The Strip is four miles long. Here's which part to book for your trip.
Quick answer. First trip, want to walk to the famous stuff: stay Center Strip. Cheapest big-name rooms: South Strip or Downtown. Late nights and clubs: Center to North Strip. Quiet, cheaper, and you've got a car or you're visiting family: Henderson or off-Strip.
The Strip is about four miles long. "On the Strip" can mean a two-minute walk to the Bellagio fountains or a 25-minute walk in the heat to get there. Which end you pick matters more than most first-timers expect. Here's how the areas break down.
This is the core: Bellagio, Caesars Palace, the Cosmopolitan, Paris, Planet Hollywood, the Flamingo, and the LINQ. The Bellagio fountains, the Sphere views, the best pedestrian bridges, and the shortest walks between casinos are all here.
Stay in this stretch and you can leave your room, see five landmark hotels, and be back without a rideshare. That convenience is why it's the priciest area on Friday and Saturday. If it's your first Vegas trip, pay for the location — you'll walk everywhere and save the cab money.
MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, and Park MGM sit at the south end, next to T-Mobile Arena and a short walk from Allegiant Stadium. Luxor and Excalibur are two of the cheapest big-name rooms in the city, which makes this end popular with families and anyone in town for a game or a concert.
The trade-off is distance. From Mandalay Bay to the Bellagio is a 25-minute walk or a tram-plus-walk. Plan on rideshares to reach the center, or lean into the south-end pools, arenas, and restaurants.
Wynn, Encore, Resorts World, the Venetian, and the Palazzo anchor the north end, with the Sphere and Fashion Show mall right here. This is where the newest luxury towers and the quieter, more polished pools are.
It's calmer than the center and a walk to the Sphere for a show. The far north thins out — Circus Circus up here is the budget outlier, cheap but a real hike from the action. Great area if you want a nicer room and don't mind a rideshare to the middle.
Downtown is a 10-to-15-minute rideshare north of the Strip, and it's a different city. The Golden Nugget, the Plaza, the Fremont, the D, and Circa (21-and-up) sit under the Fremont Street Experience light canopy. Rooms run cheaper, table minimums are lower, and the drinks cost less than the Strip.
Stay down here if your budget is tight, you like old-school Vegas, or you want to gamble without $25 minimums. You'll rideshare to the Strip when you want it, but plenty of trips never leave. Our Downtown Fremont hotels page has the full list.
The Rio, the Palms, Westgate, and Virgin Hotels sit a few minutes off the Strip. You give up the walk-everywhere location and get bigger rooms, shorter lines, and often free or cheaper parking. These work well for a return visitor who already knows the Strip and would rather have a quiet base and a rideshare habit.
Green Valley Ranch and the M Resort sit in Henderson, 20 to 30 minutes southeast of the Strip. These are locals' resorts: real spas, quiet pools, cheaper rooms, and none of the Strip crush. You need a car to make it work.
This is the pick if you're visiting family in the valley, playing golf, or you simply want to sleep somewhere calm. Same for the far northwest — Red Rock Resort out by Summerlin is a resort in its own right, close to the canyon, far from the neon.
Every resort adds a nightly resort fee of roughly $35 to $55 on top of the advertised rate, so compare the all-in price, not the headline. To see where each hotel actually sits, use the hotel map. Not sure when to come? Read the best time to visit Las Vegas first.
Center Strip — near the Bellagio fountains and Caesars Palace — so you can walk to the most famous hotels without a rideshare.
The south end: Luxor and Excalibur are two of the cheapest big-name rooms. Downtown Fremont is cheaper still.
The Strip for landmarks and walkability; Downtown for cheaper rooms, lower table minimums, and old-Vegas Fremont Street. Downtown is a 10-to-15-minute rideshare from the Strip.
The South Strip — Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, MGM Grand, and Park MGM are the closest hotels.
Nearly all do — about $35 to $55 per night on top of the room rate — so compare the all-in price when you book.