Most evenings there is live entertainment in the Club Four One lounge that opens to the casino floor, so if you’re at the nearby slots, you can enjoy some excellent music while you play, or of course, you can take a break to enjoy the band in the loung. An Irish coffee at the sports bar was coffee and Bailey’s, not quite what I expected, but a Blue Moon draft was a healthy pint and quite refreshing. Other than a delightful and delicious catered dinner, my only meals at the hotel were breakfasts, which were average – and one day with overcrisped hasbrowns, a bit below average, but waitstaff were attentive and friendly. While family friendly, there isn’t too much there for kids, and in the Palm Tower, there is no division between the check-in desk and casino floor, so families will likely feel like there’s not much space to be a family, with gambling right at the front door of the hotel. An on-property RV park has 53 sites, with electricity, water, laundry and shower facilities. room service bell services and in-room hair dryers and coffeemakers, with ceramic Island Casino branded coffee cups.

An average size indoor pool is on the first floor and there is a small fitness room.Įach hotel guest 18 and older, receives one $5 dinner coupon $5 Promo coupon $5 bingo coupon and a drink coupon at check-in. The 11th floor Palm Tower guest rooms have a chic style décor, while others, like those on the floor I was on (7 th) are spacious and clean, but a bit more low-brow with nylon/cotton quilted bedspreads, two pillows per bed, no closet door and no iron/ironing board. There are 274 guest rooms 112 in the original hotel, built in 1998, and recently renovated and 162 in the new Palm Tower, completed in 2007, which also boasts a handsome Presidential Suite. There is a poker room, near the bingo hall, both of which are very basic, but the rest of the casino has a nice, leisurely feel about it. Island Resort and Casino has 140 slots, plus table games that include poker, blackjack, roulette, craps and a bingo hall. Think mid-winter and not inches, but feet, of snow in this northern climate, and the casino’s palm tree paradise décor is all the more a tropical island getaway.

Island Resort and Casino is just what its name implies, an island of big city gaming, entertainment and fun, surrounded by Michigan’s U.P. It may sound like a ‘Yooper’ fairy tale, but drive-in bingo was the genesis of what is today Island Resort and Casino in Harris, Michigan, 13 miles west of Escanaba in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Once upon a time people in and around Harris, Michigan, would get into their cars and drive to Harris to play bingo…in their cars…without leaving their cars.

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