I’ve been to Las Vegas a number of times, and amazingly the trips have never been work related! It is definitely a love or hate place, and I have to say I love it! The weather (great sunshine), amazing choice of bars and restaurants, make it a great place to escape to!
The following are my list of places I’d recommend (and typically go back to!).
Hotels
- MGM Grand massive hotel at the start of Las Vegas Boulevard, with a great choice of bars, restaurants and a lovely set of pools. My personal favourite hotel on the strip!
Bars
- Tap Sports Bar in the MGM is a great sports bar. Nice selection of different beers, and a great selection of sports. Food is pretty good too.
- Tilted Kilt fun bar.
- Yard House good sport bars, great range of draft beer and the food is ok.
- Eureka! American Craft Nice bar, great range of beers. Food isn’t too bad either. Located in Downtown.
- Circa Hotel. New hotel open in Downtown. Can walk through the casino, has a nice couple of restaurants and a good bar. Lot more relaxed than the strip. Also has a massive sports TV wall (and I mean massive!).
- Beerhause great sports bar opposite the ParkMGM - loads of TV’s, great range of local craft beers, good food and a nice outside seating area.
- Aft nice outside cocktail lounge at the Wynn Hotel - perfect for watching the Lake of Dreams Show!
- Container Park cool collection of relaxed bars (again good beers) in Downtown.
- Rhumbar cool tropical bar in the Mirage. Nice cocktails and outdoor space.
- Beer Park great outdoor space in the middle of the Strip by the Paris hotel. As you’d expect with the name - big range of draft beers!
- Able Baker Brew nice local brewery on the downtown brewery mile. Great range of their own craft beers, and amazing tacos!
- Nevada Brew Works just along from Able Baker Brew, another nice local brewery on the downtown brewery mile. Great bar food!
Food
- Crack Shack great fried chicken just outside ParkMGM.
- Steak recommendations (all require reservations). If you want a good steak, I can recommend the following (all on the strip):
- Prime Steakhouse great steakhouse, with an amazing view of the Belagio Fountains! Definitely recommend booking the patio!
- Tom Colicchio’s Craftsteak in the MGM Grand.
- CUT by Wolfgang Puck in the Palazzo.
- SW Steakhouse at the Wynn.
Things to do
- Bellagio Fountain if you’ve never been to Vegas before, this is worth checking out one evening when passing.
- Freemont Experience if you do go to Downtown Vegas, make sure you check out the Freemont Experience (it is certainly an experience!).
- Life is Beautiful amazing music festival in Downtown Vegas every September. Once you go, you will never want to go to a UK music festival again!
- Sundance Helicopters great helicopter tour out to the Grand Canyon and along the strip. Amazing experience!
- Lake of Dreams at the Wynn amazing multimedia experience set to music on the Wynn’s lake. Recommend grabbing a cocktail at Aft to take in the show one night!