Pop Culture Walking Tour Downtown With Complimentary Cocktails

Our daily tour starts on the steps of the Mob Museum in Downtown 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 movies, 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 Downtown, 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.

The Downtown Grand is an upscale Boutique Experience 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, a pedestrian plaza in the heart of Downtown, 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.

A legendary hotel casino that changed Las Vegas gambling and hospitality Downtown, we step into an old school Western saloon vibe with some keen insights about why this place is so famous.

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.

Zip line launch from a giant 8 story Slot Machine, a "superman" ride, 4 blocks all the way to Main Street, soaring 90 feet in the air through the Neon Jungle.

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 cozy wedding chapel, a famed collection of neon signs in the courtyard, and the infamous Heart Attack Grill home to the 9000 calorie hamburger.

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.

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 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 neighborhood.

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 Downtown.

We'll pay our respects to the two most famous neon signs in Downtown Las Vegas, the venerated cowboy Vegas Vic and his glamorous girl friend Vegas Vickie, together known as the Neon Royals of Downtown.

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.