Las Vegas Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a section of Las Vegas Boulevard South, is known worldwide for its dense collection of luxury hotels and casinos.

The Las Vegas Boulevard is a street in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 6.8 km-long strip (German: strip ) is located on the southern part already outside the city limits of Las Vegas in the suburbs of Paradise and Winchester. The strip begins in the south at the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Russell Road, near the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas street sign, and ends at the Stratosphere Tower on the north by the Sahara Avenue.

Hotels and casinos

The first so-called mega- resort on the Strip was opened in 1989, the Mirage. Since then, the Strip Fremont Street, the old entertainment center of the city, more and more outranked. The actual downtown Las Vegas has suffered through the boom on the Strip considerable losses. The casino operators responded by renovated facades, multiplex cinemas built or created new attractions such as the Fremont Street Experience, a huge dome that covered several blocks.

The Strip is today a world-renowned leisure mile, on which many of the largest casinos and most impressive hotels in the world are located. By Number of Rooms include many of the hotels on the 20 largest worldwide. Beginning of the 2010s possessed Las Vegas a total of slightly more than 150,000 hotel rooms, about half of them on the Strip. Many of the hotels on the Strip are themed hotels, the exterior and interior design follows a central theme. Thus, the Luxor pyramid and presented together with Sphinx statue in the style of ancient Egypt, in front of the Paris Las Vegas is a copy of the Eiffel Tower at the Venetian and the typical sights of Venice have been reconstructed. Other well-known hotels on the strip are the MGM Grand, the Bellagio Hotel, Excalibur Hotel or the New York-New York Hotel. As the only luxury hotel on the Strip accommodate the Vdara, Mandarin Oriental and the Four Seasons aware no casinos and no slot machines. Also located on the southern top of the Las Vegas Strip is the Little Church of the West, where many celebrities went out of the knot.

Since 15 June 2000, the Las Vegas Strip is recognized by the U.S. Department of Transportation under the National Scenic Byway program as an All - American Road as a road that is true when considered alone as monuments of national importance. Unlike most places in the U.S. it is allowed on the Strip, to drink alcohol on the open road. On holidays, such as the U.S. national holiday, Independence Day, this right is limited, however. Alcohol is not out of consideration for those under 21 then tolerated in bottles or cans and along the Strip.

Locations of hotels and casinos

Hilton Grand Vacations Circus Circus Hotel Resorts World Las Vegas ( construction site )

Marriott's Grand Chateau Travelodge

Movies and Movie Quotes

Former hotels

• Boardwalk Hotel and Casino (2006 demolished)
• Desert Inn (2001 demolished)
• The Dunes (1993 demolished)
• El Rancho
• Klondike Hotel & Casino
• The Landmark
• The New Frontier (2007 demolished)
• Sahara ( closed in 2011 )
• Sands (1996 demolished)
• Silver City Hotel and Casino
• Stardust (2007 demolished)
• Westward Ho