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Why Has Someone Created a $1 Million Luxor Phone? Please Advise.

We love Luxor for their low room rates and the occasional stop-in at Tacos and Tequila but beyond that, we're keen to try other places on and off the Strip instead. So it's safe to say that if we had a million dollars lying around in chump change, we would definitely not buy this new Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot Phone from Gresso. ZDnet.com sums up our skepticism about this ridiculuxe phone perfectly:

Admittedly, the Luxor Las Vegas Jackpot is made from several precious materials, including 18-karat gold, black diamonds, sapphires, and…200-year-old African Blackwood. (Is that a selling point?) Sounds more like the makings of a beautiful tiara rather than a cell phone.

The reporter has also heard that the phone in person looks like a "blinged out crappy device." Ah-ha! So it DOES resemble Luxor in a sense.

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Free Airfare to Stay at Luxor? We're Not Sure It's Worth It

Last time we heard about Luxor offering free stuff to get people to stay there, we thought we’d been scammed, so we were more than a little suspicious when an email telling us to ”fly back free” popped into our inbox.

It is, of course, a little complicated. Basically, you have to book this offer, stay at Luxor and you’ll then qualify for a voucher for a plane fare for your next visit – which, again, you must spend at Luxor.

There’s also plenty of small print but basically, the voucher gets you a roundtrip ticket from “any major airport in the Continental US” to Vegas.

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What Happens When Mormon Girls Lose Their Vegas Virginity

We told you about our first time...visiting Vegas, that is. And now it's your turn to tell us yours. Our next reader was a Mormon showchoir student who spent the days in the dorm at UNLV but hit the town with her pimp, er showchoir director at night. Enjoy!

The first time I went to Vegas, I was actually three years old, but I don't think that this counts since I really have no recollection of that trip. But, the first actual time I really remember going to Vegas, I was on tour with my show choir at the time for a competition. Now, I know, this doesn't seem like it would make for an interesting story, but it is.

I was such a good girl at the time and I always hung out with the Mormon girls, who sometimes liked to act like they weren't quite so good. We were staying at the dorms at UNLV, but our director was going to go to the strip and asked me and my group of good girl Mormon, but very overly done up and looking older than we were, friends to go with him.

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Single in Sin City? Head to The Luxor to Party With Your Kind

It's finally here! The Singles in Sin City event held at The Luxor all weekend long.

The event kick off today at 9pm with a Fresh Meet Welcome event at Tacos & Tequila where attendees get a free shot of Herradura tequila (so long as they are wearing their SSIC wristband.) Later, there will be a speed-dating session capped off with a night at Liquidity, one of Luxor's casino floor bars.

Things will really ramp up tomorrow with a pool party from noon to 6pm, followed by a concert from Gavin DeGraw. On Sunday, singletons who haven't embarrassed themselves by making out with two or three different people over the weekend (or in one night) can say goodbye to the rest of the group at the Mariachi brunch at 11am back at Tacos & Tequila.

Throughout the weekend attendees will also get special discounts at the Luxor, including free spa admission and loads of shows, retail and dining discounts. But sorry, it looks like you will have to pay for your own birth control. Packages are still available, even at this late hour! Prices start at $200 a night and includes all event access. Go here to book.

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The Luxor Really Wants Us To Believe

You know, if we didn’t know any better, we’d think someone was trying to give us a subliminal message or something. Because this is what we received when we checked in at Luxor last week.

The key to our room: Criss Angel Believe. The folder that the key came in: Criss Angel Believe. And what’s that, a nice welcome letter from the Luxor peeps to those of us checking in? Naw, it’s a note from Criss Angel, asking us to come and experience “an amazing evening of mind-blowing illusions” (if he’s meaning the one that should have given us the impression our room was clean, then someone needs to tell him, that illusion aint working).

On the back are some celeb quotes. Celine, calling it entertaining. J Lo, saying it’s a “beautiful, spectaular, emotional, magical journey” (did she maybe say that when she was pregnant and the hormones were going wild?). Gene Simmons calling it an “imaginative spectacle”. And good old Robin Leach’s verdict: “The Greatest Magic Show in the World” (sic).

Criss signs off:

Are you ready!?

No, pet, not quite yet we’re not. Not quite yet.

Tags: Casino Whales / Gambling / High-Limit Rooms / MGM Grand / Luxor / Aria / Palazzo / Red Rock / → All Tags

Where to Go Whale-Watching in Vegas

Have a drink while whale-watching at The Palazzo Las Vegas

Like their marine mammalian counterparts, casino whales are larger than life. Betting for them is like breathing: $5,000 here, $10,000 there—to them, it’s all pocket change. Most of these players have casino credit that stretches six digits and beyond. Naturally, then, when they come to a place like Vegas, they want to wager like there’s no tomorrow, no matter how the cards or dice may fall.

