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Cherokee Tribal Bingo: Bingo Night Out - See 36 traveller reviews, candid photos, and great deals for Cherokee, NC, at Tripadvisor. There are 13 casinos within 100 miles of Cherokee Tribal Bingo. Map Index: Distance (miles) Casino: Cherokee Tribal Bingo find on map. 91 Bingo Loop Road, Highway 19 North, Cherokee, North Carolina.

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Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort is home to 150,000 square feet of gaming space and a resort hotel with 1,100 rooms, indoor and outdoor pools, a luxury spa and numerous dining and entertainment options. The casino includes live table games such as blackjack, craps and roulette, plus video poker and slot machines. The resort draws visitors to the mountains of western North Carolina from throughout the Southeast, including Georgia, and several Atlanta-area bus companies make regularly scheduled one-day or overnight trips to the casino.

Greatime Getaways

Greatime Getaways -- a motor coach tour company in Marietta, a suburb of Atlanta -- makes regular day trips to Harrah's Cherokee Casino, plus occasional overnight trips. Day trips typically take place once or twice per week, with early morning pickups in Marietta and several nearby communities, including Kennesaw, Canton, Cumming, Jasper and Dawsonville. One-day trips take approximately four hours each way, including a stop at a fast-food restaurant, and allow for five hours of gaming at the casino. Each trip typically includes free casino slot plays for more than half the cost of your bus ticket. Reservations are required.

Skylink Express

Skylink Express is an Atlanta-based company that provides trips to casinos throughout the Southeast, including one-day trips to Harrah's Cherokee Casino on a motor coach with large viewing windows and DVD players. Morning pickups are in metro Atlanta, Decatur, Lawrenceville and Smyrna, with each customer typically receiving a slot play coupon for more than half the cost of the bus trip. Trips typically include a five-hour or six-hour stay at the casino and are offered on two weekdays, plus Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays. Reservations should be made two to three days in advance.

Grand Blessing

The Grand Blessing bus company provides one-day trips from the greater Atlanta area to Harrah's Cherokee Casino on Saturdays, Sundays and several weekdays in large vans or a a small motor coach. Each day trip includes morning pickups at shopping centers in Doraville and Duluth, a five-hour stay at the casino and a slot-play credit for more than half the cost of the bus ticket. Reservations are required at least one day in advance.

Chartered Buses

A number of bus companies in the greater Atlanta area are available to provide customized chartered trips to Harrah's Cherokee Casino for large groups or organizations. Two examples include Atlanta-based Samson Trailways, which offers luxury motor coaches and minibuses, and US Coachways, which has hubs in Atlanta and suburban Jonesville and provides a fleet of luxury motor coaches, minibuses and party buses.

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Harrah's Cherokee
Location	Whittier, North Carolina
Address	777 Casino Drive
Opening date	November 1997
No. of rooms	1,108 rooms, 107 suites
Notable restaurants	Ruth's Chris Steak House Brio Tuscan Gille Dunkin Donuts Express Chef's Stage Buffet Johnny Rockets Lobby Cafe Noodle Bar Selu Garden Cafe UNO Pizza Earl of Sandwich
Casino type	Indian casino
Owner	Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Operating license holder	Caesars Entertainment
Previous names	Cherokee Tribal Casino
Coordinates	35°28′11″N83°18′17″W / 35.46983°N 83.304807°WCoordinates: 35°28′11″N83°18′17″W / 35.46983°N 83.304807°W
Website	harrahscherokee.com

Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort is a casino and hotel on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. It is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It is located on the site of the former Frontier Land theme park. It is one of two casinos in North Carolina. A sister property, Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino in Murphy, North Carolina opened on September 28, 2015.

History[edit]

Harrah's Cherokee opened in November 1997 with video poker as the only gaming option. This followed the opening of a tribal bingo parlor in the early 1990s, which was quite profitable and led to calls for a casino. The casino came after several years of discord between the State of North Carolina and the Eastern Cherokees. Governor Jim Hunt resisted the casino, but the state was forced to enter into an agreement with tribal authorities by the federal courts. Since then, the tribe has used its casino revenues to build a new high school, a hospital, and public housing, and to upgrade public safety services on the reservation, such as police, fire and EMS. Part of the casino's revenue is also distributed directly to the Cherokee population, in a form of basic income.^[1] The casino is also credited with opening the door for gambling in North Carolina. The casino also heralded a relaxation of alcohol laws in the area, with liquor-by-the-drink being legalized in nearby Bryson City, Sylva, and Cherokee itself.^{[citation needed]}

Features and design[edit]

Hotel[edit]

Harrah's Cherokee has three hotel towers (Creek Tower, Soco Tower, and the Mountain Tower) with a total of 1,108 rooms, making Harrah's Cherokee the largest hotel in North Carolina.

Casino[edit]

Harrah's Cherokee lobby 2014

Since the tribe's compact with North Carolina restricts the types of gaming permitted, most of the games offered have significant differences with those found in other casinos. The compact with North Carolina requires games to have an element of skill. For most of the video slot machines, this means that after an initial spin of the reels, the player is allowed to lock selected reels in place and spin again, holding reels with valuable symbols in hopes of matching them up with winning symbols on the second spin. (This differs from 'regular' slot machines, in which the reels usually spin only once after credits are played, although video poker everywhere allows players to hold cards before the second spin.)

The casino now has converted many of their slot machines to 'Cherokee Raffle Reels,' which require the player to insert their Total Rewards slot card into the machine before playing. This raffle entry is considered to be the second chance to win required by law, and has allowed the casino to phase out many of the 'lock-and-roll' style machines for traditional video and reel slot machines.^[2]

Harrah's Cherokee lobby 2014

The tribe reached an agreement with the state on November 25, 2011, to allow live cards at Harrah's Cherokee.^[3] The casino began introducing live table games in 2012. As of summer 2014, there are over 100 table games.

The casino has a non-smoking poker room with 20 tables. No-limit hold'em tournaments are run daily, including larger buy-in deep stack tourneys on the weekends. The casino also regularly hosts World Series of Poker circuit events in the Events Center which feature a variety of tournaments and concurrent cash games.

Amenities[edit]

The Harrah's Cherokee complex includes a 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m²) conference center, a 3,000-seat events center, the Essence Lounge, a workout room, a lobby cafe, and a food court with four restaurants, Chef's Stage Buffet, Ruth's Chris Steak House, and BRIO Tuscan Grille. Harrah's Cherokee also has an indoor pool that is open year round as well as an outdoor pool open during the summer months. The outdoor pool also features its own bar and food service with a unique menu. Harrah's Cherokee also features the UltraStar Multi-Tainment center, a bowling complex including arcade, restaurant, entertainment stage, and multiple bars. This complex has 24 lanes for bowling, 16 standard and 8 VIP style.

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