Excalibur Hotel and Casino, Medieval castle resort on Las Vegas Strip, US
Excalibur Hotel and Casino is a white castle complex with four towers and multiple drawbridges at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue. The property covers about 50 acres and combines medieval architecture with gaming areas, entertainment venues, and lodging in one of the larger hotel structures along the Strip.
The resort opened in 1990 and held the title of the world's largest hotel with more than 4,000 rooms until MGM Grand took that position three years later. Its construction marked a period when many new themed resorts appeared in Las Vegas, reshaping the city's character and scale.
The Tournament of Kings hall stages nightly entertainment with mounted combat and sword duels, where guests eat with their hands as people did in medieval times. The audience sits at long wooden tables and cheers for fighters dressed in different colored armor, while servers move between the rows carrying platters of food.
The rooms spread across four towers surrounding the central castle structure, which also houses the main entrance with parking and reception areas. Covered walkways connect directly to the neighboring Luxor and Mandalay Bay hotels, allowing visitors to move between properties without going outside in heat or rain.
A three-story mechanical dragon stood beneath the drawbridge from 1993 to 2003, performing evening shows with smoke and sound effects for pedestrians passing by. The creature was later removed when management decided to update the exterior and shift focus to other attractions inside the property.
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