Casino Reviews

The Agua Caliente Casino is a great place to spend a few hours. Patrons can even stay over night. There is something for everyone including several very nice restaurants. There is a beautiful pool area. Shows with many big-name stars and of course the casino. There is a very nice hotel situated on the property. It is attached to the casino and the pool.  There is lots of surface parking right off the road. There is a parking garage as well which takes overflow cars or if you just want to get your car out of the hot sun.

Getting to the Agua Caliente Casino

The location of the Agua Caliente Casino could not be easier to get to. If you are coming from Palm springs just go straight out Ramon street towards I10 until you see the casino. Visitors from other desert cities can take either Bob Hope drive or I10 to get to the casino. If you are coming from Banning or other points west, take I10 and take the Bob Hope exit.

The Agua Caliente Casino

The casino itself is large and well laid out. Second-hand smoke, which is a big issue for many casinos is not too bad due to the high ceilings and good air circulation. Customers smoke cigars in the casino. But they have not gone this route yet. There are lots of machines to try. They have all of the popular machines that everyone is looking for these days.

They have four restaurants. There is a buffet restaurant, a deli where you can get something quick, a coffee shop, a small restaurant with outdoor dining if you prefer and a steakhouse. All are very clean and very acceptable as restaurants. The coffee shop is pricey.

We just got invited to a slot tournament at the Wynn Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is an excellent example of using your slot card to make a difference. This can be an inexpensive Vegas vacation versus paying directly for all your rooms, gambling, drinks, etc.

Our offer includes three days free at the Casino Hotel Las Vegas, participation in the  Slot tournament, and an invitation to an awards ceremony at the end of the slot tournament. We’ll tell you more about the award ceremony in a moment, but this is an excellent deal for many different reasons.

Offers Can be Amazing

Can you imagine, I called the Wynn Casino Hotel on Wednesday morning to see what room rates they would offer us. They were busy, and the casino rate was $200 a night, including the room, resort fee, and taxes. We were not prepared to spend. $600 for three nights and so we declined to make the reservation.

The very next morning, I received an email offering participation in the slot tournament, three nights free including resort fee and taxes, participation of the slot tournament, and the party at the end of the slot tournament. This was for the same dates that we’re hoping to make a reservation. We grabbed it in a hurry since it was only a maximum of 250 people invited to the tournament.

Wynn Slot Tournament – Free Rooms

If you have not stayed at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas before, you really should. The rooms are large, very clean, and very modern. They have excellent views of the strip and the eastern part of the city. Everything is automated with controls at your fingertips next to the bed for opening and closing the blinds. Also dimming or shutting off the lights. There is a TV in the bathroom so you will not miss any of the daily news or your favorite show. These rooms go from anywhere from $150 per night to as high as over $600 a night.

Wynn Slot Tournament – Free Play

We played in the tournament, and afterwords attend the slot tournaments awards ceremony. Unfortunately, the writer did not win, but someone won $35,000 in free slot play. There were 20 winners in all of the free slot play. The rest of us and our companions got to enjoy complimentary drinks and munchies, including sliders, cheese, sandwiches can small cupcakes. A pretty good deal if you ask me.

Always use your slot card when playing. You never know when you will be invited to something like this.

The Spa Casino Palm Springs is located within two blocks of downtown Palm Springs on Amado road. There is ample parking for both valets and for people who wish to park their own cars. It is all surface parking. There is also a hotel located next door and there are many smaller hotels and motels in the immediate area along with condos for rent within walking distance. The Spa Casino Palm Springs is not really a  great spot to go for dinner, it is mainly for gambling at both tables and slots. They also run outdoor concerts once a month in one of the parking lots.

They charge $30 to get in and they block off anyone from the street from seeing the performance, although you can hear the music. It does not really build loyalty and many tourists refuse to spend their money in the casino as a result. They just are not building brand loyalty with this approach.

