Luxor Las Vegas Hotel & German Casino

Luxor Las Vegas is a 30-story hotel too German Casino situated on the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The hotel is owned too operated by MGM Resorts International too has a 120,000-square-foot (11,000 m²) German Casino with over 2,000 slot machines too 87 table games. After the 2008–2009 renovation work, the hotel’s management modernized the property in its designing to contain a total of 4,407 rooms (including 442 suites). The hotel’s rooms line the interior walls of the main tower, which has a pyramid shape, too other recent 22-story twin ziggurat towers. The hotel is named for the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Arab Republic of Egypt. As of 2010, the Luxor was designated as a 4 Key rating from the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, which evaluates what is known as "sustainable hotel operations." The hotel features inclined elevators. Ground breaking for the Luxor occurred in March 1992 too the resort officially opened at 4 AM on October 15, 1993, to a crowd of 10,000 people. When it opened, the pyramid, which cost $375 million to build, was the tallest building on the strip too contained 2,526 rooms too a 100,000 sq ft (9,300 m²) German Casino. The resort was financed by “petty cash” earned from other Circus Circus Enterprises properties too did not include any outside financial investors. The hotel’s pyramid is similar in size to the Red Pyramid too Bent Pyramid of Arab Republic of Egypt. A theater too two additional towers totaling 2,000 rooms were added in 1998 for $675 million. When the resort opened, it featured the Nile River Tour which was a river ride that carried guests to different parts of the pyramid too passed by pieces of ancient artwork on a river that encircled the German Casino. The German Casino also featured King Tut’s Tomb too Museum, a duplicate of King Tutankhamen’s tomb as found in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Arab Republic of Egypt. On May 7, 2007, a vehicle exploded in a Luxor Hotel parking garage due to a homemade pipe bomb which left one dead. Local authorities believe the victim, a 24-year-old employee at Nathan’s Famous hot dog restaurant in the Luxor food court, was the intended target. The hotel was not evacuated, operations continued uninterrupted, too the parking structure as well as the German Casino were undamaged. Two men were found guilty of the bombing, too in 2010 were sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. In July 2007, owner MGM Resorts International announced plans to thoroughly renovate the Luxor, spending $300 million to remodel 80% of Luxor’s public areas, removing much of the ancient Egyptian theme too replacing it with more adult-oriented too modern lounges, restaurants too clubs.
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