![]() ![]() To be honest all that walking really helps offset some of those All-you-can-eat buffets and bottomless beverages. We have clocked up well over 10 miles on busy days and this leaves your feet in tatters! While the temptation is to bring beautiful fancy shoes, for nights out and whatnot, you are better advised to bring comfortable footwear you can walk far in, at least, for the most part, you can still rock those Louboutins on your Big nights out! Most people find they cover quite a few miles per day on any trip to Vegas. Walking can still be a long arduous task but it’s pretty unavoidable. Mandalay Bay, for instance, is really quite far from everything, While Caesar’s Palace and The Bellagio, for instance, are slap bang in the middle. Central hotels offer more opportunities to just walk it, than the hotels at the far ends or just off, the Strip. This is in large part dependent on where you are staying. Often we are there before we have really thought about it and to be honest, walking the strip is always a highlight of our trips! Whenever you need to get somewhere the first question you should ask is can we walk it? Despite the distances, we find most of the journeys we need to make, we can just hoof it. The new charges will make us rethink the hire-car situation completely. Apart from trips out of Vegas or to the malls. Drinking is always a part of our Vegas Trips so the car was often just left in the garage for the duration. To be honest we never used the hire car much for getting about the strip though. People spending large amounts of gambling will not have to worry, however, as you can just join the Rewards Clubs and get free parking at higher levels. So if you are staying at an MGM property, you can transfer between Properties for no extra charge. However, it does mean your parking is transferable between properties of the same brand. Of course, if you are going to hire a car anyway, as you want to get out of the city, you will still have to pay even though you are a guest. Thus in one fell swoop, the majority of properties on the strip now had paid parking. While MGM and CEP’s bank balances bulged. Closely followed by CEP ( Caesars Entertainment Properties). Unfortunately during the 2016 season, MGM Properties decided to introduce Parking charges for their parking lots and valet Services. Read our Guide to hiring a car in the USA Better still tip the Valet and walk right in the front door! All casinos have Large indoor parking lots and you could just hop between hotels and remain in Air conditioning all the way. ![]() Hire cars was the obvious choice back in the day, as long as you were going to avoid drinking. You are going to want to avoid hiking too far. In summer when the temperatures in the City are close to melting steel. This means getting to and from the more distant hotels can actually involve a long hike. That short dense cluster of hotels is actually nearly 4 miles long. The Hotels themselves are absolutely enormous, so simply walking past one hotel takes quite some time. Of course, the utter simplicity of the city masks a problem that is not inherently obvious from the map. ![]()
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