Spent last weekend at the L'Auberge resort casino Lake Charles Louisiana and a day at the Coushatta tribal casino 20 minutes away.
L'Auberge...best things:
#1.... Weekend seafood buffet..had monster crab legs, red fish, salmon, crawdads, alligator, frog legs, and as Forrest Gumps friend in Vietnam Bubba said, shrimp everyway...fried, steamed, gumboed, scampied,sauteed, and custom fresh broiled before your eyes.
#2....Adult pool area, we had a cabana, thanks to a friend, ....lots of young sweet meat scantily clothed...always a plus, and plenty of ice cold dos equis in the fridge.
#3 ....had 4 card poker and single deck blackjack, tables, liked 4 card poker a lot.
#4...not smoky at all.
#5 ... nice rooms with view of waterways.
BAD THINGS...#1... Room service....forget about it...TOTAL joke...horrid food and worse service, and we had a VIP suite.
Took about 2 hours Sunday morning and 3 attempts to get something remotely edible.
#2....Tight video poker and slots "Tighter then a ticks ass" comes to mind....so does Vacuum Cleaner.
#3.....Horrible casino back round music....it consisted of tonal thumping pulsating up and down a narrow portion of the musical scale....good grief.
THERE is a Golden Nugget casino opening next door Dec 1, it should be interesting for regulars to have an option.
Coushatta tribal was 20 minutes away...absolutely huge, smokey, lots of drinking noisy, mostly non-tourists (locals) other than the smoke, my kind of place. They did have large non-smoking slot room.
Really felt at home at the blackjack and 4 card poker tables here, locals having a good time, free flowing beer, trash talking the Dallas Cowboys kinda vibe.
Tables were $5 and up, plenty of action, ....discovered the slowest card dealer in the south here..."Milton".
Good God, after he dealt and set 3 hands of 4 card poker, I nicely asked him if he was new and had never dealt the game before....the cajun local next to me said "Miltons kinda slow, he always deals like this."....like watching paint dry on a humid day.
Slots, video poker was plentiful here and reasonably loose, after L'Auberge experience, it felt down right give away.
Both had poker rooms with long waiting times 2- 3 hours plus....lots of Moneyed oil workers and shrimpers here; looked ripe for the right player.
Overall we enjoyed the Southern Hospitality feel of the area, very friendly.
L'Auberge...best things:
#1.... Weekend seafood buffet..had monster crab legs, red fish, salmon, crawdads, alligator, frog legs, and as Forrest Gumps friend in Vietnam Bubba said, shrimp everyway...fried, steamed, gumboed, scampied,sauteed, and custom fresh broiled before your eyes.
#2....Adult pool area, we had a cabana, thanks to a friend, ....lots of young sweet meat scantily clothed...always a plus, and plenty of ice cold dos equis in the fridge.
#3 ....had 4 card poker and single deck blackjack, tables, liked 4 card poker a lot.
#4...not smoky at all.
#5 ... nice rooms with view of waterways.
BAD THINGS...#1... Room service....forget about it...TOTAL joke...horrid food and worse service, and we had a VIP suite.
Took about 2 hours Sunday morning and 3 attempts to get something remotely edible.
#2....Tight video poker and slots "Tighter then a ticks ass" comes to mind....so does Vacuum Cleaner.
#3.....Horrible casino back round music....it consisted of tonal thumping pulsating up and down a narrow portion of the musical scale....good grief.
THERE is a Golden Nugget casino opening next door Dec 1, it should be interesting for regulars to have an option.
Coushatta tribal was 20 minutes away...absolutely huge, smokey, lots of drinking noisy, mostly non-tourists (locals) other than the smoke, my kind of place. They did have large non-smoking slot room.
Really felt at home at the blackjack and 4 card poker tables here, locals having a good time, free flowing beer, trash talking the Dallas Cowboys kinda vibe.
Tables were $5 and up, plenty of action, ....discovered the slowest card dealer in the south here..."Milton".
Good God, after he dealt and set 3 hands of 4 card poker, I nicely asked him if he was new and had never dealt the game before....the cajun local next to me said "Miltons kinda slow, he always deals like this."....like watching paint dry on a humid day.
Slots, video poker was plentiful here and reasonably loose, after L'Auberge experience, it felt down right give away.
Both had poker rooms with long waiting times 2- 3 hours plus....lots of Moneyed oil workers and shrimpers here; looked ripe for the right player.
Overall we enjoyed the Southern Hospitality feel of the area, very friendly.
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