Appearances in Media
The hotel was featured in the film Con Air where the fugitive plane crashes through the hotel's prominent Fender Stratocaster guitar. The film, however, portrayed the hotel inaccurately located on Las Vegas Blvd. near the Stratosphere. The guitar was also featured in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid in which two-year-old Adam Szalinski plays the giant guitar before dropping it. The hotel is also featured prominently in the 3rd season episode "Vegas Baby, Vegas!" of Entourage and also appears in the season 1 episode "The Strip" of Fox's The O.C., and on MTV's Bam's Unholy Union.
The giant guitar out front the hotel/casino can be seen prominently in the 1997 film Vegas Vacation.
The entrance to Hard Rock was used in the movie 21, and it featured a room where Ben and Jill made love, however in another inaccuracy in geography, it showed the Bellagio fountains as visible right outside their window. The Bellagio isn't visible at all from any room at the Hard Rock Hotel.
The guitar sign of the hotel was also featured in Urban Strike as a primary target in Las Vegas Mission. Canadian hard rock group My Darkest Days filmed their video for "Porn Star Dancin'" at the Vanity nightclub in 2010.
Rehab and its security, bartending, and waitressing staffs are the subject of a reality TV series on TruTV entitled Rehab: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel. The third season of the show debuted on September 7, 2010.
The Hotel is where the cast of the 25th season of the The Real World resides and where The Real World: Las Vegas is filmed. Las Vegas' premiere on March 9, 2011 drew 1.7 million viewers to clinch the most viewers for its time slot (10pm) across all of TV from ages 12–35.
Dutch DJ/Producer Tiësto named his anthology Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas in honor of the live set held by Tiësto at the Hard Rock Cafe & Casino, The Joint in Las Vegas, Nevada where he signed DJ Residency.
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