Driving and rental cars
If you're happy to see no more of Las Vegas than the Strip and perhaps downtown
- and on a short visit, there's no great reason to venture any further
- then it's perfectly possible to survive without a car.
Taxis
Every casino has a line of taxis waiting at its front entrance. Standard
fares are $2.20 for the first mile and $1.50 for each additional mile,
but the meter continues to run when you're caught in traffic. A $1.20 surcharge
is added for trips.
Buses
CAT buses serve the entire city from their hub at the Downtown Transportation
Center (daily 6am-10pm), a couple of blocks north of Fremont Street at
Stewart Avenue and Casino Center Boulevard.
Trolleys
The oak-veneered streetcars of the Las Vegas Strip Trolley ply the Strip
daily between 9.30am and 2am, with a flat fare of $1.50 and departures
every fifteen minutes.
Monorails
Several Strip properties are connected by means of free monorail services.
Such systems link Excalibur with Mandalay Bay via Luxor; the MGM Grand
with Bally's; Bellagio
Casino shuttle services
Several casino operators run free shuttle services either to connect different
properties in the same chain, or between outlying casinos and the Strip.
These include services between the various members of the Stations chain
Cycling
Cycling in Las Vegas proper is not a good idea. Cops do it to beat the traffic
on the Strip, but for visitors there's too much danger for too little reward.
Red Rock Canyon is very popular with recreational cyclists
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