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Topic: Trip to Vegas next month
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Ian Price
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Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 04-04-2003 06:42 PM
I think the strip is 6 miles long. It's about 3 miles from Fremont Street to the Stratosphere and 3 more miles from the Stratosphere to Mandalay Bay. That doesn't sound like much, but in Las Vegas the hotels look like they are right next-door and feel like they are a mile or more apart.
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The no. 301 bus operated by Citizens Area Transit (tel. 702/CAT-RIDE; www.rtc.co.clark.nv.us/cat.htm) plies a route between the Downtown Transportation Center (at Casino Center Blvd. and Stewart Ave.) and a few miles beyond the southern end of the Strip. The fare is $2 for adults, 60¢ for seniors (62 and older) and children 5 to 17, and free for those under 5. (You must apply at the main office to qualify for the discount fares. Visit the Web site for details.) CAT buses run 24 hours a day and are wheelchair-accessible. Exact change is required, but dollar bills are accepted.
Or you can hop aboard a classic streetcar replica run by Las Vegas Strip Trolley (tel. 702/382-1404). These old-fashioned, dark-green vehicles have interior oak paneling and are comfortably air-conditioned. Like the buses, they run northward from Hacienda Avenue, stopping at all major hotels en route to the Sahara, and then loop back from the Las Vegas Hilton. They do not, however, go to the Stratosphere Casino Hotel & Tower or Downtown. Trolleys run about every 15 minutes daily between 9:30am and 2am. The fare is $1.30 (free for children under age 5), and exact change is required.
There are also a number of free transportation services, courtesy of the casinos. A free monorail connects Mandalay Bay with Luxor and Excalibur, another connects Bellagio with the Monte Carlo, still another runs between the MGM and Bally's, and a free tram shuttles between The Mirage and Treasure Island. Given how far apart even neighboring hotels can be, thanks to their size, and how they seem even farther apart on really hot days, these are blessed additions--and the more tourists who take them, the less traffic there might be on the Strip.
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