The best promotion in June for many video poker players – both locals and visitors – will be going on at the South Point casino all month: “Half Price Gas & Goods.” Earn and redeem $25 in slot club points and get a $50 Chevron gas card or a $50 Walmart gift card. It takes 8333 base points to earn each $50 gift card voucher and there is a limit of 10 total cards for each cardholder. So, during the time you are earning these gift cards (83,330 points if you are working for all 10) that is the same as getting double points. Since South Point rarely has double points on holidays as in the past, this is a welcome equivalent benefit this month. See complete details here.
Holiday Multiple Points
There is only one holiday in June when you might find multiple points, Father’s Day on Sunday, June 16. That is not a major holiday and not all casinos “celebrate” it. However, I did notice in my Gold Coast mailer that they promote 11x on reels and VP at some Boyd properties on that day. Plus, some of their casinos are including a free beer for dad at their Father’s Day buffet. Other casinos may promote specials closer to the date. You should check casino websites for these.
As always, you need to check Scot’s Bonus Point List often as he adds information as soon as he gets it from the casino. The last few months some casinos have been adding promotions mid-month, after their initial first-of-the-month details and after the mailers have gone out.
Other News
The former non-smoking casino room on the main floor at Arizona Charlies Decatur now allows smoking. There is still a non-smoking area on the 2nd floor.
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Both the Gold Coast and the Orleans have added a brunch on Saturdays, with the same prices as their Sunday brunch. You get players club discounts, depending on your tier level, and you can also use your LVA 2-for-1 coupon. And much to our surprise, they did take our mailer food coupons that exclude “Specialty” dinners. We were afraid they would consider this a special meal!
We love the one at the Orleans; and although we haven’t tried the one at the Gold Coast, we have heard good reports about it. By the way if you look these up in the buffet section of the R-J Neon magazine, you will find it hasn’t been updated to include these new Saturday brunches. However, they are described on the two casino websites.
The Gold Coast price is $16.99 and runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free Bellini Champagne and Mimosas for guests 21 years of age or older, your choice of flavors: Blackberry, Mango, Peach, Raspberry, Strawberry. The Champagne Brunch at the Orleans is $20.99 and runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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One warning about all Boyd buffets: you usually won’t get a specific tier discount by just waving your card in front of the cashier to show your “tier color.” The new cards now have expiration dates on them and are supposed to be checked. So even though your old higher-tier cards may still work in the machines, they might not pass an eagle-eyed buffet cashier!
Reply to Jack R.:
As already reported in a separate post, I got a similar email survey about ten days ago.
Cheers.
In case people are not aware of this, for the rest of this week, if you are President or higher with Station Casinos, Caesars casinos will issue you a Diamond status card good thru the end of the year. I heard about this through friends but could not find it listed anywhere. My wife just took advantage of this today.
In Europe smoking sections in casinos are glassed off. They take second hand smoke seriously. I sincerely hope one day soon larger smoke free areas will become more wide spread.
I was just wondering if anyone else had received a survey from Boyd Gaming. After playing at the Gold Coast 2-3 times a week for over 14 years, I stopped playing there when they changed the player’s club. I cashed out all my points on 9/1/18, and have not been in a Boyd property since. This past week, I received an email survey asking all kinds of questions about where I play, which casino has the better players club, what I know about their new player’s club, what I liked about it, what I don’t like about it and what changes would I like to see. Considering I now see many familiar faces from the Gold Coast at South Point and all the Station Casinos where I play, I just wanted to get a feel for how many other people had a chance to express their feelings about the changes that were made.
Arizona Charlie’s again proves that the non-smoking casino will never make it….