Trips to Las Vegas should also include time beyond the Strip.
Home to the city’s original, old-school casinos, Downtown Las Vegas has undergone a renaissance in recent years, becoming a hip destination in its own right via galleries and cool art spaces.
Las Vegas is also a superb base for explorations of nearby Death Valley or the Grand Canyon, ideal for adding some ‘outdoor’ variety to Las Vegas family holidays and those typically-indoor casino experiences.

For all that, the Strip is near impossible to ignore, and far too fascinating to overlook. Expect to gasp when you first spy it – such is the incongruence of multi-billion-dollar extravagance rising up from the scrubby Mojave Desert – and to make memories for life.