Visiting Las Vegas from Los Angeles is easy. The casino capital is just four hours drive from LA so can be visited easily with one of a variety of tours. Here are five of the best:
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It’s hard to visit Los Angeles without having Las Vegas at least a little on the mind. Los Angeles is packed full of memorable places to visit, from Santa Monica to Downtown to Hollywood, but with Las Vegas just four hours drive away, the temptations of Sin City are tantalisingly close. Thankfully there are a variety of tours that do everyting from a bachelor party-spec one nighter in Vegas to more than a week taking in everything from the famous strip to San Francisco, California’s Yosemite Park, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley and beyond. Here are five of the best:
7-Day Golden Experience Tour
This tour is certainly not cheap at more than 1,300 Euros but you get a packed seven-day itinerary that takes in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion Park. Each day focuses on a new destination, with a guided tour to pick out the key sites, and day four to five is a heady 24 hours in Vegas. There is an evening tour of the strip to gaze at the gambling capital’s glitziest hotels, such as Caesar’s Palace, Luxor, Mirage, Paris, Venetian, Bellagio, New York New York, Treasure Island, and more. The overnight stay on this tour will be at the Harrah’s Hote, which recently received a $200 million renovation. From € 1,320.97.
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Las Vegas Overnight Trip with Hoover Dam Tour
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For anyone who doesn’t have a spare week on their LA trip, this tour is a great option. It is just enough to hit Vegas and get out the next morning before anyone reminds you of your shenanigans the night before. Honestly, anyone arriving in Vegas misses a trick – this tour shows that the best way to arrive is through the desert and Death Valley, Fear and Loathing style, with Sin City slowly looming up in front of you. In the evening there will be a tour of the strip to see the world’s most bling hotels, and the rest of the evening is there to use or misuse as you please. The next morning it’s off to the Hoover Dam and take some pics that you can actually show to relatives back home. For most people this trip will be all you’ll need – it’s a great combo of two of the big bucket list sites and you’re back in time for dinner in LA. From €298.28.
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4-Day Las Vegas & the Western Deserts Tour from Los Angeles
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If you are a canyons and deserts kind of person, this is the tour to choose. The first day hits Las Vegas, with an evening tour of the strip and free reign to see shows or hit the casinos. The next day things become a little bit more mellow – probably welcome if the drinks have been flowing – with a trip to the Grand Canyon, through the desert and Navajo Indian reservation, on to Antelope Canyon, with its spectacular dunes created by the wind, water and sand. Then it’s on to Bryce Canyon, home to rock and sand sculptures honed over thousands of years of rain wind and sunshine, and on to Utah’s Zion Park, which sits at the junction of the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin, and Mojave Desert regions. It’s a heady mix, seeing what man can build in a desert, only to be confronted with the very best natural wonders of the USA – it somehow works as a great combination. From € 724.41.
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8-Day San Francisco, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Sedona, Monument Valley Tour from LA
This epic eight day tour is the ultimate for anyone who wants to not just see Las Vegas from Los Angeles but pretty much anything worth seeing in a 500km radius of California’s biggest city. Travel through California, Nevada, and Arizona to visit Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Yosemite National Park, Sedona, Zion Park, and Horseshoe Bend, ending in Las Vegas with a tour of the strip, a visit to Hoover Dam, and a Jeep tour through Monument Valley. Only serious sightseers need apply – this is definitely a tick-it-off-and-get-the-t-shirt kind of trip but if you’re only planning on going to LA once then it pays to see everything. You’ll be paying too – just south of 1,500 bucks for the privilege. From €1,443.47.
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5-Day Wild West Tour From Los Angeles
It’s billed as the Wild West Tour but the only cowboys you might see are those selling overpriced souvenirs. The name is a bit misleading then – this is just a well-stacked tour taking in Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Las Vegas and the Hoover Dam. There’s a few extras thrown in too, such as a trip to Solvang, a quaint Danish community to browse the local shops, and the farmlands of the Joaquin Valley and El Capitan, Bridal-Veil Falls, and Half Dome visited during the summer route. It might not be as all encompassing as the full week tour but for a real taste of America’s West it takes some beating, even if Clint Eastwood is nowhere in sight. From € 766.35.
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