An August days travel: Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos in Connecticut.

The idea of writing about my recent travels is nothing new to me, I also write about my travels every year to New Hampshire Motor (formerly International) Speedway for NASCAR at least once a year, but its rare to see write about non-motorsports travels, however in my daily visits to my favorite blogs, I read something intreging over at Lorelle on wordpress blog, she has issued a challenge for her fellow bloggers to write a travel post consider that she travels a lot.

Now, I have to say, what I consider travel and what she considers travel may be two different things, my travels doesn’t consist of hotel rooms, its normally a driving trip a couple hours away to a location and in the same day, driving back home. With that said, I still wanted to try my luck at this one sort of speck.

This past August, I had the chance to travel to Connecticut with my mother and her husband to try my luck at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casino experience in one day and what a day, with money in hand, we started our journey down the highway to the first of the two casinos, Foxwoods, for a game of poker for my mother’s husband, while that was going on, we continued on to Mohegan Sun about 15 miles away and what a difference it is, as you go over the bridge to the highway entrance, you see of in the distance, an amazing sight as what looks like a glass work of art. Wow, you pull up and the parking is just right, five levels all with what’s full and what’s not.

Once inside, its nothing like I’ve every seen, wooden carvens, water falls and lots of stores to slots and boy do I love playing the slots, keep in mind, I really only have a mony to gamble with and once its gone, so am I, did I spend it all, no, not even close. They say diamonds are a girls best friend, but on this day that slot of diamonds was my best friend, a couple of hours on $40 was cool, up and down, but still money in. By the time we were done exploring and playing slots, it was time to eat a donut and go back to Foxwoods for more slots.


Wooden carvens above the first set of slots (Picture taken by me with my 2MP camera phone)


A logcabin tower (Picture taken by me with my 2MP camera phone)


The huge water fall deep in the building. (Picture taken by me with my 2MP camera phone)

Foxwoods was the same as I remembered it from years ago, but without quarters. Can you say slots with diamonds again, I don’t even pull the handle anymore, but I will say, while I was at Foxwoods, the guy next to me won big, I don’t know the total amount, but it was well into the 700 quarter amount, interesting sight, I believe it was the highest you could win on that slot. By the end of the day, we ended up which included $7 dollar turkey sandwiches and ice cream, leaving with what we came in with, he won and I lost a little, but that was fun. I have to say, both casinos are fun to experience and what a good place for a bachler party… ha ha ha, got yeah mom…

So which ones better, personally, while my family loves Foxwoods more, after experiencing both, I like Mohegan Sun casino more, its better layout including the parking and what a look to its building, damn. Is this the last, no way, I can’t wait until next time in a couple years from now.

You know with an experience, painting a picture meaning writing about it is always a challenge and while interesting, nothing compares to experiencing it yourself. Enjoy

- Racedriven