My wife and I honeymooned years ago in Vegas and stayed at Luxor. We didn’t really know any better at the time.
Fast forward to last summer. It was our anniversary; we are staying at Encore (we’ve upgraded resorts for our Vegas trips) and a few weeks prior to the trip, on a whim, I ask her if she wants to spend one night at Luxor on the actual anniversary. She agrees, and I book the same type of room we had years earlier (corner king suite). $93 or something like that (before resort fees) for a mid-week strip suite is cheap. It had been years since we had even stepped foot in Luxor, so this was going to be a field trip of sorts.
It was surreal packing an overnight bag, leaving Encore in a taxi, and going to Luxor. We didn’t have to check in; just used the app and our room was ready. We didn’t interact with a single employee at Luxor aside from the people at a bar we posted up in for a few hours.
We slept fine. The room was…..ok, other than the smell of fried foods wafting up from the food court below (we were 8th floor, west facing side of the pyramid). There was a splash of what appeared to be red fingernail polish all over the bathroom counter. 2 towels, but no wash clothes or hand towels in the room. The carpet felt moist underfoot. But seriously, the rest of the property was just so, so, so disappointing. Deferred maintenance is one thing, but deferring it for a decade or two is something completely different.
We laughed upon arrival, we laughed in the room, and we laughed the next morning when we checked out (amazing to me how long the lines were on check in and check out, when you can use a damn app and just be on your way). Oh, and as we were leaving, there was hundreds of people waiting by an exit, wearing trash bags. We figured it was for some convention, but no. It was for that damned Mr. Beast fiasco in Vegas last summer
And here’s a recent article on a stay at Luxor
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/luxor-vegas-strip-hotel-stay-20211924.php