Free tastings and samples anyone can walk into, and the cheap local classics that keep a day of sightseeing going.
FreeThe university has 40 bottle-filling stations with cold filtered tap water across campus. Fill up when you visit the Barrick Museum, and skip the $5 bottle on the Strip.
Whenever campus buildings are open, mainly weekdays and Saturday daytime
Source: UNLV Facilities Management
$1.50A Vienna Beef hot dog with your pick of toppings, sold from a cart in the sports book. Locals line up for it on game days.
Mon and Thu 11 am–7 pm, Tue, Wed and Fri 11 am–5 pm, Sat–Sun 9 am–7 pm
Source: South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa
$3A 12-ounce bottled beer at the casino bar, between the Venetian and Harrah's. No gambling required, and the footlong hot dog counter is in the food court next to it.
Bar open daily. Hot dog counter from 10 am
Source: Casino Royale
$3.99The old downtown casino snack: a tulip glass of cold bay shrimp under cocktail sauce, sold at the counter inside the Fremont casino. It cost 99 cents for decades.
Daily, about 11 am–7 pm
The free signs on Las Vegas Boulevard are a sample. The Boneyard holds the Stardust, Moulin Rouge and Sahara signs in one lot, close enough to see the bulbs and rust, and the night visits show them lit. Nothing free in town tells the city's story this well.
Everything above is free. This is the only paid pick on the page, chosen because no free option replaces it.
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