Luxor Resort & Casino, Casino hotel in Paradise, Las Vegas Strip, United States
The Luxor Resort & Casino is a hotel building shaped like a pyramid in Paradise along the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, whose black glass facade encloses thirty floors. The interior forms a continuous atrium rising to the apex and contains more than two thousand rooms.
Construction started in spring 1992 with the goal of creating an Egyptian-themed venue that opened to its first guests in autumn 1993. The original concept was later scaled back, so many areas now appear more modern than at opening.
The name refers to the ancient Egyptian city on the Nile, whose ruins remain visible today. Many hotel guests enter the building through a replica temple that recalls the monumental architecture along the river.
The resort sits at the southern end of the Strip, flanked by Mandalay Bay to the south and Excalibur to the north; a free monorail links the three hotels. The pyramid's 16 inclined elevators, called inclinators, run at about 39 degrees, and the guest-room corridors open onto the interior atrium. Harry Reid International Airport is nearby.
The pyramid's apex holds a beam produced by 39 xenon lamps, described as the most powerful human-made light in the world and visible across the Las Vegas Valley in good weather. In spring, millions of moths swarm in the beam.
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