No Stress Vegas

The Strip, with a toddler in tow.

Family Las Vegas is more doable than it looks—if you know the moves. Notes from a San Francisco family that keeps going back.


We’ve taken our daughter to Vegas three times before her second birthday. Each trip we got a little better at it—the right hours for the pool, when to stay indoors, which walk is worth it and which isn’t with a stroller in the heat.

This is where I’m writing it down: honest, specific, and without the usual padding. First up—five days at Mandalay Bay, with a day at the Cosmopolitan. Our July playbook, start to finish.


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