Hooters Casino: The Review

[brinett9 0]

Overall grade: D

 

I heard it was bad, but I wanted to like it. I'm not a hater. I try to appreciate everything for what it is.

 

Now Hooters is a half block off the strip behind the Tropicana. It's the old San Remo with a little bit of a facelift. This I knew before arriving.

 

I figured there where three things this older, smaller, slightly off-strip casino could use to lure players away from the nearby megaresorts:

 

1) The Hooters brand name.

2) Hot babes in Hooters oh-so-thin white cotton tee shirts and short orange shorts.

3) Relatively favorable playing conditions.

 

Of the three, the place only takes advantage of 1). There were two or three girls in Hooters regalia on the floor at most when I dropped by, which was around noon.

 

Playing conditions are LESS favorable than the adjacent casinos. Craps had a $10 minimum where the Tropicana next door has a $5 boat going. Video Poker paid 6/5 (full house/flush) where the MGM and Tropicana both pay 8/5. This leaves one with the sneaky suspicion that slot payouts are similarly poor when compared to neighboring casinos.

 

The whole strategy seems to be "Let's slap a Hooters sign up and then do everything we can to repel customers."

 

I walked in the front door, toured the casino and gift shop, then walked out again without so much as pulling a dime out of my pocket.

 

The D grade is a gift based on the fact that it wasn't crowded, most potential customers having been successfully repelled.

 

This place needs major changes or it'll go under within a year.

[Bert 1,128]

Overall grade: D

 

I heard it was bad, but I wanted to like it. I'm not a hater. I try to appreciate everything for what it is.

 

Now Hooters is a half block off the strip behind the Tropicana. It's the old San Remo with a little bit of a facelift. This I knew before arriving.

 

I figured there where three things this older, smaller, slightly off-strip casino could use to lure players away from the nearby megaresorts:

 

1) The Hooters brand name.

2) Hot babes in Hooters oh-so-thin white cotton tee shirts and short orange shorts.

3) Relatively favorable playing conditions.

 

Of the three, the place only takes advantage of 1). There were two or three girls in Hooters regalia on the floor at most when I dropped by, which was around noon.

 

Playing conditions are LESS favorable than the adjacent casinos. Craps had a $10 minimum where the Tropicana next door has a $5 boat going. Video Poker paid 6/5 (full house/flush) where the MGM and Tropicana both pay 8/5. This leaves one with the sneaky suspicion that slot payouts are similarly poor when compared to neighboring casinos.

 

The whole strategy seems to be "Let's slap a Hooters sign up and then do everything we can to repel customers."

 

I walked in the front door, toured the casino and gift shop, then walked out again without so much as pulling a dime out of my pocket.

 

The D grade is a gift based on the fact that it wasn't crowded, most potential customers having been successfully repelled.

 

This place needs major changes or it'll go under within a year.

 

I agree with the grade. One thing you did forget. Dan Marino's. It's the only reason to go.

[cbfalcon 825]

Overall grade: D

 

I heard it was bad, but I wanted to like it. I'm not a hater. I try to appreciate everything for what it is.

 

Now Hooters is a half block off the strip behind the Tropicana. It's the old San Remo with a little bit of a facelift. This I knew before arriving.

 

I figured there where three things this older, smaller, slightly off-strip casino could use to lure players away from the nearby megaresorts:

 

1) The Hooters brand name.

2) Hot babes in Hooters oh-so-thin white cotton tee shirts and short orange shorts.

3) Relatively favorable playing conditions.

 

Of the three, the place only takes advantage of 1). There were two or three girls in Hooters regalia on the floor at most when I dropped by, which was around noon.

 

Playing conditions are LESS favorable than the adjacent casinos. Craps had a $10 minimum where the Tropicana next door has a $5 boat going. Video Poker paid 6/5 (full house/flush) where the MGM and Tropicana both pay 8/5. This leaves one with the sneaky suspicion that slot payouts are similarly poor when compared to neighboring casinos.

 

The whole strategy seems to be "Let's slap a Hooters sign up and then do everything we can to repel customers."

 

I walked in the front door, toured the casino and gift shop, then walked out again without so much as pulling a dime out of my pocket.

 

The D grade is a gift based on the fact that it wasn't crowded, most potential customers having been successfully repelled.

 

This place needs major changes or it'll go under within a year.

