Chinook Winds Casino
Chinook Winds Casino – Lincoln City Oregon
Chinook Winds Casino is located on prime Lincoln City Oregon real estate, with the Pacific Ocean as its backdrop.
The coastal Oregon casino recently became the first casino on the Oregon Coast to offer liquor on the gaming floor, you still can’t sit back and enjoy an adult beverage while your mucking poker cards, but hell, it’s a start now isn’t it? Actually, the casino has built walls up around the poker room just this month (May 2012), and rumor has it that it will soon become the only poker room in an Oregon casino where you can legally drink alcohol and play cards very soon.
The reason you weren’t able to drink in the poker room before was that 18 year olds could play in the room, and minors could see in the room. After the change is made, minors won’t be allowed to play poker, and kids won’t be able to see adults inside gambling, and drinking. It’s a funny little rule of the Oregon Liquor Commissions, they don’t mind if kids see grown folks drinking, and they’re okay with kids seeing adults gambling, but kids have no business watching grown ups do both at the same time.
If you’re into slots, blackjack, or a plethora of other casino games, you can now visit the on the floor bar, and legally drink while you gamble, in fact, Chinook Winds has 2 bars located on the gaming floor, and drink runners during peak hours. The drinks aren’t free like they are in Vegas, but there are drinks available. In addition to drinking on the casino floor, once a month the casino holds a Cosmic Bingo event, the jackpots aren’t the biggest, but it’s a lot of fun, with cosmic lighting like you might find at a cosmic bowling event, loud music, and a no-host bar. They don’t know how to make a black opal, but they will run all the way upstairs and get you a non-alcoholic beer if you ask real nice.
. Chinook Winds Casino offers a variety of popular casino games with a home town feel, the employees are pretty laid back. Table games at the casino include a few Blackjack varieties, including single deck blackjack, where the house edge can actually be reduced to just .05% using a solid blackjack strategy. There are two floors full of slot machines and video poker games.
The craps tables are again laid back and friendly, making this the best place in Oregon to learn how to play Craps. They can get pretty crazy on the weekends though, especially if there’s a car show, or a concert, or something going on at the casino.
Compared to WildHorse Casino though, the craps team is super friendly, even I was a bit intimidated by the not-so-easy-on-the-newbie’s guys at Wildhorse’s craps table.
Roulette’s also on offer at Chinook Winds, and during the week the tables are pretty quiet, no crowds.
Due to the passing of a new law in Oregon, the casino is 100% non smoking, as is everything in Oregon. There’s also no drinking on the gaming floor in Oregon, however; you can drink upstairs in one of the most beautiful, lounges in the state of Oregon. If you scout out a table by the windows, you’ll look out through bay windows to the Oregon Coast. That’s the one area this casino could really improve on.
With the Pacific at your back, the casino is wasting their real estate not putting in windows everywhere! The hotel offers great views, and beach access, and the bar features a breathtaking view.. but the rest of the casino is cliché casino dark and drab.
Back out onto the casino floor, we’re treated by more table games! Such as the let it ride tables, three card poker, Pai Gow Poker, and a big very popular bingo room.
Chinook Winds welcome’s overnight parking, no facilities are available though. They also value their seniors, and offer a Senior Meal discount to casino goers above the age of 55.
A 51 Space RV park is available. Additionally, a childcare center, and a business center are on offer. There’s an arcade for the kiddies, and a gorgeous 18 hole golf course for their parents.