The 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is upon us. It’s the most wonderful time of the year—two months of back-to-back-to-back poker tournaments, harvest time for the Las Vegas cash game pros, and all the poker streaming your eyes and an internet connection can take.
However, if you’re in Las Vegas for the 2023 WSOP you may want to (or have to) step away from the tables for a bit. When looking for something Vegas it is easy to be blinded by choice. So it is lucky that many a traveler has walked these desert roads before you and the more helpful of them have left reviews behind them.
Check out the top ten non-poker tours, attractions, day trips, and shows according to the users of TripAdvisor.
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1. Fountains at the Bellagio
One of the most iconic images of Vegas is the Bellagio Fountain. 1,214 water nozzles and nearly 5,000 lights set in an eight-and-a-half-acre pond.
At the push of a control-room button, the nozzles and lights perform to music, sending jets of water up to 140 metres in the air in a choreographed show that has appeared in more movies and holiday snaps than can be easily counted.
2. Red Rock Canyon
The Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area is in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Vegas.
This area of outstanding natural beauty is a popular hiking destination and a great place to reconnect with nature after the high-stakes hustle and bustle of the WSOP.
Fans of geology and magnificent views can book trips out to the canyon on foot, on bikes, or aboard a chopper.
3. Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Garden
The Bellagio’s second attraction on this list brings nature to you and curates it into a vegetal theme park.
Plants imported from all over the world are arranged and planted in cartoon bowers and watched over by enormous plaster swans and peacocks.
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4. “O” by Cirque du Soleil
Co-founded by poker’s own Guy Laliberte, Cirque du Soleil’s 2023 show simply titled “O” has 4.5/5 stars on TripAdvisor from 451 reviewers.
O is a water-themed variety show sporting “mesmerizing choreography, gravity-defying acrobatics, and hypnotic music.”
Another win for the Bellagio, at which the Cirque has a residency.
5. Fremont Street Experience
Another festival of lights and music, the Fremont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall running for five blocks at the western end of Fremont Street.
The most recognizable feature of the experience is the 27-meter LED barrel vault which plays a light show. Three stages host regular free concerts and all through the area designated busking areas ensure new entertainment every few feet.
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6. The High Roller Ferris Wheel
Standing 168 meters high, the High Roller is the second biggest Ferris wheel in the world. The wheel, located outside CET’s LINQ hotel, takes 1,128 people on a ride taking thirty minutes to complete.
Once you board the pod, you settle in for views of the strip which is co-incidentally, number 7 on this list.
7. The Strip
The Las Vegas Strip is a four-mile section of Las Vegas Boulevard in the unincorporated town of Paradise, Nevada.
This is where you can find some of the most famous casinos in the world: the MGM Grand, New York-New York, The Venetian, Caesars Palace, and the 2023 WSOP’s home casinos of the Horseshoe and Paris.
8.Hoover Dam
Another technical marvel, this time from the 1930s. The Hoover Dam holds back Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S.
Tourists can book day trips out to the dam as part of a tour visiting other sites like the Grand Canyon and Red Rock Canyon. Or if you’re feeling flush, you can book a helicopter to take you over the top of the dam for a view of the structure and its environs.
9. Mob Museum
Las Vegas history is intimately tied to that of the mob.
Ever since Bugsy Seigel pivoted from bootlegging to gambling after the end of prohibition, the Syndicate, the Mafia, and Murder, Inc were as much part of the Vegas myth as names like the Pair o’Dice Club and the Flamingo.
At the mob museum, you can discover this history through artifacts like the St. Valentines Day Massacre Wall and actual tickets from the 1919 World Series.
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10. The Stratosphere Tower
The Strat Hotel, Casino and SkyPod as the Stratosphere is now called, hosts a 350-meter observation deck.
This is the tallest observation deck in the U.S. with views of all Vegas, stretching out to the desert.