4 day Vegas Itinerary
I am going to be honest. When I booked our family trip to Las Vegas I was not expecting us to like it. I had been there 15 years ago, and it was probably one of my least favorite trips. However, I am so glad we decided to give it another go. My family loves to be outdoors and explore so I tried to focus on all the amazing natural areas around the Vegas area. This plan worked out fantastic. I will go over our itinerary here briefly and do more detailed posts on the different parks on their own post with more detail. If you want to see how our family booked this trip on points click here!
When we first arrived in Vegas, we checked into our hotel Hyatt Place at the airport. When it says airport it isn’t kidding. Our pool view room also included the flight line.
On our first day in Las Vegas, we headed to Red Rock Canyon. You can get reservations on recreation.gov to enter the park. They are required from November to March. The park is phenomenal. Our family enjoyed hiking tons of different trails and being out in nature. We love National Parks and State parks so this was a huge hit with all of this. I think we all got plenty of exercise that day. Be sure to pack plenty of water and chapstick. You are in the Mohave desert and it is dry even in December.
Our 2nd day we made the 2 hour drive to Death Valley. We are all so glad we did. We travel a lot and none of us had seen anything like this. We did several hikes and they were all just so amazing.
After our amazing day in Death Valley, we headed back to Vegas and changed hotel to Paris. After staying in one room at the Hyatt Place for 2 nights we were all excited I had booked two rooms at this hotel. I was able to check in on the app and skip the long line. I highly recommend you do this too. There were lots of grumpy people in line. I was able to access our rooms keys from a kiosk quickly. My family was thankful I am a planner! This was a fantastic location on the strip. Right in the middle. I would stay here again no problem.
Our 3rd day, we had plans to go Valley of Fire State Park and the Hoover Dam. After so much walking the past two days, we decided to do Valley of Fire State Park first before we all were too exhausted to enjoy it. We really enjoyed this park. We saw Bighorn Sheep, petroglyphs and petrified wood. Not to mention amazing red rocks out in the dessert. Everything about this made my family happy. After we left the park, we ate lunch in the small town of Overton and the headed to the Hoover Dam. We had reservations do the Power Plant tour. When we got there, we could upgrade our reservations to a longer tour, but we all decided the Power Plant tour was fine. I had been to the Hoover Dam before but had forgotten how magnificent it truly is.
Day 4 - This was the only day I reserved to stay in Las Vegas. We started the day at the Atomic Museum. My family loves museums and science so they loved this museum. We then walked back to the strip and explored some the hotels. We then ended the night at the Chase Saphire Reserve Lounge at Aria hotel. More on this later but it ended our trip in the perfect Vegas way.
