Hope you have a good trip here to Mississippi in May.
I won’t be any help on BJ, host and room comp questions at Treasure Bay, but I can chime in a few things.
Seniors do get ½ price lunch on Tues and Thurs at TB after minimal play. We use ours at the Den on 9th floor for the good view and the decent ½ price food there.
We don’t care for the TB buffet but we do like the buffet at the Palace Casino in Biloxi. Its rated very high and any day Mon-Thursday you can get ½ price buffet for minimal play. It’s one of the best values on the coast, IMHO. They have a Mongolian grill and a separate hot pasta station as well. We love their Bread pudding (with warm praline sauce). We’ve been going there for 25 years.
We rarely eat anymore at any Biloxi area casinos. We used to get free rooms, lots of free play and lots of food comps, but the Vegas-like gouge is in full force here and most of that has gone away since Covid.
We can recommended the pizza place at Scarlett Pearl Casino. It ain’t cheap but we think it’s really good, especially the meaty pizza called The Butcher.
Other non-casino restaurants:
Long Beach – Coterie. A branch of the long-time New Orleans Cajun/Creole restaurant. On the Hwy 90 beach with a nice high view.
Ocean Springs – The Shed. Award winning barbeque in a very cool rustic setting just north of I-10 at highway 57 exit before you get to OS. They’ve won Memphis in May barbeque competition several times. No indoor AC-cooled seating so be aware of that. It’s all good there but we love the sliced brisket, wings, sweet potato souffle and baked beans. They have oysters now too.
Downtown Biloxi – Parrains Cajun. A few blocks from Beau Rivage. Small, about ten tables, but some of the best Cajun food we’ve found outside of rural Louisiana.
D’Iberville – Quave Brothers. Excellent poboys. Just a few blocks from Scarlett Pearl. They even have a hot muffalatta poboy.
Woolmarket – Tarantos. Crawfish heaven. Rural area north of I-10. More great poboys. If you’re here in May, they still should have fresh crawfish but they serve the mudbugs all year. They have been there a long time; excellent experience all around.
Things to do:
We’ve lived here eight years but have been coming to MS coast for 30 years. Some of our fun things to do we can recommend are:
Beauvoir – Confederate White House and home of Jefferson Davis. Just west on Hwy 90 past TB. If you are interested in the Civil War, it’s a must do, especially the cemetery out back. Do you remember a few years ago when blue cities were taking down Confederate statues? Beauvoir contacted them and “We’ll take them.” And they did. They’re out back, too.
Walter Anderson museum – Ocean Springs. Even if you are not the art museum type, give this place a visit. Anderson was an eccentric hermit-like artist from OS who would PADDLE his row boat out to Horn Island and sketch the wildlife there for most of his life. Be sure not to miss the “big” room (painted by him floor to ceiling) and the “hidden” room his family discovered after his death. They moved it to the museum when it opened. You’ll be blown away.
Ohr-Ofeefe museum on Highway 90 near Harrahs in Biloxi. If nothing else, go to marvel at the Frank Gehry designed buildings.
Infinity Space Center – Off I-10 at the last exit before Louisiana. Near the Stennis Space Center. Very educational especially if you followed the glory days of NASA. Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise is a Biloxi native and still lives here.
Have a great time and get lots of royals.
