Casino Reviews

Sign up for slot cards to receive both casino bonuses online as well as receive them by email and in the traditional way via snail mail. In fact, you can ask the casino to only send your casino bonuses online by email if you are traveling a lot and prefer to receive everything by email. This is really the most convenient way to get our bonuses.

Sign Up for Free Slot Cards

They are free to all casino players. All you need to do is sign up at the slot card desk. They just need proof of address and a couple of pieces of identification and you are ready to go. They will print a slot card for you which you must use whenever you are playing slots. This keeps track of your play and how much you spend to help them decide what casino bonuses to provide to you.

Give them your email id and they will send everything by email. Of course, you must make sure that these emails do not end up in your junk folder. Just go into your junk folder once and while to see what is there and designate those that you know are legitimate so they will appear in your regular mail in the future.

Receive Casino Bonuses Online Offers

Receive email news and offers for casino bonuses to all of your favorite casinos. In some cases, you can sign onto their website. Review all of the offers that are available to you at various properties. These are usually the large chains such as MGM and Harrah’s casinos that have this particular feature. View bonuses online and then select the one that you want to take advantage of. Often free night stays at their hotels are the most common. Book free bonus rooms online or just call the hotel reservations line, give them your slot card number and the online bonus number you want to use to book your free or discounted room.

Players can also view the free play, cashback offers, etc. online as well. This is the best way by far to find out what casino bonuses are available online.

We continually receive casino bonus emails and frankly this is the best way to get them. Some still arrive by regular mail however if you are traveling and away from home a lot, they typically do not get to us in time to take advantage of the offers. Email is much preferred as a method to receive information about casino bonuses. You can quickly review the bonus and then decide if you want to keep it or just delete it. Of course you can also log onto your promotions account and find out what the offers are, however this takes more time etc. We are more than satisfied to receive these casino bonuses by email.

Store Casino Bonus On Your Smart Phone

There is no need to store them or take them with you when you go to the casino. They are all on your smart phone and they are on your slot card as well! Occasionally we need an offer code that must be provided in order to receive the bonus from the casino. Always keep your bonus with you on your smart phone until the date has passed or you have used the bonus.

The casino usually also has all of these bonus offers on file and will be able to provide you with the reward just by scanning your slot card.

What Are the Types of Casino Bonuses?

Casino bonuses include free play which is money that you can use to play on your favorite slot machine, free meals at restaurants in the casino or attached hotel, free rooms at the hotel on specified nights and much more depending on your play. If you are a heavy player expect really high casino bonuses. These can be like small jackpots for many people and sometimes you win a large jackpot on your free play, which is an extra bonus.

The Akwesasne Casino Hotel is a very nice place to stay. It is brand-new, it is modern, and the people are very friendly. In fact, the hotel administration works really hard to keep their customers happy. But sometimes they just cannot do enough for some customers.

We recently stayed again at the Akwesasne casino hotel and found the service to be excellent. There was one customer who had a problem with the staff at check-in. We are not sure who was right, but the hotel definitely lost business over this confrontation.

Akwesasne Casino Hotel Administration

He had made reservations – for an AARP discount which gave him a 25% discount. He was asked to provide his AARP number which he had forgotten at home. Based on this they would not provide him with a discount. Even though it was clear that he was a senior and over 55. We felt that this was really making an issue out of something that did not need to be a problem. This particular client told me personally that he would not be coming back to this hotel.

In fact, the hotel is losing business over something as trivial as a senior discount is not good business. Not for the hotel and especially the casino where the real money is made. As a Canadian traveling in the US, all I need to do is show my driver’s license which proves that I’m over 55. All hotels that I’ve ever dealt with have excepted this ID, The Akwesasne Casino Hotel administration needs to get some of these bugs out of the system to maintain client loyalty.

The bigger picture as well is that they are going to gamble at the casino and this is where the real money is made so by discouraging this particular customer, they are not only losing money from hotel stays, they lose money from restaurant and casino spending that this particular customer will not spend in the future. The front desk needs to rethink and possibly re-educate their people so that this sort of thing does not happen in the future.

Many casinos are corresponding with their clients by email and also by providing links on their websites to user comp’s! Online Casino Bonus is delivered to them regardless of where they are right to their smartphones. This is clearly the way of the future. There are so many benefits to taking this approach compared to the old snail mail approach.

