Vegas VIP After Dark Helicopter Tour

Vegas VIP After Dark, the tour once sold as Strip Highlights with limo transfer, is Papillon’s night flight over the Strip with the ride included: you’re picked up at your hotel, toast with champagne before take-off, fly over the Strip and Downtown, then get driven back. If you’d rather get to the terminal yourself, the same flight is sold without the ride as Las Vegas Strip Highlights.

The flight lasts 10 to 15 minutes in an Airbus ECO-Star. It runs down both sides of the Strip, past the Luxor pyramid, Allegiant Stadium, the New York-New York skyline, T-Mobile Arena, the Bellagio fountains, the Eiffel Tower at Paris and the Sphere, then carries on past The STRAT to the neon of Downtown.

Count about 1½ hours from hotel pickup to drop-off. Papillon collects you at most Strip and Downtown hotels about an hour before the flight and brings you to its terminal at 5060 Koval Lane, near Harry Reid Airport.

Everyone 18 and over needs an original REAL ID-compliant license or a passport; without one, Papillon refuses check-in and refunds no one in the booking.

Papillon picks up at hotels only, but you don’t have to be staying at the one you’re collected from.

Check in 45 minutes before flight time, or the booking is cancelled as a no-show. Changes are free until 72 hours before departure. Cancelling by then gets you a credit voucher for the full price, good for a year, not a refund; inside 72 hours, no changes or refunds. Reconfirm by phone a day or two ahead.

Passengers of 300 pounds or more pay for an extra comfort seat at check-in. Children 2 to 11 have their own fare, under-2s fly free on a lap, and everyone 12 and up pays the adult fare.