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| - On a hunt to satisfy nostalgia in search of coin operated slot machines, we were pointed to La Bayou Casino.
Leave all your expectations of a flashy, on the strip casino at the door. This place was probably the length of a trailer and the mood felt as such. If your nostalgia of old-school, mob run Vegas casino is a thick of smoky air, visions of retirees throwing away their Social Security checks, all the while hacking into the open air, then this is the place for you.
While we did indeed intended to play the coin slots, it began to be cumbersome when switching from one unlucky machine to the next to cash out your funds. Even more irritating was the fact that not all the betting denominations are the same, and not all machines will take particular coins. They do give you plastic buckets for the coins, even if they made you want to find the nearest hand sanitizer after handling them. We only put in $20 each and quickly realized why the rest of the casinos have adopted the printed ticket voucher system.
The cashier was very nice as were the employees that greeted you at the entrance. They'll give you free Mardi Gras beads when you walk in the door as well as a spin voucher for a chance to win up to $10,000.
Oh, and the drink service was nonexistent, granted we were only here for maybe 20 min.
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