Disability-Friendly Vegas: Getting Around Vegas

There are numerous transportation options once you land in Las Vegas, whether it be transportation to your hotel or shuttling between casinos, restaurants, shopping, or even the suburbs.

Airport Transportation
Shuttles: There are several companies running airport shuttles equipped with wheelchair lifts. You can either reserve in advance or make arrangements upon arrival.

Head out Baggage Claim Door #1 for Bell Transportation (800.274.7433) Baggage Claim Door #3 for Grayline (702.739.5700)
Baggage Claim Door #4 for CLS(702.740.4545) and Ray and Ross (702.761.3230)

Taxis: Taxi vans equipped with wheelchair lifts are available and no advance notice is necessary. Just grab your bags and head out the doors marked “Taxi” from Baggage Claim.

Around Town
Taxi: Taxis are everywhere. At your hotel, the doorman can procure you the required type of vehicle to suit your needs. If no doorman is available, any taxi cab driver can radio dispatch for you.
Trolley: There are lovely old-fashioned open-air trolleys that make their way up and down the Las Vegas Strip. They usually stop off at each hotels to drop and pick up passengers. Many of these trolleys are equipped with wheelchair lifts.

CAT (Citizen Area Transit): Las Vegas runs 24-hour-a-day buses up and down the strip, as well as daily buses around town. Buses are equipped with wheelchair lifts and offer discounts to disabled travelers.

Monorail: There are three monorail services in town, all handicapped accessible. A short monorail at the south end of the strip which runs between Mandalay Bay, the Luxor, and the Excalibur at no cost to travelers. Another short monorail that runs between the Mirage and TI, also at no cost. And the new Las Vegas Monorail, which runs from the Sahara to the MGM Grand (with stops at the Hilton, Convention Center, Harrah’s, Flamingo/Caesers, Ballys, and Paris). Tickets can be purchased for a single ride, a full-day pass, a 10-ride ticket, or a 3-day pass. LVMonorail.com.

By Jen Leo | Permalink

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