The pyramid bargain, tested four ways
Luxor's page is a reputation trial with unusual agreement. The cheapest-room stay books inside the pyramid itself ($21 before fees on the host's night, as filmed) and finds a real Vegas experience without breaking the bank — the Aurora bar's $5 happy-hour drafts, uniformly helpful staff, a shower whose temperature hunts a little. The expectations film arrives to confirm a bottom-tier reputation and leaves converted: clean, comfortable pyramid room, digital key that works, a thermostat fixed while he was out — and in his Luxor-versus-Excalibur comparison, Luxor wins. A summer 2025 stay takes the 'dirty pyramid' talk head-on at a $56.69 room rate and answers 'still worth it, in a pinch' — against $200–$250 weekend rates elsewhere, with the free tram to Excalibur and the Mandalay Place wander included.
The dissent, kept
The counterweight review books Luxor because it's reputedly the most hated hotel in Vegas: the theming wows her; the room doesn't — crusty details, a smoky smell that follows her throat home, a TV menu moment no family wants. Her plea is the page's most quotable: more weird, themed hotels, please — just fresher ones. A Pyramid Suite stay (2023) splits it down the middle: one of the world's largest atriums, the long inclinator rides, the space-visible beam — and a battered elevator car and hallways the host says smell like wet dog; his all-in was $282 with fees as filmed. Big, iconic, a little frayed.
The fine print and the time capsule
A renovated-room stay notes the atrium-overlook rooms aren't for everyone (you're on display to the casino below) and finds the Aurora bar's buy-one-get-one cocktail window — two drinks for $15 as filmed. The official tourism channel's 4K casino walkthrough is the clean look inside (watch content). And the 2020 reopening tour — $22 rooms, much of the resort still shuttered, 'hold off until things settle' — stands as the pyramid's emptiest, cheapest time capsule, labeled as the period piece it is.
Sources: the eight videos on this page — four budget stays with convergent verdicts, a reputation-test dissent, a suite stay, an official walkthrough, and a 2020 reopening tour — summarized from their entries in our catalog.