There are hotel suites, and then there are the suites at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. In his latest viral tour, “I Tried The Most INSANE Hotel Suites In Las Vegas!”, creator Walk With Me Tim got exclusive access from the Palms team and walked through the wildest rooms in the resort, including a 10,000-square-foot suite with its own private basketball court, a suite with two private bowling lanes, and a two-story Sky Villa priced at $35,000 a night. The video pulled in more than 433,000 views within days of its October 2026 release, and it is easy to see why.
Watch the full video below, then read on for the biggest takeaways, including the exact nightly rates, square footage, and the story of the $100,000-a-night Empathy Suite.
1. The Hardwood Suite has its own private basketball court
The centerpiece of Tim’s tour is the Hardwood Suite, a 10,000-square-foot experiential suite that starts at $20,000 per night. Its headline feature is a private, regulation-sized indoor half basketball court, measuring 30 by 30 feet, complete with an electronic scoreboard and NBA three-point lines. It is billed as the first and only hotel suite in the world with its own private court. For context, 10,000 square feet is roughly four times the size of the average American single-family home.
The suite sleeps 10 guests across 2 king beds and 3 Murphy beds, an unusual arrangement that tucks the extra sleeping space out of sight during the day. Beyond the court, the suite includes a pro-style locker room, a hidden whiskey room, pool and poker tables, a full bar, 11 televisions, and 24-hour butler service. For sports fans with very deep pockets, this is the most literal “stay and play” concept in Las Vegas.
2. The Kingpin Suite has two full-size private bowling lanes
Next up is the Kingpin Suite, which starts at $15,000 per night and spans roughly 4,240 to 4,500 square feet. The star attraction: two full-size private bowling lanes, supplied with bowling shoes and balls plus automatic scoring. If you have ever rented a bowling lane for a party, imagine that experience with room service and a 24-hour butler.
The suite accommodates 10 guests with 1 king bed and 4 queen beds, and rounds out the entertainment with a full bar, a pool table, and 12 televisions. Together with the Hardwood Suite, it debuted as part of the Palms’ lineup of experiential suites designed around activities most travelers have never considered having inside a hotel room.
3. The two-story Sky Villa runs $35,000 a night
The most expensive room Tim walks through in the video is the two-story Sky Villa, which the video prices at $35,000 per night. (External booking listings show it at up to $40,000 a night, so rates vary by source and season.) The villa sits atop the Fantasy Tower and carries serious Vegas history: it was originally built in 2005 for Hugh Hefner and modeled on the Playboy Mansion.
The villa measures roughly 8,500 to 9,000 square feet and features a cantilevered Jacuzzi pool with a glass end wall overlooking the Las Vegas Strip, an 8-foot round rotating bed, a private gym with sauna, and a spa treatment room. Tim frames it as the ultimate “which suite would you choose” fantasy, and at $35,000 a night, a two-night stay costs more than a year of tuition at many private universities.
4. The Empathy Suite once claimed the title of world’s most expensive hotel room
Tim also shows the famous Empathy Suite, though only via a photograph. The two-story, 9,000-square-foot suite once held a claim on the title of the world’s most expensive hotel room at $100,000 per night, with a two-night minimum, meaning a stay cost $200,000 before you ordered a single meal. The rate included a $10,000 resort credit.
The suite was designed by artist Damien Hirst in collaboration with Bentel and Bentel, and it reads like a museum that happens to have beds. It houses six original Hirst works, including “Winner/Loser,” a pair of bull sharks suspended in formaldehyde, and a 13-seat curved bar filled with medical waste. There is a diamond-studded “Vegas” medicine cabinet, a salt relaxation room, two massage rooms, a gym, and a cantilevered pool overlooking the Strip. The Palms no longer markets it as an active $100,000 listing, but it remains the benchmark against which every other extreme Vegas suite is measured. For another record-breaking hotel stay, see the world’s only “7-star” hotel at $2,500 a night.
5. Tim actually stayed in the one-story Sky Villa
For all the jaw-dropping walkthroughs, Tim’s actual home base for the trip was the one-story Sky Villa: a 5,000-square-foot, 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom residence that starts at $25,000 per night. It includes a private pool and a private butler, and it belongs to the resort’s six-villa Sky Villa collection, which ranges from 5,000 to 9,000 square feet and $25,000 to $40,000 per night.
It is a useful reminder of the scale of luxury at the top end of the Vegas market. A $25,000-a-night suite as the “modest” option puts the Palms’ Sky Villas in a tier that competes with the priciest penthouses on the Strip. If you are comparing Sin City stays, the Venetian’s luxury king suite and the Strip’s 5-star hotels are worth a look for perspective.
6. By the numbers: the Palms Casino Resort
The suites do not exist in a vacuum. Here is the hard data behind the resort itself:
- Address: 4321 W Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas, just off the Strip.
- Ownership: The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians bought the property from Red Rock Resorts for $650 million, announced in May 2021, making it the first Native American-owned resort in Las Vegas. It reopened on April 27, 2022.
- Renovation: A $620 million renovation was completed in 2018, before the San Manuel purchase.
- Size: 766 rooms and suites across two towers, the 428-key Ivory Tower and the 338-key Fantasy Tower, plus a 95,000-square-foot casino.
- Sky Villas: Six villas from 5,000 to 9,000 square feet, $25,000 to $40,000 per night, with the Empathy Suite above the range at $100,000 per night.
- Suite sleeping capacity: Both the Hardwood and Kingpin suites sleep 10 guests, putting the per-person, per-night cost of the Hardwood Suite at $2,000 when full.
- Video performance: Tim’s tour hit 433,222 views, 10,693 likes, and 507 comments within its first days online, published around October 11, 2026.
7. The amenities beyond the suites
Tim rounds out the video with the resort’s food, pools, and other amenities, framing the Palms as a full destination rather than just a collection of extreme suites. The resort’s dining lineup has long been one of its calling cards, and the pool scene gives the property a daylife complement to the casino floor. The video’s throughline is a simple question: at tens of thousands of dollars a night, which suite would you choose?
The Palms lists its experiential suites and Sky Villas on its official site, with nightly rates from $15,000 for the Kingpin Suite up to $40,000 for the two-story Sky Villa. Standard rooms at the resort start far lower, which makes the property one of the few in Las Vegas where a regular guest and a $35,000-a-night villa guest share the same casino floor, restaurants, and pool deck.
The honest answer for most of us is none of them, but that is exactly why the video works. The Palms took the familiar Vegas suite concept and pushed it past penthouse territory into pure spectacle: a basketball court, bowling lanes, a shark-tank art collection, and a Jacuzzi hanging over the Strip. For $20,000 to $100,000 a night, you are not buying a room. You are buying a story. And judging by 433,000 views in a few days, it is a story people love to watch.
