Luxor Hotel & Casino

Overview

Luxor Las Vegas is a 30-story hotel and casino situated on the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip and has a 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m2) casino with over 2,000 slot machines and 87 table games.

The casino opened in 1993 and was renovated and expanded several times. Later renovation work modernized the design of the property and raised the hotel's capacity to 4,407 rooms, including 442 suites. The hotel's rooms line the interior walls of the main tower, which has a pyramid shape, and the 22-story twin ziggurat towers.

The hotel is named for the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt.

Facilities

Luxor Las Vegas includes 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m2) of convention space, four swimming pools and whirlpools, a wedding chapel, Nurture Spa and Salon, and 29 retail stores. The hotel features inclined elevators which travel up the side of the building on a 39-degree incline.

Attractions

The Luxor is home to three shows which consist of "Fantasy", comedian Carrot Top, and the Blue Man Group. Since 2009, the resort has hosted Bodies: The Exhibition, an educational display on the human body, and Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition; the exhibits replaced the hotel's three-story arcade.

Luxor Sky Beam

At 42.3 billion candela, the Luxor Sky Beam is the strongest beam of light in the world, using curved mirrors to collect the light from 39 xenon lamps and focus them into one intense, narrow beam. On a clear night, the Sky Beam is visible up to 275 miles (443 km) away by aircraft at cruising altitude, such as over Los Angeles.

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