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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.
Built in 1991, Las Vegas Luxor underwent renovation 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. Reviews say that the former look of Las Vegas Luxor, prior to the renovation, had more of the Egyptian atmosphere than the present-day structure. 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. 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 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. 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. At the top of the pyramid there is a tower of light pointing upwards and being considered one of the strongest beams in the world.