Online Casino Bonus Comp’s

Online casino bonuses include free rooms, free play, and free tickets to shows. Also free meals as well as many other comp’s that high rollers value. These comps are earned by using your slot card and inserting it into the slot machine. It keeps track of the amount of play that you do. They look at time spent, the amount of money you bet, and the rate of betting. Based on these factors along with the number of times and kind of slot machines you play the casinos will determine what comp’s you are eligible for. They will send them to you either electronically by email. Or refer you to their website where you can sign in and collect your comp’s or send a coupon to you via the old snail mail method.

Sending comp’s by snail mail costs much more money than sending an online bonus by email etc. Most casinos deliver their comp’s in this manner now, saving thousands of dollars in mailing costs. The cost of printing, packaging, and postage was astronomical compared to sending an email with attachments or referrals to a website where their customer can log into their account and see what they have in terms of comps.

Free Rooms and Freeplay Online Bonus

The comps we enjoy the most are receiving complimentary rooms, free play, and free meals. This saves us money and allows us to stay at hotels that we might not be able to afford otherwise. The rooms are always great and receiving one of the comp’s is the same as winning a small jackpot. In addition, free play is always fun. This is an amount of credit that you receive on your slot card which you can play in the same manner that you would play your own money. If you win while you are playing your free play, you get to keep the winnings.

Many slot cards also award points to your card as you play the slots or the tables. Customers can use these points for just about anything you would spend money on in the casino, including sundries from the gift shop to paying for meals at the buffet or even the high-end restaurants. All of this is free and if you are not taking advantage of these online bonuses now, you should be. As we said they are the same as winning a small jackpot and who would walk away from winning a jackpot.

Online casinos are also offering online bonuses, however, they do not appear to be as lucrative. They can only offer free play which is great, but sometimes you just want to be able to do something different with your points. The brick-and-mortar casinos with their online bonuses are clearly the way to go for this gambler.

Ottawa city council, as of late summer 2013 have finally come to their senses and voted to keep Rideau Carleton Raceway as a casino in the city. There was a lot of noise about having another casino in the city or moving the casino to another location that can be larger support tables, and more slot machines, however, this seems to have gone away at the moment. These councilors cannot decide their way out of a wet paper bag, so it is surprising that they got this far. We think that they will vacillate on this decision at least one more time. In the meantime, the owners of what is known as the Scotiabank place and now the Canadian Tire place is threatening to sue if he cannot also have a casino at that location!

Rideau Carleton Raceway – One Casino

One casino for Ottawa is not enough. We need at least two with one owned by a private company. The folks in the west of Ottawa need a place to gamble. The Rideau Carleton racetrack is just too far away for most people.

Rideau Carleton racetrack is located at the south end of the city. Most tourists are not going to out there anyway. If you are staying downtown in one of the hotels, it is closer to just go over to Hull and go to the casino at Lac Lemay. This has always been the argument for another casino located downtown. However, we think that located where the current casino is, it is a better draw from Ottawa and surrounding communities than another one or a replacement casino would be in downtown Ottawa. Keep the present location and add a new casino in the west end of Ottawa.

The Market needs Competition

The market needs competition though and real competition. If the government plans to build another casino or allow one to be operated in Ottawa, frankly it is a waste of time. We would rather go to Akwesasne in the States than go to one of these casinos. The drinks are much cheaper and the comps are much better as well. Why spend your money in Canada at the ridiculously high prices they charge at the racetrack?

Nongovernment run & owned is the only way real competition will be brought into these casinos. If several locations are competing for your dollars, the deals will get much better. This is what happens in Vegas, Atlantic City, Tunica, and many other locations. The government casinos are just fleecing us. They do not pay well and they charge high prices for everything compared to American casinos.

The city of Ottawa is Addicted

The City is addicted to profits. They need to have the casino operating full-time bringing in the money they have been receiving for the past years. There will always be a city-shared casino in the city. If they can find a way to politically bring another one into the city, they will as long as they can get their money. It is another form of tax in my mind. I would rather contribute to free enterprise rather than some swollen overpaid government employees.

Ottawa residents will continue to be fleeced. For more posts about casinos and things to do in Ottawa, click here.