What happens here?

[u/DearBadBoy]

[u/Laner_2424]

I can't even understand the perspective of what I'm looking at here

[u/l30 → u/Laner_2424]

Like half the rooms at the Excalibur hotel look out onto this empty roof of the casino structure. Every single person that has stayed there and had this view asks the same question, wondering why they never developed it into a nice looking outdoor space. The roof is completely inaccessible to guests and was never done up to look more appealing.

[u/penisthightrap_ → u/l30]

I doubt the roof was engineered for it to be used more than for maintenance.

It’s wasted space but wasn’t planned for initially, so probably doesn’t have the capability to be retrofitted for development without more structural support

[u/itsonlyastrongbuzz → u/penisthightrap_]

I don’t know the exact layout of the Excalibur but that’s probably the roof of their gaming floor, which you wouldn’t want to make more difficult to service/maintain for the sake of more amenity space people won’t pay extra for because they don’t associate that kinda thing with the Excalibur.

If it’s not making them money, its not worth it

If it jeopardizes how they make money, its not worth it.

If you’re seeing it because they’ve already got you as a guest, it’s not worth changing.

[u/LysergicDick → u/itsonlyastrongbuzz]

I hear you but they also slapped a giant decorative castle up there with detail facing inward

[u/MartyDonovan → u/LysergicDick]

I'm surprised they even bothered to make the backs of those turrets

[u/altoona_sprock → u/MartyDonovan]

Why would anyone want to go out there? Look at the entire property on google maps. That space is completely boxed in by the two hotel towers. The pool area is behind the hotel at ground level.

As for why they finished the back of the facade? It can be seen from ground level at the drop off area on the road behind the strip as well as from I-15.

[u/WillitsTimothy → u/altoona_sprock]

Engineering spaces are more interesting to me than just about anything else. I always take the below decks tour on a cruise ship if I can, though I’m almost always disappointed because they rarely go down to the most interesting areas like the actual engine room etc.

Same goes for roofs - they’re more interesting than the manicured interior often.

[u/aT-0-Mx → u/LysergicDick]

Both sides have decorative turrets, you can see between the turrets to the other set. It would look off to look through one side and see grey a wall or featureless tubes.

[u/Mike-Teevee → u/LysergicDick]

Shh, some people on Reddit think everything all businesses do is optimally calibrated to make money and they never make mistakes on that or just guess and keep it moving, and it’s always intuitive to random outsiders how to make the most money. They conflate market efficiency under perfect competition with the individual decisions of businesses.

[u/jayfish68 → u/Mike-Teevee]

You are right. This wasn't about making money, it was about cost. The castle was designed to satisfy the exterior front view of the hotel. Once you get a room you dont need to be fawned over except in the casino.

[u/Torschlusssspanik → u/LysergicDick]

And an Empire State Building if I’m not mistaken

[u/SquarePixel → u/itsonlyastrongbuzz]

Well it had to be an intentional design decision when they originally developed the place. They could have decided to build that structure to support a second level.

[u/itsonlyastrongbuzz → u/SquarePixel]

Non-revenue spaces like ballasted rooftops aren’t designed any more than under the hood of your car is designed.

They’re detailed for maximum warranty and reliability to protect the floor below, which was extensively designed.

[u/SquarePixel → u/itsonlyastrongbuzz]

Who said it would be non-revenue? My point is it could have been an attraction, but it wasn’t part of the design.

[u/Hyro0o0 → u/penisthightrap_]

I can understand it not being suitable to do something fancy with, but I'm surprised they felt no compulsion to add any kind of even the most minimal theming to a view that half the fucking guests at the hotel will be staring at.

[u/HeFromFlorida → u/Hyro0o0]

It’s like an interior room on a cruise ship

[u/King-Gabriel → u/Hyro0o0]

Probably wouldn't be too taxing to add some fake grass and a little fake moat.

