Consolidated Statements of Operations (USD $) In Thousands, except Share data, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Dec. 31, 2009
Revenues:
Casino	$ 7,437,002	$ 5,533,088	$ 3,524,798
Rooms	1,000,035	797,499	657,783
Food and beverage	598,823	446,558	327,699
Mall	325,123	186,617	137,290
Convention, retail and other	501,351	354,175	281,874
Gross revenue	9,862,334	7,317,937	4,929,444
Less promotional allowances	(451,589)	(464,755)	(366,339)
Net revenues	9,410,745	6,853,182	4,563,105
Operating expenses:
Casino	4,007,887	3,249,227	2,349,422
Rooms	210,052	143,326	121,097
Food and beverage	307,446	207,956	165,977
Mall	59,183	43,771	32,697
Convention, retail and other	338,109	230,907	207,680
Provision for doubtful accounts	150,456	97,762	103,802
General and administrative	836,924	683,298	526,199
Corporate expense	185,694	108,848	132,098
Rental expense	43,366	41,302	29,899
Pre-opening expense	65,825	114,833	157,731
Development expense	11,309	1,783	533
Depreciation and amortization	794,404	694,971	586,041
Impairment loss	0	16,057	169,468
Loss on disposal of assets	10,203	38,555	9,201
Total operating expenses	7,020,858	5,672,596	4,591,845
Operating income (loss)	2,389,887	1,180,586	(28,740)
Other income (expense):
Interest income	14,394	8,947	11,122
Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized	(282,949)	(306,813)	(321,870)
Other expense	(3,955)	(8,260)	(9,891)
Loss on modification or early retirement of debt	(22,554)	(18,555)	(23,248)
Income (loss) before income taxes	2,094,823	855,905	(372,627)
Income tax benefit (expense)	(211,704)	(74,302)	3,884
Net income (loss)	1,883,119	781,603	(368,743)
Net (income) loss attributable to noncontrolling interests	(322,996)	(182,209)	14,264
Net income (loss) attributable to Las Vegas Sands Corp.	1,560,123	599,394	(354,479)
Preferred stock dividends	(63,924)	(92,807)	(93,026)
Accretion to redemption value of preferred stock issued to Principal Stockholder's family	(80,975)	(92,545)	(92,545)
Preferred stock inducement, repurchase and redemption premiums	(145,716)	(6,579)
Net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders	$ 1,269,508	$ 407,463	$ (540,050)
Basic earnings (loss) per share	$ 1.74	$ 0.61	$ (0.82)
Diluted earnings (loss) per share	$ 1.56	$ 0.51	$ (0.82)
Weighted average shares outstanding:
Basic	728,343,428	667,463,535	656,836,950
Diluted	811,816,687	791,760,624	656,836,950