If you’re planning a trip and want to enjoy some casino entertainment while you’re on your travels, you can enjoy the best of gambling fun and excitement in many different locales around the world. Most people are familiar with casino destinations like Macau, Vegas and Atlantic City but you can experience the same kind of exhilarating interactive casino action that you get when you play at the Vegas online casino in other more out-of-the-way places.
Check out some of the lesser-known, but still as enthralling, casino locales worldwide.
Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls, home of the world-famous Niagara Falls in Western New York, is home to the Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino. The casino is located near the Canadian border and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In addition to the large gaming floor where you can find blackjack, poker, roulette, baccarat, keno and hundreds of slot machines the casino invites guests to evening performances at multiple live entertainment venues. World-famous singers, actors, comedians and magicians perform there every night.
Niagara Falls is one of the most scenic areas in the world so you can alternate your casino events with amazing sight-seeing adventures in and around the city. The highlight of a trip to Niagara Falls is a trip to the Falls themselves. The Niagara Falls is a popular destination for people who want to view a group of three waterfalls that have a vertical drop of more than 50 meters and the highest flow rate of any North American waterfall. The falls are located at the southern end of the Niagara Gorge and span the border between New York State and the Canadian province of Ontario.
There are helicopter, boat and walking tours of the Falls. The area around Niagara Falls is a well-known wine country and you might also want to take a wine tour of the various vineyards in the area.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas is a popular vacation area and towns including Nassau, Freeport and Paradise Island have casinos where you can enjoy your evenings after a day of lounging on the beach. The Bahamas casinos offer all of the luxury and relaxation that you’d find in Vegas plus the calming atmosphere of the Bahamas seashore.
The casinos close at night and reopen at mid-day, giving you plenty of time to sleep, stroll around, shop and get in your swimming before you head to the gaming tables.
The Bahamas is full of fun and interesting things to do – if you want to be active you can swim, snorkel, dive, sail, ski jet or just hike around the shoreline. The area is also full of glass-bottom boat tours, rum tastings and culinary adventures. For cultural excursions, there’s the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas in Nassau, the Heritage Museum of the Bahamas, the Pompey Museum, the Junkanoo Museum or an interactive pirate experience at the Pirates of Nassau.
New Zealand
There are casinos on both the North Island and South Island of New Zealand including in Christchurch, Auckland, Hamilton, Queenstown and Dunedin. A number of the casinos are operated by Sky City, the well-known gambling and entertainment company based in Auckland. The casinos feature lavish gaming floors, restaurants and bars and luxury hotels. At New Zealand casinos, winning taxes are paid by casinos. New Zealand casinos feature special offers for beginners called “learn to play” with special bonus promotions for novice gamers.
The trip to New Zealand is a long one from most areas of the world but once you’re there, you can enjoy all that the Kiwis have to offer. The country has a little bit of everything – glaciers, whale-watching expeditions, a wine country with wine tastings, rafting trips through fiords, boiling mud pools, geysers & huge volcanic craters, hiking, beach-combing and a visit to the Hobbitian village where the Lord of the Rings franchise was filmed.
Morocco
You can’t get more colorful than Morocco which gives you casino entertainment in an Arabian atmosphere of opulent extravagance amidst the history and culture of exotic North Africa. Morocco has casinos in a number of locations including in Marrakesh and Agadir.
In some ways it’s surprising to find casinos in Morocco because it’s generally a conservative country where a certain percentage of the population frowns on entertainment like gambling. But Morocco was once controlled by France which encouraged casino activities in the country and the tradition continued even after Morocco gained its independence in 1956.
Depending on the casino that you visit, you might find it open throughout the week 24/7 or during “business hours” – mid-day through midnight. Favorite games at Morocco casinos include poker, baccarat, punto banco, roulette and blackjack as well as the slots.
Morocco has a rich history and you can explore the traditions and culture of this fascinating country in any area. You might want to just stroll around the Old City of Marrakesh to soak in the sights and sounds of the area or head out to the countryside and view the labyrinth hill town of Chefchaouen which is nestled among the lush Rif Mountains. The best time to see these unusual blue-on-blue buildings is at dusk when the glow is at its most photogenic.
Other Morocco adventures that you shouldn’t miss include the Erg Chebbi's Dunes, the back lanes of Fes el Bali, the seaside town of Essaouira and the golden-stoned adobe ksar village of Ait Ben Haddou.
