Las Vegas Luxor
Las Vegas Luxor is both a hotel and casino and a focal point of attraction in the Sin City. It is probably one of the places that most people know at least from pictures and documentaries when it comes to touristic attractions around the world. 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, an ancient Egyptian town in the Valley of the Kings.
Las Vegas Luxor was built in 1991 and it was renovated in 2007. It contains more than four thousand rooms for tourists, and its public areas have also been renovated to create more adult-appealing lounges, clubs and restaurants. In the same year of the renovation, one of the pyramid’s black surfaced facades advertised for Absolut Vodka but last year, in 2008, the ad was taken off. Las Vegas Luxor was initially more Egypt-oriented in terms of thematic aspect before the renovation two years ago. 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.
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, you can still find the Las Vegas Luxor Steakhouse only under a different name as well as the IMAX theater which has been renovated to offer even greater performance shows.
Las Vegas Luxor is very well-known because of its design, the work of Veldon Simpson. It is actually a pyramid of black glass that has rooms and facilities along 30 stories in height. The portico-like structure goes under a huge recreation of the Giza Sphinx which also makes it strikingly known to so many people. 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.