Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas H-M
Luxor Hotel & Casino
3900 Las Vegas Boulevard South,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89119-1000,
United States
Phone: (702) 262-4000
Website: luxor.com
About the Casino
In its life, the Luxor has gone from being one of my least favorite hotels to one of my most favorite hotels to now, somewhere in the middle.
The original idea was pretty cool: build a 30-story black pyramid in the middle of the desert and put in hotel rooms and a casino with an Egyptian theme. Cool. Unfortunately the execution wasn't as good as the idea and it came off looking like a tacky theme park, complete with a narrated "Nile" boat ride around the perimeter of the casino. Ummm, yeah.
Apparently a lot of people agreed with me and so Mandalay Resorts (the former owners of the property) threw a few bucks at the place (around 300 million of them) and remodeled from top to bottom. Guess what? It was worth it because The Luxor became one of the most interesting, fun, and appealing hotels in town with the Egypt theme still kitschy but in an amusing "only in Vegas" kind of way.
Then, in 2008, the hotel underwent yet another change when they scrubbed the bulk of the Egypt theme away. Gone are the wacky hieroglpyhics, the talking camels, the King Tut exhibit, and pretty much everything else that made this hotel unique. Yes, the pyramid itself is still there, as is The Sphinx guarding the valet parking and a few other "Walk Like an Egyptian" details, but for the most part Cairo is gone and bland luxury has replaced it.
See full review of Luxor Las Vegas courtesy of Rick Garman's Vegas4Visitors.com
