[casino_comps] Re: The Best of Harrahs Vegas Properties?

My take on Paris...not a good place to play if you're on a budget. I've never stayed there, but I played there last year and found a VERY limited selection of quarter slots and video poker. To be fair, I did play penny slots while I was there (which I'm generally not a fan of) and I won on them.

--- In casino_comps@yahoogroups.com, "fantan951" <fantan951@...> wrote:
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> The Rio will give you the biggest rooms - they are "all suite" (though a suite just means a bigger room). The casino at the Rio is designed to be crowded - adds to that party atmosphere - but even so is easy to get around (not a lot of slick surfaces, not so big it is tiresome, etc). If you don't mind being off the Strip, and hence not able to easily get to other casinos, that's my first recommendation.
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> My second recommendation is Harrahs, both for its manageable size, and the ease of getting around to its bathrooms, restaurants, slots, elevators and table games. Plus, easy out-the-door and over to Casino Royale or Imperial Palace.
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> Paris has nice rooms, but smallish. The food is good, and the food choices are varied. Again, nice location of restaurants, elevators, bathrooms.
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> Bally's and Flamingo have lower end rooms, but each has its own charm so far as table games and slots. Bally's is connected to Paris via a walkway. Since you are there for a long time, that might add to the appeal just because you have the variety.
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> Imperial Palace, as everyone has said, is the low end. Acceptable, but not really the first choice for a trip with mom.
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> Caesar's Palace is the high end for Total Rewards casinos in Vegas. Distances are way too big, everything is a hike, and play is generally very tight. The only reason to stay there is if mom loves high-end shopping. The Forum Shops have the elite brands from Europe, NY, Rodeo Drive....
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> --- In casino_comps@yahoogroups.com, doubledown@ wrote:
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> > The Flamingo has a few decent low denomination slots and the rooms we have stayed in have been OK (no observed vermin or roaches). They have that nice wildlife habitat out the back door,too. I'd rate their slots above all the other Harrah's locales you mentioned. IP's casino gives me the impression that they're right at home during this recession; it would be my last choice . Harrah's is a rather fun atmosphere to be in ; we've always had a nice room and service there when we've crashed their digs. The slots experiences we've had there have been specifically mediocre (lost at an average rate and speed). Rio's slots were generally tight, although I had my second highest slot win ever there on a KON machine. Rio has the best buffet of your referred choices IMO, and it's got a somewhat fun atmosphere and that Show In The Sky thingy. It's a fun place. None of the Harrah's properties have decently - ruled blackjack games IMO. MGM Mirage blackjack games and comp programs are overall much better vs Harrah's. I'd rate your 4 mentioned choices as follows...
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> > 1. Flamingo
> > 2. Rio
> > 3. Harrah's
> > 4. IP
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> > Sounds as if you and your mother could have some fun anywhere. Enjoy.
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> > Cheers..
> > vegasbit 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Keno Caryl" <mail4caryl@>
> > To: "casino comps" <casino_comps@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 1:31:45 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> > Subject: RE: [casino_comps] The Best of Harrahs Vegas Properties?
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> > You will LOVE the RIO!
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> > --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Eileen Kurlan < eileen_kurlan@ > wrote:
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> > From: Eileen Kurlan < eileen_kurlan@ >
> > Subject: RE: [casino_comps] The Best of Harrahs Vegas Properties?
> > To: casino_comps@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 10:04 PM
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> > Don't do IP . That place is horrible. We stayed their last may 4 nights
> > ballys 4 nights IP. We were on the fifth floor. Took stairs cause
> > elevators were horrible. Restaurants where horrible. They do have low
> > limit tables for the strip but it's almost worth going somewhere else and
> > playing a higher limit table than dealing with the dealertainers.
> >
> > I've never stayed at the others although I know that the rio is all suites
> > but off the strip.
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> > From: casino_comps@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:casino_comps@ yahoogroups. com] On
> > Behalf Of Marcia Quinn (Strehlow)
> > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:32 PM
> > To: casino_comps@ yahoogroups. com
> > Subject: [casino_comps] The Best of Harrahs Vegas Properties?
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> > Hi. I'm a newbee to this group. I appreciate any replies.
> > I am taking my mom to LV for her birthday on April 27 for 8 nts. Geez, she
> > will be 85, but is very active and drinks/gambles all night - love poker
> > too. I can get 4 nts comped at 2 Harrahs properties: Rio, Flamingo, Harrahs
> > and IP. Anyone have any insight into which might be the best properties as
> > far as room quality, loose slots and poker machines, restaurants, etc? I
> > looked at Trip Advisor, but the reviews are from one end of the spectrum to
> > the other <grin>. I was thinking I'd do 4 nights that way and then the rest
> > at one of better hotels like Wynn or Palzaao. Thanks for your thoughts and
> > insights.
> > Marcia
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