Went to Mt. Airy Casino Resort this past Saturday. Here's the review.

The slot floor is fairly large--consisting a little more than 2,500 slot machines. Most of them are penny and nickel machines. The quarter machines are usually located in 2 or 3 rows throughout the large floor interspersed within the large amounts of penny and nickel machines. There are no new types of quarter machines that I was able to find--they are the same ones that you can find in other casinos. However, what is prevalent is an excessive amount of 5 line quarter machines. Mt. Airy has as much 5-line quarter machines as they have single line quarter machines.

Both of us lost our money there. In fact, during the 5 hours we were there, we didn't see many winners at all. The machines were very tight.

The large amount of pennies and nickels consists of machines that can be found at all Casinos and also some with themes and functions I've never seen before. There are several that have automatic bonus rounds that hit randomly--not based on what is on the reels. There is also a large amount of the new penny machines that only allow you to play a certain amount of coins: 25, 50, 90, 150, 250 (I don't remember the exact amounts--these are approximate). This removes the capability of you choosing the amount of lines and amount of coins per line. You hit the amount button and that is the amount that is played. Of course, at the end, if you have only 20 coins in the machine, you can't play it (the minimum is 25)--you have to take the 20 out of the machine.

There were 2 lunch restaurants there: the buffet and a Diner restaurant (I think the name was Betty's). The buffet is very expensive at $22 per person. The Diner was reasonable--2 of us ate there for $21 total.

They have a Players Club card. In the 5 hours, I earned $11 in food comps. That's not bad.

Note to those who are going there: There are no signs directing you to the Casino and it is easy to get lost. There are also no traffic signs as you leave the casino that direct you to the main highway nearby: Route 80. Beware of that.

Ricky