Las Vegas NightTours & Tickets

Big Bus Las Vegas Night Tour by Open-Top Bus — the Strip and Downtown

Big Bus Las Vegas: Sightseeing Night Tour by Open-Top Bus

Two hours on an open top deck

The lowest fare of any night tour here

Fifty-nine dollars for a seat on the upper deck, roof off.

Both halves of the city in one ride

The Strip and downtown Fremont Street, which almost nothing else covers in one go.

Commentary in English and Spanish

Recorded and playing throughout, so you are never guessing what you are looking at.

A photo stop at the Welcome sign

On the 10:15pm departure, which is the one to book if the sign is on your list.

An adults-only 8pm run with a drink

Over-21s only, and the welcome drink is included in that fare.

What this evening is actually about

It is orientation, and it is the best fifty-nine dollars a first-time visitor can spend here. Las Vegas is confusing on the ground. The resorts sit further apart than they look, the two districts people come for are five miles apart, and none of that is obvious from a pavement. Two hours on an open deck fixes all of it in one pass.

The route runs the Strip past the Fountains of Bellagio, the Eiffel Tower deck at Paris Las Vegas, Madame Tussauds and the LINQ. It then carries on north to the Fremont Street Experience and comes back down past Luxor and The STRAT. Three grades of departure run: a standard night tour, a late run at 10:15pm that stops at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, and an adults-only 8pm tour with a drink.

What it is not is a guided tour in the human sense. The commentary is a recording, and that is exactly why this is the cheapest fare here. If you want a person answering questions, a double decker bus Las Vegas night tour in a van or an open jeep is the format, at roughly twice the price.

Your evening, stop by stop

  1. Board. The High Roller bus loading zone at 3973 LINQ Lane. Arrive 15 minutes early — seating is first come, first served.
  2. South down the Strip. The Bellagio fountains, the Eiffel Tower viewing deck, Madame Tussauds and the resort frontages.
  3. North to downtown. Past the Elvis chapel and the wedding chapels of the north Strip.
  4. Fremont Street. The canopy and its light shows, from street level.
  5. The Welcome sign. A photo stop on the 10:15pm departure.
  6. Back along the Strip. Luxor, MGM Grand and The STRAT on the way in.

What the fare covers

  • 2 to 3 hour night tour of Las Vegas, depending on the tour selected
  • Open-top double-decker bus
  • Digital commentary in English and Spanish
  • Photo stop at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign (10:15pm tour only)
  • Complimentary welcome drink, 21+ (8pm Adult tour only)

What it does not

  • Hotel pick-up and drop-off

Who this suits, and who should book something else

Book this if

It is your first evening here and you want to place everything before you commit a night to walking it. You would also rather sit down while you do. It is the one format that takes children of any age and the only one under sixty dollars, which makes it the easy answer for a family.

Book something else if

You want a live guide, or you need collecting from your hotel. Neither is on offer here. The party-bus club night puts a host in charge of the evening instead. The guided vans on the tour options page stop and walk you around each landmark rather than driving past it.

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Where it boards, and when

Standard and late-night departures leave from Stop 3, the High Roller bus loading zone at 3973 LINQ Lane. Arrive fifteen minutes early, because seating is not allocated. The adults-only tour is different: show your ticket to Big Bus staff at the downstairs bar of the Hard Rock Cafe by 7:40pm. That run finishes at 10:15pm.

There is no hotel pick-up on any grade. If you are staying at the south end of the Strip, budget twenty minutes to reach the LINQ, or take the Deuce, which stops close by around the clock.

Know before you go

Questions people ask before booking this one

Which departure stops at the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign?

The 10:15pm late-night tour. The standard and adults-only departures pass it but do not stop, so if a photograph at the sign is the point of your evening, book the late one. Photo stops there run about 15 minutes.

Is there a live tour guide on board?

No — the commentary is a recording, in English and Spanish. It is thorough and it plays the whole way round, and it is the reason this is the lowest fare here. For a person you can ask questions of, take the helicopter flight, where the pilot narrates, or one of the guided vans.

Can I get on and off along the way?

Not on the night tours. They run as a single continuous loop to show you the lights, and the daytime hop-on hop-off product is a separate ticket. You return to where you boarded.

Is it suitable for children?

The standard and late-night tours are, and they are the cheapest way to give a family the whole city in one evening. The 8pm adults-only departure is 21 and over, so check which grade you are buying before you pay.

What happens if it rains?

The tour runs. One reviewer describes doing the 10pm departure in rain and still getting an unhurried stop at the Welcome sign. The upper deck is open, so a light waterproof is the sensible precaution.

Is there a version with the Neon Museum included?

Yes. The bus tours page compares this one against the Big Bus departure that adds 45 minutes inside the Neon Museum. Evening admission is in that fare, and it boards at Treasure Island at 8:15pm.

The open upper deck of a night sightseeing bus on the Las Vegas Strip, the Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas lit up aheadThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign lit after dark, its yellow star and bulb border burning against a black skyThe neon showgirls and the City of Las Vegas script sign above Fremont Street in downtown Las VegasA restored neon cowgirl sign, one boot kicking, mounted on a brick wall in downtown Las VegasA lime-green stretch limousine parked at night outside a lit resort on the Las Vegas StripThe Las Vegas Strip from the air in daylight, running south past Mandalay Bay and the Excalibur towers toward the mountains

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Other ways to spend the evening

If this one is not yours, two other featured evenings are worth a look. They are ten to twelve minutes airborne over the Strip, dinner optional; a party bus and two nightclub doors, from ten at night.

All of them, with prices and what each one covers side by side, are on Las Vegas Night Tours.