Two completely different flights leave Las Vegas every day and the listings sell them in the same breath. Eleven minutes over the Strip after dark costs less than dinner. A day to Grand Canyon West, with a landing eleven hundred metres down beside the Colorado River, costs five times as much and takes seven hours. Twelve flights on this page, from $93 to $1,271, with the air time and the destination next to every one.
From, per person
12 flights compared$93
And a wedding ceremony in the air is $1271
Average rating
Across all 12 flights4.7 ★
Across 7,065 verified reviews
Time in the air
The number that sets the price11–45 min
Eleven minutes over the Strip, forty-five on a canyon day with two landings
Everything you can book here
Twelve flights, cheapest first, with the two columns that decide it: how many minutes you are actually in the air and where the helicopter goes. A Strip flight and a canyon flight are not the same product at different prices — they are different days.
★ 4.6 · 2,061 reviews
★ 4.7 · 1,938 reviews
★ 4.7 · 452 reviews
★ 4.6 · 217 reviews
★ 4.5 · 27 reviews
★ 4.5 · 134 reviews
★ 4.9 · 1,164 reviews
★ 4.7 · 377 reviews
★ 4.8 · 80 reviews
★ 4.8 · 567 reviews
★ 4.8 · 46 reviews
★ 5.0 · 2 reviews
Two questions
Twelve flights, and they are really two flights with different names. Eleven to fifteen minutes over the Strip, which is an evening. Or half a day to Grand Canyon West, with or without a landing at the bottom. Pick what matters and the page picks the flight.
See it before you pay for it
Two things, and which one you get depends entirely on what you book: six and a half kilometres of neon along the Strip, or the red sandstone walls of Grand Canyon West with the Colorado River eleven hundred metres below them.
Side by side
Every helicopter tour from Las Vegas is one of two flights wearing different names. Eleven to fifteen minutes over the Strip, which is an evening. Or two and a half to seven hours to Grand Canyon West, which is a day. Here is what each one gives you and what it leaves out.
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| MOST BOOKEDLas Vegas: Helicopter Tour of the Strip with Window Seats | Vegas: Grand Canyon Helicopter Landing Tour and Champagne | From Las Vegas: Grand Canyon Skywalk Express Helicopter Tour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price per person | $98 | $470 | $601 |
| Time in the air | 15 minutes | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Cost per minute | $6.53 | $18.80 | $24.04 |
| Lands in the canyon | No | Yes, on the floor | At Eagle Point |
| Departs from | The Strip, 90 minutes | Grand Canyon West, 2-2.5 h | Grand Canyon West, 2.5 h |
| What you see | Six and a half kilometres of Strip, with a window seat | The rim, then the floor beside the Colorado River | The rim and the Skywalk at Eagle Point, queue skipped |
| Whole trip | About 90 minutes | 2-2.5 hours | 2.5 hours |
| Rating | 4.7 · 452 | 4.9 · 1,164 | 4.8 · 567 |
| Best for | A first flight, and a window | Standing inside the canyon | The Skywalk without the queue |
| Book this one→ | Check dates | Check dates |
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Verdict
Eleven to fifteen minutes over six and a half kilometres of neon, for less than a show ticket, with 2,061 ratings at 4.6 behind the cheapest of them. It is the flight almost everybody books and almost nobody regrets. The one reason to spend more is the canyon: if standing eleven hundred metres down beside the Colorado River is the picture in your head, no Strip flight will give it to you.
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Three flights on this page carry more than a thousand ratings each, and two carry fewer than thirty. That does not make the new listings bad — but a score from two people tells you nothing, and a score from two thousand tells you a great deal. Read both numbers before you decide.
Two-minute check
Twelve flights, eleven to forty-five minutes in the air, and the listings describe them in almost identical language. Three answers narrow it to one: the Strip or the canyon, what you will spend, and whether landing at the bottom matters enough to pay for.
Where do you want to go?This decides the whole day, not just the flight
What are you willing to spend?Per person, per flight
How much of the day can you give it?The advertised minutes are flying time, not the trip
You'll get the flight that fits your answers, the thing about it that catches people out, and an honest word about how much evidence its rating rests on.
Six kinds of flight
Ratings are the operators’ own numbers on GetYourGuide, shown exactly as published. We do not write reviews and we do not average other people’s into a score of our own. Three flights here carry more than a thousand ratings each; two are new listings with a handful, and we say which is which.
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All twelve flights on this page, rated by the people who took them on GetYourGuide.
