A Weekend in Vegas at The Luxor? 🎲🎰

THE LUXOR

I didn't pick our accommodation in Las Vegas, my son did, as he was paying for our trip to America.

But it was the hotel that I would have picked to stay in if he had have given me a choice ... although having stayed there now, I would not pick this place again for a weekend in Vegas, as there were no tea or coffee making facilities in the room, nor a fridge.

I guess the hotel management wanted guests to go downstairs and buy your coffee from one of the two Starbucks that were located in the casino and then be tempted to gamble.

Coffee and the Siren's Song

At least the weather gods smiled on us that weekend in Vegas, if no other gods did ... as SPOILER ALERT ... my Sharkies lost to the Panthers once more.

We were staying on the 23rd floor and seeing the balconies made me feel like Mel Brooks' character in the movie 'High Anxiety'.  

And looking out of our hotel window was like looking through a big flyscreen.

And our view was of the football stadium that we would be spending just about all of the next day in.

The room seemed rather rundown and had loose fitting plugholes.

"The tip of the pyramid is three stories, and features a beam of light known as the Luxor Sky Beam. It is the most powerful man-made light in the world, using curved mirrors to collect the light from 39 xenon lamps and focus them into one intense, narrow beam."

According to Wikipedia -

"Moths are also attracted to the light, which in turn attracts bats and owls"

But I never spotted any owls while I was in Vegas:-(

2025, the Year of the Snake?

We had originally booked tickets to see the movie Postcard from Earth playing in The Sphere that Friday night, but The Sphere cancelled that screening a few weeks before we got to Vegas to put on something else that night and refunded our tickets, so we bought tickets to see the Blue Man Group play in The Luxor instead.

I have always wanted to see the Blue Man Group play live and now they were playing in the hotel we were staying in.

Blue Man Group

We bought the cheapest seats in the house that night and ironically the staff asked us if we would like to move to seats closer in the front because they were filming the show that night and didn't want empty spaces, but we declined and said we were quite happy to sit in the seats that we paid for.

And did they have to use four letter words in the show that were personally offensive to me, like IKEA?-)

I liked the toilet paper machine they used near the end of the show that covered most of the audience in TP, except the lucky people sitting right up the back;-)

The Blue Man Group had to have been way better than seeing Carrot Top I reckon.