Spa Casino Palm Springs Sister Casino

The same slot card can be used at the Agua Caliente casino located on Bob Hope Drive and Ramon Road at I10. This hotel and casino require a car to get to and patrons can rack up points on their slot card regardless of which casino they frequent. We happen to like the Spa Casino Palm Springs because it is so convenient to get to. Patrons can go for dinner at one of the many restaurants in downtown Palm Springs and then head over to the casino for a drink after dinner and also a little gambling.

The smell of smoke can be pretty heavy at times. They recently opened a nonsmoking area. However, it is actually pretty small. They have a deli where you can order basic meals such as hamburgers and hot dogs, salads. Customers can also order breakfast. They also have a buffet, however, it does not seem to have a good reputation for the food and also for the service. Recently a group of people went for breakfast. They were charged 18% gratuity because they were part of a large group. The service was much less than normal.

The only service they received was their coffee was brought to them, so we are unclear why there should be a tip at all for this poor level of service let alone 18%. We think that this is pretty cheap on the part of the casino and will not be spending any money at their restaurants as a result. There are much better places to go to where you get better food and much more service.

Comp’s Not as Lucrative as Las Vegas

Since they have limited competition, the comps are not as good as locations where there is a lot more competition.  They still have some comps for food, free play, etc, but you can do much better at other casinos. Of course you must travel much further to get to them. It really comes down to how you want to spend your money.

There are literally thousands of free play casinos online for people to play. No money is required and all that is needed is that you sign up with an account with no credit card or money provided. A free play casino is played with free credit that is made available when you sign-on. In some cases the free play casino will sell you additional free credit for a small fee if you end up losing all of your free credit. You may want to take advantage of purchasing additional free credit if you happen to lose all of the credit you have been initially given. If you happen to win a large jackpot, there is no method to convert it to cash.

Free play casino – purchase credit

As with all Slot Machines, sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t. In a free play casino situation you are provided with an amount of free credit. If you lose the free credit, you either have to wait another day before more free credit is added or you can purchase additional credit. Remember you cannot turn jackpots back into cash. This is merely a game that you play for fun even if you purchase added credit.

Many free play casinos

Rather than purchase additional credit so that you can keep playing the same machine online. Most consumers will just move to another online site where they can play for free. Each of these sites provides free credit to players in an attempt to get to sell them free credit. Or to get them to click on advertisements. Most will add credit each day or every few hours in an attempt to keep you on their site. The objective is to avoid you moving to some other competitive site.

Why would you purchase added credit when you can just move to another site that provides Free Play Casino credit? Most people will bookmark them so that each site is just a click away and they are back playing for free. The other major issue to remember is that casinos with free credit usually have odds that are much more lucrative so you win more often. If you switch to online casinos where you are playing with real money! The odds of winning appear to be lower and you seem to lose your money more quickly.

Have you ever tried free online gambling? There are many sites available where gamblers can play for free. They can play their favorite slot machines, or table games and enjoy gambling for free. Some sites do not have any hooks to get you to spend any money. They prefer to allow you to gamble for free with you clicking on advertisements. You can also play for real money or just want more information about a particular subject. You can also add points based on your play which can be used for free things such as free meals or even rooms if the site is associated with one of the traditional casino properties such as MGM.

Many online gambling sites that offer free online gambling, give you the opportunity to buy more free credit for a normal amount. Some sites will offer additional free credit for a nominal fee e.g.. Five dollars.

Free Online gambling – Credit

We have tried these sites and usually what happens is that the free credit that they give you is lost rather quickly. Then they offer additional credits for a fee. The amount of money they are charging for added credits is not large and will not break the bank. We just refuse to pay these amounts on principle, since the site was advertised as a free site.

Rather than pay money for additional credit from these so-called free online gambling sites, we just move to another online site to play slots and table games. Free online gambling sites usually provide additional free credit once a day or every two hours ongoing. But the real motive is to sell you the additional credit and make money that way.

Also if you are playing the table games, are you playing against other real players or are you playing against the computer? Playing against a computer is very different from playing against real people online.

Not Paying Well

We have also found that when you’re playing on their free credit, the slot machine does not pay very well and it does not take long to run through the free credit. They really want to sell additional free credit that you pay for. There are so many free sites available that you should never pay for free credit.