For casino executives, these players are lifeblood. Kirk Kerkorian, Steve Wynn and Gary Loveman could care less how much Jack and Jane Tourist win or lose at the low-roller pits; it’s these guys, the whales, they need to attract to pay for their new spas, new hotel towers and new nightclubs.

For us, however, stalwart casino players, whales are true spectacles—honest-to-goodness sights to behold. We’re drawn to them instinctively, sometimes inexplicably, because inside, we all want for ourselves the very thing these gamblers have in droves: money, and the fearlessness to throw it down. With this in mind, here are the five best high-limit rooms in town, the five best spots to observe these mythical creatures in their natural habitats. Captain Ahab would be proud.

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The Ancient Egyptian Theme Appears to Stretch to Luxor's Cleaning Techniques

Way back when (well, March, anyway), we had an email offer from the ”new Luxor” promoting rooms from $36. And seeing as we’ve always, always wanted to stay in the pyramid (despite one of our besties staying there for her honeymoon and deeming it “chavvy”), we booked it immediately. “New Luxor”? We didn’t care about that. We just wanted to walk like an Egyptian for a night. And finally, that night came around last Thursday.

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Luxor and Excalibur Have Lifted the No Photos Rule

Get flashing while this is gone

You may have spent the day before MD Weekend putting the final touches to your GTL, but ever devout to the cause of testing out cheap beds, we spent ours watching Carrot Top on loop on the inhouse TV channel at the Luxor.

During our sojourn, we saw a few things we hadn’t been expecting. Carrot Top dressed as a woman, for one. People awake and sober at 8am, for another. Questionable marks on the bathroom wall, for a third.

But there was also one thing we’d expected to see, but didn’t: the "don’t you effing dare take any pictures in here" signs.

They weren’t out the back, they weren’t out the front, so we asked a Luxor person what had become of them, and she said they’d been taken down for the foreseeable future. “We all told them that it was stupid, because all the signs did was make people take more pictures,” were her exact words. We couldn’t agree more.

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Luxor Is Tempting You With Its LGBT Pool Party On Sunday

Columns. Palm trees. Pyramids. Think they're trying to tell us something?

You know what we’ve been missing with the Liquids and the Rehabs and the Wet Republics? A good old gay Vegas pool party. Luckily, Luxor is stepping in this weekend and launching its 2010 season of Sunday afternoon LGBT pool parties.

The name? Temptation Sundays (could do better). The time? 1-7pm. The place? Luxor South Pool.

This is not your standard boring pool party, though – it’ll be a themed fest every week (themes like Cowboys of Summer and King and queen of the pool.

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Kerry Simon is Out of the CatHouse

There’s one less bordello Vegas visitors can enjoy dinner at these days since CatHouse at Luxor has decided to close their restaurant. What - you didn’t even know there was a restaurant at Cathouse? We knew it was there but always forgot about it. Which is too bad since it seemed to have a lot going for it: named in Condé Nast Traveler's Hot Tables of 2008, called “one of the world’s most exciting new restaurants”, and had chef Kerry Simon at the helm.

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Tweet of the Weekend: Nuns, Boobies And The Luxor

Many people got trashed in Vegas this weekend, and lots of them told the world about it. So, every Monday we’re bringing you our favourite tweet of the weekend. And don’t forget to follow us at @vegaschatter.

It’s been a good couple of weeks since we saw any outstanding fancy dress get ups in Vegas, but we’re pleased to hear from @hollyhopay that we appear to have been looking in all the wrong places:

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Can You Believe It? Criss Angel Is 'Magician Of The Century'

Sexy. Charming. Talented. But that’s enough about Copperfield, congrats to Criss Angel

Sorry for not speaking about this two days ago, when it happened, but it’s taken us a while to process this (and check it’s not some new kind of hilarious ‘stunt’). Luxor’s top lothario, who also does a passable impression of being a magician, Criss Angel, has been officially declared Magician of the Century.

There are many things wrong with this. As centuries go, this one's still pretty young, for a start. As far as we know, he’s not all that good at magic, for another. And lastly, as far as we were aware, Believe is the laughing stock of Vegas – quite an achievement in a town which has such improbably titled shows as Dixie Dooley Master Mystifier, Naughty Boys Hypnosis Show and Steve Dacri In Your Face: The Up Close Magic Experience.

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