The Hangover

In the first film, the shots of the four friends arriving on the Strip show the Bellagio and Paris Las Vegas, which face each other across the boulevard. In The Hangover Part III, the production took control of the Bellagio fountains for the scene in which Mr. Chow, a small-time gangster the friends keep running into, glides over the Strip under a parachute.

Access · The pavement along the lake is public and free.

The hotel where the friends stay in the first film. The check-in and the valet drive were filmed here for real: at the valet stand, the morning after, they get back a police car instead of the Mercedes borrowed from the bride's father. The roof where they toast, and where they finally find Doug, the groom, is the real roof of the Forum Tower; the wrecked villa with the tiger was a studio set in Burbank, California. In The Hangover Part III, Mr. Chow jumps from a Caesars penthouse balcony and opens a parachute over the Strip.

Access · The lobby and casino are open to everyone. The roof is closed to guests and hotel security is strict about it; the villa from the film does not exist.

The corridor and lift lobby on the 24th floor of this Caesars tower are real: here the four friends walk in slow motion toward the lift, dressed up for the big night. The room number in the film, 2452, is a real number at Caesars, but the room behind the door was built in a studio.

Access · Guest floors, not a public attraction: you go up only if you are staying in the tower or Caesars lets you. Otherwise the lobby and the valet entrance are the places to see. Be discreet, other guests are sleeping.

Stu, the dentist of the group, finds out that the night before he married Jade, a stripper, at the Best Little Chapel. That chapel never existed: the crew added a fake chapel front to the north side of this small hostel, then called Hostel Cat, and the interior was a studio set. The building is still here, but it looks like a hostel again.

Access · A private hostel: look from the street. Nothing of the chapel remains; check before you go.

The friends open the trunk of the car and out jumps Mr. Chow, a small-time gangster, completely naked; he attacks them and runs off. The scene was shot on an empty lot at this corner, with the Luxor hotel in the background.

Access · The lot is fenced off: look from the street. It may have been built on since; check before you go.

On East Fremont Street the friends' car is rammed outside this bar, and Mr. Chow catches up with them: he says he has their friend and wants back the money they took from him. Atomic Liquors is a real bar, one of the oldest in the city, holder of the city's first tavern licence.

Access · A working bar, open daily from midday according to Travel Nevada; check before you go. You must be 21 to drink alcohol in Nevada.

In the desert outside town, the friends hand Mr. Chow the 80,000 dollars that Alan, the bride's odd brother, won at blackjack, in exchange for Doug. The man with the bag over his head turns out to be a different Doug. The scene was shot on this dry lake bed, also used in Martin Scorsese's Casino.

Access · Public land run by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), free. Vehicles must stay on existing roads and trails outside the lake bed, which can stay flooded long after rain. No services: bring water.

In The Hangover Part II, Stu, the dentist of the group, marries Lauren at a luxury resort in Thailand. The wedding resort is this hotel on the Andaman Sea near Krabi; a few lobby scenes were shot at another hotel nearby, the former Sheraton Krabi (now Dusit Thani Krabi Beach Resort).

Access · A luxury hotel: the grounds are for guests. Check before you go.

In The Hangover Part II, a clue leads the friends into Bangkok's Chinatown, and they push down this narrow lane full of food stalls. Close by, at the roundabout on Song Wat Road, they grab back the monkey that has been tagging along and are chased by gangsters; seven streets were closed to film it.

Access · Public streets, free; much quieter than in the film.

This huge open-air park of Thai buildings, 129 hectares south of Bangkok, plays the monastery where the friends look for a monk under a vow of silence. At the Phra Kaew Pavilion, stop 30 on the park map, Alan meditates with the head monk and remembers the night. The monastery itself is invented and its interiors were shot in a studio; the reception has a display about the filming.

Access · Paid entry. Visitors get around by rented bicycle, tram or their own car; allow most of a day.

A short street of neon-lit go-go bars. In The Hangover Part II the friends stand at the entrance of Siam Sam's, a ladyboy bar, where Stu learns more about his night than he wanted to. The exterior is the Cactus Bar on this street, remodelled for the shoot; interiors were filmed inside other bars.

Access · A red-light street: the street itself is public, the bars are for adults only.

The open-air Sky Bar on the 64th floor of this tower, under its golden dome, is where the friends meet Kingsley, a mysterious man played by Paul Giamatti who is hunting Mr. Chow. They also meet him at the hotel's restaurant. The bar is real and still serves a Hangovertini, and the staircase down from the Sirocco restaurant is nicknamed the Hangover staircase.

Access · Open daily from 17:00 to 00:30 according to The Rooftop Guide; smart casual dress code, no sportswear, slippers or flip-flops. Check before you go.

In The Hangover Part III, Mr. Chow escapes from Caesars Palace under a parachute and drifts over Las Vegas, with Stu chasing him through the traffic in a limousine. The flight ends with a crash in front of this downtown hotel at the head of Fremont Street. The Strip was closed on a Halloween night to film it.

Access · Hotel and casino open to the public.

Not a film location: this wax museum at the Venetian opened a Hangover area with a copy of the wrecked suite and the wedding chapel, wax figures of Alan, Phil (the group's leader, a schoolteacher) and Mike Tyson, the boxer whose tiger the friends took, plus a bar styled like the Caesars roof.

Access · Paid ticket; it usually opens at 10:00, with hours that change by date. The Hangover area opened in 2018 and can change for seasonal shows (in October 2026 the bar becomes the Haunted Hotel): check on the official site before you go.

In the first film, Phil, a schoolteacher and the leader of the group, collects field-trip money from his pupils outside the school where he teaches, then keeps it for the trip to Las Vegas. The film's Harrison Prep is this real public school in Pasadena, a neo-Gothic building from 1927.

Access · A working public elementary school: look from the street only, ideally outside school hours, and don't photograph pupils.

In The Hangover Part II, Stu, the dentist of the group, wakes up with a tattoo on his face, and the friends go to the tattoo parlour where he got it. The parlour's front was built for the film in this small lane near Nana and is gone. A real bar in the lane, then the Bo Sa Bar, was remodelled as the outside of the White Lion, a bar in the story; the interiors were filmed in the United States.

Access · A public lane, free. The tattoo parlour no longer exists, and the bar used as the White Lion has changed name since the shoot: check before you go.

In The Hangover Part II, the friends race down the Chao Phraya, Bangkok's great river, in a speedboat belonging to Mr. Chow, the small-time gangster they keep running into. The film shows the river, not one fixed spot, so the best way to see it is from a river boat.

Access · The river is public. The Chao Phraya Express boats stop at Sathorn Pier; check fares and timetables before you go.