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Sometime next month.  Never been to Laughlin.  Staying at the Tropicana Express...rooms will be free.  Where are the good spots to go for food and winning $?   :88-

Thanks,
Jason

now...how did you get free rooms you lucky stiff?  :96-

I was down there last Easter - Stopped in at Harrahs Buffet about 7.00pm - worst food I have eaten in 20years (Harrahs in Vegas is consistantly good).

May I suggest Olive Garden on the other side of the river in Bull Head City.

Jason  I just got back from Laughlin/bullhead yesterday. In my opinion if Joey moved away from Bullhead I would never go back to Laughlin again. You will find 8 or 9 Casinos each one of them their claim to fame is each has a swimming pool. BFD  If you've been in one casino you've been in them all.

I have been to the buffet at the Tropicana, I thought it was pretty damn good, ( what made it outstanding was Capt. Happy picked up the check)   :244- :244- :244- Yesterday I ask Dottie ( Joey's mother in law) about the different buffet's, she said the Aquarius was the best one. This last trip I ate at the Edgewater buffet, it didn't make me sick. ( The sign on the Prim rib said roast beef )  I do recomend you go to In-n-out Burger ( Northside of the Tropican parking lot) I must warn you, if your not in the mood for a hamburger, go someplace else, all they have on the menu is hamburgers.
 

Don Laughlins Riverside has an antique slot machine store. In there they sell newer (1990's) video pokers, S2000's, etc. Always fun to checkout what they have.
The Aquarius has a lot of newer machines to play including the AVP GameKings. Nice!
Edgewater & Colorado Belle are very average.
The Pioneer is old school. IGT S+'s that take and give coin and quite a bit of video poker.
Golden Nugget has a nice assortment of machines. (I won $1200+ there on a Bally's five reeler! ) :89-
The River Palms is average too, but a small step up from Edgewater/Belle.
Harrah's video poker pay tables had me heading for the exits.

The Tropicana has a nice assortment of machines too.

Have Fun!

Warning: Do not exceed the speed limit of 65mph on the 95. And Searchlight appears to be a speedtrap too!

Jim   The Edgewater has AVP Game Kings !!!!!!!

I take 93 to 68 and go 85, following somebody going 90. :89-

When they get pulled over I wait for someone else doing 90, lather rinse repeat. Never got a ticket out there yet... :3-



Yanno, Buzz, you're right! That Tropicana buffet is pretty damn good when it's free!  :208- :208- :208-



Thanks, Cap'n!

Chances are good that you'll be the youngest person in the city of Laughlin.  That is, assuming you're under the age of 85.


I assume you're planning a stop in at the NLG World Headquarters?

Old school NLG

The Trop and a mad rock.  :200- :97- :97- :97-

Jason,

I added one word to Uniman's opinion of the Edgewater/Belle, :5- although I found some very good 25¢ Triple Double Bonus VP paytables at the Edgewater last year. The Edgewater is slightly better than the Belle, IMO.

Don't forget to check out the antique auto museum at the Riverside. :71- As has been mentioned, they also have the antique slot store, but from what I've seen, they are not only extremely overpriced, they are extremely overpriced reproductions. It's a nice place to browse, but keep your wallet in your pocket.

If you're a good blackjack player, the Golden Nugget has one single-deck table with decent rules*  that is often uncrowded mid-week (meaning that you can actually get more than two hands per shuffle.) The table is usually set as their "high limit" table  -- which for Laughlin is a joke -- with a minimum bet of a whopping $10. :30-

* Pays 3:2; dbl down on any two cards; dealer hits soft 17; no dbl after split (obviously on single deck); no surrender; penetration is usually good with one to three players.

"Penetration"....you talking about cards Stat? :129- :126-

Well, not with this crowd. :25- :30-  I'll leave it to your imagination :97- :97- :97-

He used the "P" word!!! :208- :208- :208-

That will be Painful!

CH :95-

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Three on two....

Soft 17 year old....

Next P word will be prison....

NEVER leave it to our imagination!

CH :95-

You know CH :95-, one often doubles and hits on soft 18's too, and they come without the prison sentence...    :106-  :177- 
...but don't let me change your imagination's mind. :127- :208- :208-

If you really want to be daring, you could double down on a soft 19, or split 10s against a dealer's 6.  Both plays are correct at certain times, but the first will get you some scrutiny by the dealer and pit boss, and the second will likely get you killed by the other players.

Of course, splitting those 10's at the right time can be a great way to convince everyone you're a fool while actually making a good play, and doing it at the wrong time is the fastest way to prove them correct. :47-

I will be daring here.... HERE IS A DOUBLE HIT:  :117- :117-  OR   :125- :125-   OR  :24- :24- I guess that I better watch for the last one and get off of your stage! :97- :97- :97-

CH :95-

Back on track for Jason! (BTW Let me know when you know when you are going to go)

Plus I have wanted to share this for everyone since back in July......

