Competition math is unkind. A grappler flies into Las Vegas on Friday, makes weight, sleeps badly in a strange bed, and then spends most of Saturday in a convention hall to accumulate somewhere between four and twenty minutes of actual mat time. The bracket closes in the early afternoon. What is left is a weekend in a city that most visiting teams never really see, because nobody planned for the part that comes after the medals.
The first hours belong to recovery, and they are easy to get wrong. Refeed steadily instead of all at once, keep drinking well past the point where thirst stops, and get a real night of sleep before anything else goes on the schedule. Coaches who travel with teenagers already know the trap. A hard weight cut followed by a buffet and a late night produces a kid who is sick on Sunday and useless in the room on Tuesday.
Sunday is where local academies can actually help visiting teams. Several rooms in the valley run open mats on Sunday morning, and the standard of training here is high enough that a drop-in session is often the most valuable hour of the trip. Message the academy first, ask what the mat fee and the gi policy are, bring a clean gi and a clean no-gi kit, and tell your coach where you are going. Nobody minds a visitor who asks ahead. Plenty of rooms mind a visitor who walks in halfway through class.
The rest of Sunday works better sitting down than standing up, which is the argument for a drive instead of another mile on the Strip sidewalk. Red Rock Canyon puts a thirteen mile scenic loop about twenty minutes from the resort corridor, and Valley of Fire sits roughly an hour out through open desert. Both are kind to legs that just wrestled six matches. Teams who want the drive itself to be part of the weekend rather than a rideshare receipt sometimes book something worth remembering from a locally owned Strip fleet that will bring the car to the hotel, which removes the one errand nobody wants to run on a Sunday morning.
Then handle the small things that make the trip repeatable. Photograph the bracket sheet before it comes off the wall. Write down what actually happened in each match while it is still fresh, not the version you will be telling in a month. Empty the gi bag out before it goes back in the suitcase. If the academy you dropped into treated you well, leave them a review and say so in your own room at home, because that is how a visiting team ends up with a standing invitation the next time the tournament comes back to town.