"I would like to point out that Spadebeats attempted to contact the concierge a total of 8 times during our 3 day stay. Out of 8 phone calls, that phone was answered approximately 0 times.
"After this, we decided against going over to Harrah's for the tourney because people were a little anxious to get into the casino to do some non-poker gaming. We headed down to the casino, which is very nice, but a little small. To our dismay, we found that the slots were ... REAL tight. I am not exaggerating when I say that I put a $20 bill into a 25 cent slot machine and did not get a single win on that 20 bucks. None. Not even two credits, not even a cherry. NADA! I quickly went through $100 just in slots. This is understandable because it's a brand new casino and it has to get paid for. I would think they'd want them on the looser side as to get more people in the doors. We weren't too concerned about this because none of us really went there to play slots. We moved on to black jack.
"The blackjack was fun. I ended up losing another $100 but two of the other guys in our group won a little bit. During the day and early afternoon, they have $5 tables which is refreshing and real hard to find in Vegas (unless you're at the Orleans). The only complaint we had during blackjack was that in the middle of Spadebeat's session, they decided to up the table minimum from $5 to $15. Nothing unusual here as it was getting into the early evening and ALL casinos raise the table minimums later at night. However, when you're in Vegas, if you are playing at a $5 minimum table and they decide to change the limit, you are 'grandfathered' into that $5 minimum. Everyone else that sits down must play the new minimum, but you can continue to play the minimum at which you started. This was NOT the case at L'Auberge du Lac. Spadebeats was asked to raise his minimum bet, even after explaining that he had been playing for $5 for several hours. Didn't matter. Spadebeats immediately cashed out and they lost his business for the night.
"At around 8 pm we decided to have dinner to celebrate our friend's bachelor party. There at the L'Auberge du Lac is a Jack Daniel's bar and grill. It was great. The food was great, the atmosphere was excellent and they have probably the most attractive waitstaff on the planet. There was more talent in that place than I've seen in a long time. Hooter's girls have NOTHING on this place. Not only were the waitresses gorgeous, but apparently this place is a Lake Charles hot spot. Therefore, there were a lot of local women in the bar too. Very nice. We did have to wait an hour for our table, but we had a party of 9, and apparently Friday night is their busiest night. The next night, we went a bit earlier and we were seated immediately. I would definitely recommend this place.
DAY 2
"Saturday morning I woke up to a hot room. I checked the A/C and saw that it was at its maximum but no cold air was blowing out. We sat there for awhile ... sweating. Dan called down to the front desk and found out that a transformer blew. He was told that there are couple floors without electricity and the elevators don't work. We were pretty hungry at that point and wanted to have some breakfast. Spadebeats and myself had been comped the night before while playing blackjack so we wanted to take advantage of our free breakfast buffet.
"Because of the transformer problem, we had to take the stairs. It wasn't that much of a big deal since we were on the way down, not up. So, we start making our way down 8 flights of stairs. Unfortunately, we were behind a group of elderly people and therefore weren't able to fly down the stairs. We were stopped on the 6th floor by a hotel employee who advised us that we would have to be escorted down the stairs. We found out later that this was because not all of the floors were finished and they didn't want us walking through construction without an escort."
