MGM Grand bar by bar: Whiskey Down, Centrifuge, Chez Bippy, Losers and the $5 happy hour that never stops

The Lobby Bar is the default: a few steps from the main entrance, on the casino floor, open 24 hours every day, dress casual. Coming from the front desk it is on your right as you start across the casino. It has a long list of cocktails, classic and current, and it is the morning stop on the happy-hour clock, from 7am to noon. Guests must be 21 to enter.

Whiskey Down is the bar with a subject: more than 50 American, Canadian, Irish and Scotch whiskies, with 7 video poker machines and the leather sofas and oversized chairs that give it, the hotel says, the feel of a speakeasy with a vintage, industrial look. It opens at 1pm from Monday to Friday and at 10am at weekends, and closes at 2am, or 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. There is live music from 9pm to 1am on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and from 10pm to 2am on Fridays and Saturdays. On «Whiskey Wednesday» a featured flight costs $35. The page names 3 house cocktails, among them Ember & Echo, a smoked drink on The Macallan 12.

Centrifuge is the first thing you meet coming in from the Strip: a circular bar under a glowing installation that turns and changes colour. It is an evening bar, closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, open from 7pm to 3am on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and to 4am on Fridays and Saturdays, with a DJ from 10pm from Thursday to Sunday. Close by, beside Hakkasan, Level Up is a lounge for playing as much as drinking: 30 big-screen televisions, arcade games, shuffleboard, a dance floor and a virtual-reality arena of 2,000 square feet for up to 8 players.

Chez Bippy is the quiet one. The hotel puts it «behind the unassuming doors of Luchini’s Slice Shop», in The District: a dark, small cocktail lounge, open from Tuesday to Saturday, 6pm to midnight, with a smart casual dress code where the others say casual. Of the bar pages read, it is the only one with a link for reserving an ordinary table.

Losers Bar, also in The District, is a country-music room with spirits and beers on tap and live music every day from 3pm to 1am. It opens at 2pm from Monday to Friday, at noon on Saturday and at 10am on Sunday. 2 lines in its small print matter: it serves no food, and bringing your own wine or champagne costs $50 in corkage.

2 counters sell frozen drinks. 32 Degrees, across from Starbucks in The District, pours daiquiris and margaritas from 11am to 7pm and now sells «dirty sodas» at $8. Fat Tuesday, down the escalators beside the lobby doors, is the home of the 190-Octane daiquiri, offers a free sample and stays open until 1am, or 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. For a game, TAP Sports Bar has 60 screens and, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 11am to 5pm, a cheeseburger with a beer for $19.99.

Guests do not agree about the bars. In May 2026 one wrote of «some lovely bars out the way of the crowds»; in March 2026 another found the downstairs bars «gloomy and moody» and wished for something livelier. The sharpest review, from February 2026, called the bars «a dud» and the music at Losers «slow and repetitive». A guest in September 2026 liked the bars and warned against taking a table in one without a booking.

Petrossian Bar at Bellagio is the dressed-up alternative: caviar, afternoon tea from Friday to Sunday and live piano, open from 10am to 1am every day, upscale casual, 21 and over.

The Chandelier at The Cosmopolitan has 3 levels beneath 2 million crystal beads and is listed as open 24 hours, with shorter hours on its 2 upper levels; each level has its own drinks list, and the page links all 3 as PDF menus.

Caesars Palace lists the Vanderpump Cocktail Garden, the Montecristo Cigar Bar for whiskey with a cigar, and Caspian’s, a hidden bar serving caviar, seafood and cocktails.