All guides

The guides hub is a library of essential-reading articles built around the questions that trip up first-time visitors. 8 km resort corridor, why it's actually in Paradise and Winchester rather than the city of Las Vegas, and why distances between hotels look shorter on a map than they feel on foot. A Hoover Dam guide is direct about logistics: it's about 45 minutes from the Strip, it straddles the Nevada–Arizona border, and there's no public transit, so a rental car or a booked tour is the only way there.

A Getting Around guide compares a rental car, the norm for anything beyond the Strip, against the paid Las Vegas Monorail, which only runs along the Strip's east side and skips the airport entirely. A Grand Canyon guide covers the difference between Grand Canyon West and its Skywalk, on Hualapai land and outside the national park, and the South Rim, which is inside it and about twice as far. A Zion guide explains that the shuttle through the canyon is mandatory from March to November, and that the Angels Landing permit is awarded by lottery rather than sold on demand.

375% added at the register in Clark County, the 18 to 20% tip expected in restaurants and bars, and the mandatory nightly resort fee most Strip hotels add on top of the room rate. A Grand Circle guide corrects the common assumption that Antelope Canyon can be visited without a guide, when only Navajo-led tours are permitted onto the land at all.