator Jay White, comedy hypnotist Dr. Scott Lewis, and Elvis impersonator Trent Carlini along with a rock-'n'-roll revue.

The casino supplies 125,000 square feet of craps, blackjack, roulette, baccarat, keno, pai gow poker, slots, video poker, and Caribbean poker. The Nickel Town room contains some 330 low-cost slots. A race-and-sports book features individual televisions at each seat.

Riviera Player's Club offers free membership cards that rewards table-game and slot play with cash and comp rooms, meals, shows, and services. Aerobics classes