Las Vegas Luxor

Even first time visitors to the Sin City may have heard of Las Vegas Luxor. The picture will always seem familiar, whether from magazines, documentaries or touristic ads, because we are talking about one of the world’s most famous spots. In its place, there used to be the Pyramid House and it is today one of the best-known themed resorts. The name comes from the city of Luxor, an ancient Egyptian town in the Valley of the Kings.

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Las Vegas Luxor was built in 1991 and it was renovated in 2007. Tourists have more than 4,000 rooms available in addition to restaurants, clubs and lounges. One of the walls of the new pyramid displayed a huge ad for Absolut Vodka, but it was removed in 2008. Reviews say that the former look of Las Vegas Luxor, prior to the renovation, had more of the Egyptian atmosphere than the present-day structure. A river surrounded the casino and tourists where given a boat trip of the place. Some guests even complained that this mini-tour took too long, which is probably one reason for the removal of this pseudo-attraction. Some superstitious voices even claimed that the river was haunted by the ghosts of two workers who had lost their lives working on the casino.

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There was a theater and a club within the older Las Vegas Luxor. Nowadays things have changed a lot. They have refurnished the rooms, they have replaced two great restaurants with CatHouse, they have again replaced the nightclub that was most popular in Vegas with another, part of the branch of LAX; fortunately, the Las Vegas Luxor Steakhouse has only changed the name, as well as the IMAX theater.

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The design concept of the hotel belongs to Veldon Simpson. It is actually a pyramid of black glass that has rooms and facilities along 30 stories in height. An imitation of the Sphinx of Giza dominates the entrance, as it is placed right above the portico. Another peculiarity of the building is the tower of light directed towards the skin that has the reputation of being one of the most powerful of such beams worldwide.