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Tours in Las Vegas |
Wynn Las Vegas
Erected on the spot where once stood the legendary Desert Inn, one of Las Vegas' newest landmarks is the glamorous Wynn Las Vegas. The latest property developed by Vegas casino kingpin Steve Wynn opened its doors in April 2005. Sheathed in coppery bronze reflecting the desert sun, this 42-storey, 78-hectare (192-acre), US$2.7 billion megaresort boasts a 10,000-sq-m (110,000-sq-ft) casino, 2,700 guest rooms, an 18-hole professionally designed golf course, a fine art gallery and Las Vegas' only fully authorised Ferrari-Maserati dealership. The centrepiece of the resort is a 46m- (150ft-) high mountain with a five-storey waterfall cascading into a man-made lake featuring The Lake of Dreams, a multimedia spectacular in an environmental theatre setting. The Wynn also features a US$70m, 2,000-seat domed showroom with a circular stage, the first of its kind in the city and the home of Le Reve, the latest production from Franco Dragone, of Cirque du Soleil fame and the mastermind behind three of Las Vegas' most popular shows. The resort will also boast close to 5,000 rooms with the scheduled completion of Encore, a 2,000-suite tower, in 2009.
3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 770 7000 or 1 877 321 9966.
Website: www.wynnlasvegas.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Bellagio
The Bellagio has quickly become one of Las Vegas' best-known and most visited hotel-casinos. Cashing in on the recent trend towards Euro-opulence, the Bellagio sits on its own four-hectare (10-acre) ‘oasis', featuring a mock northern Italian village on the shore, behind which looms the bulking mass of the large hotel. The hotel offers 3,200 rooms and suites (see Hotels), 17 restaurants, six lounges, botanical gardens and six Mediterranean pool settings. Its 9,000-sq-m (100,000-sq-ft) casino features over 2,000 slot machines and electronic games and over 100 table games. The Bellagio also has a fine art gallery, which hosts contemporary art exhibits, as well as a 9,000-sq-m (100,000-sq-ft) glass-encased shopping mall. A popular attraction is the dancing water show from the Bellagio's world-famous fountains every 30 minutes Monday to Friday 1500-2000 (starts at 1200 on Saturday and Sunday) and every 15 minutes from 2000-2400.
3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 693 7111 or 1 888 987 6667.
Website: www.bellagio.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino); admission charge (art gallery).
Fremont Street and The Fremont Street Experience
Located Downtown, near the Plaza Hotel, Fremont Street is a favourite nightly flocking ground for the city's many tourists. Ten casinos, over 60 restaurants and countless bars and lounges offer Old Las Vegas style enticement to visitors. Peddlers sell silver jewellery and various crafts from their pushcart stalls by day and especially at night, when Fremont Street comes alive with The Fremont Street Experience. Perched nearly 30m (90ft) above Fremont Street is a hi-tech overhead light and sound show stretching for five blocks over 425m (1,400ft) composed of one of the world's largest and longest LED screens. The Experience is an ideal way to take in the 'real' Las Vegas and see some of her older and well-known neon signs, for example Glitter Gulch's Vegas Vickie and the equally recognisable Vegas Vic. Fremont Street is open 24 hours with shows starting at 2030 and from then running hourly between 2100 and 2400. A particular hit for those travelling with families.
Fremont Street Experience
425 Fremont Street
Tel: (702) 678 5777.
Website: www.vegasexperience.com
Opening hours: Fremont Street is open 24 hours.
Free admission (street and show).
MGM Grand
Since its completion in 1993, the momentous MGM Grand has held the title of largest hotel in the world, with over 5,005 rooms. Its enormous Grand Garden Arena has also become one of the key venues for boxing matches in the USA. The casino area alone is 15,300 sq m (170,000 sq ft). Other features include 15 restaurants, a coffee shop, a food court with five lounges, two showrooms, two wedding chapels, five pools including a flowing river pool, a lion habitat, a dance club and shopping complex. The MGM Grand is also a main terminal station for the Las Vegas Monorail.
