Big Bus Las Vegas: Sightseeing Night Tour by Open-Top Bus
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From $59 per person
What a Las Vegas Night Tour Costs in 2026
Short answer. Fares run from $59 to $749.50, and the fare is rarely the whole number. Add a tip on almost every booking, cover-charge drinks on the nightlife ones, museum admission where it is not included, and transport to a fixed departure point. A realistic first evening is $60 to $130 all in.
Every price here is the operator's own starting fare, and starting fares are honest but incomplete. Four other numbers attach themselves to a Las Vegas evening and none of them is hidden — they are simply on a different line. Here they all are.
What do the fares themselves cost?
The spread is wide and it maps almost exactly onto format rather than quality. The cheapest thing here is a seat on an open-top bus at $59; the dearest is a helicopter wedding ceremony at $749.50, which is a wedding rather than a tour.
Starting fares captured from each operator's own listing on 2 September 2026. Prices move with the night of the week.
| Format | From | What that buys |
|---|---|---|
| Open-top bus | $59 | Two to three hours, both districts, recorded commentary |
| Neon Museum bus | $84 | The same bus plus 45 minutes and evening admission |
| Club crawl | $85 | Two clubs, both cover charges, a party bus |
| Helicopter flight | $99 | Ten to twelve minutes airborne, taxes included |
| VIP club crawl | $99 | Three or four venues from 8pm, drink specials |
| Guided van | $103 | Four hours, eight timed stops, hotel pick-up |
| Open jeep | $130 | Three hours plus High Roller admission |
| Walking or trikke | $149 | Two to three hours at street level, photographs |
| Sidecar | $193 | Two private hours, your group only |
| Flight with dinner | $349 | Three courses, the flight, all transfers |
What is not in the fare?
Four things, and they are worth totalling before you book.
- Tips. Excluded from almost every listing here and expected in cash. Fifteen to twenty per cent of the fare is the range for a guide, driver, pilot or party host. Two listings include the driver's gratuity and say so.
- Drinks inside venues. Both club crawls include the cover charges and drinks on the bus, and neither includes what you buy at the bar.
- Admission where it is not bundled. The Neon Museum is $35 for an adult on the museum's own evening rate unless you book the bus that includes it.
- Getting to the departure point. Half the inventory starts at a fixed kerb rather than your hotel, and that is a bus fare or a rideshare at each end.
How much should you budget for an evening?
Three realistic totals, before dinner.
The free evening: $8. A 24-hour Deuce pass, the fountains, the Fremont canopy, the Conservatory and Sphere from outside. This is a genuinely good night and it is what most of the paid options are built around.
The standard first evening: $75 to $90. An open-top bus at $59, a tip, and the bus fare to the boarding point. Add the free shows either side of it.
The big evening: $120 to $160. A helicopter flight at $99, a tip, the transport to the heliport, and a late fountain show on the way home. Or a club crawl at $85 plus what you spend inside, which is the variable nobody can budget for you.
Useful Tip: carry cash for tips. Almost every fare here excludes the gratuity, guides and drivers are tipped in cash rather than added to a card, and a cash machine on the Strip charges for the privilege. What to expect has the rest of the practical list.
Are the prices the same every night?
No, and the difference is largest at the top of the market. These are starting fares, and they move with demand: a Saturday in March is a different number from a Tuesday in August on the same product. Booking early does not lock a lower price, but it does lock availability on the small-group formats.
The figures here were captured on 2 September 2026 and are indicative. The booking page is always the authority, and every listing shows its own live price before you pay.
Which fares are actually good value?
Three stand out for different reasons.
The open-top bus at $59 is the best value on the site by a distance, because it does the one job a first-time visitor most needs doing and no other format does it for under a hundred dollars. The club crawls are the second, on weekends only: two cover charges at major venues on a Saturday will exceed the $85 fare on their own, which makes the party bus and the host effectively free.
The third is the Neon Museum bus at $84. Evening admission alone is $35 for an adult, so the bus tour attached to it is costing you $49 — less than the standalone night bus — and it adds 45 minutes among the signs.
What does a family of four pay?
Cheaper than most people assume, because the formats that take children are the cheap ones. Four seats on the open-top bus is $236 before the tip, and the standard and late-night departures state no minimum age. The open jeep, which includes a 30-minute High Roller rotation, is $520 for four and sets a minimum age of two.
