But I do expect to be entertained, and feel like I am getting something for my money. Don't get me wrong, I do not expect to win when I visit the casino. So on a night where it was 10 below, like it was when we visited on saturday, you can go and not have buffet, not be able to see a band, and you can carry your coat around while you have a $6 beer in one hand, and try to play a machine with the other. Even the coat check, yes the coat check, is closed. There used to be free shows in the event center on Friday and Saturday nights. I found out this weekend when we were there, that the buffet, the one thing where you still felt like there was value, is permanently closed. You know, the ones that give you a 35 cent payout on a $2 bet. All of the reasonably priced machines have been removed and replaced with high dollar, high tech, low payout slots. But this place has experienced a steady decline over the past 4 or 5 years. Needless to say, you couldn’t pay me to come back to this dumpy casino or attend a concert here. It was so he weirdest thing I have ever seen.

We sat in the parking lot for a good 20 minutes just watching angry people leave. We weren’t going to argue of course and just turned around and walked out the door. Not to mention, this place is in Wisconsin and the amount of drunk people inside the casino was almost unreal. I’m 44 years old and have never experienced a scenario where a casino was basically not willing to take peoples money.

There wasn’t people being loud or inappropriate or anything, it was so confusing. Excuse me? I happen to be diabetic and choose not to drink at all and my brother had one beer at the show. As soon as we were inside, there was “security” basically blocking people and one extra rude security woman loudly telling everyone that people from the concert were denied entry due to being intoxicated. As we arrived back at the casino, everyone walked from the shuttle area to the front doors.

The concert itself was fun until afterwards. The concert area is behind the property which was cool and they provided school buses to shuttle there from the casino parking lot. Went inside quickly to use the restroom beforehand and the place seemed small, smelled a bit funky, but an alright vibe. Drove almost 2 hours from the twin cities to see an outdoor concert here with intentions on gambling for a few hours afterwards.

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