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Going Off the Beaten Path in Nevada with Free Solo Climber Alex Honnold

This transcript is taken from a recent interview with Alex Honnold for the Frommer’s Travel Show Podcast. Alex Honnold is one of the world’s most celebrated climbers. In June 2017, he…

Resort Fees Increase in Las Vegas for the Second Time in 2024

MGM Resorts, which controls many of the biggest casino-hotels in Las Vegas, has raised resort fees again—for the second time this year. On Wednesday, December 4, the Bellagio, Aria,…

Las Vegas without Taxis or Ubers: Try These Free or Cheap Transit Methods

Slapping slot machine screens, walking the Strip in flip-flops, subjecting stroller-age children to the debauchery of Fremont Street—there are a lot of things tourists do in Vegas that…

All of Las Vegas Hotels' Resort Fees in 2024—So You'll Know the True Price of a Night

Along with gambling and over-imbibing, resort fees have sadly become a way of life in Vegas. These per-night, plus tax, add-ons can turn that cheap Vegas deal you found into an…

Visit Nevada Ghost Towns and Alien Sites with New Paranormal Passport

Asked to name the most ghoulish places in the United States, you might come up with Salem, Massachusetts, for its witchy goings-on, New Orleans for the aboveground cemeteries, and…

Popular Place Names You've Probably Been Pronouncing Wrong

Don't feel stupid. It happens. When you've only read about the places you've always dreamed of going, of course you wouldn't know how to say their names yet. But once it's time to buy…

Cannabis-Friendly Hotel with Top-Optional Pool Coming to Las Vegas

This post, originally published January 18, has been updated with new information.The doors will soon open at what's being billed as the first "cannabis-inclusive" hotel in Las…

Biden Names Two More National Monuments, Expands Marine Reserve

President Joe Biden has designated two more national monuments that are precious to the history, culture, and natural resources of the United States. Combined, the newly protected…

Look Out, Wayne Newton! Las Vegas Gets a Punk Rock Museum

We're getting awfully close to the 50th anniversary of punk rock's mid-1970s high-water mark—an uncomfortably respectable-sounding age for a movement all about bratty…

Vast Sculpture in Nevada Desert Finally Opens After 50 Years

An immense outdoor sculpture that's been in the works for more than 50 years finally opens to visitors this week in the desert expanses of eastern Nevada's Basin and Range National…

After Pandemic-Era Reprieve, Parking Fees Coming Back to Las Vegas Strip

Some travel policies adopted during the pandemic look like they're here to stay (goodbye, airline change fees!). Others proved to be fleeting (goodbye, empty middle seats on…

What to Expect at the Newly Built Resorts World Las Vegas, Opening in June

The ginormous Resorts World Las Vegas has set an official opening date. The 3,500-room, $4.3-billion behemoth will begin accepting guests on June 24. The property is situated within…

The Best Castles in the USA: Plot a Regal Road Trip with This Storybook Map

We don't typically think of the United States as a land of castles. But the country has had its share of gazillionaires eager to mimic Europe's architectural styles in gargantuan…

Growing Desperate for Visitors, Las Vegas Ramps Up Reopenings

Thanks to the pandemic, visitation numbers in Nevada have dropped to their lowest levels in almost 30 years, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. It's no wonder that Las Vegas…

Iconic Neon Cowgirl "Vegas Vickie" Kicking It Again at New Casino

Circa Resort & Casino, which opened this week on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas, is the city's first casino built from the ground up in four decades. But not everything on…

This Las Vegas Casino Is Going Entirely Smoke-Free

The Las Vegas Strip is getting its first entirely smoke-free casino resort. MGM Resorts announced this week that the complex housing the Park MGM and NoMad Las Vegas hotels will…

Is Vegas a Secret Superspreader? Study Shows Alarming Reach of City's Visitors

It has been about two and a half months since Las Vegas began reopening its casinos and resorts on June 4, following this spring's pandemic lockdown. How have things been going since…

Las Vegas Casinos Have an Official Reopening Date

Casino resorts in Las Vegas and elsewhere throughout Nevada will reopen to the public on Thursday, June 4, the state's governor, Steve Sisolak, has announced. “We’ve taken every…

Vegas Mayor Wants Casinos to Reopen—No Matter What

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has kicked up her crusade to reopen the city's casinos, restaurants, shops, and other nonessential businesses in spite of the global pandemic. The…

End of an Era: The Oldest Harrah's Casino Is Closing

Harrah's Reno has occupied its downtown spot in that Nevada city since 1937, when founder William F. Harrah opened his first bingo parlor. The place eventually expanded into a hotel…

In Nevada, a School for Stolen Native American Kids Will Be a Museum

Starting in the late 19th century, the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to leave home and attend boarding schools with the goal of assimilating…

"White-Collar Trickery": Arthur Frommer Blasts Las Vegas for Hidden Fees

By now, most Americans are aware of the “resort fees” that numerous greedy hotels add to their bills, even though the hotel in question is by no means a “resort.”  Most of us simply…

In Las Vegas, Now You Have to Look Closely at Your Bill for Hidden Fees

Las Vegas has long been known as Sin City but lately, it’s turned into Fee City. We’ve bemoaned the resort fees that nearly every hotel in Las Vegas charges. But now Sin City is…

8-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Female to Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro

AUGUST 1, 2017FLORIDA GIRL SETS KILIMANJARO RECORD (Travel + Leisure)An 8-year-old Florida girl has made history as the youngest female ever to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. After a…

Nevada Clown Motel for Sale

A leading contender for the title of World's Creepiest Motel has just gone on the market.The Clown Motel is a 31-room accommodation in tiny Tonopah, Nevada, located about midway…