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The Luxor Las Vegas Hotel and Casino
Luxor Las Vegas is a hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The 30-story hotel, owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, it has a casino with over 2,000 slot machines and 87 table games.
The hotel is named after the city of Luxor, from ancient Thebes in Egypt. Luxor is the second largest hotel in Las Vegas and the eighth largest in the world. As of 2010, the Luxor has a 4 Key rating from the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, which evaluates "sustainable" hotel operations.
Luxor Las Vegas Hotel includes 20,000 sq ft of convention space, four swimming pools and whirlpools, a wedding chapel, Nurture Spa and Salon along with 29 retail stores.
The Luxor is home to four shows which consist of "Criss Angel - Believe", "Fantasy" a female topless revue, comedian Carrot Top, and "Menopause the Musical". The hotel also hosts “Bodies...The Exhibition,” an educational display on the human body, and “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition”.
From 2000 to 2005, the Luxor Theatre was the home of the performance-art show Blue Man Group, which has recently moved to the Monte Carlo. Before that it had been in the Venetian.
The Luxor Sky Beam that can be seen for miles. It's 42.3 billion candela, the Luxor Sky Beam is the strongest beam of light in the world. Using computer designed, curved mirrors to collect the light from 39 xenon lamps and focus them into one intense, narrow beam, engineers say that a person could read a newspaper by Luxor’s Sky Beam from ten miles up.
This destination hotel is often viewed as a prime example of 1990's Postmodern architecture, and appeared on the cover of architecture scholar James Steele's book Architecture Today. Since opening in 1993, the hotel has appeared in numerous films including the 1996 film Mars Attacks and can be seen in the destroyed Vegas in 2012.
In Up in the Air, George Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, is asked to take a picture in front of the Luxor hotel. The hotel has also been featured in the television shows Fear Factor, Criss Angel Mindfreak, Great Hotels, and CSI.
