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Pop Culture Walking Tour Downtown With Complimentary Cocktails

Pop Culture Walking Tour Downtown With Complimentary Cocktails

Overview

Explore Downtown Las Vegas as an outdoor museum of American popular culture. Our morning walking tour, maximum of 6 people, starts on the steps of the famed Mob Museum and ends with a complimentary cocktail at the venerated El Cortez Hotel. The 2-hour trek explores the city's historic heart, its legendary casinos and iconic neon while showcasing a reinvented Fremont as America's great performance street with a giant digital electronic canopy, aerial zip lines, curbside stages, flare bartenders, zany buskers and wandering showgirls. The tour ends in an entrepreneur arts district of cool cafes & bars, world class murals and a place called Container Park, famous for its fire sculpture from the Burning Man Festival. Led by a Vegas-savvy guide, formerly the city's Urban Arts Coordinator, the tour tells an improbable tale of a desert oasis becoming a spectacular one-of-a-kind gambling entertainment resort city, in an original narrative of Vegas centric themes filled with lots of local lore.

City: Las Vegas

Sun 23 Feb

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Starting at $35.00

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Sun 23 Feb

Starting at $35.00

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What's Included

Complimentary cocktail or beverage

Expert and original narration

Additional Info

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Minimum age is 21 years
Small group tour
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Guides required to regularly wash hands
COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
This tour is limited to 6 people. The 12 block itinerary Downtown is an easy walk designed to navigate appropriately around high traffic areas. Entery to a number of historic casinos.

What To Expect

The Mob Museum

We meet in front of the Mob Museum where the guide gives an insider view of how the museum started and the role of the Mob in Vegas history. Your guide worked on the museum project as a cultural planner for the city of Las Vegas. The Museum is a separate admission, and it's recommended before or after the tour.

Casino at The Downtown Grand

The Downtown Grand is an upscale Boutique Hotel setting with a cool local neighborhood vibe, a sharp contrast to Strip hotels, with some insights into casino design provied by the guide.

Fremont Street Experience

Fremont, a pedestrian plaza in the heart of Downtown, one of the greatest performance streets in America, with zip line tourists, zany buskers, music on 3 stages, a canopy with the longest video screen, fabulous neon, historic casinos and visitors getting in on the action. A spectacular and dazzling moment in the historic cultural heart of Las Vegas.

Binion's Gambling Hall

A legendary hotel casino that changed the nature of Vegas gambling and hospitality Downtown, we step through a side door to get an old school Western saloon vibe with some keen insights about why this place is so famous.

Casino at the Plaza Hotel

The historic site where the town was founded in 1905, once the town rail road station, now the Union Plaza Hotel, quinessential 1970s architecture - it's been in lots of movies - and hosts a famed restaurant, Oscar's, honoring the most famous Las Vegas Mayor of all time, a personal friend of your tour guide.

Casino at the El Cortez Hotel

A 1940s historic and legendary casino on America's National Register of Historic Properties, once owned by famed Mobster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, with the city's last coin operated slot machines. We end the tour with a complimentary cocktail in the hotel's Parlour Bar, a unique place that conveys old school Las Vegas charm.

Downtown Container Park

A fun and quirky shopping complex made of shipping containers, built around a 2 story kid's tree house, and featuring the famed Praying Mantis fire sculpture from Burning Man, complete with shops, restaurants, bars, a stage for programming. A signature project in a development district that sets the tone, style, commerical & cultural character for the neighborhood. A starting point for a self guided walking tour of fantastic murals that populate the area.

Vegas Vic

We'll pay our respects to the two most famous neon signs in Las Vegas, the venerated cowboy Vegas Vic and his glamorous girl friend Vegas Vickie, together known as the neon royal couple of Downtown. Vic, the enduring mascot of Fremont Street, is the oldest neon sign in operation Downtown, having just celebrated his 70th year anniversary.

Casino at the Golden Gate Hotel

The Golden Gate Hotel, once the Hotel Nevada (1906), is an historical landmark: the oldest building in Las Vegas and the oldest Las Vegas hotel with a small charming interior in a Prohibiton Era theme. The cozy bar was a hangout for the famed Rat Pack. It's rocking mechanical neon sign is a sight to behold.

Show 6 more stops

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (168)

Stephen H

Dec 2022

Rick was a wealth of knowledge. He has been personally involved with many aspects of the development and evolution of Vegas for many years. He limits the size of a tour group to 6 people maximum. My wife and I did this tour on December 19 2022 and we would recommend this tour to anyone.

Response from Host

Dec 2022

Thanks for taking my walking tour on a somewhat chilly day. It was great to show you Downtown, you had some excellent comments and questions about Las Vegas. Happy holidays and best wishes for a happy New Year. - Rick

Diana_R

Dec 2022

Wonderful all Of it murals, history everything he took the time to curate things for my mom and I about the history of Vegas and murals . Highly recommend

Response from Host

Dec 2022

I enjoyed touring Downtown with you and your Mom, and I appreciated your keen interest as an artist in the murals of East Fremont Street. Best wishes for the New Year!

589darleneb

Nov 2022

As a local of Vegas we took this tour with a visiting family member. We loved it. We learned a lot about Vegas history and saw many new sites. It is great that the tour is limited to 6 people. It makes it a very comfortable environment to ask questions and have a more enjoyable experience.

Response from Host

Nov 2022

Thanks for taking my Downtown tour. It is always special to have locals on the tour - with your own insights and experiences of the city. Best wishes for the holidays.