Luxor Hotel Vegas

Luxor Hotel Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The hotel has 30 stories. It is owned and operated by MGM Resorts International. It has a 120,000 square foot casino, and over 2,000 slot machines and 87 table games.[1]

During the renovation in 2009, the hotel was modernized. It was give a newer design. The hotel has 4,400 rooms, and also 442 suites. All the rooms line the inside walls of a pyramid style tower. Twin 22-story ziggurat towers were built as later additions.[2]

The hotel is named after the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt.[3] Luxor is the second largest hotel in Las Vegas. The largest is the MGM Grand). It is also the eighth largest in the world.[4] As of 2010, the Luxor has a 4 Key rating from the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, which test hotel operations.[5]

  • View from McCarran International Airport
  • Great Sphinx of Giza and the Luxor Sky Beam
  • Luxor Las Vegas obelisk
  • Luxor Sky Beam from across Las Vegas Boulevard.

References

  1. ↑ MGM Resorts International (2010). "Luxor Las Vegas Fact Sheet - press kit". Luxor.com. http://www.luxor.com/press_room/press_room_releases_template.aspx?ID=100. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. ↑ Caine, Rachel (2003). "The Best Game in Town". Texas Monthly: 73. http://business.highbeam.com/410545/article-1G1-75309601/best-game-town. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Luxor casino: 30-story pyramid". Chicago Sun-Times. 26 April 1992. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4107334.html. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Checking In: The World's 10 Largest Hotels & Resorts". Footwear News 65: 97. 2009. http://www.wwd.com/footwear-news/checking-in-the-worlds-10-largest-hotels-resorts-2222312. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Vartan, Starre (25 August 2010). "Bellagio, MGM Grand, other hotels earn high ratings from Green Key". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/25/las-vegas-mgm-technology-greenkey.html. Retrieved 13 November 2014.

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