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Even while at the Strip , delegates are still calling cabs . Las Vegas is one of the hottest cities in America , and hotel plots are deceptively large – it takes almost 10 minutes to walk from one end of Caesars Palace to the other .
Gabriele Tagliavia is COO of talixo , an international company that provides ground transfer services . On the question of pre-booked vs spontaneous ground transit in Las Vegas , she says : “ Where pre-booked rides really come into their own in Vegas in terms of cost and reliability , is when a number of events overlap . While taxis have fixed fares , queuing at taxi ranks can be ridiculous – especially when a lot of visitors are trying to get around at the same time , like at the end of a conference day .”
There is also a monorail servicing various casino-hotels on the Strip . Built by the same firm that made the Disneyland monorails , it ’ s the only privately-owned transit system in the
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USA . Ridership is quite low , as many Vegas hotels don ’ t have their own stops , and it can take up to 10 minutes to walk from the station to the hotel entrance .
Expanding travel links even further , in 2021 the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority ( LVCVA ) opened the Loop – an underground tunnel servicing five stations in the Las Vegas Convention Centre . The LVCC is Vegas ’
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Above : The Las Vegas Loop |
largest convention centre , followed by the Venetian Expo and the Mandalay Bay Convention Centre . Elon Musk ’ s ‘ The Boring Company ’ built the LVCC ’ s tunnels , and uses Tesla Model 3 cars to ferry passengers along them .
Rebecca DeLuca , vice-president of destination sales at the LVCVA , said : “ Las Vegas is easily accessible from every corner of the world , offering over 1,100 flights daily with direct routes from 148 cities . [ We have ] 151,000 hotel rooms and 15m sqft of convention space all within a relatively condensed footprint .”
Las Vegas continues to win a huge share of conference business in the USA . In terms of connectivity , the city is between Boston and Houston – a driver ’ s town that also benefits from tightly-packed facilities and a well-located airport . It may not have the walkability of a petite village-city like Boston , but it would hardly be the Vegas we know if it did .
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