This is a two and a half hour "tour" that begins at the Royal Resort on Convention Center Drive, and it covers much of the history of Las Vegas when the Mob had tremendous influence and controlled much.
Much of the tour consists of sitting on the bus in the shade of some buildings while the tour director describes mob activities and shows photos and video on the flat panel at the front of the bus. The first talk was about 15 minutes as we sat in the shade of the buildings west of the Royal Resort. We then took a circuitous route down Convention Center Drive, made a left on Paradise, went to Sahara where we made a right, turned right on Joe W. Brown and then parked in the shade of the Las Vegas Hilton near its Sports Book entrance. From there we went back down Joe W. to karen to Maryland to Sahara to Tony Roma's where Frank Rosenthal survived a car bombing attempt on October 4, 1982. See what I mean about how the "tour" goes. For a local, it was awful to see the roundabout way we were going. As a tourist, I might not have noticed.
The material offered during the tour is excellent. There just isn't enough to see on the tour. The only place we got out of the bus and toured anything was the last place, the Flamingo Hotel, where we walked to Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's Garden. Now that I know where it is I'll be back to see it in daylight.
We were fortunate to have as our narrator Dennis Griffin, the author of several books. He has a lot of knowledge.
I'm glad I had a Groupon for this experience.