3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 891 7777 or 1 877 880 0880.
Website: www.mgmgrand.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours (hotel and casino); daily 1100-2200 (lion habitat).
Free admission (hotel, casino and lion habitat).
Caesars Palace
An old denizen of the Strip, Caesars Palace possesses more Las Vegas character than many of its newer neighbours. It sits in a lavish Roman setting, perhaps the historical theme best suited to this city of excess, with Roman columns, grand staircases, manicured shrubbery, imported marble statuary and luxuriant fountains. Its two main casinos, measuring a total of 12,050 sq m (129,750 sq ft), feature all the regular games, as well as an ‘empire' of slot machines that feature prizes such as motorcycles and convertible cars, and jackpots that have reached more than US$21 million. Recent additions to the Caesars Palace property include the Colosseum, a high-limit slot salon The Palace Court Slot Casino and the all-suites Augustus Tower.
3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 731 7110 or 1 866 227 5938.
Website: www.caesarspalace.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Mirage
Of all the mega-casinos that line the Strip, the Mirage provides the biggest outdoor spectacle. The evening sees queues of people taking in the artificial volcano that erupts every 15 minutes from 1900-2400. The setting is completed by an artificial lagoon with 54 artificial waterfalls that flow down the side of the volcano. As visitors make their way inside, they enter an indoor tropical rainforest, a dolphin habitat and a saltwater tropical aquarium. The hotel also boasts a pool and spa, eight restaurants, four lounge bar areas, a white tiger habitat, its famed Shadow Creek golf course and the requisite casino, which features over 2,000 slot machines.
3400 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 791 7111 or 1 800 374 9000.
Website: www.mirage.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino
This US$2 billion addition to Las Vegas is yet another complex to cash in on a European theme. To some, it was a tragedy to see the demolition of the historic Sands Hotel and Casino to make way for this hotel but no effort was spared in creating the Venetian. Much of the complex features actual canals, on which gondolas carry visitors up and down the waterways. The 10,800-sq-m (120,000-sq-ft) casino, featuring 2,500 slot machines and 122 table games, sits behind a replica of the Doge's Palace. The complex's 18 restaurants, four pools and a fitness centre cater to the visitor's non-gambling whims.
3355 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 414 1000 or 1 877 883 6423.
Website: www.venetian.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
The Palazzo Las Vegas
This US$1.6 billion, 53-storey extension of the Venetian boasts 3,025 suites, 375 concierge-level suites, six self-contained villas and a variety of designer restaurants, bars and clubs including the third location of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club. Together with the Venetian and the Sands Expo Center, the Palazzo is the largest resort complex in the world. Home to the Strip's first underground parking garage, the Palazzo is also the first of Las Vegas's new generation of ultra-compact resorts, and will serve as a precedent for the hotels in Project Citycenter and Echelon Place to come.
3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Tel: (702) 414 4300 or 1 866 263 3001.
Website: www.palazzolasvegas.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Las Vegas Natural History Museum
The Las Vegas Natural History Museum brings the natural world of local Nevada wildlife to life, as well as ancient dinosaurs, marine life and more, through exhibits, displays and live exhibitions. The museum's dinosaur exhibit features mechanical dinosaurs, including a 10m- (35ft-) long Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as the exhibits detailing the evolution of life from fish to dinosaurs. The Wild Nevada Room explores the surprising diversity of life from the state's own Mojave Desert. Replicas include rattlesnake, bighorn sheep, desert tortoises and burrowing rodents. The museum also has live animals on display, such as a gopher snake, a tarantula, a boa constrictor and scorpions.
900 Las Vegas Boulevard North, Downtown
Tel: (702) 384 3466.
Website: www.lvnhm.org
Opening hours: Daily 0900-1600.
Admission charge.
