Luxor Hotel and Casino

On Friday, April 13, 2012, we trusted the bell person to hold our 6 luggage for storage, but just within a matter of hours, my luggage ended up missing and was not returned to me in the room. I never had anything happen to me like this before so that is why I am very aggravated. This has caused me and my family the inconvenience that we were not expecting for that weekend.

After 1 week of pending investigation, I received a phone call from their risk department and I could not believe my ears when you quoted me my items. I think that was an insult to me when they offered me a quote of $150 when I know my values are worth more than that. I paid $600 for the weekend and they don't have the decency to offer me any complimentary. Shame on you Luxor! You will never ever have my business again!

We head to Las Vegas every January for a trade show, held at the Mandalay Bay. We have stayed at the Luxor every year, for the last 7 years. Our reservations are made thorough an outside company, for 'special' rates. When we arrived on Jan 3rd, the woman at the registration desk was perturbed that I wanted to change the credit card that was used to secure my reservations. I asked her to verify that we had a bathtub in the room, and not just a shower, because in past we have gotten rooms with just a shower. I was told that all the rooms have bathtubs. I had requested for a king bed, as both my husband and I are larger people.

We got to the room with two queen beds. I called down to the desk, and requested a change. They have nothing else available. You got what your reservation called for, (this being said after they tried to put me in a non-smoking room to start with). I immediately pulled the laptop out, and fired off an email to the Luxor guest relations, giving them my cell number, since I would be there for 5 days. They did not have the courtesy to respond for over 9 days. After emailing back and forth with guest relations, several times, they offered me one free night stay in a suite! My response was "I would never stay in their hotel, or give their casino a penny of my money, ever again".

Wow, a free night! I'm so glad they valued my business and satisfaction so much! Oh, the people at the desk did not even know that the king bed rooms have a desk in them. As a matter of fact, I was told that she had worked there for 18 years, and none of their tower deluxe rooms have desks. She needs to check out the pictures on their website! No more Luxor in my future!

We took a smoking room and there were no ashtrays. We asked the cleaning crew and the head of the cleaning crew to provide us with ashtrays and that did not happen. So, we got ourselves an ashtray. The next day when we were out, the cleaning crew took out that ashtray. We again asked for ashtrays and they said they would take care of it and that did not happen.

When we went down to play in the casino, we asked the ladies serving drinks twice for drinks and sat playing for two hours. They did not serve any drink nor did they respond when we tried to talk. The third time she was standing right in front of us and we tried to talk, she deliberately ignored us and walked away while we were calling out to her. Their behavior is very rude and unprofessional.

The TV doesn't have channels or a TV guide. The room's temperature cannot be controlled from the room nor can the blinds be closed. The cleaning people don't even clean the room, the carpet, or even the bathroom properly. Twice we came back and saw that they neither cleaned the shower, nor took out the dirty towels from yesterday. Complaining does not help. I will never stay in this unprofessional hotel in my life, and to think that I paid over $200 per night for this nightmare!

First, I was surprised with a rip-off charge of $14.95 per day resort fee at check-in for a free newspaper I have to go down to pickup myself. This is very inconvenient if you want to read the paper in the morning in the bathroom. You also get free internet and free domestic long distance. Big deal. Everyone has free long distance on their cell phones. Four days for $89.70.

They don't provide you with a list of TV channels and stations or how to properly receive them. When I asked housekeeping for a channel list, they said they did not have one. When I called the front desk for a channel list, they said they would have housekeeping send up a channel list but when it arrived it was completely wrong. For two days, there were sunflower seeds on the carpet near the bed. When I complained about the seeds, they said they would clean it up. They never did. I even spoke to the head housekeeper about it on the second day, in person, and she said she would have it cleaned up but it never got cleaned up. You can't close the curtains enough to keep the light out for sleeping.

You cannot control the temperature without continuous adjustment because there is no thermostat, just hot and cold and high low and medium fan speeds. The Luxor leaves messages on the phone every single day with advertisements and of course you check the messages because you think it might be an emergency but it isn't. Just another ad and the front desk tells you they cannot turn it off. The people who work at the buffet wear gloves but never take them off no matter what they touch including your food. The people who set the tables with silverware and napkins never wash their hands after touching their nose and hair, wiping down tables and dumping food off plates into the garbage cans.

The guy who slices the prime rib was dragging a garbage can out to the serving area and when he saw me, he stopped and was about to pick up the carving knife and fork before I asked him to wash his hands first. When I tried to speak to the servers and the housekeeping, most of them didn't understand and do not speak English. I am never coming back to the Luxor again. They do not respond to your needs or concerns. They just don't care.

