Luxor Hotel - Definition and Overview

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The Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, was one of the resort city's first themed hotels. It has an Ancient Egyptian motif and contains a total of 4,407 rooms lining the interior walls of a hollow pyramid and contained within two towers. It opened on October 15, 1993.

It is located on the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip, opposite McCarran International Airport.

The Luxor is arguably the most recognizable hotel on the strip because of its striking design. The main portion of the hotel is a 350-foot-high (106 meters), 30-story pyramid of black glass (in comparison, the Great Pyramid of Giza tops out at 450 ft, or 137 m). The tip of the pyramid contains a spotlight that points directly upward – it is the brightest beam in the world, and is visible from anywhere in the Las Vegas valley at night. The guest rooms are situated on the outer walls of the pyramid and are reached by riding in so-called "inclinators" that travel along the inner surface of the pyramid at a 39 degree angle. Open hallways leading to the rooms overlook the atrium, which is the largest in the world at 29 million cubic feet (820,000 m³).

The hotel is named after the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt, the site of the Valley of the Kings, Karnak and Luxor Temples, and scores of other pharaonic monuments – but no pyramids.

External link

• Luxor Hotel website (http://www.luxor.com)
• Photos of Luxor hotel casino (http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/las_vegas/luxor.html)