Las Vegas Strip - Night

Why the Las Vegas Strip Nightscape is special
The Las Vegas Strip in America becomes one of the most dazzling scenes on earth after the sun sets. Lights blaze. Energy quickens. Big rollers gamble. Top entertainers perform. All these take place along a 5 kilometer (3 mile) desert road lined with flashy hotel-casinos.

Psychology ploys you'll see in Las Vegas casinos
Lighting
Casino lighting is designed to appeal to the subconscious. Las Vegas casinos install millions of bright, flashy, colorful lights outside to lure you inside and innumerable dimmer, more subtle lights inside to put you in a gambling mood.

Locations of the functions
Another ploy is positioning elevators, reception desk and restaurants far away from a Las Vegas hotel-casino's main entrance. This forces people to walk by tempting slot machines and other gaming devices on their way to and from those destinations.

Lack of windows
Casinos know that people gamble bigger sums and more eagerly at night. That's why Las Vegas casinos are windowless. It creates the illusion that its nighttime even though its midday and the sun is shining brightly outside.

More Las Vegas Strip tips and insights
Night is best
The nighttime casino scene is more energetic than the daytime period because it draws a younger and more affluent clientele (retired visitors and local regulars tend to come earlier).

Why the Las Vegas Strip is a travel wonder
True, the Las Vegas Strip night scene is artificial, ostentatious and over the top. But it's unique and eye-popping enough for every traveler to experience it at least once in his lifetime.

Many Las Vegas aspects are not wondrous
They include:

• Daytime Las Vegas Strip
  Relatively lackluster
• Downtown hotel-casino area
  Generally uninspiring

Without the nighttime Las Vegas Strip, the name "Las Vegas" would not be on the Silver Medal list.

Hotel-casino variety
There is a hotel-casino to suit every taste and pocketbook, from budget family to stylish upscale.

Gambling
Virtually all the big hotels have their own casinos - and they compete imaginatively with one another for tourists and their gambling dollars.

Hotel tourist lures
They include a Disney-esque volcano that erupts on schedule - and a full-scale pirate ship that battles another boat before sinking completely below the water with its captain. Many Las Vegas Strip casino-hotels attract tourists with extravagant floor shows, often with world-famous performers.

Theme parks
Some casino-hotels have extensive theme parks to appeal to the growing family market. Some have fanciful architectural facades like castles, pyramids, Mississippi showboats, and large-scale versions of the Statue of Liberty and other famous Manhattan landmarks.

Mob Museum
Gangsters played a major role in early Las Vegas history. Now there's a museum featuring that heritage.

Numerous accommodations
The Las Vegas Strip (along with Downtown Las Vegas) has about 100,000 rooms and most of the world's biggest hotels. One has over 5005 rooms, making it the world's largest hotel. Yet, sometimes Las Vegas is fully booked due to its immense popularity among gamblers, sightseers, conventioneers and trade show attendees.

Location in America