Erected on the spot where once stood the legendary Desert Inn, one of Las Vegas' newest landmarks is the glamorous Wynn Las Vegas. The latest property developed by Vegas casino kingpin Steve Wynn opened its doors in April 2005. Sheathed in coppery bronze reflecting the desert sun, this 42-storey, 78-hectare (192-acre), US$2.7 billion megaresort boasts a 10,000-sq-m (110,000-sq-ft) casino, 2,700 guest rooms, an 18-hole professionally designed golf course, a fine art gallery and Las Vegas' only fully authorised Ferrari-Maserati dealership. The centrepiece of the resort is a 46m- (150ft-) high mountain with a five-storey waterfall cascading into a man-made lake featuring The Lake of Dreams, a multimedia spectacular in an environmental theatre setting. The Wynn also features a US$70m, 2,000-seat domed showroom with a circular stage, the first of its kind in the city and the home of Le Reve, the latest production from Franco Dragone, of Cirque du Soleil fame and the mastermind behind three of Las Vegas' most popular shows. The resort will also boast close to 5,000 rooms with the scheduled completion of Encore, a 2,000-suite tower, in 2009.
3131 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 770 7000 or 1 877 321 9966.
Website: www.wynnlasvegas.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Bellagio
The Bellagio has quickly become one of Las Vegas' best-known and most visited hotel-casinos. Cashing in on the recent trend towards Euro-opulence, the Bellagio sits on its own four-hectare (10-acre) ‘oasis', featuring a mock northern Italian village on the shore, behind which looms the bulking mass of the large hotel. The hotel offers 3,200 rooms and suites (see Hotels), 17 restaurants, six lounges, botanical gardens and six Mediterranean pool settings. Its 9,000-sq-m (100,000-sq-ft) casino features over 2,000 slot machines and electronic games and over 100 table games. The Bellagio also has a fine art gallery, which hosts contemporary art exhibits, as well as a 9,000-sq-m (100,000-sq-ft) glass-encased shopping mall. A popular attraction is the dancing water show from the Bellagio's world-famous fountains every 30 minutes Monday to Friday 1500-2000 (starts at 1200 on Saturday and Sunday) and every 15 minutes from 2000-2400.
3600 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 693 7111 or 1 888 987 6667.
Website: www.bellagio.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino); admission charge (art gallery).
Fremont Street and The Fremont Street Experience
Located Downtown, near the Plaza Hotel, Fremont Street is a favourite nightly flocking ground for the city's many tourists. Ten casinos, over 60 restaurants and countless bars and lounges offer Old Las Vegas style enticement to visitors. Peddlers sell silver jewellery and various crafts from their pushcart stalls by day and especially at night, when Fremont Street comes alive with The Fremont Street Experience. Perched nearly 30m (90ft) above Fremont Street is a hi-tech overhead light and sound show stretching for five blocks over 425m (1,400ft) composed of one of the world's largest and longest LED screens. The Experience is an ideal way to take in the 'real' Las Vegas and see some of her older and well-known neon signs, for example Glitter Gulch's Vegas Vickie and the equally recognisable Vegas Vic. Fremont Street is open 24 hours with shows starting at 2030 and from then running hourly between 2100 and 2400. A particular hit for those travelling with families.
Fremont Street Experience
425 Fremont Street
Tel: (702) 678 5777.
Website: www.vegasexperience.com
Opening hours: Fremont Street is open 24 hours.
Free admission (street and show).
MGM Grand
Since its completion in 1993, the momentous MGM Grand has held the title of largest hotel in the world, with over 5,005 rooms. Its enormous Grand Garden Arena has also become one of the key venues for boxing matches in the USA. The casino area alone is 15,300 sq m (170,000 sq ft). Other features include 15 restaurants, a coffee shop, a food court with five lounges, two showrooms, two wedding chapels, five pools including a flowing river pool, a lion habitat, a dance club and shopping complex. The MGM Grand is also a main terminal station for the Las Vegas Monorail.
