Belz Factory World
7400 Las Vegas Blvd S tel 896-5599. Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 10am-6pm.
Roughly two miles south of
Mandalay Bay
, on the east side of Las Vegas Blvd (which by this point is no longer called the Strip), Belz Factory World is an ever-expanding, aesthetically challenged mall that offers the city's best bargain shopping. Among over 150 manufacturer's outlets, boasting discounts of up to 75 percent, you'll find clothing and footwear retailers such as Levi's, Dress Barn, Calvin Klein, Oshkosh B'gosh, Nike, and Reebok, plus the odd specialist store like Wolf Camera.
Fashion Outlet Las Vegas
32100 Las Vegas Blvd S, Primm tel 862-0710,
. Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 10am-8pm.
Despite the street address and the deliberately misleading name, the Fashion Outlet is not in Las Vegas at all, but forty miles southwest, just short of the California state line in Primm. It carefully defines itself as a factory outlet center on the basis that more than half its stores offer discounts of between twenty and seventy percent on usual retail prices. The reason you may find it worthwhile to venture out this far is that it features much bigger names than Belz, including Donna Karan, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gap, Banana Republic, BCBG, Timberland, Tommy Hilfiger, Benetton, Just For Feet, Last Call by Neiman Marcus, and Versace, with outlets loosely divided between a glitzy "New York" area and a less formal "South Beach" area.
For details of shuttle buses from the Strip to Fashion Outlet Las Vegas, priced at $10 for the round trip, call 874-1400.