 

or they could just put a "free BJ" slot on the roulette wheel and change nothing else.

[SigEp316 0]

yeah....that place blows

[cbfalcon 825]

yeah....that place blows

 

if they inact my idea, this could be their slogan.

 

"Hooters Casino: We Blow"

[brinett9 0]

or they could just put a "free BJ" slot on the roulette wheel and change nothing else.

That's the kind of thinking that should have been going on in the early stages of the project.

[cday 0]

places with 6/5 video poker are not to be visited.

[brinett9 0]

places with 6/5 video poker are not to be visited.

Yeah, it's like, "Did I walk in here backwards, bent over, with my pants around my ankles?"

[supermike80 1,791]

places with 6/5 video poker are not to be visited.

 

Even here in Detroit, where there is much less competition, I see no worse than 7/5 on a 25 cent table.

[FranksTanks 0]

The name alone won't carry it anymore. You've been to one Hooters, you've been to them all, an they are now everywhere. Plus the girls outfits haven't changed in it's entire existence. Throw some puff bangs on them and you'd sear you had stepped back to the 80's or early 90's..

[JT 137]

The name alone won't carry it anymore.

 

I don't know. The restaurants have always been crap holes, yet they survive.

 

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public, especially the drunk (or soon to be drunk), testosterone fueled, 'woo-hoo I'm in Vegas' public

[FranksTanks 0]

I don't know. The restaurants have always been crap holes, yet they survive.

 

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public, especially the drunk (or soon to be drunk), testosterone fueled, 'woo-hoo I'm in Vegas' public

 

Good point. But it's not as taboo to see a little cleavage in Vegas. Woman not working in the casino show more than they show. Besdies, if you want to see some skin, you'll skip the PG-13 sh!t and go straight for the real deal. It's not hard to find.

[Old School 360]

I've been to the old San Remo, and it blew.

Sounds like not much has changed.

[BringBackBernie 0]

I always thought Hooters sucked all the way around.

[BMoney 0]

i thought i was in the minority when it came to not like hooters..

 

it seems to be better going to a regular bar and seeing a cute server there..as opoosed to hooters where the gals think they are hot stuff because the perverted 45 year old manager thinks so..

 

what?...youll sit with me for a minute? yeah..THATS worth my overpriced drink...

 

i ALMOST went with a friend to a Hooters pagent show..he knew the owner..but when i learned there was a still a $10 cover..i passed...

 

facelift more like boob lift..

[CurlyNight 0]

Where else did you go? Did you try Paris's buffet? If so, what did you think of it?

[Mr. Landry 29]

I concur with the review. There is maybe one legitimate "hooters girl" for every ten wanabees. They've got a nice lady out front escorting you from the car to give you hope and then the rest of your trip is straight down hill from there. Take your expectations to the Hard Rock or elsewhere....this place does not have it.

[sharkie22 0]

Did anyone really think it would be any different? A restaurant chain that specializes in chicken wings and is famous for its hourly staff of mostly average looking girls with their Dolphin shorts hiked up? TGI Fridays and Applebees should be coming right around the corner with their resorts as well. Considering what a fine job Hooters did with their airline I guess it was inevitable for them to take a shot at the Casino/ resort industry too. Perhaps their next venture will be a head first leap into the health and medical field. I live in Vegas and have not and will not consider even checking the place out because it's such a sham. As cheesy as many of this cities hotels may be, even Las Vegans are wary of this hotel concept. I'm not familiar with the beginnings and growth of the Hooters chain since I grew up in LA and we didn't have any but it strikes me as the type of establishment that does its best business in areas where there isn't a whole heck of a lot to do because of either the weather or simply the fact that there just isn't much to do. Is this right or wrong?

 

Sorry for the diatribe but I cannot explain how offended/ embarrassed I am by the existence of and the success enjoyed by so many of these ridiculous restaurant chains and their marketing campaigns aimed at what appears to be a nation of mouth breathers who should either stick to TV dinners or consider therapy with Stuart Smalley. After all, they're good enough and smart enough and doggone it, everybody likes them.

[brinett9 0]

Where else did you go? Did you try Paris's buffet? If so, what did you think of it?

Yes, we did the Paris buffet. Loved it.

 

Both the setting and the food are great. And ooh la la, the desserts!

 

Also ate at Craftsteak (MGM). Very good steak, but overpriced.