Would you think about hiring a car and driving out there yourself. It is only about 30 minute drive from Vegas. Beautiful day out. There are tour guys all over the place selling trips especially down around the area by Circus Circus.

Definitely hire a car. Car hire is cheap, petrol is cheap, and, despite the image, Nevada driving is leisurely and courteous. Hoover Dam only about 30 minutes drive from the Strip, easy (if slightly pricey) parking there and a good visit to do - take the vistor experience tour including a rapid descent to the generator hall.

Not much to see or do at Lake Mead; interesting enough on the way back from the Dam, and pleasant enough to sit with a cool drink looking out over the lake and the yachts.

http://www.attractionworld.com/book_2.asp#

Maybe this might be of help to you.

Agree with Waterford2005, we hired a car for two days and did Hoover and Lake Mead one day and RedRock and Mount Charleston the other - with Walmart in between for beer and chips ! Driving the Strip from end to end was great too.

Driving's easy and directions good. We found http://www.yescarhire.com to be the cheapeast, if you're interested.

HTH's

Howard :-)

Gas isn't that cheap right now. Might even hit $4.00 by the summer, which is still cheap compared to the UK (probabably twice as cheap) but I remember a few years ago you could get gas for about $1.50.

Anyhow, I have also driven over the Hoover Dam and, to be honest, I didn't realize we would end up in Arizona on the other side so that was kind of cool. We took my parents there when they came over last year and it was definitely a good day out.

yup, definitely hire a car. We drove out to the Dam one day, did the Dam tour then back to Lake Mead where we hired a jet-ski for two hours and flew around the lake - you can go right round to the dam (well about 100 yards short of it). Absolutely fantastic for jet-skiing because it's so calm, managed to get over 55mph out of the jetski too - great fun!!

TC

Hi sweetpud - if you'd prefer not to hire a car, there are some good offers on excursions using this link:

http://lasvegas4newbies.com/chap5-5.html

We did a cheap '2 for the price of 1' half day to the Hoover Dam with Gray Line tours and they took is to see Lake Mead on the way back to Las Vegas. It was an enjoyable morning.

U2fan

Many thanks for all your info ! Just can't wait to go now !!

Hi, I will echo what most people have suggested to hite a car, my hubby wanted something special for 24 hrs so he hired a Plymouth Prowler from Dream Car Rentals in Vegas and we drove out in it to the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead. You will go through Boulder where there is a spectacular stop off point for pics of Lake Mead below. It's well worth doing the tour of the Hoover Dam, huge car park there. There is also a scenic drive round Lake Mead...you have to pay to go in but it wasn't much and we had fun exploring some of the areas.
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