Big Bus Las Vegas: Sightseeing Night Tour by Open-Top Bus
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Las Vegas Night Tour Map and Departure Points
Two things about the geography here catch almost everybody out. The Las Vegas Strip is not in Las Vegas, and the two halves of the city people come to see are five miles apart with nothing walkable between them. Get those straight and the rest of an evening plans itself.
Where the Strip actually is
The Strip is a 4.2-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South running from Mandalay Bay in the south to about Sahara Avenue in the north. Legally it is not in the City of Las Vegas at all: it lies in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, in Clark County. That is a trivia answer with one practical edge — the ordinances that govern the pavement here are the county's, not the city's.
End to end on foot is a solid ninety minutes without stopping, and nobody does it. The useful mental model is three clusters: the south end around Mandalay Bay and Luxor, the middle around the Bellagio, Caesars and the LINQ, and the north end past the Venetian to The STRAT.
Where downtown is, and how far
Downtown Las Vegas is the original city, about five miles north of the middle of the Strip, and the Fremont Street Experience is its centre. It is a twenty-minute drive in ordinary evening traffic and longer at weekends. There is no pedestrian route worth taking: the boulevard between the two runs past car parks and wedding chapels for most of it.
Every guided evening that covers both halves builds that drive into its timings, which is most of why the four-hour tours are four hours. If you are doing it yourself, the Deuce runs it around the clock.
The distances that surprise people
Walking times are for the boulevard itself and assume the pedestrian bridges; crossing at street level is not permitted in most places.
| From | To | On foot | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellagio | The Venetian | 20–25 minutes | Two pedestrian bridges on the way |
| Bellagio | Mandalay Bay | 35–40 minutes | Past Luxor and Excalibur |
| Mandalay Bay | The Welcome sign | 20 minutes | No proper pavement for the last stretch |
| The LINQ | The STRAT | 45–50 minutes | The quiet end of the boulevard |
| Middle of the Strip | Fremont Street | Not walkable | About 5 miles; take the Deuce |
Where the tours actually leave from
Half the inventory collects you from your hotel and half starts at a fixed address, and that is the single most useful thing to check before you book. These are the real departure points for every tour listed here.
Departure points as stated on each operator's own listing. Confirm the exact door with the operator the day before.
| Departure point | Address | Which tours | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Roller bus loading zone | 3973 LINQ Lane | Open-top night bus | 7pm–10:15pm |
| Treasure Island | 3300 Las Vegas Blvd S | Neon Museum bus | 8:15pm |
| Excalibur or MGM Grand | 3850 / 3799 Las Vegas Blvd S | Fremont Street night tour | 5:30pm |
| Maverick heliport | 6075 S Las Vegas Blvd | Strip helicopter night flight | Evening slots |
| Las Vegas VIP terminal | 5060 Koval Lane | Small-group helicopter night tour | Evening slots |
| Downtown Container Park | 707 E Fremont St | Fremont bar crawl | Evening |
| Neonopolis, Fremont Street | 450 Fremont St, Suite 251 | VIP club crawl | 8pm |
| Your hotel valet | — | Guided vans, the jeep, the sidecar, two flights | 5:30pm–7pm |
Getting between them at night
The Deuce is the answer for almost everything. It runs the length of Las Vegas Boulevard 24 hours a day, about every 15 minutes, and covers both the Strip and the run downtown; a two-hour pass is $6 and a 24-hour pass is $8. The Monorail is faster along the east side of the Strip but stops between midnight and 3am depending on the night, so it is no use at the end of a club crawl.
Rideshare works and is the fastest way to the Welcome sign, with one thing to plan for: the large resorts route pick-ups into a parking structure that can be five minutes' walk from where you are standing.
What is genuinely walkable after dark
The middle of the Strip is, and it is the best walk in the city. From the Bellagio to the Venetian takes twenty-five minutes on wide, lit, busy pavement, and it passes the fountains, the Cosmopolitan, Caesars, the LINQ Promenade and Sphere. Downtown's Fremont Street mall is five blocks and entirely pedestrian.
Everything else is a vehicle. The Welcome sign, the Neon Museum, The STRAT and the run between the Strip and downtown are all beyond a comfortable walk, and that is the argument for a big bus Las Vegas night tour rather than a bus pass. The tour options page sets out which format covers which ground.
Every departure point above belongs to a tour listed on Las Vegas Night Tours.
Tours that solve these distances
