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Las Vegas Luxor
By RomanticHeart | July 1, 2009
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. On the location of the hotel, there used to be the Pyramid House, but much of the former atmosphere has been preserved in this themed resort. The name comes 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. 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 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.
The design concept of the hotel belongs to Veldon Simpson. Las Vegas Luxor is a thirty-story pyramid of black glass with a truly impressive look. 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.
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