Las Vegas, Nevada
March 2005

Here are some more wonders of the Luxor.

The hotel pyramid is hollow inside. On a floor above the casino and lobby is an entertainment area with restaurants, shops, a really good museum replica of King Tut's tomb and several theaters, including an IMAX where Gloria and I saw a documentary on a raft trip down the Blue Nile. Behind the buildings in this photo you can make out the floors where the hotel rooms are.

Here is a shot of the gaming area of the lobby. Gloria and I bet a total of $1.50 in quarters on the slots, but we lost it all.

Even in the gaming area there is great attention to Egyptian detail.

This is the entrance to the downstairs buffet restaurant called "Pharoah's Pheast." Gloria and I ate here most of the time because the food was very good and the price was "relatively" inexpensive.

The entire restaurant area was decorated like an archeological dig. This is at the entrance.

Here is what one of the dining areas looked like.

And this is at the exit of the restaurant. When we left the restaurant and the hotel we had to walk through the gambling area one more time, but that wasn't the end of it because the airport had plenty of slots, too. While we were waiting for the plane one man won several hundred dollars.