Last night we decided to check out Caesars Windsor casino.

We arrived in Windsor about 7PM and headed north on Howard ave past the Devonshire mall, past Tecumseh road and as we got closer we could see the new tower of Ceasers Windsor all lite up in the evening sky.

Like a moth we focused on the light becon and navigated toward it until we arrived at the casino’s parking garage. There was a lot of traffic around the casino. My first response was hey this is good, it looks busy around here, the casino must be doing good.

I turned on the street just to the south of the parking lot so that I could get over to the main entrance. That is when I discovered that you had to be a “7 star member” to enter here. This must have been a change since the reopening as I recall that this was the entrance to general parking in the past.

No problems however, there was a sign right there telling us to go around the block as general parking is now on the other side off of the parking garage on Glengary Ave. As I turned the corner there was a line up of cars in the curb lane waiting to get into the garage. We waiting about 5 minutes in this line, inching our way closer to the entrance. We were about three cars away from entering when a Ceasar’s Windsor employee approached us an said that we needed a players car in order to enter the parking garage. There was a Michael Bolton concert at the casino and I guess when they have a big name act they close the parking garage for their preferred guest. You know, the ones who come in with a lot of cash and donate it.




I told him that I would gladly get a players card once inside. This was our first visit to the new Caesars Windsor so we didn’t have one yet. The guy told us that we would have to go and park in the “off site” parking lot and take the shuttle. He then instructed us to follow the signs south on Glengary.

So we start to following the signs. They lead us all the way back to Wyandotte where there is a sign telling us to to turn right. We are now heading west on Wyandotte towards the Windsor / Detroit tunnel and Ouellette Ave. Along the way there are a few signs telling us to keep going. Then the signs stop. Somewhere along the way we must have missed a sign pointing us in a new direction.

We are not big gamblers so I didn’t expect Caesars Windsor to kiss my ass. Our plan was to go to Caesars Windsor for a nice dinner and then try out luck out in the casino. Well our plans changed. I wasn’t going to circle the block again looking for the mystery off site parking.

We decided to go to the Keg instead and we had a wonderful dinner there. I guess I should thank Michael Boton for saving us a couple hundred dollars in the end as we never did get a chance o make a donation to Caesar. Our bill at the Keg came to just a little over $120. I did order a bottle of wine at the restaurant, asking for a nice local bottle of red wine. Local wine at the Keg means tht it is from the Niagara region, not Essex County … but that is another story.



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