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How’s the area around the Stratosphere?
This question answered by Steve the Texan|Last updated: August 28, 2011

We are staying at the Stratosphere soon. In different parts of the site you have mentioned that the area between the Strat and the Strip is a "bad neighborhood." What does this mean? How far of a walk is the Strip from the hotel?

Kayleigh
(Lebanon, Missouri)



I feel bad every time we write about the Stratosphere. It's a nice hotel with some good rules on table games for gamblers with some really memorable attractions atop the tower and one of finest restaurants in town, Top of the World. Even with all that going for it, it's not a place I recommend frequently, and that's because of the location.

The Strat is only a mile or so from the north end of the Strip, but I would not advise walking to and from the Stratosphere. When we call the surrounding area a "bad neighborhood" we mean it's not a place where tourist can feel comfortably save, like they can on the main areas of the Strip and Downtown. It's bad enough during the day -- but probably safe -- but at night it's a flat-out bad idea to try and make the trip on foot.

(Let me stress that the areas occupied by the hotel and hotel parking are perfectly safe. It's well maintained, well monitored and guarded. It's when you leave the Stratosphere property that it turns iffy.)

The Stratosphere makes up for its inconvenient location somewhat by often offering some very good deals on room rates. Use some of those savings to pay for the cab fares back and forth from the Strip.

September 8, 2013, 1:20 pm
Dilwyn Lewis said:
I went up to the stratosphere area to get a tattoo and it took longer than expected to finish so it was late when we finished and when we came out of the tattooist it was like another world from the daytime there were gangs of lads lurking about and not a nice experience the hole area away from the hotel was not nice

July 19, 2011, 11:48 pm
KIMOSABBE3 said:
I was at the Stratosphere taking photos at night and began to realize that there were a varity of thugish looking guys walking by on a regular basis so we hopped in a cab and relocated to the Treasure Island end of the strip. It was very obvious that we were in a bad area at night. Beware!

http://firsttimelasvegas.com/stratosphere-neighborhood/