Read all 7,065→Las Vegas: Helicopter Tour of the Strip with Window Seats
From $98 · 452 reviews
★★★★★
Fifteen minutes over the Strip in daylight, and the only flight here that guarantees you a window seat rather than leaving it to the weigh-in. 452 reviews at 4.7.
Las Vegas: Night Helicopter Flight over Las Vegas Strip
From $93 · cheapest here
★★★★★
Twelve minutes over six and a half kilometres of neon, and the most-rated flight on this page with 2,061 reviews at 4.6. Cheaper than a show ticket, and over before you have finished grinning.
Vegas: Grand Canyon Helicopter Landing Tour and Champagne
From $470 · rated 4.9
★★★★★
Eleven hundred metres down, on the canyon floor beside the Colorado River, with champagne before the flight back. 1,164 reviews at 4.9 — the highest-rated flight on this page.
From Las Vegas: Grand Canyon Skywalk Express Helicopter Tour
From $601 · 567 reviews
★★★★★
Two and a half hours from the Strip to Eagle Point, with the Skywalk queue skipped — which on a busy day is most of what you are paying for. 567 reviews at 4.8.
Las Vegas: Daytime Hoover Dam & Las Vegas Strip Heli Flight
From $207 · 35 minutes
★★★★☆
Thirty-five minutes in daylight over the Hoover Dam, 221 metres of concrete wedged into Black Canyon, then Lake Mead and back along the Strip. The only flight here that goes there.
Las Vegas Night Strip Helicopter Wedding Ceremony Package
From $1271 · private
★★★★★
A ceremony performed in the air over the lit Strip, in a private helicopter, with the photographs included. It is Las Vegas, and this is the most Las Vegas thing on this page.
What it really costs
From $93 a person for eleven minutes over the Strip to $1,271 for a wedding ceremony in the air. The Grand Canyon flights sit between $329 and $695, and what separates them is whether the helicopter lands at the bottom and how long you get on the ground.
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| What you are paying for | Price | What you get | Cancellation |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Strip flight, 11–15 minutes | $93–$103 | Six and a half kilometres of neon, day or night | Free cancellation 24 h |
| Hoover Dam and the Strip, 35 minutes | $207 | The dam, Black Canyon, Lake Mead and the Strip | Free cancellation 24 h |
| Grand Canyon West, half a day | $329–$695 | The rim, a landing on the floor, and the Skywalk on some | Free cancellation 24 h |
The honest answer
The Strip flight almost always, because at $93 for eleven minutes it costs less than a show ticket. The canyon flight depends on one thing nobody tells you before you book: the helicopters go to Grand Canyon West, not to the national park.
The flight, minute by minute
Most canyon flights and one Strip flight include a shuttle from your hotel; the cheapest Strip flights do not. Check which you booked, because the difference is an hour of your evening.
Photo ID against the manifest, then the scale. Everybody is weighed and the numbers go to the pilot, who seats the cabin so the aircraft balances.
Short and worth listening to: the harness, the door, and the rule about never walking behind the aircraft. Headsets are handed out here.
Out over the desert, or straight onto the Strip if you booked a city flight. The first thirty seconds are the ones everybody talks about afterwards.
City flights run the length of the Strip and back — 6.8 km, and eleven minutes covers it twice. Canyon flights cross Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam on the way out.
Only on the canyon flights. The desert simply stops and the ground falls away eleven hundred metres. People consistently say no photograph prepared them for the moment of the edge.
On the floor, beside the Colorado River, on the flights that include it. Champagne, twenty to thirty minutes on the ground, and the walls standing over you on both sides.
Canyon flights come home over the Strip, which is a second flight for free if you timed it near sunset. Allow the full advertised trip length, not just the air time.
The one decision that matters
Everything else on this page is a preference. This one is geography. Every helicopter that leaves Las Vegas for the Grand Canyon flies to Grand Canyon West, which sits on Hualapai tribal land in Arizona about two hundred kilometres from the Strip. It is a real part of the canyon, roughly eleven hundred metres deep, and it is the only place a sightseeing helicopter is permitted to land on the floor. It is also the only place the Skywalk exists. What it is not is Grand Canyon National Park: the South Rim with the overlooks in every photograph is more than twice as far from Las Vegas and cannot be reached and returned from in an afternoon. Travellers who come back disappointed are almost always the ones who thought they had booked the other one. Nobody hides this; almost nobody states it either.
Four parts of the flight
Six and a half kilometres of neon, and eleven minutes flies it twice.
Two hundred and twenty-one metres of concrete, on the way out to the canyon.
About 200 km from the Strip, on Hualapai land in Arizona.
