Las Vegas for sports fans — where to stay for F1 Grand Prix, Raiders games at Allegiant, Golden Knights at T-Mobile, UFC. Closest hotels to every venue.
Las Vegas turned into a real sports town fast. The Raiders, the Golden Knights, a Formula 1 race down the Strip, and a UFC home base all landed within a few years, and a Major League Baseball team is on the way. Where you stay depends entirely on which venue you're headed to — the right hotel is a walk, the wrong one is a 30-minute ride in game-day traffic.
Allegiant Stadium sits just west of the south Strip. The walkable hotels are Luxor, Mandalay Bay, and Excalibur — all a 10-to-15-minute walk over the pedestrian bridge, no rideshare surge, no parking hunt. Mandalay Bay is the closest of the three. Stay here for a Raiders game and you can walk to the stadium and back, which on a sold-out Sunday is worth more than any room upgrade. Full breakdown on our hotels near Allegiant Stadium page.
Rideshare pickup after an NFL game is a mess — the surge is real and the lots empty slowly. Walking beats it every time, so book the location.
T-Mobile Arena sits behind New York-New York, mid-south Strip. The walkable picks are MGM Grand, Park MGM, and New York-New York, all connected to the arena by the outdoor Toshiba Plaza. This is where the Golden Knights play and where most big UFC cards land. Stay in this cluster and you walk out of your hotel, cross the plaza, and you're at your seat.
Fight weekends spike hotel rates across the whole city, so book early and check the best-time guide for which weekends fill up.
The F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix is different from every other event here — the track is the Strip itself. The circuit runs past Wynn, the Venetian, and the Bellagio, so the best move is to stay inside the track at a hotel with a room facing the circuit. Wynn, the Venetian, and the Cosmopolitan all put you trackside with no need to cross closed roads. See our hotels near the F1 circuit page for the trackside rooms.
F1 weekend is the single biggest rate spike on the Vegas calendar — a trackside room can run four to five times its normal price, and the good ones sell out months ahead. If you want to be there, book early.
Plenty of sports trips here are about watching, not going to a game. The sportsbooks are the draw, and they're open to non-guests. The Circa book downtown is the largest in the world — three stories, a giant screen, stadium seating. On the Strip, the Westgate SuperBook is the old-school giant. Out in the suburbs, the Durango Casino sportsbook is newer and a local favorite for game day without the tourist crush.
March Madness is the peak sportsbook weekend of the year — the first Thursday and Friday fill every book in town. Book a room early and get to your book by mid-morning to claim a seat.
Use the hotel map to see how close each hotel actually sits to your venue before you book, and check where to stay if you want the wider neighborhood breakdown.