[soni2926]

hi,
we're going to stay in vegas next week, staying at the venetian. i don't think they give free breakfast, is there a place anyone can recommend for cheap breakfast, on the strip if possible, as we're not renting a car.

also we were thinking about visting the grand canyon, are there any tours that take you just there? i've seen some tours online but they seem to go to other places like the hover dam, just wanted to see the canyons and come back, as we wanted to spend more time in vegas. otherwise the tours say seeing all those things take about 14hrs.

thanks.

[KonaKat]

Driving to the Grand Canyon will take 4 or 5 hours, not something one would want to try to do for one day and return.

Treat yourself to one of the huge breakfast buffets. the Sunday one at the Rio was always my favorite. You could spend half a day at that buffet!!

[jjameson922]

The Venetian itself has a decent breakfast buffet. Their coffee shop is also a midrange priced good choice. I'm not aware of any hotel/casinos offering free breakfasts. The Venetian is located mid Strip so the nearest hotels would be the Wynn which is high priced or crossing the street to T.I. or Mirage where the food is nothing to write home about. The Rio, that was suggested by the other poster, is not on the Strip and would require a bit of a walk to catch the Rio shuttle bus and that only runs, I believe, about every 2 hours. Now if you're thinking of renting a car, your options are wide open.

[Buzz123]

Any of the hotels on the Strip have enough different restaurants, shops, and any amenity you can name, that you could stay in one and never leave. If you can afford a room at the Venetian you surely can afford at least one of the restaurants. There is also food court, and the Venetian has a walkway thru to the Palazzo where you have other choices. The two hotels also sport what is probably the world's largest, or at least, busiest Walgreens. But once you get here you'll probably hotel hop like everyone else does.

[BABYGIRL1970]

If you go to LasVegas.com .. click on Grand Canyon tours, it will list all the tours you can take. We did a Champagne Lunch tour which took about 4 hours. Pick you up at your hotel, take you to Boulder City, helicopter flight to the Canyon .. Lunch on the Canyon Floor by the Colorado River and then back to Boulder with a flight down the strip first. It was fantastic!!!! Would do it again in a heartbeat.