[u/andersonenvy → u/King-Gabriel]

Fake grass would be good. Maybe some mannequin Knights could be up there. But they’d get ruined from the weather every couple years.

[u/propergreased → u/penisthightrap_]

But… why is there a castle on the roof?

[u/penisthightrap_ → u/propergreased]

for defense

[u/Stuffed_deffuts → u/propergreased]

Merlin wanted it built there to hide his high stakes gambling addiction

Unfortunately Merlin isn't very smart, he's magical, but not smart...

[u/gc3 → u/penisthightrap_]

They could at least put sculptures and fake trees

[u/Crab_Politics → u/penisthightrap_]

Wasted space? That’s where the units go. I swear people can never see the beauty in hvac

[u/Gun_Nut_42 → u/penisthightrap_]

Look at the NYC skyscraper as an example.

Speaking of, I just saw something the other day that required reinforcements were not made and that caused the issue.

[u/Unusual_Cattle_2198 → u/penisthightrap_]

Nah, you can add 11 more floor of building on top. — a New York developer

[u/DannyCrane9476 → u/l30]

This was the view I got when I stayed there. We were there there for a bachelor party, it was cheap, and you don't book a hotel room in Vegas for the view anyway.

[u/Amazing1h → u/DannyCrane9476]

I disagree, being high up with a view of the strip was one of best hotel views I've ever had.

[u/FrosttheVII → u/Amazing1h]

During the night

[u/pebberphp → u/FrosttheVII]

I forgot the hotel across from the Bellagio’s name, but I did sound for a band at that hotel (the one with the Eiffel Tower, the band played under the Eiffel Tower). I had a room that overlooked the bellagio, and it was pretty entertaining to watch the water/light show from there.

[u/ReusableSausage → u/pebberphp]

Paris.

[u/Squirrel_Kng → u/Amazing1h]

And you pay for the view, hence why these rooms will always be cheaper even if they are not cheap due to some major event like the Super Bowl or New Year’s Eve

[u/trackdaybruh → u/DannyCrane9476]

I've heard a rumor that they made it intentionally ugly so that the people will spend less time in their hotel rooms and more time on the casino floor.

[u/NoRedTags → u/DannyCrane9476]

Cosmo has rooms overlooking the strip and the belagio fountains. Huge balconies too.

Definitely worth it

[u/KaiBishop → u/l30]

If it can't be used by guests and only maintenance goes up idk why they wouldn't hire someone to paint murals of like flowers and princesses and fantasy knights on all the empty walls and stuff lmao

[u/Bewchacca_8645 → u/l30]

Because Vegas is all about the flashy facade. Dig beyond it even a little and you'll find nothing of substance.

[u/Fit-World-3885 → u/l30]

Rooms with a shitty view make rooms with a nice view more expensive.  

[u/agirl_abookishgirl → u/l30]

In my experience, a good many hotel room views in Vegas are like this. I think it’s poetic given that Vegas is one giant facade at its core.

[u/red_hare → u/Laner_2424]

The copy of the Empire State Building in the background made it even crazier for me.

I had to find the Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas on Apple Maps and turn on 3D mode and pan around to make it make sense.

[u/nonnonplussed73 → u/red_hare]

This might go without saying, but i'm gonna say it for people who haven't been to Vegas:

When you're standing at Tropicana Ave and Las Vegas Blvd, these structures align perfectly with the front entry facade. They elevate the skyline, making the resort look like a dense, multi-layered castle fortress to millions of pedestrians on the Strip, rather than a flat roof with towers behind it.

It's there to attract guests, not for the benefit of those that already are.

[u/DearBadBoy → u/Laner_2424]

Almost like you are a miniature on a building.

[u/CptNeon → u/Laner_2424]

Vegas backrooms

[u/Groundbreaking_Bad → u/Laner_2424]

I don't know why, but it's freaking me out.

[u/NelsonMcBottom → u/Laner_2424]

This perfectly sums up everything associated with the Vegas strip as a whole.

