The crab legs which they feature now are really worthless, those skinny ones with little or no meat which take an hour to crack open. Now I have been patronizing this buffet occasionally for many years since it started, and I have to say of course I liked it better at the start when they had genuine lobster on the buffet and the price was, I think, $14.95. The content varies from night to night, but we were fortunate enough to be there for 'Surf 'n Turf' ($24.95). And anyway, I suspect one reason it wasn't smoky is that fewer people are even smoking ! I have never, ever been able to get a room in their hotel, so I can't comment on that, but I do have strong and mostly positive feelings about their buffet. In this day and age where smokers are treated like lepers, I kind of liked that reversal of the trend. I am a former smoker, and I can sniff out small traces of smoke, but there was so little here I had to ask for my companion if there was a smoking section, only to be informed the entire casino, except for a small area upstairs, allows smoking.

Contrary to much of what I am reading in the reviews, we did not find the busy casino smoky at all.

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