Las Vegas Tourism - Travel to Las Vegas
Looking south along the Strip from the Venetian casino-hotel in Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, is known as Sin City. Situated in the midst of the southern Nevada desert landscape, Las Vegas in many ways epitomizes American excess. Giant mega-casino hotels are built almost overnight, decorated with lavish care and attention to create a fantasy-like atmosphere. The casinos have names that evoke romance and mystery - Luxor, Mandalay Bay, Rio, The Excalibur, the Flamingo.
Las Vegas is a playland for people from all walks of life.
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Get into Las Vegas
Travel to Las Vegas By car
Southern Californians crowd Interstate 15 every weekend going back and forth to Vegas. Expect this drive to be crowded and frustrating, unless you can come and go at off-peak hours.
Travel to Las Vegas By Bus
Greyhound operates buses from Salt Lake City, Utah, Kingman, Arizona, and Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas.
By Air
McCarran International Airport is served by many domestic air carriers. There are several shuttles that operate between the airport and the Strip.
By "Rail"
A daily bus route from Needles, California to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, with a stop in Laughlin, Nevada, is operated in concert with Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Amtrak California's San Joaquins route operates 2 buses daily to Las Vegas from Bakersfield, California as part of its service.
See Las Vegas
- Hoover Dam
- The Grand Canyon - numerous companies offer flights to and from the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas.
- The casino-hotels along the strip.
- Fremont Street Experience
- Star Trek: The Experience in the Hilton - though frankly, unless you're a big Star Trek fan, it looks a little dated now.
- Guggenheim Las Vegas in The Venetian
Do Las Vegas
- Cirque du Soleil
- Gamble
- Fire sub-machine guns at The Gun Store on East Tropicana Avenue (http://www.thegunstorelasvegas.com/ )
Buy
- Forum Shops at Caesar's Palace
- Designer shops in The Venetian, including the tacky objets d'art shop featured in Martin Bashir's interview with Michael Jackson.
- More affordable (and arguably more tasteful) gift shops in the Aladdin.
Eat - Travel to Las Vegas
Food in Las Vegas is, unfortunately, either very pricey or very mediocre. Many casinos offer low-cost all-you-can-eat buffets as a way of getting people into the casino. The buffet at the Bellagio is fairly expensive but has a variety of good food (including crab legs and bison).
- Bally's Sidewalk Cafe. Really bad food.
Drink
In Las Vegas, you can generally drink inexpensively if you also gamble. At the blackjack table of when playing slots, you can lose your shirt while drinking beer for the cost of the tip. There are, of course, bars that will happily serve you wonderful signature drinks.
- Nefertiti's Lounge, at the Luxor. They specialize in 36-inch Sphinx margaritas and glasses made in the shape of mummy cases (they make nice vases after the fact).
- Venus Lounge, at the Venetian. Pricey but enjoyable for a couple of quick cocktails.
- Double Down Saloon, 4640 Paradise Road, 791-5775. A bit out of the way but plenty of atmosphere and out of the casinos if that's your thing.
Sleep - Las Vegas Tourism
- Luxor Resort and Casino, 3900 Las Vegas Blvd. So., 262-4100.
Contact
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