While staying in the Luxor, the night before we were to leave, I walked around the corner where the slot machines were located. Someone had moved a chair, not where it was supposed to be located, & I tripped over the chair, landed on my back, & felt severe pain in my back.

As soon as I hit the ground, 8+ huge men in suits surrounded me. They tried to get me to stand up, but I could not. The next thing I know I'm being put into an ambulance & driven to the hospital!

I asked them to contact & please get my best friend from the room & get her to the hospital. I was scared to death in a strange state, strange hospital, my back hurt so bad, etc. The Luxor said they would get her to the hospital, & to call them back if we need a ride back. None of this happened. My friend paid to get to me, as well as back to the Luxor.

The hospital said I had severe back damage, as well as sciatica. I was receiving one narcotic after another, & they said I needed to stay at least another day. The only problem was that our flight was leaving at 9:40 pm. So they wrote me out prescriptions, gave me more drugs into my iv, & we paid over $20 to get back. I was doped out of mind, & my poor friend packed up my clothes, took care of me, brought me food, etc. We had a wheelchair for the hotel & through the entire airport in both Vegas & Seatac.

My entire summer was ruined as this occurred in May. I contacted Mr.Welch, head of safety & he did nothing. I sent him a letter regarding my doctor's bills back home, acupuncture bills, medication bills, hospital bills, ambulance bills, etc. I explained to him while on the phone, that he has no idea how bad my back now is, & why was the first thing the guys in the suits were screaming, "Who left the chair here & move it now! "

I requested for my bills to be paid, & compensation for the past numerous months of pain, & he said he could not help me. Everyone I have spoken to says to sue the pants off the Luxor. Mind you, I have stayed 6-8 times at the hotel because I studied Egyptology in college. My entire family stayed in the towers for 9 days a few years ago!

I will never stay at the Luxor as long as I live! And if you want to stay safe & want a hotel that you know will take care of there people, I wouldn't advise stepping foot inside!

My girlfriend ate at a buffet in the Luxor Hotel. She became very ill after eating the food from their buffet, vomiting for 12 hours. She ended up in the urgent care for treatment of dehydration, weakness, dizziness and continual nausea. We ended up spending money on her treatment, and prescription from the urgent care.

We filed a report with the hotel security. We contacted their Risk Management department who told us they would not help us out with any reimbursement. They told us, if we wanted to seek reimbursement they would need an attorney to contact them. They refused to give us any information about their corporate office so we could seek reimbursement from them. We contacted the hotel's General Manager who also told us they would not help us out with any reimbursement.

The first night of our trip was completely ruined. My girlfriend spent the night vomiting. We spent money on the dinner that ruined our vacation. We also spent money on her urgent care treatment as well as her prescription from the urgent care. It was also very surprising how rude the Luxor's staff was when we asked for reimbursement.

We booked a several nite stay at the Luxor. Upon arrival there was black mold in the shower and there were tiles loose on the wall and obvious water damage at the outside base of the shower. We complained and were sent to another room. The AC did not work in that one. We complained again and were sent to yet another room. It took them four tries to get us in a room with working plumbing and AC and appeared clean.

We spent several hours trying to get this taken care of, each time having to wait in the check in line with our luggage. We could not get a manager to come to the desk to speak to us. One desk clerk mentioned that they had just been bought by the MGM and were doing renovations. Our thought is that that was irrevelant. We had the right to expect what was advertised and promised.

On checkout there were issues with the bill. We were charged for meals at the buffet that were to be comped because of the package we booked. They also charged a $2 per day room phone fee. We did not use the phone. This stay was a huge disappointment.

We spent several hours trudging from room to room dragging our luggage. It was a waste of our valuable vaacation time and set a negative tone for the entire stay.

I came to stay at the Luxor with a friend, Joanna who booked our trip on the internet site Cheaptickets.com. I was very excited to stay at the Luxor. Having come to Las Vegas many times I have always been enamored with the Luxor.

We were set to arrive Friday 4/11 night at 10:30 p.m. however, due to a flight delay we didnt arrive at the hotel until Saturday 4/12 around 11 a.m. We met up with a friend who did check-in room # 2009 Friday night. We visited in the room until around 1:30 p.m. We headed to the strip for lunch and an afternoon of walking around. I started experiencing head aches and a slight cough. After lunch was over I had tightness in my chest. Not feeling 100% I headed back to the Luxor and changed into my swim suit and spent the afternoon at the pool. Through the afternoon I started to feel a little better.

Around 4:30 p.m. I headed back to room # 2009 to take a nap and shower to attend the Bon Jovi concert at 8 p.m. at the MGM Grand. The concert was to be the highlight of the trip. After sleeping for sometime my friends returned to the room and I showered and was getting ready for the concert. My headache and sinus pressure increased in severity. I was getting irritation around my nostrils and my mouth. My eyes also burned. I was under the impression that maybe the smoke from the casino was causing some of these issues.