The saving is in what you do not need to buy. The fountains, the Fremont canopy, the Conservatory and the Welcome sign are free for everybody, and a family of four can spend a whole evening on those for the price of four bus passes. If you want one paid attraction, the Neon Museum is the best-value ticket for a family: $17.50 for a child aged 7 to 17 and free under 6, on the museum's own rate.
Where does the money go on a helicopter flight?
Not into flight time, which is the thing people query. Ten to twelve minutes airborne inside a one-to-two-hour booking is standard across all four operators here, and the fares cluster between $99 and $100 for exactly that. What separates them is the ground half: a transfer, a terminal, a cabin size, or a dinner.
The $349 dinner package is the clearest illustration. It is the same flight with a three-course meal at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant and three legs of Mercedes transfers attached, which is where the extra $250 goes. The helicopter tours page separates the four.
What about the free attractions — do they cost anything?
The Fountains of Bellagio, the Fremont Street Experience and the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign are all free, with no ticket in existence for any of them. Sphere's exterior is free; the auditorium inside is a separate ticket from the venue.
The paid ones are the Neon Museum at $35 for an adult in the evening, the High Roller, which costs more after dark than before it, and the observation decks at The STRAT. None of the three is sold here. The attractions page lists each with its own hours.
Do you tip, and how much?
Yes, in cash, and it is the number most often left out of a budget. Fifteen to twenty per cent of the fare is the range here for a guide, a driver, a pilot or a party host. On a $99 flight that is another $15 to $20 you should be carrying before you leave the hotel, and on a four-hour van it is more.
Two listings include the driver's gratuity and say so in their own inclusions. Everywhere else the exclusion line reads "gratuities" and means it. Bring small notes rather than relying on a card: cash machines on the Strip charge a fee for the privilege, and the kerb at the end of a tour is a poor place to discover that.
The whole evening, costed
Before dinner, and before anything you buy inside a venue.
| Line | Free evening | Bus evening | Flight evening | Club evening |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour fare | — | $59 | $99 | $85 |
| Transport | $8 pass | $8 pass | $8 pass or rideshare | $8 pass |
| Tip | — | $10–12 | $15–20 | $13–17 |
| Admission | — | — | — | — |
| Drinks | — | — | — | Yours |
| Realistic total | $8 | $77–79 | $122–127 | $106–110 plus the bar |
Read that table for the shape rather than the totals: the fare is between two thirds and three quarters of the number in every column, and the rest is the tip and the getting there. Every fare on Las Vegas Night ticket prices is the operator's own starting price, shown with the cents removed and never rounded up.
Frequently asked questions
How much is a Las Vegas night tour?
From $59 for a seat on the open-top bus to $349.99 for a helicopter flight with a three-course dinner attached. The middle of the market sits between $85 and $150, and that is where the club crawls, the guided vans and the standard helicopter flights all are.
Are tips included?
Almost never. Gratuities sit in the exclusion list on all but a couple of the listings here, and guides, drivers, pilots and party hosts are all tipped in cash. Budget 15 to 20 per cent of the fare on top.
Is the Neon Museum ticket included in any tour?
In one: the open-top bus departure that boards at Treasure Island at 8:15pm has evening admission inside its fare. Bought separately, the museum's own published evening rate is $35 for an adult and $17.50 for a child aged 7 to 17.
Do prices change by night of the week?
Yes. These are starting fares and they move with demand, so a Saturday in March will not match a Tuesday in August on the same product. The figures here were captured on 2 September 2026 and the booking page always shows the live price.
What is the cheapest way to have a good night here?
An $8 Deuce pass and the free shows: the Bellagio fountains, the Fremont canopy, the Conservatory and Sphere from outside. The no-tour guide sets out exactly how far that reaches and where it stops.
Which tour gives the most for the money?
The open-top bus at $59, because it covers both districts and no other format does that under a hundred dollars. On a Friday or Saturday the club crawls are the other answer: two cover charges at major venues exceed the fare on their own. The nightclub tours page compares those two.
The fare is two thirds of the number and the rest is the tip and the getting there. Every departure is listed on Las Vegas Night Tours.
The three evenings costed above
Las Vegas Nightclub VIP Entry with Party Bus
Meet at the kerbCover charges paidDrinks included
From $85 per person
Helicopter Flight of the Las Vegas Strip with Eiffel Tower Dinner
Flight time 10-12 minDinner includedMax 12
From $349 per person