Eleven hundred metres down, and only the landing flights reach it.
Start here
Here is the thing no listing prints, and everything else follows from it: a Las Vegas helicopter tour is two completely different products sold in the same sentence. One is eleven minutes over the Strip for less than the price of a show ticket. The other is half a day in Arizona with a landing at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. They share a category and almost nothing else.
Start with the one people get wrong. The helicopters from Las Vegas fly to Grand Canyon West, not to Grand Canyon National Park. Grand Canyon West sits on Hualapai tribal land, about two hundred kilometres from the Strip, and it is where the Skywalk is, where the helicopters are permitted to land on the canyon floor, and where every flight on this page goes. The South Rim — the one in the photographs on the national park website, with the famous overlooks — is more than twice as far and is a different day entirely. Neither is a con. They are different places, and the listings very rarely say which one you are buying.
The first thirty seconds of a Strip flight are the best thirty seconds. You lift off, the terminal drops away, and six and a half kilometres of hotels come up on one side of the cabin all at once. Eleven minutes is enough to fly the length of it twice. People who expected something longer come back saying the same thing: it was short, and it was worth it, and they would do it again.
The canyon flights are a different kind of pleasure and the moment everybody remembers is not the canyon. It is the edge. The helicopter crosses forty minutes of flat brown desert and then the ground simply stops and falls away eleven hundred metres. Nothing about the approach prepares you for it, and no photograph taken afterwards does either.
The landing is the thing worth paying for. Several flights put you on the floor beside the Colorado River for twenty to thirty minutes, usually with a glass of champagne. Standing at the bottom, with the walls going up on both sides, is not a longer version of looking at it from the rim — it is the part that stays with people. It is also, at $470, roughly what a bus tour to the same place costs once you count the hours.
What the advertised duration means matters more here than anywhere. A canyon listing that says twenty-five minutes means twenty-five minutes in the air; the trip is two and a half to seven hours door to door depending on what you booked. A Strip listing that says eleven minutes means an evening of about ninety. Nobody is being dishonest about this; it simply catches people who booked a dinner reservation too close behind it.
The last thing to understand before you pay is the seat. Every operator weighs passengers and the pilot fills the cabin by weight, because the aircraft has to balance. Only one listing on this page writes a window seat into the booking. On everything else the middle seat is a real possibility, and it is the single most common complaint from people who otherwise loved the flight.
If eleven minutes is not enough
The Strip flights are an evening. These three are a day: two and a half hours to the Skywalk at Eagle Point, three hours with a landing on the canyon floor, and four and a half hours with two landings and real time on the ground.
2.5 h · ★ 4.8 (567)
$601See dates 2-2.5 h · ★ 4.9 (1,164)
$470See dates 4.5 h · ★ 4.8 (46)
$695See datesPractical
Five things decide how it goes: which rim you are actually flying to, the weight rules, the desert heat on the pad, whether transfers are in the price, and the fact that the advertised duration is time in the air rather than the length of the day.
Four flights, from $93. An evening rather than a day, and the cheapest way into the air in Nevada.
One flight, in daylight: the dam, Black Canyon, Lake Mead and back along the Strip.
Eagle Point with the queue skipped, which on a busy day is most of what you are paying for.
The quickest way to stand on the canyon floor beside the Colorado River.
Two landings, real ground time, and the canyon rather than a photograph of it.
A ceremony performed over the lit Strip in a private helicopter.
Grand Canyon West is on Hualapai tribal land in Arizona, about 200 km from the Strip. The national park South Rim is more than twice as far.
Shallower than the South Rim and far more accessible by air, which is exactly why the helicopters go.
Only at Grand Canyon West. Landing inside the national park is not permitted for tourist flights.
A glass horseshoe that projects about 21 metres out over the rim, and the reason many people come.
A ridge with the canyon on three sides, on most of the longer ground itineraries.
The river is what cut all of this, and on a landing flight you stand beside it.
A canyon trip is two and a half to seven hours door to door. A Strip flight is an evening of about ninety minutes.
Every operator does it, and the weights decide the seating. One listing here guarantees a window; the rest do not.
Most canyon flights include hotel pickup. The cheapest Strip flights do not, and that is an hour of your evening.
Desert thermals build through the day. Morning and last-light flights are noticeably smoother.
July on an open apron in Nevada is brutal; January at seven in the morning is cold.
Hats, bags and loose phones go into a locker before you board.
Standard on all twelve flights on this page.
Three flights here carry more than a thousand ratings each. Two have fewer than thirty.
Every helicopter flight from Las Vegas goes to Grand Canyon West, not the national park.
