By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-03-31 05:36:18 | Updated at 2025-04-01 21:48:12
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Las Vegas visitors come to gamble at its iconic casinos — but many are just as enticed by the city's legendary buffets.
Sadly for all-you-can-eat fans, one of those buffets is closing for good this weekend, giving diners just 48 hours to get their fill.
The Luxor Hotel and Casino — famous for its pyramid shape and oversized Egyptian monuments — opened in 1993.
Soon, its buffet became a big draw — but it will shut this Sunday.
While buffets are often loss-making, they’ve long served as a lure to boost hotel stays and casino foot traffic.
They became an integral part of the Strip experience, but the Luxor's closure leaves just seven casino buffets still running.
The Luxor's buffet, known for its extravagant brunch offerings, charged $31.99 for adults, $26.99 for locals with a Nevada ID and even let many casino clients in for free.
Visitors came as much for the pharaoh décor and wall-mounted sphinx as they did for the bacon, scrambled eggs, and baked beans. .
The Luxor's buffet, known for its extravagant brunch offerings, will close on Sunday
Seven Remaining Strip Buffets
Bacchanal at Caesars Palace
Buffet at Wynn
Wicked Spoon at Cosmopolitan
Bellagio
MGM Grand
Circus Circus
Excalibur
However, as consumers pull back their spending following years of inflation and an uncertain economic climate Las Vegas businesses are ditching buffets in favor of restaurants with higher profit margins.
The closure of the buffet is part of other losses for Sin City, including the recent closure of iconic hotel Mirage, which saw guests such as Michael Jackson.
The 3,044-room resort will reopen as Hard Rock Las Vegas in 2027.
Its tropical theme and volcano will be gone, and instead a 700-foot-tall tower in the shape of a guitar - similar to the one at the Florida hotel - will appear.
The Strip also saw the end of Tony award-winning musical Jersey Boys in the summer.
The musical, chronicling the 1960s rise of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, was meant to run for a year but was abruptly cancelled.
Further to this the Strip will also see the demolition of the rotunda at Caesar's Palace.
Built in 1986 the rotunda once housed a moving walkway used to ferry pedestrians off the strip into the hotel but has been out of use for the past decade.
The Luxor hotel and casino has long been a staple of the Las Vegas strip with its pyramid shape
The rotunda at Caesar's Palace will be demolished later this year according to hotel bosses
Sin City, has suffered other losses including the closure of iconic hotel Mirage
The Rome-inspired building is currently the backdrop of many tourists pictures, located next to a driveway up to the sprawling hotel-casino.
Further to this Whiskey Pete's in the desert town of Primm on the California-Nevada border shut its doors on December 17.
Affinity Interactive, the company that owns the hotel and casino, has since said the closure is temporary while renovations take place.
But locals and fans - pointing to the fate of another Affinity property - are concerned that Whiskey Pete's may never reopen.
The once popular town of Primm, just 40 miles from Las Vegas, has become something of a ghost town in recent years.