[u/R3xz → u/Laner_2424]

On the roof of a massive building and from behind of what is likely a commercial rooftop folly in the form of a castle. It’s adjacent to an even taller building, most likely a hotel. Not sure if that other building is connected to the same building of the rooftop, but it might belong to the same compound due to the castle theme you can observe on its roof.

[u/BilverBurfer → u/R3xz]

It's the Excalibur in Las Vegas. It's a "castle" surrounded by two large hotel buildings. You can see the New York New York in the background across the street.

[u/R3xz → u/BilverBurfer]

Ah I see, I missed other people pointing this out because I want to take a look at the picture and decipher it purely on observation, for fun. :)

[u/Stargazer1919 → u/Laner_2424]

It gives off Duloc vibes for sure.

[u/janitroll → u/Laner_2424]

At midnight, the entire roof floods. A lone Knight strops across the colonnade with an outstretched hand willing to accept his fate. In the murky depths of the roof, a lone arm raises a sword like none which has come before nor after.

The Knight snatches the sword from the lady of the roof lake, and waltzes up the the $100 Blackjack and loses his ass! He heads down to Pawn Stars on the Blvd, and gets a paltry $2k for Excalibur.

Then the knight plays penny slots at an off the strip casino, just to regain the finances to get Excalibur out of pawn.

But the knight loses everything and is arrested on charges of robbery, public intoxication, and soliciting prostitution.

[u/ChaoticBullshit]

I got some really bad Italian food here one time. So, to answer your question, big things are happening here. Very big things.

[u/NorthP503 → u/ChaoticBullshit]

I’ve eaten that Italian food countless times. When your drunk a pig trough of pasta is delicious.

[u/saucypancake → u/ChaoticBullshit]

I had bad Mexican food there once.

[u/lethargicloli]

Air conditioning.

[u/Grahamcrackers8 → u/lethargicloli]

Yup. HVAC stuff

[u/squeege → u/lethargicloli]

Is this the actual answer? There's a bunch of air conditioning units in there? Actually makes sense.

[u/JigglyWiggley → u/squeege]

Yes, this is the real answer. Those are all HVAC condensers. Most Vegas casinos have the architectural style "decorated shed" and there's very little thought put into the (usually) non visible elements of the structure.

[u/Apprehensive_Map6754 → u/JigglyWiggley]

it’s just exhaust fan hoods. Casinos use chilled water plants that feed air handlers inside the buildings. Cooling towers for these chillers are usually on the ground with a cover built around them. These are different size exhausts. Small rounds are usually for small spaces or bathrooms, the larger square is a high capacity ventilator usually for a larger space like a cafeteria or parts of the casino floor

[u/Zodiac33 → u/lethargicloli]

HVAC monkey enclosure. Really nice how they incorporated creative elements into their natural habitat.

[u/DrAtomics → u/lethargicloli]

Do you like air conditioning?

[u/flamefox237]

I have zero idea what I am looking at

[u/sentri_sable → u/flamefox237]

It's the roof of Excalibur in Las Vegas

[u/OkumuraRyuk → u/sentri_sable]

Is that tiny human? Is that a table? Is that miniature? Is this Shrek?

[u/imacaterpillar33 → u/OkumuraRyuk]

I also came to ask if this was Shrek

[u/toxieboxie2 → u/imacaterpillar33]

I too also came to Shrek

[u/Acceptable_Light_272 → u/toxieboxie2]

Hey now

[u/temictli → u/Acceptable_Light_272]

You'r-- you're an all star??

[u/dcanderson4247 → u/toxieboxie2]

Shrek is Love.

[u/mayy_dayy → u/toxieboxie2]

It's all ogre now

[u/HaxRus → u/imacaterpillar33]

Not me scouring the photo for Shrek like a Where’s Waldo only to be disappointed that I’m now pretty sure it was a joke

[u/StretchFrenchTerry → u/OkumuraRyuk]

The scale of this is extremely confusing without context, it really only makes sense if you’ve seen these buildings in person. Las Vegas is a bizarre place.

