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>I disagree, there is tons of intra-strip cab travel taking place. There's alot of it, but it's decreasing. Someone that just got ready for an elegant dinner

>I disagree, there is tons of intra-strip cab travel taking place. There's alot of it, but it's decreasing. Someone that just got ready for an elegant dinner or a night at a club will take a cab or limo up or down the strip to get where they're going. However, the monorail now runs all the way from the MGM on Tropicana Ave. down to the SLS (formerly the Sahara on Sahara Ave) and has a station at the convention center. There is also The Deuce, a very tourist-friendly bus that traverses both sides of the Strip every 5 minutes or so 24/7. If there's a cab line at the hotel, The Deuce is actually faster than a cab. I would suspect that walking, the monorail, and The Deuce handle the vast majority of inter-hotel travel. The cabs make most of their money on airport trips & trips to off-strip properties like The Palms. Regardless, Uber should be allowed to do what they were doing. The way the Strip is setup, they couldn't really compete with cabs & limos, and that was never their plan. It would have been great for locals to get around the city.

chrismcb 12y ago
The monorail is about the worst way to travel in Vegas. It is expensive and too far from most hotels and casinos. Unless you want to travel between two connecting casinos it is faster to walk. And if you have more than two in your party, cheaper to take a cab.
- downandout 12y ago
  As with most things, it depends on your use case. The MGM station is the easiest one to get to, as some of the other stations (Harrah's in particular) are buried behind the hotels. There is a dedicated station at the convention center, which is great for thousands of people if they stay at one of the hotels with a station. For example, a person attending a convention at the convention center and staying at MGM - normally a $30+ cab ride each way - can get essentially door-to-door transportation both ways for 3 days for the price of a single one-way cab ride. If you're staying at Wynn/Encore or Venetian/Palazzo, then it's not going to work. But since you're paying $400+/night there during busy times at any of those places, you might as well rent yourself a limo. The monorail is OK for some use cases.

chrismcb 12y ago

The monorail is about the worst way to travel in Vegas. It is expensive and too far from most hotels and casinos. Unless you want to travel between two connecting casinos it is faster to walk. And if you have more than two in your party, cheaper to take a cab.

downandout 12y ago
As with most things, it depends on your use case. The MGM station is the easiest one to get to, as some of the other stations (Harrah's in particular) are buried behind the hotels. There is a dedicated station at the convention center, which is great for thousands of people if they stay at one of the hotels with a station. For example, a person attending a convention at the convention center and staying at MGM - normally a $30+ cab ride each way - can get essentially door-to-door transportation both ways for 3 days for the price of a single one-way cab ride. If you're staying at Wynn/Encore or Venetian/Palazzo, then it's not going to work. But since you're paying $400+/night there during busy times at any of those places, you might as well rent yourself a limo. The monorail is OK for some use cases.