I like all of those casinos you mentioned, but they feel very small and cramped compared to a land based casino. Those barges they are built on limit the height of the casinos to that of a two story building. Generally speaking other than the Hollywood the ceilings are low in those buildings. The last I heard was that the Resorts and Bally’s were on life support and in receivership. Tunica just can’t draw enough people outside the Memphis area like it used to be able to and then even the core market in Memphis now has other closer options.
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Originally posted by: malibber2
Tunica is dead. With the spread of gambling all across the country nobody wants to drive to the cotton fields to gamble on a barge. The state doesn't seem to want to save it they drove the final nail in the coffin when they allowed land based gambling in Southern Mississippi but not the rest of the state.
Horseshoe, Sams Town, Hollywood, and Fitzgerals were very much alive in Tunica two weeks ago.
The first Tunica casino, Splash, then Ballys, and the other one I forget the name of, were riverboats. Those were phased out and the Tunica hotel casinos in existance now, while on barge foundations are not riverboats and do not have the look or feel of a barge or a riverboat. You wouldn't even know they aren't "land based."
Harrah's never held any appeal to me, even back when it was The Grand. Distant from the other casinos, hotel inconvenient to the casino, blah buffet, Oklahoma casinos...not surprised it went belly up.
