Peppermill Restaurant & Fireside Lounge Happy Hour. The Strip

The Fireside Lounge is for anyone who wants the old Vegas they've seen in movies: couples on a date, night-owl locals, and tourists making a pilgrimage to the neon and the fire pits. It's been running on the Strip since 1972, it never closes, and the sunken lounge with its mirrored ceiling and pink glow is the draw as much as anything on the menu.

Happy hour runs daily, 3 to 6pm. That window gets you $6 select cocktails and half-price appetizers. The cocktails here are famously oversized, so one of those at six bucks covers a lot of ground. The half-off apps make it easy to graze, whether you're settling into a booth for an hour or killing time before a late dinner.

The Scorpion is the signature pour if you want the full experience outside the happy hour list, and the booths circling the fire pits are the seats worth waiting for. Because the lounge is attached to a 24-hour restaurant, you can roll straight from drinks into a full meal at any hour, which is part of why people keep coming back at 2am.

It sits on the Strip near the Sahara end, a short walk from the SLS/Sahara monorail stop. Hours and specials can shift, so it's worth a quick call to confirm before you build your afternoon around it.