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Silverton  Room 4025 posted 7/31/05  

In what can only be described as a fervent attempt to attract players,
he's been sending out offers to visit and play.  They started as
generic offers, but have been steadily escalating to the point that
the last one couldn't be refused.  So, a free weekend room for 2
nights, $300 in free slot play and $100 in free food with NO required
amount of cash play and who could say no?

Silverton has been undergoing a complete overhaul for the past 6 or 7
months.  The casino has been enlarged, all the rooms have been
totally remodeled, the restaurants have been upgraded and the place
is now MUCH nicer than it was only a few months back.  The casino has
a decent selection of modern slots and full pay VP at all 
denominations, including nickles ($.05).  There are still a number of
coin out machines on the floor, but there are also TITO (ticket in-
ticket out) machines scattered throughout the casino.  Table games
have all the usual subjects, with low table minimums ($5.00) offered
for all games.  BJ (single deck paying 6/5 $5 mins, double deck pitch
paying 3/2 with $10 mins (and Royal Match), and 8 deck shoe paying
3/2 $5 mins).  Craps offers 10X odds, roulette (0-00) $1.00 mins, and
all the new poker variants (3 card, 3-5-7, Crazy4, WildHoldem) and
PaiGow.  An incredibly small sports book and a new poker room
(spreading 2-4, 4-8 and 3-5NL Hold-em) complete the casino offerings.

Check in was a piece of cake.  We were given a no smoking King room
on the top floor (room 4025) (which really doesn't mean much, since
there are only 4 floors).  The 4th floor is entirely non-smoking. 
The hotel is shaped like a giant 'U', so none of the rooms really
offer much in the way of a "view".  4025 faced SE and offered a view
of the wall of Bass Pro Shops.  300 rooms total with 12 suites. The
rooms have been extensively updated, but are still your basic Holiday
Inn style room, but with higher quality furnishings.  The bed is
probably the best part, offering the same mattress used at the
Bellagio.  Very comfy.  Feather pillows on request. Nice furniture
includes a 4' square writing/dining table with 2 chairs, a 2 line
digital telephone with data port and reading light with dimmer. 
Another 2 line phone resides next to the bed on one of the two
nightstands.  The other nightstand has a AM-FM clock radio with a CD
player.  Both also offer dimmer equipped reading lights.  There is a
2 person leather love seat for lounging with a coffee table in front. 
Facing the bed is a standard hotel Armoire, containing the 25"
Phillips analog TV (local channels and a few Satellite channels (TBS,
CNN, WGN), perhaps 10 all together), in room PPV and a wireless
keyboard for the $10.99 per day high speed Internet access (which can
also be used with a guest's laptop computer, if desired).  Next to
this is a refrigerated mini bar (beers $3-4, wine $10-12, water/soda
$2, RedBull $4, candy $2-4), and the credit card operated safe, which
is large enough for most under 17" laptops.  The bathrooms are a weak
point, with a std shower over tub, faux marble sink and basic head,
but the soaps and other bath accoutrements are all from Bath and Body
Works (nice touch).  Good Turkish cotton towels.  Just inside the
entry door is the hanging closet area, which has a full sized ironing
board and iron.  Both the room and the bath have some interesting art
hanging on the walls.  All in all, not a bad room, especially at the
prices they tend to offer ($49-129).  I'd compare it favorably with
Paris or the Aladdin.  They also offer a full, in room - room service
menu 24 hours.

There is a $4.00 per day fee for the phone and ancillary hotel
services.  Local calls (up to 30 minutes in duration each) are free. 
They charge $1.00 for calls to 800 numbers.  The fee also covers use
of the workout room (free weights, treadmills, ellipticals, bikes)
free faxing and free incoming package receipt and use of the shuttle
bus, which goes to Mandalay Bay, the Tropicana and the Las Vegas
Outlet mall across the freeway.  The shuttle stops running at 10PM

The pool deck is standard smaller Vegas hotel, with a basic 4' deep
triangular shaped pool and Jacuzzi tub.  There looked to be about 100
loungers with minimal mature landscaping to provide shade.

