God Bless the Monorail! It really saved us time having to walk along the strip and avoid being smothered by people working the streets, trying to hand you advertisements with smut images and people looking for a buck trying to sell you on nightclub passes. The Monorail arrives at each station about every 5-7 minutes, not bad considering it covers from the Sahara to the MGM Grand. Pretty much every hotel you'd like the visit is a reasonably short walk from a Monorail station so give it a shot. It'll be the best $12 (for a 24 hour ticket) you spend in Vegas. Personal Account: We rode the Monorail on New Year's Eve/New Year's Day getting on/off at the Sahara, Harrah's, Bally's, MGM Grand, and the Las Vegas Convention Center -- pretty much the whole line. All stations except for the Convention Center dump you right into, you guessed it, the Hotel's CASINO areas. You have to walk all the way through the Casino area before you catch sight of the Strip (Las Vegas Blvd) as the Monorail is set BEHIND the hotel/resorts.