For my first review of my recent Las Vegas trip, let's begin w/ where we stayed. The Luxor was our choice being geeks and all and the Egyptian stuff looked really neat in the pictures. Something tacky and Vegas for our first time! I passed up buying the ground transportation when I booked the trip since the hotel is only 2 miles from the airport. Coming from Chicago, I thought we had expensive cabs! But $25 to get there? Craziness! That's an entree! So when we arrived we were immediately bombarded by someone trying to get us a time share...dude, I've been up since the crack of dawn and just had to fly almost 4 hours - let me check in first. These people are all over the place - just ignore them!\n\nWhen we went to check in our agent had put us in 2 double beds (maybe she misunderstood the word 'partner'?) but they quickly changed my 15 floor pyramid room to a 3rd floor one. Eew...now I'm closer to the floor. But then we opted to stay in the West Tower and am SO thankful for that. The room had a nice deep bath, a gorgeous view of Nevada mountains and just an elevator ride right into the pool and spa area. Worth the extra $20 a night! \n\nWe had room service one night - it was prompt and fine for chicken tenders. The people who work here are a delight. Even when I called the pool to find out what the hours were the person was overly cheerful! The last day our checkout was at 11AM but our flight didn't leave until 4 - unfortunatley they were booked so I couldn't check out late. So we took the bags down to the *clearly marked* are to stand in a short line for them to hold them while we did some more hotel hopping...that person...also crazy polite! It was surreal and I loved my first stay in Vegas - will I stay at the Luxor again - if I'm broke sure...but I think I've gotten the tacky hotel out of my system - I'm ready for some class next time!
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