Luxor Las Vegas is a hotel and casino situated on the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.The hotel has 30 stories, and it's owned and operated by MGM Resorts International.The hotel has also a 120,000sqft casino with over 2,000 slot machines and 87 table games.After the 2008-2009 renovation work, the hotel now has a new, and highly modernized design and contains a total of 4,407 rooms (including 442 suites). The hotel's rooms are lining the interior walls of the main tower that has a pyramid shape, and other recent 22-story twin ziggurat towers.The hotel is named after the city of Luxor (ancient Thebes) in Egypt. Luxor is the sixth-largest hotel in Las Vegas and the ninth-largest in the world.As of 2010, the Luxor was designated as a 4 Key rating from the Green Key Eco-Rating Program, which evaluates what is known as "sustainable hotel operations".HistoryGround was broken for the Luxor in March 1992 and the resort officially opened at 4 AM on October 13, 1993, to a crowd of 10,000 people. When it opened, the pyramid, which cost $375 million to build, was the tallest building on the strip and contained 2,526 rooms and a 100,000sqft casino. The resort was financed by “petty cash” earned from other Circus Circus Enterprises properties and did not include any outside financial investors. The hotel's pyramid is similar in size to the Red Pyramid and Bent Pyramid of Egypt.
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