We stayed for two nights.\n\nThe GOOD:\nStaff was generally helpful and pleasant, including the front desk, security, pool staff, and casino employees. Rooms can be found for fairly cheap.\n\nThe casino is rather sparsely populated, and the poker dealers speak constantly about how bored they are and how desperate they are for people to sit down and play. On the upside, this lead to them promoting games with splash pools (the house throws in $25-75 when the flop is a straight, flush, or straight flush). They offer free craps, roulette, and blackjack lessons, and the relaxed and empty game room means that beginners, as well as those simply looking to gamble without much pressure, will find this great place to play.\n\nThe BAD:\nThe building is old, and it shows. The river ride that used to exist is now gone, and no complimentary experiences come with your stay. The \"resort fee\" is tacked on only as you finish booking with the hotel, so the cost is really about 15 dollars more per night than advertised. As a result, customers are given \"FREE!\" internet, available only through a single wired connection in the room. The connection speed is decent enough for streaming videos, at least.\n\nThe elevators are finicky, with buttons that don't seem to respond and card readers that require more precision with swiping than NASA does with docking at the ISS. The ride is also a bit unnerving for those who have trouble with motion sickness, as they move at strange rates, traveling at a sideways angle (to scale the pyramid's walls).\n\nThe rooms are not terribly clean. The towels had stains on them, and there were plastic ties on the floor, as well as a bottle cap by the night stand. The nice thing is that the cleaning staff clearly doesn't want to do its job, so if you leave your stuff strewn all over your room and place a privacy sign on the door, you can be sure that your stuff will remain totally undisturbed by any hotel staff.\n\nThe rooms also lack basic amenities, such as coffee makers, and some of what is provided is old and in need of replacement. The hair dryers, for instance, immediately emit a burning smell.\n\nThe Luxor has very little to offer. It is a dying hotel that is at the \"lesser\" end of The Strip. However, for cheap rates on rooms and (relatively speaking) on the buffets, the Luxor's lack-luster offering may be just what you are looking for if you want a quiet, unintimidating home base for your stay in Vegas. It is connected to the Excalibur, which has more offerings for children (carnival games and such). Its location at the end of The Strip makes it easy to access and out of the way of all of the intense city traffic that begins just past the hotel.\n\nThat said, these benefits come at the price of being located far away from the excitement of the rest of The Strip, so you'll need to plan on a long walk if you intend to get to see any of the other hotels, and it's about miles if you plan on going down towards the busier end of The Strip.\n\nAlso, the beam is very overrated and unimpressive. Most spotlights are more to look at than the Luxor's beam.
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