Wynn Las Vegas Earns 18 Forbes Five-Stars and a James Beard Win in 2026

18 Five-Star Awards: What's Actually Covered

Eighteen Five-Star Awards in a single cycle is a significant number, but the breakdown matters more than the total. For Wynn Las Vegas specifically, the Five-Star designations cover Wynn Las Vegas Tower Suites, Encore Las Vegas Tower Suites, The Spa at Wynn, The Spa at Encore, and Wing Lei. Forbes is rating the room product, the spa product, and the dining product separately, and Wynn is holding the rating across all three categories at the same Las Vegas address.

For a property this size — 4,748 total hotel rooms and suites across two towers — maintaining Five-Star ratings on the Tower Suites tier is one thing. Keeping the spa ratings alongside it is another. The Spa at Wynn and The Spa at Encore both hold the designation, evaluated on service delivery, treatment quality, and facility standards independently. Those ratings don‘t transfer automatically from the hotel side.

Encore Boston Harbor also holds Forbes Five-Star status, with The Spa at Encore Boston Harbor specifically recognized. The company describes Encore Boston Harbor as North America’s largest regional resort to achieve Five-Star recognition, which is a meaningful claim for a property outside a primary destination market like Las Vegas.

Condé Nast Traveler's Triple Crown

Wynn Las Vegas was included in Condé Nast Traveler‘s inaugural Triple Crown collection, built around hotels that have appeared on all three of its flagship lists: the Hot List, the Gold List, and the Readers’ Choice Awards. Appearing on any one of those lists takes consistent performance over time. Appearing on all three is rarer, which is why the Triple Crown framing is new in 2026.

The CNT recognition sits alongside a Men‘s Health Travel Award, a Travel + Leisure World’s Best Award, and a U. S. News & World Report Best Conference Hotels designation for Wynn Las Vegas in this cycle. That last one is worth noting separately because it signals the MICE market — meetings, incentives, conferences, events — is still a core revenue stream here, not something the property has drifted away from as the entertainment and nightlife side has grown.

What the Southern Nevada Hotel Concierge Association Voted On

The Southern Nevada Hotel Concierge Association (SNHCA) runs its own awards, and these are worth paying attention to separately from the national publications. Concierges are the people booking their guests into experiences every day, so when they vote among themselves on the best options in the city, that‘s a ground-level signal the national rankings can miss.

Wynn Las Vegas swept most of the category-specific honors. The SNHCA gave Awakening its Best Production Show recognition, which tracks with how that show has been performing since its launch. Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas took Best Supper Club, PISCES took Best Seafood Restaurant, Wing Lei took Best Asian Restaurant, SW Steakhouse took Best Steakhouse, and Wynn Golf Club took Best Golf Course. On the nightlife side, Encore Beach Club took Best Dayclub and XS Nightclub took Best Nightclub.

That’s a near-sweep of dining and nightlife categories from a single property, and it matters specifically because the SNHCA voters are local professionals recommending these venues to guests with actual spending money. When a concierge at a competing property is still pointing guests toward XS or Encore Beach Club, that's an endorsement that cuts across brand loyalty.

Corporate Awards: Who They're Actually For

The broader corporate awards list — Fortune‘s World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 1000, Forbes America‘s Best Large Employers, Forbes Most Trusted Companies in America, and multiple Newsweek workplace designations — covers a different audience than the travel and dining awards. These are employer-brand and investor-facing recognitions, relevant for recruiting and corporate positioning rather than the guest experience side.

The Newsweek designations include America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women, for Mental Wellbeing, and for Culture, Belonging and Diversity, plus America‘s Greenest Companies. That last one is worth flagging because sustainability claims in the hospitality industry vary wildly in what they actually reflect, and an independent Newsweek recognition is a harder signal than a self-reported corporate metric.

Forbes also gave Wynn its 300 Best Brands for Social Impact recognition, and the company was included in The Civic 50 by Points of Light, which evaluates corporate community engagement. TIME’s America's Best Companies list rounds out the corporate recognition.

For the guest considering a stay at Wynn Las Vegas, the corporate awards are background noise. The Forbes Five-Star ratings, the James Beard win, and the concierge association votes are the practical signals. The corporate recognitions matter if you're a potential employee or an investor watching the WYNN ticker, which trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and sits in the S&P 500.

What It Costs to Experience Any of This

Most coverage of Wynn‘s awards skips this part. The Tower Suites product that Forbes is rating as Five-Star is not the base room rate at Wynn. Tower Suites at Wynn Las Vegas is a separate tier, with its own check-in, dedicated staff, and its own pricing. Base room rates vary significantly by date, but the Tower Suites product runs substantially higher than standard rooms. If you want the Forbes-rated experience, that’s the tier you‘re buying into.

Casa Playa, where Chef Sarah Thompson just won a James Beard award, is a Mexican restaurant on the resort’s pool deck. Dinner pricing reflects where it sits on the Las Vegas dining spectrum. A James Beard win typically has a measurable impact on reservation demand in the months following, so anyone planning a visit who wants a table should book ahead. The restaurant is accessible without a hotel stay, which means the James Beard bump will likely affect availability for both hotel guests and outside diners.

XS Nightclub and Encore Beach Club, the two nightlife venues that took SNHCA top honors, operate on standard Vegas nightclub pricing — cover charges and table minimums that scale with the act performing. On nights without a major DJ booking, walk-in access is more realistic.

Wynn is also currently building its first UAE property, Wynn Al Marjan Island in Ras Al Khaimah, set to open in 2027. That project won't affect the Las Vegas product directly, but it signals where the company is allocating capital internationally while continuing to hold its existing North American ratings.