Which street do people mean, when they say "on the strip" in Las Vegas?

Question

I've never been to LV but I'm planning to go there next week. Thank in advanced

Answer 1

The strip is Las Vegas BLVD.

It's the "newer" area of Vegas where all the fancy monster resorts have popped up over the last 10-15 years. Its where most of the action is.  

Answer 2

I just came back from Las Vegas.  Yeah it's Fremont st.

Answer 3

The Strip that people refer to is the part of Las Vegas Blvd. with all of the newer casinos(the luxor, bellagio, the venetian etc.)

Fremont street is the old strip. It's a covered area with the older casinos

(lady luck, the california, main street station.)

It's a little bit farther north than the strip, and not a great area.

Answer 4

People are referring to the four miles of Las Vegas Boulevard South between West Sahara Avenue and Tropicana Avenue

Answer 5

Holy cow. Don't listen to the people who say Fremont St.  That's Fremont St.  Downtown.

The Strip is Las Vegas Blvd from Sahara (where the Stratosphere is) all the way south to the last hotels on the Strip (like Manadalay Bay) to where the Welcome to Las Vegas sign is.  The Strip has all the big nice hotels on it.  Caesars, Mirage, Wynn, Bellagio, Paris, etc etc.

Answer 6

Las Vegas Blvd. is "The Strip".  It's generally divided into "North" and "South".

A picture is worth a 1,000 words!

Check out this map

http://www.lvcva.com/vegas-maps.jsp

Answer 7

Fremont Street....which is the origianl Las Vegas...when Dean Martin etc was around....they have a fabulous light show...& if you play the slots do it on Mon or Tues or Wed...after or before they don't pay as good....we'd stick $5 in a nickel machine and play 18 nickels or  45 nickels and win $30 to $50 everytime....but on Thursday it sucked....couldn't win a thing...have fun & be careful...theres alot of weirdos in Vegas....lol...you have my permisson to bring back my money with you too.....lol

Answer 8

-  Las Vegas Blvd was the main street to Southern California before the interstates were built. After World War II, the larger casinos were built along this street outside of the city limits. The "strip" usually refers to the 4.2 miles of Las Vegas Blvd. S from West Charleston (city limits) to Russell Blvd. The north end is marked by the "Sahara casino/hotel" and the south end by the "Mandalay Bay / THEhotel resort". The city of Las vegas has tried to extend "The strip" into the city limits by building the Stratosphere Hotel and Casino, but the hotel is still in a seedy area with a lot of cheap w***e-houses. The strip has about 70,000 hotel rooms and most of what makes the Vegas area world famous.

- "Off strip" refers to casinos in the same general area, but without access directly to Las Vegas Blvd. This used to be solely the province of low cost budget motels and smaller cheap casinos, but now includes some very pricey casinos like "Hard Rock" and "The Palms & Palms Place". Maybe 30,000 hotel rooms.

- Downtown or "Fremont Street" is the street by the defunct train station where the city of Las Vegas began over 100 years ago. It is exactly 2 miles north of the W. Charleston (city limits). The dozen casinos there cater to an older budget minded crowd, There is only cheap souvenir shopping. Clubs and bars are more aimed at the forty - sixty year olds. The first hotel tower to be built in this area in twenty years is under construction right now. There are about 8000 hotel rooms.

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Room inventory in the Vegas metropolitan area is currently 136,583 rooms. So there are several areas besides strip, off-strip, and downtown with resorts and rooms. In comparison NYC has about 75,000 hotel rooms. Both Vegas and NYC entertain about 40 million visitors per year. So you can see that Vegas must sell hotel rooms at a bargain at times. Standard hotel rooms range from $26 to $400 with luxury suites going for much more.

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If you are under the age of 35 I would advise going to the strip instead of Fremont Street. If you don't have much money for a hotel room, the Imperial Palace, the Sahara, the Riviera, the Tropicana, and Circus Circus, Bills Gambling Hall are usually the cheapest hotels. Imperial Palace is the most centrally located of these casinos.

Answer 9

im a local here in vegas..

the strip refers to the street las vegas blvd... where all the newer casinos are located and where the newer stuff is at

downtown las vegas is fremont street and the area near it ... it ends when you hit las vegas blvd then the strip starts.

Answer 10

I've never been also but going in 6 weeks. i've done a lot of research on things to do. Google Freemont street. Looks awesome.  

Answer 11

Fremont Street is what people are referring to when they say "DOWNTOWN", "The Strip" refers to Las Vegas Blvd.  It includes a stretch of hotels from Mandalay Bay at the far south, to Stratosphere at the far north.

Here is a map of the strip

http://www.vegas.com/lounge/map.html

Mandalay Bay is #44 and Stratosphere is #1 on the map

This is the downtown map.

http://www.vegas.com/lounge/map.html

Fremont Street is fun to visit for a night or two to play the older slots that actually dispense in change instead of tickets.  The light show is very entertaining also, but you will spend most of your time on the strip.

Answer 12

LAS VEGAS BOULEVARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where casion like the Tropicana, Ceasars, Bellagio, Paris, Venetian, are on.

Answer 13

Its the main drag through town where all the casinos and night clubs are built. I think it's called Freemont St., but I'm not sure.