The Luxor Hotel is a hotel casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, United Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets States, and was one of the resort city's first fully-themed megaresorts. Ground was broken for the Luxor Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets in 1991, the same year that construction began on the Treasure Island and the current MGM Grand. It has an Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets Ancient Egyptian motif and contains a total of 4,407 rooms lining the interior walls of a hollow pyramid Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets and contained within two twin ziggurat 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 Hotel and Casino tickets resort is flanked by the Mandalay Bay to the south and by the Excalibur to the north; all three are connected by free express and local trams. All three properties were built by Mandalay Resort Group, Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets formerly known as Circus Circus Enterprises. In June 2004, the Mandalay Resort Group was purchased by MGM Mirage, adding this hotel to its vast array of properties on the "Strip". It can be considered the "middle child" of Mandalay's south strip properties, both in terms of age (it opened in 1993; the Excalibur opened i Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets n 1990, while Mandalay Bay opened in 1999) and level of luxury.
When the resort opened, it featured a more heavily Egyptian-themed interior, including a river that Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets encircled the casino with a ferry that would carry guests to their inclinator core at the corners of the Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets pyramid. The ride was then turned into a river ride that passed by many pieces of ancient artwork after Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets people complained that the ferry service took too long. Most of the ancient Egypt theme and the river ride were taken away as part of a campaign to tailor the property towards more upscale tastes in 1995.
The resort has been home to some very popular entertainment attractions in Las Vegas. The main level Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets featured the nightclub, RA, which closed indefinitely on July 22, 2006. From 2000 to 2005, the Luxor Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets Theatre was the home of the enormously popular performance-art show Blue Man Group, which has since moved to The Venetian. On February 15, 2006, the main theatre became the home of the musical Hairspray. The Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets final Hairspray show was on June 11, 2006.
In 2006, MGM-Mirage began renovating Luxor. Rooms in the East and West Towers have been refurnished. Two Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets upscale restaurants, Isis and Sacred Sea Room, closed. The RA nightclub, which had previously been one of Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets the most successful in the city but had been seeing reduced attendance in recent years, was shuttered. Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets Advertising at RA's former entrance currently promotes that LAX, a Los Angeles nightclub, will be opening Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets a Las Vegas branch at the hotel. Also advertised yet unopened is a restaurant named Aspen 702.
Illusionist Criss Angel signed a deal in 2006 to film episodes of his TV series Mindfreak at the hotel. It Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets is currently rumored that he will also be involved in a show production for the Luxor Theatre.
An IMAX theatre (the first such theatre in Las Vegas, although in 1979, Caesars Palace opened an Omnimax Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets Theater, the precursor to IMAX) shows a rotating selection of films; there is also an IMAX motion Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets simulator ride hosting a variety of rides, including "In Search of the Obelisk," which takes participants Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets into a virtual archeological dig and ReBoot, based on the animated series. The "Atrium Showroom" is home Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets to multiple shows: "Fantasy" (a topless revue), comedian Carrot Top, and the movie/attraction "Pirates Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets 4D". The attractions level also features the "King Tut Museum", an authentic replica of the tomb of Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets Pharaoh Tutankhamun. The reproduction is based directly on the descriptions of the tomb recorded by Howard Luxor Hotel and Casino tickets Carter, who discovered it in 1922.
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