WSJ Pursuits travel section in Sat/Sun (Oct 8/9, page P7) paper had an article on Vegas moving away from family friendly toward more adult entertainment but had a few suggestions for things one could do as a family.

From the article:

* According to LVCVA, 10% of visitors brought under 21 children. 56% of those were with children between 6 and 12.
* With the change in the TI show and MGM removing the theme park, there is a lot less family-friendly entertainment.
* Suggestions for those still traveling with children: Bellagio fountains, Paris LV Eiffel Tower, Bellagio art museum, sidewalk cafes at Paris and Caesars, Excalibur in general, Venetian gondola rides. For shows Cirque shows _except_ Zumanity and Lance Burton.
* Better option, drive to the Hoover Dam or Grand Canyon or Red Rock Canyon.

If you have a science-oriented family, and are willing to plan in advance, the tour of the Nevada [Nuclear] Test Site is a really cool day trip but you have to appreciate those types of things. It really is a day tour in a bus looking at a lot of holes in the ground, and a few other things they used for testing weapons, along with a tour guide and videos of some of the testing. We arranged an entire LAS trip around when the NTS tour was available, and we'd do it again so don't think that I'm calling it boring. It's just something you have to be scientifically inclined to appreciate. Web site: http://www.nv.doe.gov/nts/tours.htm -- we drove right next to the house that's photographed in the upper left of that site.