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Pop Culture Walking Tour Downtown With Complimentary Cocktails
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Pop Culture Walking Tour Downtown With Complimentary Cocktails

Pop Culture Walking Tour City centre With Complimentary Cocktails

By Las Vegas Pop Culture Tours
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Overview

Explore the pop culture of Las Vegas on a two-hour walking tour that begins on the steps of the Mob Museum ending with a complimentary drink at the El Cortez Hotel of Bugsy Siegel fame. The premium small group, maximum of six, will tour Fremont as America’s great performance street with the world’s biggest video screen, the largest collection of neon, two zip lines, fancy flare bartenders and feathered showgirls. Stand in the spot where Las Vegas began; hear how the Mob shaped history; see where the World Series of Poker started, check out the hotel from “Back to the Future” and the dive bar that inspired the film “Coyote Ugly”. The tour ends in an entrepreneur district of cool cafes, bars, fantastic murals and a famed fire sculpture from Burning Man Festival. Led by a Vegas-savvy guide, the tour tells an improbable tale of a desert oasis becoming a spectacular one-of-a-kind city of gambling, entertainment and now sports all told in an original storey of Vegas themes and local lore.

Activity location

  • The Mob Museum
    • 300 Stewart Avenue,
    • 89101-2956, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Mob Museum
    • 300 Stewart Avenue
    • 89101, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedComplimentary cocktail or drink
  • What's includedWhat's includedAccess to off the beaten track sites
  • What's includedWhat's includedExpert and original narration
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel pickup and drop-off

Know before you book

  • Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
  • Minimum age is 21 years
  • Small group tour
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

The Mob Museum
  • 10m
  • Admission ticket not included
Our daily tour starts on the steps of the Mob Museum in City centre Las Vegas. The Mob has dramatically shaped the city's history and in the pop culture lore of Las Vegas the Mob has had a starring role in films, books and television. We step briefly into the lobby of the museum built as a 1930s courthouse and you'll learn from your guide about the history of the building, the museum and how the Mob uniquely shaped the city's history. Your tour guide was once the cultural planner for the city and worked on the early phases of the museum project and will share a number of personal stories about the project. Continuing on our walk through City centre, you'll hear more stories related to the Mob and to specific casinos, and it is highly recommend that visitors go to the Mob Museum after our tour ends as it is one of the most unique museum experiences in Las Vegas.
Casino at The Downtown Grand
  • 5m
The City centre Grand is an upscale Boutique Experience Hotel setting with a cool local area vibe, a sharp contrast to Strip hotels, with some insights into casino design provied by the guide.
Fremont Street Experience
  • 35m
Fremont, a pedestrian plaza in the heart of City centre, one of the greatest performance streets in America, with zip lines, 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
  • 5m
A legendary hotel casino that changed Las Vegas gambling and hospitality City centre, we step into an old school Western saloon vibe with some keen insights about why this place is so famous.
Casino at the Plaza Hotel
  • 5m
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 films - and hosts a famed restaurant, Oscar's, honouring the most famous Las Vegas Mayor of all time, a personal friend of your tour guide.
SlotZilla Zipline Las Vegas (Pass by)
Zip line launch from a giant 8 storey Slot Machine, a "superman" ride, 4 blocks all the way to Main Street, soaring 90 feet in the air through the Neon Jungle.
Neonopolis
  • 5m
We'll stroll the plaza, a transition block between the Casino District and the newer Fremont East District, it is a complex of shops, restaurants, bars: Toy Shack of Pawn Stars fame, a piano bar, a home grown brewery, a cosy wedding chapel, a famed collection of neon signs in the courtyard, and the infamous Heart Attack Grill home to the 9000 calorie hamburger.
Casino at the El Cortez Hotel
  • 5m
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. The tour ends with a complimentary cocktail in the hotel's Parlour Bar, a unique place that conveys old school Las Vegas charm.
Downtown Container Park
  • 10m
A fun and quirky shopping complex made of shipping containers, built around a 2 storey 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 development project that's the hub of the annual Life is Beautiful Festival. A starting point for a self guided walking tour of fantastic murals throughout the area.
Circa Resort & Casino
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
We'll check out our newest casino hotel and make a visit to the famed neon sign, Vegas Vickie. It is the tallest structure on Fremont, we'll see how and why why the place is reinventing hospitality, gaming and the lore of pop culture City centre.
Vegas Vic
  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
We'll pay our respects to the two most famous neon signs in City centre Las Vegas, the venerated cowboy Vegas Vic and his glamorous girl friend Vegas Vickie, together known as the Neon Royals of City centre.
Casino at the Golden Gate Hotel
  • 5m
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 cosy bar was a hangout for the famed Rat Pack. It's rocking mechanical neon sign is a sight to behold.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESThe Mob Museum
    • 300 Stewart Avenue,
    • 89101-2956, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEThe Mob Museum
    • 300 Stewart Avenue
    • 89101, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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