Restaurants and bars include a upgraded coffee shop called Sundance
(now also undergoing construction to enlarge it, pretty good food), a
buffet (still pretty generic), and a steakhouse (Twin Creeks, good,
but not great. I'd compare it to the steakhouses at any of the
Stations casinos, or Fuego at Fiesta Henderson).  There is also a
deli, but it looks to be closed, also undergoing a remodel.  There
were only 2 bars that I saw and both seemed quite nice.
We ate at Sundance and Twin Creeks.  Sundance offers an good
selection of restaurant items, from breakfast to dessert.  Prices are
about what you'd expect from a lower end locals casino trying to move
upscale.  Food was good and plentiful (everyone in our party of 6
took home leftovers).  Desserts were HUGE and well prepared. 
Excellent cheesecake and carrot cake.  Twin Creeks has improved
immensely since the last time I ate there.  The room has been
remodeled with a cozy modern western theme (wood plank flooring,
stripped tree branches for decoration).  The service is now more
attentive.  All dinners come with a bottomless house salad, prepared
tableside.  Only 2 soups offered (the french onion was pretty good). 
The bone-in ribeye was a solid 2 steps below that offered by
Delmonico, and down 1 from AJ's, but very comparable to Fuego, the
Steakhouse at CC or Bob Taylor's (my best of middle of the road local
steakhouses).  The better half had a piece of wild Salmon that was
perfectly done.  Also, all dinners come with a choice of 2 sides,
which include garlic mashed, Yukon gold french fries, rice pilaf,
fresh mushrooms, creamed spinach and fresh baby asparagus and a few
more I can't remember (damn, I really should get me one of them new
fangled digital voice note recorders).  Dinner for two with drinks, a
nice bottle of wine and a free dessert due to a waiter dropping a
glass salad plate and scaring the shit out of everyone in range) came
to just under $80.00, which I feel is well worth it.

The property adjoins the Bass Pro Shops, just in case you have an
immediate need for a Bass boat or shotgun, or tackle to go fishing
with.  You could always buy a rod and toss a line into their HUGE
salt water aquarium, where they also have hourly aquatic shows.

That's about it.  Not much more on the property unless one needs to
park their RV or trailer (they have a full RV park attached).  Access
in and out can really SUCK, depending on time of day.  Located off I-
15 at Blue Diamond road, there is only 1 way in and 1 way out, and
afternoon traffic can back up for blocks.

Final opinion.  For a lower priced property, Silverton has, in my
opinion, really spruced up over the past year.  The rooms are more
than decent, comparing favorably with rooms costing 2 or 3 times as
much (or more) on the Strip.  Gaming offerings are decent and most of
the food choices are OK.  For the price I've seen offered, it's a
place I wouldn't be afraid of recommending to those who have no need
for a mega resort, want a clean, comfortable room with a decent
resort attached to it at a low end price.  It's not a Bellagio, Wynn
or Mandalay Bay, but it's certainly now comparable (from a room
standpoint) to the Aladdin and Paris, at 1/2 to 1/3rd the cost. Index

Silverton  Room 4049 posted 6/2/06

king bed, non-smoking.  This 4th-floor room as
about as far from the elevators as you can get, which did not please me
although a little exercise never hurts.  This standard room is of
average size.  The bedding is touted as the same used at the Bellagio.
My bed had two pairs of large pillows and a brown velour bedspread.  A
pair of night tables with attractive lamps flank the bed.  One table
held a phone, the other a clock-radio.  A love-seat and small coffee
table sit near the window, which offers a view across I-15 to distant
Henderson.  Traffic noise was not significant.  Also near the window
are a writing table with another lamp and phone, plus two chairs.  An
armoire facing the bed contains 27-inch tube TV and a hi-speed Internet
connection (wired or wireless, $10.99 per day).  Under the TV are 2
large dresser drawers and 4 small ones.  Next to the armoire is a
wooden unit containing a room safe and a mini-bar stocked with various
overpriced snacks and beverages; the bargain may have been the deck of
cards at $1.  In the room's entryway is a clothing rack with 10
theft-proof hangers, an ironing board and iron.  On the wall opposite
is a 3/4-length mirror, plus a full-length mirror on the outside of the
bathroom door.  The bathroom is small, with sink, toilet and
bath-shower combo all in the same space.  It took longer to get hot
water from the sink here than from any other room I occupied during
this trip.  This was annoying and wasteful of water.  The approximately
5-ft-wide countertop held an ice bucket with 2 glasses and three
1-liter bottles of Aquafina water ($4.00 each if you open them).  There
was one bar of soap ("cucumber-melon")  and small bottles of shampoo,
conditioner, "shower gel" and lotion, all from Bath & Body Works.  A
hair dryer hung on the wall.  The room A/C was noisier than I would
like.  I ran it to cool down the room before turning it off at bedtime.
 

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