Once we left Luxor the fresh air did seem to help however, at that point I was ill. The tightness in my chest increased and I felt winded with the walk to MGM. As soon as the concert was over I returned to the Luxor with the intent on going to sleep. Come to find out that would be impossible since room # 2009 is two doors down from the emergency exit for the LAX night club. After a call to the desk we found out the club was open until 4 a.m.

Without being able to sleep we thought about ordering a movie however, I knew with the headache and pressure in my head I would not be able to keep my head up. We did the best we could in an attempt to sleep with the night club base line thumping two doors down.

On Sunday 4/14 at about 7:30 a.m. I woke up with all of the previously mentioned symptoms and the inability to inhale. At this point I was under the impression I might have an upper respiratory and/or a sinus infection that traveled to my lungs. I decided I needed medical care. Since my friends were still sleeping I headed to the lobby to call my health insurance company. I needed to find out where I could be seen and have coverage for the services since I was from New York State. With the three choices I headed to the taxi line gave the men my list and they guided me to the closest facility.

University Medical Center Adult Emergency Department was the facility I went to UMC provided prompt service. I presented with sinus pressure and a painful headache and tightness in my chest. Once I saw the doctor he explained I was having a sever allergic reaction and it could be seasonal allergies. I explained I work outside all year round and dont have allergies but am allergic to particular things. I am allergic to a medication erythromycin. He asked if I was currently taking anything in that family. I was not. At this point the doctor said he would return. During the doctors absence I called back to the Luxor to let my friends know where I was. I placed this phone call around 9:30 a.m.

I explained to my friend what was going on. We talked about my allergy to erythromycin and mold spores. She mentioned that the bathroom in room # 2009 was covered with mold. At that discovery I explained the situation to the doctor who had already filled out the discharge paperwork. I have an allergy to mold spores. The doctor had presented me with four prescriptions. Penicillin as a precautionary measure in case the fluid on the lungs turned into an infection. The second Fluconazole in case the penicillin caused a problem. The third was Cetirizine an allergery medication to attempt to stop the reaction. The fourth was Promethazine a cough syrup for sleeping.

Upon my return from CVS across from the UMC I approached the front desk about a room change. When explaining the situation it was then requested a Luxor illness report be filled out. I had no plans on doing this however; I was told if I did not the room change would not occur. Feeling threatened to have to sleep in a room that was making me ill I filled out the form. Once the form was complete George from security and an engineer from the Luxor staff came to room # 2009 to inspect the mold. Both men were very professional and apologetic. I again headed to the pool and once my friends returned to the Luxor we were able to change rooms.

After sleeping Sunday night I woke up with far less symptoms and was starting to feel better. In conclusion, 95% of my $1686 trip was ruined with an illness that was triggered from the mold in room # 2009. I will be happy to forward the photos I have taken if you could please provide me with an email address. I had out of pocket costs; medical after insurance will be $100.00. The taxi to and from UMC to the Luxor and back is $17.70 + $5.00 tip= $22.70 and the return $17.75 + $5.00 tip= $22.75 Totaling $45.45 for transportation charges. The Pharmacy cost was 65.56. Thank you in advance for your help with this matter.

We had our wedding at the Luxor hotel and had many issues while staying there, during our wedding and after. I made a complaint to the BBB about them, they responded to the complaint with a promise to refund a portion of the wedding back on February 20, 2008 however we still have not received anything back from them. Unfortunately, they are not a member of the BBB so they cannot do a mediation service for us.

We paid for extra flowers and a specific color of flower for use at our wedding. This was not delivered. We were treated very disrespectfully by the chapel manager along with some front desk employee's. The pictures that were taken at the wedding were horrible and the experience was an all-around nightmare. We paid for the top of the line package and room, we did not receive what we paid for.

first it took 45mins to check in then they checked me in to a dirty room. i called the front desk and explained what happened and they said "come down to get new keys." i was shocked that there was no apology. i went to the front desk and spoke to the manager and she handed me new keys and said nothing. again there was no apology from the manager. i finally got up to the 2nd room and unpacked, after having lunch at the buffet we returned to our room and realized after laying on the bed the ceiling was leaking, and the bed was soaked.

i called the front desk again they said they would send some up with new keys to a new room. agian without an apology. i was very upset that i had to pack and unpack twice. i couldn't believe the lack of concern by the staff about all the inconvience we went through. also i ordered room service the first night i stayed and i put the plates outside and when we were going to check out the plates were still outside. i just want to say that this trip was my first trip alone with my husband with out any children and it was our 4th anniversary and this hotel ruined it for us. i don't plan on staying at this hotel again. i would not recommend it to anyone.