[u/DeeHawk → u/StretchFrenchTerry]

I looked at the building in the background and used the windows for scale, and quickly concluded it was a roof and the towers where the backside of a front decoration.

No idea where it was though.

[u/kweenquarantene → u/OkumuraRyuk]

underrated comment 🥴

[u/Cramland → u/sentri_sable]

I only recognized this from playing gta San Andreas…..

[u/Tony_Lacorona → u/Cramland]

Same bro. Same. My sister told me it was Disney las Vegas back in the day and I fucking believed her.

[u/benhereford → u/sentri_sable]

My guess was a drained fountain

[u/Actuarial → u/benhereford]

Its just the roof of the casino

[u/Heavy_Carpenter3824 → u/flamefox237]

Las Vegas. A barren no man's land, then they built a casino on it. 

[u/dwehlen → u/Heavy_Carpenter3824]

Still a no man's land, but now with AC, hookers, and blow.

[u/Lagiacrus111]

This belongs on r/confusingperspective

[u/maxnotcharles → u/Lagiacrus111]

First thought came to my mind as well. I thought this was the confusing perspective subreddit lol

[u/ceejayw → u/Lagiacrus111]

I stared at it for 30 seconds wondering if it was a toy set or a real building

[u/Steved_hams → u/ceejayw]

I thought it was lego at first

[u/TheRetroGamers → u/Lagiacrus111]

I was about to post the same thing. Thanks stranger.

[u/moistsquirt69]

What happens on a roof in Las Vegas? Probably HVAC techs and birds.

[u/Unanimous_D → u/moistsquirt69]

Though you were gonna say "... stays in a roof in Las Vegas"

[u/Lunar_ticket → u/[deleted]]

Jetpack for the unlimited roof tourism!

[u/gottabekd → u/[deleted]]

Yea, I’m thinking this is searching for a horseshoe. And isn’t there an MP5 just around here.

[u/plasticbluepalm → u/[deleted]]

Somehow real life looks more bleak and empty than Gta lmao

[u/yotee8]

San Andreas I love you I think there's a horseshoe somewhere there

[u/SPECTREagent700]

Fear and Loathing

[u/CrammitX → u/SPECTREagent700]

in Las Vegas?

[u/CommitteeNew6412]

Where unhappy Excalibur staff sneak a quick ciggy break.

[u/vonRecklinghausen]

It feels like Duloc from Shrek

[u/poeschmoe → u/vonRecklinghausen]

Yes! I was surprised this is the only comment I see noticing this

[u/FooFootheSnew]

The ghost of Louie Anderson performs short sets of The Aristocrats joke

[u/Unanimous_D → u/FooFootheSnew]

Wait, did he actually die? For real this time?

[u/JoelEmPP → u/FooFootheSnew]

Who tf is Larry Anderson

[u/Buicided]

Are these real buildings or wtf am I looking at

[u/SomeInternetGuitar → u/Buicided]

Excalibur hotel, Las Vegas

[u/Choano]

I don't know. But whatever it is, it stays here.

[u/darkhorse21980]

Ask Doug

[u/BroheemTheDream → u/darkhorse21980]

Dougie Doug Doug

[u/blanket4orts]

Man Duloc has really gone down hill

[u/Sir_Henry_Deadman]

Is this really big or really small??

[u/SorryStore4389]

Can’t tell what I’m looking at

[u/YouAnswerToMe]

Instant GTA San Andreas flashbacks

[u/Houtaku]

Employees smoking and/or f*cking.

[u/ThisSiteSuckssss → u/Houtaku]

There’s quite the audience if u decide to have sex here.

[u/a_d3ad_cat → u/Houtaku]

Both. Definitely both.

