Getting around - Walking

Walking many not sound like the most adventurous way of getting around on your holiday, but you will be amazed just how much walking you end up doing in Vegas – you’ll clock the miles up in no time! For example, in most of the mega-resorts, it’s typical for the walk from your room out onto the strip to take around 10 minutes – possibly more if you’re staying somewhere like the MGM Grand. Therefore, it’s important to ensure that you have some comfortable footwear to take with you. Again, this really does emphasise the importance of location for your Vegas stay – why make things unnecessarily difficult for yourself by staying at an out of the way location?

However, walking around Vegas doesn’t have to be seen as a negative of course. In fact, exploring Vegas on foot is the best way to take in all the sights of the strip. If you’re a first time visitor, I would highly recommend heading out and following your nose to explore as much on foot as you can. Simply walking between a few of the resort on the strip will enable you to take in so many different sights and sounds of the Strip that you wouldn’t otherwise get to enjoy if you headed everywhere directly by at taxi.

If you do have the time and are physically able, I would certainly recommend walking as much of the strip as you can, in particular the areas in between the cross-roads at the MGM Grand / New York New York up toward the Wynn. Of course, if you do walk up one side of the strip on a given day, there’s nothing to stop you from putting your feet up and taking the Deuce, Monorail or a taxi back to your base hotel.