The last flight before dark over the Strip is the best light of the day, at the same price.
It is the part people remember, and it cannot be added at the terminal.
Still air, red walls in low sun, and no desert heat on the pad.
Best time
Flights run all year and the limiting factor is heat rather than cloud. What the month really decides is how hard the afternoon thermals shake the aircraft and how early the light turns gold on the canyon walls.
Oct – Nov
Warm days, cool mornings, still air and the canyon walls at their reddest in the low autumn sun. Sunset lands early enough that a golden-hour flight is not a late night. The one month range where the Strip flights and the canyon flights are both at their best.
Mar – May
Clear, mild and before the real heat arrives. Wind is the only variable, and it moves more flights in March than in May.
Dec – Feb
The sharpest air of the year and the quietest for availability. The canyon can have snow on the rim, which is a photograph most people never see. Dress for standing on an open pad at seven in the morning.
Jun – Sep
Desert heat pushes thermals through the middle of the day, which makes afternoon canyon flights noticeably rougher. Monsoon storms in July and August cancel slots at short notice. Book the first flight of the morning or the last before dark.
Worth knowing
The helicopters go to Grand Canyon West, not the national park. Grand Canyon West is on Hualapai land in Arizona, about 200 km from the Strip. It is where the Skywalk is and the only place a tourist helicopter may land inside the canyon. The famous South Rim overlooks are more than twice as far and are a different trip.
The advertised minutes are flying time. A canyon flight of twenty-five minutes is a two-and-a-half to seven-hour day once you count the transfer, the check-in and the ground time. A Strip flight of eleven minutes is an evening of about ninety.
Only one listing here guarantees a window seat. Everywhere else the pilot fills the cabin by weight after the weigh-in, and the middle seat is a real possibility. If the photographs matter, book the flight that writes the window into the price.
Check whether transfers are included before you compare prices. The cheapest Strip flights leave you to reach the terminal yourself; the slightly dearer ones collect you from your hotel. That difference is about an hour of your evening and rarely appears in the comparison.
Fly in the morning or at last light in summer. Desert thermals build through the middle of the day from June to September, and an afternoon canyon flight is noticeably bumpier than the same flight at seven in the morning.
The landing is the part people remember. Standing on the floor beside the Colorado River, with the walls going up on both sides, is not a longer version of the view from the rim. If the budget stretches to one upgrade on this page, make it that one.
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Common questions
From $93 a person for eleven to fifteen minutes over the Strip, and $329 to $695 for a Grand Canyon day. The most expensive listing here is a wedding ceremony in the air at $1271.
They fly to Grand Canyon West, which is on Hualapai tribal land in Arizona, about 200 kilometres from the Strip. It is a genuine part of the Grand Canyon, roughly 1,100 metres deep, and it is where the Skywalk is and where helicopters are allowed to land on the floor. It is not Grand Canyon National Park, whose South Rim is more than twice as far from Las Vegas.
Between two and a half and seven hours door to door, of which twenty-five to forty-five minutes is flying. The shortest is the Skywalk express at two and a half hours; the longest listings add a boat on the Colorado or extended ground time at the rim.
Several, and it is the part people remember. The champagne landing tour at $470 puts you on the floor beside the Colorado River, and the dual-landings tour adds a second landing on a rim plateau.
For most people, yes. At $93 for eleven minutes it costs less than a show ticket, the whole evening is about ninety minutes, and the most-rated flight on this page carries 2,061 reviews at 4.6. Expect it to be short; that is the product.
On one listing here, yes — it is written into the booking. On everything else the pilot assigns seats by weight after the weigh-in so the aircraft balances, and the middle seat is a real possibility on a full cabin.
On most of the canyon flights and on one of the Strip flights, yes. The cheapest Strip flights leave you to reach the terminal yourself, which is about an hour of your evening and rarely shows up in a price comparison.
Over the Strip, after dark — the neon is the point. Over the canyon, early morning or the last light: the walls are reddest then, and in summer the afternoon thermals make the flight noticeably bumpier.
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The answer
If you are flying once in Las Vegas, take the Strip flight at $98. It costs less than a show ticket, the whole evening is about ninety minutes, and six and a half kilometres of neon comes up on one side of the cabin all at once. If you have half a day and the budget, the canyon landing tour at $470 is the one people still talk about years later — eleven hundred metres down, on the floor beside the Colorado River, with the walls going up on both sides.
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Las Vegas: Helicopter Tour of the Strip with Window Seats
★ 4.7 · 452 reviews · Free cancellation 24 h