3799 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 891 7777 or 1 877 880 0880.
Website: www.mgmgrand.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours (hotel and casino); daily 1100-2200 (lion habitat).
Free admission (hotel, casino and lion habitat).
Caesars Palace
An old denizen of the Strip, Caesars Palace possesses more Las Vegas character than many of its newer neighbours. It sits in a lavish Roman setting, perhaps the historical theme best suited to this city of excess, with Roman columns, grand staircases, manicured shrubbery, imported marble statuary and luxuriant fountains. Its two main casinos, measuring a total of 12,050 sq m (129,750 sq ft), feature all the regular games, as well as an ‘empire' of slot machines that feature prizes such as motorcycles and convertible cars, and jackpots that have reached more than US$21 million. Recent additions to the Caesars Palace property include the Colosseum, a high-limit slot salon The Palace Court Slot Casino and the all-suites Augustus Tower.
3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 731 7110 or 1 866 227 5938.
Website: www.caesarspalace.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Mirage
Of all the mega-casinos that line the Strip, the Mirage provides the biggest outdoor spectacle. The evening sees queues of people taking in the artificial volcano that erupts every 15 minutes from 1900-2400. The setting is completed by an artificial lagoon with 54 artificial waterfalls that flow down the side of the volcano. As visitors make their way inside, they enter an indoor tropical rainforest, a dolphin habitat and a saltwater tropical aquarium. The hotel also boasts a pool and spa, eight restaurants, four lounge bar areas, a white tiger habitat, its famed Shadow Creek golf course and the requisite casino, which features over 2,000 slot machines.
3400 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 791 7111 or 1 800 374 9000.
Website: www.mirage.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino
This US$2 billion addition to Las Vegas is yet another complex to cash in on a European theme. To some, it was a tragedy to see the demolition of the historic Sands Hotel and Casino to make way for this hotel but no effort was spared in creating the Venetian. Much of the complex features actual canals, on which gondolas carry visitors up and down the waterways. The 10,800-sq-m (120,000-sq-ft) casino, featuring 2,500 slot machines and 122 table games, sits behind a replica of the Doge's Palace. The complex's 18 restaurants, four pools and a fitness centre cater to the visitor's non-gambling whims.
3355 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Tel: (702) 414 1000 or 1 877 883 6423.
Website: www.venetian.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
The Palazzo Las Vegas
This US$1.6 billion, 53-storey extension of the Venetian boasts 3,025 suites, 375 concierge-level suites, six self-contained villas and a variety of designer restaurants, bars and clubs including the third location of Jay-Z's 40/40 Club. Together with the Venetian and the Sands Expo Center, the Palazzo is the largest resort complex in the world. Home to the Strip's first underground parking garage, the Palazzo is also the first of Las Vegas's new generation of ultra-compact resorts, and will serve as a precedent for the hotels in Project Citycenter and Echelon Place to come.
3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Tel: (702) 414 4300 or 1 866 263 3001.
Website: www.palazzolasvegas.com
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Free admission (hotel and casino).
Las Vegas Natural History Museum
The Las Vegas Natural History Museum brings the natural world of local Nevada wildlife to life, as well as ancient dinosaurs, marine life and more, through exhibits, displays and live exhibitions. The museum's dinosaur exhibit features mechanical dinosaurs, including a 10m- (35ft-) long Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as the exhibits detailing the evolution of life from fish to dinosaurs. The Wild Nevada Room explores the surprising diversity of life from the state's own Mojave Desert. Replicas include rattlesnake, bighorn sheep, desert tortoises and burrowing rodents. The museum also has live animals on display, such as a gopher snake, a tarantula, a boa constrictor and scorpions.
900 Las Vegas Boulevard North, Downtown
Tel: (702) 384 3466.
Website: www.lvnhm.org
Opening hours: Daily 0900-1600.
Admission charge.
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