How to Get Around in Las Vegas

How to get around in Las Vegas

The only two modes of transportation that are not going to work are boats and trains. Otherwise, the field is wide open.

• Do use the 2-decker buses that run up and down the strip.
• Do use the monorail if you're going to the Las Vegas Convention Center and your hotel is close to one of its stops. (See Las Vegas Hotels Map .)
• Do use hotel provide shuttle services TO the airport, if provided and available.
• Do use hotel shuttle FROM the airport in the Fall, Winter and Spring only.
• Do take a taxi or limo , rent a car or drive if you brought your own when going off strip, for say over a mile away.
• Do take a helicopter tour of the strip at night.
• Do tour the Grand Canyon by helicopter or bus or private auto ( Las Vegas tours ).
• Do take an early tour of Hoover Dam , and don't forget your camera.
• Do visit Red Rock Canyon or Valley of Fire, take some sun screen along, regardless of your skin tone, and bottled water.
• Don't use hotel provide shuttle service FROM the airport in the Summer months, unless you like baking in the heat waiting for your shuttle to arrive.
• Don't use public transportation unless you have to and have an awful lot of time to waste.
• Don't walk under the Nevada sun for more than a block or two in the summer months.
• Don't wander off more than a mile or so from the strip. Those areas are not unsafe, but there's nothing there interesting to see.
• Don't take a walk behind the Stratosphere Tower on its west side, ever.
• Don't wonder off, especially at night, if you're staying downtown. Stay in the business district (where all of the downtown hotel-casinos are clustered together.)
• Don't compete in the game of road-rage played out on Las Vegas streets and freeways. Do let the idiot have it his way.