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| - Looking at deals on Priceline it was between the Luxor and Excalibur. With recommendations from Marc M for the Luxor, we went with that and I'm glad we did.
This place isn't going to be Caesar Palace or the Venetian, because you're not paying for Caesar's Palace or the Venetian. But if you're like me, you want a clean room to sleep and shower in, and not much else. Why? Because I'm in Vegas to drink, eat, shop, and gamble; not to sit in my room and admire the furniture.
And that's what you get. Our room was just fine and bathroom was really nice. After being exhausted from walking up and down the Strip I bought episom salt and took a nice bath, the tub was super.
We stayed in the tower because, if I heard right, the pyramid itself is smoking. Some reviews have complained about the walk to the towers but it really wasn't that bad. As fun as Vegas is, I'd prefer to have some distance from the casino anyway.
Lines for check in can be long, even late at night when we arrived. But I have to give serious credit to the Luxor because we were a day late on our reservation due to a freak snow storm in Seattle. Even though we booked the hotel online there was no trouble refunding the night we didn't stay here. We did call as soon as our flight was canceled, and it worked in our favor. But I can see this generally being a problem with hotels and it wasn't at the Luxor.
The Luxor is at the end of the Strip so you'll have to seriously walk, taxi or take the shuttle to get to the other side, but I didn't mind and I'll definitely stay here again.
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