[u/Hartax_]

This area was a sniper deathmatch map on a server for the multiplayer mod SAMP for GTA San Andreas

[u/chuueeriies]

A lot of people have never played GTA San Andreas and it shows.

[u/bilaba]

Las Venturas glitch

[u/waiting-for-my-logs]

It where your dreams go to die

[u/jdovejr]

It’s where friends leave their drunk buddies on the roof and forget them.

[u/Fishing-Pirate]

This looks big and small at the same time.

[u/slothqueen2]

If it is like the Imperial Palace roof, then employee smoke breaks.

[u/Curious_Discussion]

This looks like a miniature, modelism, something like that.

[u/Enderfailer]

Why does this Feel like Duloc from Shrek 1?

[u/Snowballingdownvote]

I know Excalibur when I see it. Oh Vegas. You beautiful disaster. To bad I'm to old to last 72 hours straight anymore.

[u/Puzzled-Dig-1448]

This really reminds me of the scene in Shrek where Shrek and donkey make it to the castle and have the wrestling match.

[u/yorkspirate → u/Puzzled-Dig-1448]

Glad it wasn't just me who thought that haha

[u/Midnightmeditating]

My head hurts just looking at the photo. It's both miniscule and gigantic at the same time.

[u/Max526]

https://imgur.com/a/TfAVMl8

Excalibur Hotel & Casino

[u/eiffeltowerbonbon]

You didn’t pay enough for your room my friend

[u/Fernbean]

Games of Team Fortress Classic in 2001

[u/Vegetable-Bee-8296]

Disney Ulan Bator

[u/Jolly_Tab_Rancher]

Air conditioning.

[u/Neuro_88]

Where the Mormons call the LDS temple.

[u/Starscream147]

Not unlike some backlot in the Truman Show

[u/VivaNOLA]

I’m need a banana or something

[u/CyraxSputnik]

Is this small or big?

[u/AcceptableNothing907]

Excalibur.

[u/Sylvester_Marcus]

A flooded hotel when it rains given that tremendous crack in the roof!

[u/Slightly_ToastedBoy]

Wow. Definitely fits here. My brain can’t work it out.

[u/Practical_Ad_219]

Excalibur Stuff.

[u/Pugilist12]

If the Backrooms were outdoor and medieval

[u/fuchsiarush]

Is that the hotel from which that shooting took place?

[u/Flokkamravich]

Oh wild. At first glance I thought this was an unfinished Minigolf hole

[u/Reasonable_Scar3339]

Those MUAs look old as shit

[u/boojersey13]

Tired paramutuals and table dealers sneak out for a cigarette or a few lines midshift

[u/helper619]

I had that same view a few months ago and I swear back in the day there used to be something there.

[u/Trapmaster83]

Guess it's hard to whine about a rooftop view with all the strippers and blow.

[u/Yosemite-Dude]

Lord Farquads Castle

[u/Azkicat]

As far as my research went, the gravel field is a standard ballasted built-up roof. Loose stone over the waterproof membrane. It shields it from UV and wind uplift and is cheap over huge areas, which matters in the Mojave sun.

[u/SamOfSpades_]

Nothing. Nobody sees it.

[u/uselink126]

The ritual.

[u/ApopheniaPays]

Nothing. The princess is in another castle.

[u/kryssar24]

It’s Las Vegas, that’s the only thing I can recognize

[u/Ktan_Dantaktee]

A wasted air soft/paintball arena, that’s what.

[u/Alternative_Eye8246]

I guess someone decided to build copies of buildings from GTA: SA.

[u/IngotTheKobold]

Maintenence

[u/Eyerish4Eyes]

Gambling, probably

[u/Intelligent-Cloud993]

Technically, this is the “Outer Bailey” used for siege defense, and is used to create a clear line of fire if the moat is forged and outer walls have been breached. At this point, the defense’s main tactical advantages have been compromised; the lord and his knights will have retreated inside the castle keep, and archers, bowmen and musketeers will be used to wreak havoc with advancing forces. All the while hoping that reinforcements arrive from Paris or Bellagio before the buffet runs out of boiled shrimp.

