Those hop-on-hop-off tours charge $40 to show you fake Vegas with recorded scripts about celebrities who visited once in 1987. The RTC bus system day pass costs $8 and shows you where 2.3 million locals actually live, work, and eat.

Route 206 down Eastern Avenue hits strip malls where locals grocery shop at Ranch Market and Lee's Sandwiches. Route 108 stops at every locals casino — Sunset Station, Green Valley Ranch, Red Rock — See where people gamble without tourist markup. Route 204 goes straight through Chinatown (Spring Mountain Road corridor) hitting every authentic restaurant tourists never find.

Buses run every 15-30 minutes depending on route and time. Way more authentic than those trolleys playing the same 6 songs about Elvis. Plus you're sitting next to casino workers, retirees, and families — The actual Vegas, not the performance version sold to visitors.