Checking In: Luxor Pyramid Deluxe King Room
Michael Movestro Reviews The Luxor Pyramid Deluxe King Room
Back in December, my wife and I stayed in a Luxor Pyramid Deluxe room for a couple of nights. We used MyVegas points to secure the room because after we had got our plane tickets, money was tight. We did two nights at Luxor and two nights at Stratosphere (not MyVegas, but affordable considering NFR was in town). Both locations were outside our mid-strip comfort zone, but nonetheless, we were headed to Vegas to document all the holiday goodness taking place!
We arrived at the Luxor on a Wednesday night; the line seemed a lot longer than it took to get to the check-in desk. We didn’t have a reservation for a king bed because none were available when we booked. However, the check-in guy was able to find one in a tower. I have no qualms about staying in the tower, but it has always been on my bucket list to stay in the pyramid. As luck would have it, he found one for us. Floor 6 room 6006. Kinda seems evil, right? Haha.
Upon looking around the room, I couldn’t help notice all of the…Criss Angel. They really, really need you to see his show.
Let’s start with the bathroom…water pressure was great, but the shower head was loud, very loud. It had a high-pitched shrieking sound, a very loud high-pitched shrieking sound which reverberated between the stone tiles in the shower and the glass doors which made it even worse. I was clean as a whistle but could not wait to get out of the shower.
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The bed was comfy, very comfy. The pillows, though, not so much. They hold no weight whatsoever. You have to bear-hug it on your way to sleep to get any fluff. However, you will wake up with your head off the pillow. If I were traveling solo, I would have used this hack. Grab a tee shirt you don’t plan on wearing, put the pillows inside the tee shirt, stacked. The tee-shirt is now a pillowcase for both pillows keeping them together, offering more support for your weary, buzz-filled head. You’re welcome.
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There is a vanity area as well as a small desk. Drawers and a closet for your clothes and items. The closet (if I remember correctly because I can’t find the picture of the closet interior) had an ironing board and iron. My wife has a picture of me taking a picture of the closet interior, but no such picture of said closet interior exists on my phone, odd.
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Now for the sitting/interrogation area. I say that because one of the lights is focused directly on one of the chairs. The heat/air is controlled by a unit to the left of the “hot seat.” We noticed no limitation on how hot or cold you could make the room. The view from our room was of Mandalay Bay, but the picture came too blurry to share.
Click an… you know what to do.
There is a higher tier of rooms available in the pyramid (special thanks to BBmomo for emailing me about this in November). They are called CLEO Pyramid rooms, they rolled the Queen version, but the King version isn’t ready yet.
One more thing, being that we were on the sixth floor, I was a little worried about the noise level from the music in the casino, but, there were no noise issues at all. Also, if you plan to utilize the tram to Mandalay Bay and Excalibur, be mindful of the schedule, which I took a picture of, just for you.
All in all, I would stay at a Luxor Pyramid Deluxe Room again if it were a solo trip. I can get over the shower noise, and hack the pillows, so I should be fine. But if I’m traveling with the wife, we might go for something more our style.
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Michael Movestro founded Vegas Bright to continue the tradition when Vegas Chatter cashed out. Michael pays the bills, maintains the site, writes articles, hosts VBN – Vegas Bright Newscast.
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Well, you’ve posted the schedule for the tram from the Luxor, but the schedule doesn’t reveal the truth about the tram.
The tram that runs between Luxor, Mandalay Bay, and The Excalibur was conceived by one of the great, evil geniuses of Las Vegas history!
The trams aren’t there to get you easily between the Luxor and the adjacent properties. They’re there to get everyone INTO Mandalay Bay!
One tram runs from MB to Luxor and then to Excal – and then it DOESN’T COME BACK! You can’t get back on it from the Excalibur casino. You have to walk through the casino and out a different set of doors, cross a huge expanse and into another building, which is actually closer to NY,NY or the Tropicana than it is to just walk back to the Luxor! (Fool me once….)
If you should survive the hike, the tram to return goes directly to Mandalay Bay, where you have to get off and board the other tram back to Luxor.
A brilliant scheme and marvelously executed!!
How to navigate between adjacent properties:
If you want to go to Mandalay Bay, go to the Mezzanine level and then walk across through The Shoppes at Mandalay Place. You’ll walk much further getting the tram to MB from Excal after transferring – and it’s quicker, as well.
If, for some reason, you want to go to Excal, then take the moving walkways from the north end of the first floor over through the gauntlet of tacky shops and the Excalibur’s food court. Also less walking and less time consuming than exiting the front of the Luxor and taking the tram, IMHO. (Fool me twice…)
This is GREAT!!!! Thank u so much
I have an interesting MB – Luxor – Excal tram ride hack for you….take the Luxor tram to Excalibur. DO NOT GET off at Excalibur…no one is policing this (just the automated voice who says please exit now)…when the doors close you are on the express back to Mandalay Bay. Super easy and fast, yes if you are near the doors you get glared at but they are walking around waiting for the other tram and you will leave first at the same speed as the express.
Nice review. The rooms looks pretty good and clean. I never stayed there. Just might next time.
I’ve stayed at Luxor twice – once in Pyramid once in Tower. It’s a decent room to stay in. It’s not fancy, but they are clean and they are affordable.
The room looks really nice. Folks dog Chris Angel but can his show reallllyyyy be that bad? I guess so. Loce the “Click an… you know what to do.”
Hey, Jackie – Yes, it really is “that bad”. We had quite an adventure with Criss and team when the new show was revealed last fall. Apparently they didn’t appreciate my review and let loose a sh*t storm on me: https://www.vegasbright.com/2016/07/07/hatemail-professional-performers-attack/
Yes I remember seeing this article. Sad I’m still a big intrigued but I guess I should stay away.
Love the…I mean
So these are a completely different bathroom setup than the other non-pyramid tower kong rooms, and now I see why it’s a big shower…used to be the shower/tub combo and they converted to shower only. So it is a different bathroom layout than the other sorta mayan patterened towers. As for the screeech…yeah that’s a nuts sound to put up with. Migraine anyone? Perhaps MGM is going the Caesars way of maintenance…as part of their cost reduction plan….ohhhh noooooo!!!!!! That furniture used to be in the other towers and probably moved over when they de-themed the other rooms.
We had a 3-night stay in a Tower Suite in 2015, the room was amazing but the staff couldn’t have been less friendly. It completely coloured my impression of Luxor and I refuse to stay or gamble there now. $900 to be treated like surplus to requirements.
hey just saw that u mentioned me in the article.
no problem ;)
The rooms at Luxor Pyramid were very nice. We had a high floor, tow beds, very comfy and no noise. Price was excellent. If you get a good deal stay here. The tram is helpful, but..you can walk to either Mandaly or Excalibur (yuck). Staff was excellent.