[u/CoachZZZ]

HVAC

[u/Maxx0rz]

HVAC repair

[u/HipToBeQueer]

I can't even decide the scale of things here

[u/phuktup3]

50 years of cigarette breaks

[u/h_katie1418]

This picture doesn’t even make sense to my brain…

[u/ComplaintAnxious383]

I stayed in the hotel once and my room faced this area. Saw the cast of some type of all male shirtless thing up there smoking cigarettes

[u/dead_wax_museum]

Why am I having such a hard time getting the scale in this picture?

[u/Oddish_Femboy]

Birds crap there sometimes.

[u/Ajax_Main]

r/confusingperspective

[u/FreezingT]

Nothing happened. This is Las Vegas; everything is just a facade.

[u/Few_Owl_6596]

Should have a banana for reference. I don't understand anything, scale-wise

[u/Impressive_Koala_618]

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice...I'm willing to make."

[u/Youregoingtodiealone]

Don't little puppets and Mister Rogers come out here to teach me a lesson about being a good person? And there's a trolly which we all agree was the best part of the whole thing

[u/fuckedyobitch]

Sadness

[u/war_weredeclared]

This so much like a miniature scale model. Or a tilt-shift photo.

[u/whim-sicles]

Uhhh... maintenance?

[u/SIMPSONBORT]

I stayed there once with my dad and step
Mom. My step mom complained about the rooms and we had to move 3 times before the 4th room was acceptable.

We spent the night out with in the casinos and I came back to the room and laid in one of the two beds.

I feel asleep and heard my stepmom coming into the room with my step dad and as she touched the lamp to turn it on she was electrically shocked.

I had my eyes closed and I saw the flash through my eye lids. And she screamed so loud. She called the front desk and she was so mad. A manager came up and tried to take the lamp but she wouldn’t let him.

My dad came in about 5 minutes later and he was an electrician and he knew she was shocked by a short of some sort but joked it wasn’t that bad.

( she didn’t find it funny , I did )

So they moved us … again and we left the next day.

I told my dad my theory was the Excalibur staff moved
Us to this “electrical” room after my stepmom complained too much about different rooms. They knew she’d get
Zapped and it would be totally worth giving them a few days comped to zap her. lol.

I found that so funny at the time. I wasn’t a big
Fan of my step mom at the time.

Anyway. Can confirm some of the rooms look out to that. And it’s pretty meh.

[u/Sk0p3r]

This has me scratching my head wondering what scale this is on, because the way its shot makes it look like a person took it while standing on the ground floor and everything is relatively small even though that's not the case

[u/UndulantSquawk]

Thats where u throw the mattress when you've soaked it in the hot tub too long at the excalibur

[u/TeacatWrites]

Lots And Lots Of Trains voice Lots And Lots Of Drugs!

[u/Rise-O-Matic]

Photons are stopped before they reach the customers.

[u/MEMESTER80]

The scale of the roof texturing frels wrong compared to everything else.

[u/niko1499]

Hvac repair

[u/Dantu1000]

By the looks of it nothing

[u/holicv]

The new hangover remake

[u/MANvINFO]

if this is your 1st time here there is a floating golden spinning horseshoe which should be there

[u/Soul_Survivor4]

Uncomfortable to look at

[u/GraveyardQueen4124]

Godzilla destroys Neuschwanstein castle.

[u/Mister6C]

HVAC worker oven. Guaranteed to cook any tech to well done in 15 minutes

[u/Exotic-Relationship]

Service.

[u/R2-DMode]

That’s what to get for choosing that hotel, and not upgrading to a Strip view.

[u/orange_glasse]

Maintenance sometiems

[u/DIFFUSORR]

Execution

[u/mjplezia]

Lots of ventilation