Oklahoma, Thackerville - Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - Winstar World Casino

We pulled into the RV Park at Winstar World Casino yesterday afternoon and we will be staying until Thursday morning.  From here we will be headed to Texarkana, TX for an overnight stay.  The Winstar is the largest casino in the United States.  With its last expansion it became larger than the casino in Foxwood, CT.  It has 7,400 electronic games and over 90 table games.

We are in site 103 right across from the reservation office.  The weather has been mild but the wind has been brutal.  Chance of rain tomorrow.

We got in the Jeep and drove around some of the facility today.  Despite the wind there were several golfers out on the course.  They were painting some of the parking lot at the club house this morning so lots of orange cones were out.  They also have a golf academy here.

My camera doesn’t have a video option on it or this would have been a whole lot easier.  I wanted to get pictures of the casino but it is a mile and a half long (according to our shuttle driver last night).  I snapped pictures as Greg drove through the parking lot.  We felt like security might be wondering what we were doing.  It is called “world” casino because various countries are represented around the outside of the casino.  These same countries are represented again in the décor of various sections of the inside of the casino.  I can’t name them all but a few are pretty easy to recognize.

Two of the five hotels that are in the complex.

If you visit the Winstar you have to check out this shop that is right down the road.  Cloverleaf says it is spirited shopping.  I say it is certainly eclectic.  I should have taken my camera inside, there were a lot of off the wall items available.  I saw a couple of tops I liked I just wasn’t willing to pay over $100 for each one.

Oklahoma-Texas border - Saturday, October 5, 2013 - Winstar Casino

Tonight was date night.  We got dressed up – nothing fancy just much better than our normal uniform of the day which is shorts, t-shirts and tennis shoes.  There are 13 food venues at the Winstar Casino.  Greg chose Toby Keith’s Bar and Grill.  It turned out to be a very good choice.  He had ribs, I had shrimp – both were delicious.  We started out with a “tumbleweed” appetizer.  It was a huge stack of very thinly sliced fried onions and jalapeño peppers.  We picked out the jalapenos and enjoyed the onions.

I didn’t get any good pictures of the outside of the casino.  It was rainy on Saturday night.  I took the pictures that follow on Sunday morning before we left.  Not only was it rainy Saturday, it was downright cold.

We were very pleased with the accommodations at the Winstar RV resort.  I’m guessing, but I think they had 200 or so sights.  The roads were paved and extra wide.  152 of the sites have full hook ups with charcoal grills and picnic tables.  The primitive camping sites had fire rings and picnic tables.

We checked in at the registration building.

 

 

 

And found our site #166

 

Since this was our first time to stay here, we got our one night stay free.  But, I think the normal rate is just $25 for full service hook ups.  We signed up for casino promotion cards and $35 of free playing came with that as long as we played $20 of our own money.  We kept busy for a few hours losing that.  It was a very nice night out.  We decided this would be a nice place to spend a week or so just hanging out.  There is the opportunity for entertainment and a nice meal out if you want and it looks like there are several things of interest to go see in the area.

This Winstar complex is huge.  According to their advertising, it is the second largest casino in the world with over 7,000 electronic games, 75 table games and a 46 table poker room.  But, we still had trouble finding two empty slot machines so we could sit together to play.

This is what we found as we walked around the RV complex.

Indoor/Outdoor Pavilion which would make a nice site for a rally.  We looked in the door of the indoor facility and it looked like it would seat 40 or so.

 

 

The Indoor/Outdoor Pavilion was right next to a beautiful pool.

 

 

There are two very nice laundry facilities on site.  Even though we have a washer and dryer in the coach, they are too small to do some things like bedspreads, so I took advantage of this facility since it was right across the street.

 

 

There is a 24-hour shuttle to the Casino.

This is the view behind our site.  A walking trail is lighted for a nighttime stroll if you are so inclined.  They also have special areas for pets to walk.

Right across the road is a 27-hole golf course.

 

The hotel is being expanded and includes spa services (maybe next time)

They attract some big names in entertainment also.  We might watch the schedule and plan some time here again.

Oklahoma, Oklahoma City - Friday, October 4, 2013 - Roadrunner RV Park

I haven't posted for a while since I thought you might be getting tired of hearing of our "farming" experiences.  We definitely have a better understanding of what keeps David very busy.

Today was a travel day.  We left Kansas about 9:30 this morning.  We had a good time visiting with David and the kids.  We’ll miss them, but we did get them set up so we can talk to them through Skype, that will help some.

We are now in Oklahoma City at the Roadrunner RV Park just off I-35.  This is one we just picked “out of the hat” and it didn’t turn out too bad.   It’s a well-kept park, but has no amenities – it’s a nice place for an overnight stop and the price is right, $28 a night for 50 amp full hookups pull through site (with our Good Sam discount).

Tomorrow we are heading to a casino we saw a couple of years ago that is on the Oklahoma/Texas border.  It was just being built then and since it indicated it would have an RV park we made a note to come back when we were through the area again.  I’ll let you know if we get lucky.

On Sunday we’ll be moving to the factory where we are going to get our binds upgraded.  They called today to let us know we should be in and out all on Monday.  We were happy with that, we thought it might take a week.  From there we are going to San Antonio and probably spending about 10 days.