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| - The wife, son and I just returned from a 3 night stay at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. The last time we stayed at the Luxor was probably ten years ago.
The primary reason for our visit to Las Vegas was to see Duran Duran in concert. My son and I are big fans and I thought it would be a nice surprise to take him and the wife to Vegas to see them in concert. In addition to seeing Duran Duran, we also saw the Blue Man Group at the Luxor as well as the Michael Jackson One show at the Mandalay Bay (same place where we saw Duran Duran at.). I had originally looked at booking at Madalay Bay as two of the three shows we were seeing were there but in the end chose the Luxor as a cheaper choice. Looking back at it now, perhaps saving the $150 in total, may not have been the best choice.
As many reviews here have stated, the Luxor is what it is. An okay hotel on the strip that is reasonably priced. Also as many have stated, you now pay either $10 per day for self parking or $13 a day for valet parking. We chose the valet parking and it was billed directly to our room bill.
Yes, the hotel is rather dated but the people working there were quite friendly. We arrived to check in at 3 PM and the wait time was about thirty minutes. It seemed like they had about 12 check in stations open and the line seemed to be moving quickly. I did notice during our three night stay that check in was totally dead pretty much anytime after 6 PM on each of the nights we were there.
We stayed in the pyramid room. I was going to pay a small fee to upgrade to the tower rooms but I had read on the reviews that they were located a bit farther away from the action so we decided to stay in the pyramid. Yes, the rooms are really dated but they were very clean and for the little time we would be staying in them, it was oaky. The one thing I did notice, as pointed out in the many yelp reviews, was the air conditioning was not really cold in the pyramid rooms. I prefer to have my rooms ice cold and this was not the case at the Luxor. I would not say the rooms were hot but would guess they were in the 75 degree range. I noticed that if you sat at the table near the AC unit, you could feel the cool air but not so much if sitting or laying on the beds.
All in all, the stay at the Luxor was okay and in all honesty, I can't see a return visit. I generally like staying at NYNY and think that would be my choice for the next Vegas trip.
We never got a chance to visit the buffet as I had a free coupon from playing My Vegas, but from reading the reviews I may not have missed much. The shows we saw were all really great. If you are staying at the Luxor you should see the Blue Man Group as it was a really fun show. Cant believe we never saw this show over the last 10 plus years! Also, the Michael Jackson show at the Mandalay Bay was outstanding! We had seats in the nose bleed section and we were running late and arrived at the show about 5 minutes prior to start time and the usher asked if we wanted to sit closer to the stage.....UMMM, Yes!!! Dead center stage around 15 rows deep. Outstanding! I slipped him 10 bucks and he seemed quite happy!
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