The Strip is actually Las Vegas Boulevard. Much of what you would want to see runs from the Mandalay Bay hotel area in the far southern end and close to the airport to the Stratosphere hotel in the north. I will guess that covers at least a good three miles and you can walk it all like we did. The central area is where we stayed and was the most crowded with the large hotels. As you go south or north there are some open areas where new buildings might be going up. Some of the famous hotels are off the Strip by up to a few blocks like Rio and Trump and the Convention Center also. The downtown area is another two miles north of the north end of the Strip area but Las Vegas Boulevard runs right to it also. Although the Strip is dominated by large hotels there are a few smaller ones, a few restaurants, some shopping malls, and a few small shops and fast food outlets plus casinos. We stayed in the central area and walked south one day and north the next in order to admire the architecture of the prominent hotels and stopped to check out the interior of several as well. In the evening we did the same to check out all the light displays although we did not walk to the ends of the Strip at night. Good walking shoes would be a good idea as would going in spring or fall to avoid the terribly hot summers. If you cannot walk all the way then the double decker Deuce bus looked OK and it ran the full length of the Strip to the downtown area for $3 or $7 for a one day pass. It was often crowded and lines of folks waited for it at the stops. The $5 monorail did not cover the entire Strip but it did go to the Convention Center which was not right on Las Vegas Blvd.
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