I really suggest going to the cafe/coffee shop/restaurant/whatever they call it in Don Laughlin's Riverside Hotel Casino. My Mom and I tried it a couple (or few?) times on the last trip for the NLG 4th of July Celebration and then some. We never had a bad meal, and the prices were very very reasonable the the food was pretty good based on what we got, and from looking at what other people got.

The first visit I got a French Dip, and my Mom got the Ham Steak Special. She was shocked when it arrived as we had NEVER seen such a huge Ham Steak served at a restaurant before, it was probably easily more than a pound, and tasty! :91- :91- :91-

I had eyed a Hamburger on the menu, and decided to save it for another visit. I attached the menu description to this post, and you will get to see it on the next couple posts!!!

CaptainHappy :95-

Ok here is the burger from our next visit.... I decided to go for it as I was hungry. Also the waitress told me that their policy is that if you eat the ENTIRE thing, plus the fries (or maybe not... I forget, CRS!!!) ( :29- Not a small portion either!) that it would be FREE!!!!! :150- :150- :150- I was up for the challenge as an adventure, and for a story for the NLG folks!!!! She said that I was allowed to leave one item off of the burger, and since I do not like tomato slices, I had her put them on the side for my Mom... It might have been a whole tomato, I think it was like 10 slices...... look in the pictures! :99-

I like cheese so I added that for an extra buck.....  :81- Whoa that sure broke the budget...  :97- :97- :97- NOT!!! :89- :71- :89-

Prepare your eyes...........

CaptainHappy :95-

And now for the START and FINISH..... Finish of me not the BURGER!!! :99- :208-

CaptainHappy :95-

I now think that this should be an open challenge to all members...
Go try, and make sure to take pictures :211- of how far you got... My estimate is that I only ate 3/8! We could then start a thread just for those posts!??? :103- :79- :103-

I was trying to find out if the whole menu was online, and I found this... Pretty funny and ironic to me now that I know my suggestions are "WORLD FAMOUS"!!!

http://www.riversideresort.com/dining.aspx?id=155 (http://www.riversideresort.com/dining.aspx?id=155)


CaptainHappy :95-

Holy  Wholly Whole cow!  :63- :150- :29- :151-

It looks like finishing the meat and the fixings might be achievable, but that bun would really do you in. :25- :30- :97- :97- :97-

"It must have been the pickle." :127-

You know I'll have to try it the next time I'm out there. I'll be sure to forgo eating for 24 hours beforehand. :79-

Don't forget Casa Serrano. It was a decent Mexican restaurant. Not great, but decent. :71-

And how many calories, sugar and fat grams was consumed that day, CH? :30- :30-
But wait, it looks sooooooooo good!  :97-

Ron (r273)

That bun looked equal to a loaf of bread!  :127-

The general rule is that you are exempted from counting when in casinos! Unless you are Statfreak! :31-
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 The true challenge in my opinion is the LOAF :163- as Bunker pointed out! :99- :25-

CH  :95-

Leave off the bun and I'll terminate that burger with extreme prejudice!

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Yep, I could do it Atkin's style wrapped in lettuce! (In-n-out calls that protein style.)

CH :95-

Now I am hungry, but road trip is out of the question right now!

That...is...AWESOME CH!  I attempted something like that a few years ago.  1 1/2 pound burger, a huge plate of fries and a monster milkshake.  You eat it, it's free.  I had to pay for it.  I was sick the rest of the day, but I gave it an honest attempt.   I'll let you gents know when I'm comin.

;)

Have a good time Jason. Looks like the guy's are making sure you have a good place to eat.
Enjoy yourself, Ford

I have to try that burger the next time I'm there...  A whole lotta bun though...

W

Unless you are Joey Chestnut LOL. As an aside, the last time I was in Vegas was 2000 -2001 and to my suprise Chinese food for some odd reason, is really expensive as compared to the East Coast, is this still the case?

PFChangs menu prices are pretty much the same US wide. The one in the Planet Hollywood ( is slightly more expensive I noticed) but the road directly behind Harrahs / PH / etc has another on it. With the regular prices. Vegas prices get way more reasonable anytime you leave the strip. 

Love me some Panda Express too!  PF Chang's is really good.  We have those up here too.

