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 is taken from the city of Luxor, located in the Valley of the Kings in ancient Egypt.
Built in 1991, Las Vegas Luxor underwent renovation 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. Las Vegas Luxor was initially more Egypt-oriented in terms of thematic aspect before the renovation two years ago. It used to have a river that surrounded the casino and guests were taken on boat trips to take a look around and to get to that particular casino. The river was later removed because of tourist complaints that the trip took too long. In addition, tourists believed that they could see the ghosts of two of the workers who had died in an accident during the construction period.
There was a theater and a club within the older Las Vegas Luxor. Nowadays things are a little different. 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.
Las Vegas Luxor is very well-known because of its design, the work of Veldon Simpson. Las Vegas Luxor is a thirty-story pyramid of black glass with a truly impressive look. The portico-like structure goes under a huge recreation of the Giza Sphinx which also makes it strikingly known to so many people. At the top of the pyramid there is a tower of light pointing upwards and being considered one of the strongest beams in the world.
