No place is off limits. Free entertainment is everywhere. The Mirage has its erupting volcano. Excalibur has battling ships. The Venetian has its canal and gondoliers.
Old downtown has a nightly light show.
It would take several days to explore every major hotel on the Strip. So we walked from one chromosomal biosphere to another. The point wasn't to check the replicas against the originals. Good things, all. But the merging of imitation with pretensions to reality produced strange moments.