text: As a surprise to my boyfriend I bought us a weekend get away to Vegas I chose the Luxor for the pyramid appeal although we enjoyed ourselves we will not be staying there again nnWe got to the Luxor and while trying to navigate the place and find the check in area an employee approached us offered directions and asked if we were married or lived together and made a beautiful couple We felt complimented as we had spent the morning running through Texas heat to the airport after parking since we were running late I broke a heel my boyfriend had been lugging around my luggage and we pretty much looked disheveled and lost When we confirmed that we live together she told us that she was going to have a friend hook us up for staying at the resort She lead us to a desk and told the employee sitting there that we lived together then left The guy at the desk began to tell us about a deal where we would go tour a new hotel further down the strip and would receive in chips food coupons etc and a discount ticket for a show or a fully paid one he was not clear on which all for We told the guy our main priority was getting checked in to the hotel and getting changed and that we would be back down thereafter he kept pushing for us to do it right then Mind you I have done one of these tours in Vegas with a different resort for FREE and got all of the same benefits along with a hour pressure sale that ended in me getting insulted for not buying in I thought for a second that this one would be different since we would have to pay so my boyfriend and I pulled out our credit cards Turns out it was cash only the guy then instructed my boyfriend to go to the ATM and come back with cash to get the deal He started pressuring more and we declined at this point figuring out that if it was this tough to say no to this guy we were going to going to be bullied at the resort when we would not be interested in a timeshare or condo We finally broke away by giving a false promise to come back and navigated ourselves to the check in counter nnThe line to check in was atrocious but it went by pretty fast The front desk person was nice and told us she was giving us a room in the pyramid with the best view The elevators to our floor were totally dirty and obviously wornout The walkway to our room looked directly down to I guess some construction it was basically a dark somewhat scraggly replica building set up to look like New York that looked like it had not been used in years There were beer cans and holes all over the roof of the replica that we could see from the walkway The floors in the walkway were also gross and covered in stains There were towels and sheets piled in the walkway even after housekeeping went by the next daynnWe stayed in the Pyramid Spa Suite which was nice in theory It was really rad to have a Jacuzzi directly next to a window with a nice view the bed was clean and comfortable and the room was larger than what we needed On the other hand the toiletries provided were pretty much what you would get at a Motel I have had much nicer toiletries provided at other hotels I had all of my own so this was not a big deal but it is the thought that counts the TVs were old s tube televisions we do not watch television anyway but modern electronics have an aesthetic appeal there was no wifi just an Ethernet cable that we had to unwind from above the TV and the furniture was all badly worn It basically looked like the room was allowed to sit and be used for years without any renovation or furniture upkeep nnWe had been warned by some of my boyfriends friends that live in Vegas to stay away from the tables at the Luxor We did not listen and decided to play the tables his friends were right although we ended up breaking somewhat even we felt pretty raped in the process I have never in my life seen a blackjack dealer get so many s from high and low cards combined and get blackjacks a few times in a row on every table whilst the players mainly got only almost every time nnThroughout our stay we kept getting hustled by the timeshare people As polite as we are or try to be in the end we had to ignore any employee that attempted to talk to or compliment us because it got so bad We did not go to any clubs or to the pool because the rest of the guests seemed to have the class look and intelligence of the Jersey Shore cast urge to kill rising nnThe buffet was not spectacular but was not bad and the employees were really sweet We ended up enjoying the Pyramid Cafue a lot We also drank the beers at one of the drink stands downstairs for an Abbey Ale we were really stoked about this since shots were apiece from room service nnWe ended up going to a show at a different casino down the strip and ended up being more impressed with the lobby casino and walk way to the show more than the Luxor as a whole