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 3,981 rooms occupy four 28-story towers arranged in a square footprint around the casino. The Mandalay Bay Tram links the resort with Luxor and Mandalay Bay to the south; there are no covered walkways to those hotels. The southwest corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard places the main entrance at the Strip.
A 20-metre animatronic dragon in the water-filled moat before the main entrance performed hourly shows between 6 p.m. and midnight from 1993. It was retired in 2004 as the resort scaled back its themed elements, a fate shared by several Las Vegas theme hotels of the 1990s.
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