Live! Casino & Hotel gets ‘4 Diamond’ hotel rating

Money from video slot machines at Maryland's Live! Casino in Anne Arundel Mills will fund an eviction protection program for residents whose income has been affected by the coronavirus crisis.(Courtesy Live! Casino & Hotel/Courtesy Cordish Companies)
Live! Hotel, which opened two years ago, opens to the casino floor and is attached to a shopping mall. (Courtesy Live! Casino & Hotel/Courtesy Cordish Cos.)

Live! Casino & Hotel at Arundel Mills in Maryland has new hotel bragging rights after landing AAA’s “4 Diamond” rating.

While it is one diamond short of AAA’s top hotel rating, only 6.3% of hotels in North America visited by AAA inspectors earn the “4 Diamond” rating.

AAA defines its “4 Diamond” rating as “refined and stylish with upscale physical attributes, extensive amenities and a high degree of hospitality, service and attention to detail.”

Live! Hotel, which opened last year, opens to the casino floor and is attached to a shopping mall. The 310 rooms include some two-bedroom suites.

Live! Hotel, at 17-stories, is the tallest building in Anne Arundel County. The hotel was part of owner and developer Cordish Cos,’ larger, $200 million expansion at Live!, which also included a new concert venue.

There are 10 other “4 Diamond Hotels” in Maryland on AAA’s 2019 list, including Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center and MGM National Harbor.

The D.C. metro area has 19 “4 Diamond Hotels” on AAA’s 2019 list and four “5 Diamond” Hotels.

Only 0.4% of more than 27,000 hotels inspected by AAA across North America have a “5 Diamond” rating.

Live! Hotel was notified of its “4 Diamond” ranking this month, and will be added to AAA’s 2020 list of properties inspected this year when it is released in January.

See all of AAA’s Diamond Rewards.

Jeff Clabaugh

Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for WTOP as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the WTOP newsroom staff in January 2016.

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