Dang, I'm glad to live where I do. :89- :89- :89- :89-

We got Chinese (Mandarin, Hunan, and Szechwan), Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese (nothing like a bowl of Pho on a cold rainy day...), Indian, Ethiopian, Afghan, Persian, Russian, anything you can think of within 5 miles of home and 2 miles of work. Any of you folks ever wind up here, give me a PM and we'll feast on foreign food for days! It's about the only redeeming quality about the Bay Area, aside from the paycheck. :25-

Brichter, do you have McDonald's or Taco Bell out there?  I'd love to try it sometime!   :208- :208-

Yeah, but we gotta go halfway across town for those... :72- :72- :72- :72- :72- :72-

They pulled out the Burger King down the street and put in a Mexican place!

Funny thing......... I just went to PFChangs Saturday night! :91- :91- :91-

Pricey for Chinese Food, but good flavors and consistent quality... I say best of chain chinese restaurants.

Trivia question to see if anyone knows the answer of off the top of their head... No Google Cheaters for 24 hours, we may get some funny answers if people have to guess! :72- What does the PF stand for??? First poster with correct answer gets K+ prize!

CaptainHappy :95-

Bill,

I used to go up there all of the time when I was building my boards up there, and I always looked forward to the global food mecca!!!

If I visited we would both burst by the time we got done! Pho, and I assume that you know how to pronounce it properly, MMMMmmmmm sounds good, plus it is supposed to keep raining here for a few days!!! :91- :91- :91- :79- :103-

CH :95-

PF= pig food? :124- :123-  Wheeeeeee!!!!! Wheeeeee!!!!!

POOR FU**ING CHANG

   PISSPOOR FLAVOR

Paul Fleming. Most folks in Arizona should know this...

I miss the quality and variety of food in the Bay Area more than anything. There was never any reason to go to a chain restaurant since they all paled in comparison to the independents.

I had to abstain from Thai, Vietnamese, Italian, and even Chinese cuisine for a while after moving away because all of the places I tried sucked. L.A has good Japanese Sushi and Indian restaurants, but good Thai was hard to find and great Pizza was impossible. Since leaving L.A., it's only gotten worse. I've finally gotten used to "Panda Express" and have found a few two-star Thai restaurants, but nothing beats the local places in the Bay Area.

Bill got the K+!!! There were some noble attempts though! :244- :244 :244--

Full name is Paul Fleming's Chang's China Bistro!

We have a high end Fleming's Steak House that is really good! :188-

CH :95-

The absolute best view of San Francisco is in your rear view mirror as your leaving !!!!!!!!!!! Alaska has nothing on San Francisco for being cold and WET  :3- :3- :3- :3-

Only out in the avenues, Buzz. The downtown area, the Mission, south of Market, and most of the areas East of Twin Peaks get plenty of sun for a coastal city.

Agreed. Plenty of sunshine where I used to live on Bernal Heights. :89-

The Avenues get the fog off the Pacific, and the opposite side of Bernal Heights got any that was coming in from the bay (I was on the west side of the hill).

When did you live there? :103-  Were you there in 1984-85? I had several musician friends from Bernal Heights and our band played at the street fair both of those years.

The Folsom Street Fair?  :79- :79-


Aw heck no! I lived there in the 60s.  :136- :136- :136-


Kinda explains a lot, doesn't it?    :127- :127-  :200- :72- :72- :72-

Pardon me. I forgot that you were over the hill.  :200-  :30- :30-  :208- :208- :208-



<P.S.> Actually, the bands played on Cortland Ave.

We used to go play in Holly Park sometimes, back when it was safe for kids to walk around...

And the "hippie house" around the corner from our house was where all the neighborhood kids would go tie-dye t shirts, make pottery pieces and Gods Eyes, while the hippies that lived there tripped their balls off on acid and shrooms.

That city sure hasn't changed much. :72- :72- :72- :72-

You got me reminiscing and I looked up the Coronet theater on Google maps this evening, only to find out that it closed in 2005 and was demolished for a senior care facility.
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I saw Star Wars there exactly one week after it opened on Wednesday June 1, 1977 and will never forget the experience.

The theater was huge, right up until it closed in 2005: they never subdivided it. It held somewhere around 1300 people, and we waited in the short line for a couple of hours just to buy the tickets, and then camped out in the LONG line snaking around the gas station and up the block for several more hours waiting to actually get in. Nothing could compare with viewing Star Wars on that giant screen with sound coming from all over the theater, or the experience of hearing over 1000 people booing Darth Vader when he first appeared in the doorway of the rebel ship, or cheering the first time we all saw the hyperspace jump!!

It wasn't until much later that I found out how lucky we were, since it was one of only a small handful of theaters in the country to show the film in 70mm 6-track Dolby surround sound, and one of only seven theaters to do so for the May 25^th opening (four in California, one in New Jersey, and two in New York.)