I had the pleasure to stay at the Luxor hotel in May 2005 while in Las Vegas for business reasons. One of the reasons I ended up at the Luxor was because the exhibition my company were showing at had prefered rates with this and several of the other large hotels on the strip. We ended up paying £80 a night which is great for the room I was allocated.

I landed at McCarran International Airport at 4pm US time and jumped in a cab to the Luxor. Firstly if you havent been to Las Vegas before you wont belive how near the airport is to the main centre of Las Vegas, it seemed from first landing that you could walk the distance to your hotel. As soon as you get outside the airport you realise a) the heat is overwhelming to begin with, it was 40 degrees when I was there and you wouldnt want to push a trolley to far, and b) Its a little further then it looks.
The taxi driver I had obviously knew the Luxor well and took me there in around 10 minutes drive. The cab was inexpensive and including tip the journey was $15

On entering the hotel you walk into a massive lobby, extremly high ceilings. At this point I think I should point out if you dont already know that the Luxor is one of the many themed hotels in Las Vegas and the main hotel is shaped like a pyramid, a very large high pyramid.
The hotel has now also got two 22 ft towers built either side of it. The hotel has in the pyramid 2,256 rooms with 236 Spa suites, two in each corner of every floor.
Within the twin towers are 1,948 rooms with 237 suites.

There was an escalator which went up to the food court and as I walked further inside and up to the front desk I saw the start of the enormous gambling area which I'll talk more about in a moment.

The room was designed to look contemporary but with strong indications of the Eygption theme. The walls were a kind of dusky pink colour and there were several pictures of eygptian gods and pyramids.

Because I was here on business just for 4 nights I didnt really eat in the Luxor bar breakfast. Breakfast was held in the The Pharaoh's Pheast Buffet area which was on the basement level. You basically went and queued for a table and when one was free you'd be taken in, you paid up front or on your room, but one thing I found that irritated me slightly was because you were being served by so many differnt people you still had to remember to take money down to breakfast because you had to tip the waiting staff too.
The buffet was self service and you could choose from a massive selection. Salad, fried items, eggs in about 15 different forms, fruit, about a million varieties of pastries, cereals, juices, gritts! I chose just bacon and eggs each day but for $12 you could just stay in there are long as you wanted and have whatever you wanted. Waitresses came around and supplied coffee and juice whenever you wanted.

I had the great fortune of being taken out to dinner two nights while there at restaurants in the surrounding hotels and they were brilliant. I have to recommend CraftSteak at the MGM Grand as that was really something else. The service, the food everything was amazing there. Expensive but very good.

The pool was one of my greatest pleasures during my stay. After a hard day on an exhibition stand at the Mandaly Bay it was a total delight to come back to the Luxor, get into my swim gear and head out by the pool for a few hours of relaxation. Thats one of the best things about Las Vegas, although I was finishing at 4pm I could still go and get plenty of sun until at least 7pm (this was in May) the pool itself wasnt very deep but was quite big, there was enough room to swim a few leisurely lengths although at the time I was the only one doing this. The other people there were mainly drinking around the pool and sitting in rubber rings in the pool. The pool is overshadowed to one side with large classic colums as I may have mentioned and water came out of the tops at different times and sprayed into the pool below. It was lovely just to sit half in and half out of the pool relaxing.
Towels were supplied for free when you produced your room key and sun loungers were available too.

The Luxor was connected to the Mandaly Bay at one entrance via a mall and corridors. This was a big plus for me as it meant I didnt have to brave the strip in my suit on the way to the exhibition, in 40 degrees of heat any outside exposure not in few clothes wasnt pleasant. The mall was good and had a very nice bookshop which Im not sure if it was part of the Luxor or the Mandalay Bay but it was one or the other. Really nice lady in there and loads of good books to browse.