Blackbird Bend Casino — Local services in Iowa

It really is a nice casino with a good variety of games and good promotions. Unfortunately, since the buffet prices have gone up, with the selection and how often it is restocked, the buffets are not worth the money in the evenings. I know 99% of casinos are against all out videoing in the casino but most allow pictures of your own slot machine and jackpots. NOT this one, they are one of the few I have been to that will not allow you to even take a picture of your own jackpot. Their policy is not up with the times, most casinos will not have an issue with you taking pictures of your own slot machine. I will no longer be doing any business at this casino because of this until the outdated policy is changed. Not even allowed to do video calls or facetime, etc, while you are in the casino. Most casinos have gotten more lax about their policies for pictures and videos, and if you ask, most places will say they don't care as long as you aren't filming people. For a casino that has to deal with more competition, you would think they would want to try and keep and get customers. Not the case. If you are old, like to smoke, and don't care about not having pictures of your jackpots, great place for you. If you are young, like clean air, want to show off what you win, go elsewhere. More than likely you are going to make a 30-60 minute drive to come here if you haven't been. Make that drive to another option. When youtubers and people commenting on their videos say this is one of the most strict casinos they have been to for video and pictures, they...

My review is strictly on the dining experience. I’m not a gambler, and I came to meet someone for food. So if you want a review for the slots etc., this won’t be the one to read. I met a friend for a holiday meal. We both travels to meet at a place between us. Neither of us had been here before. Place was busy and had a wait. I’m guessing it’s not exclusive for holidays either, as they have a pager system set up to buzz those waiting for a table. Food was not something I’d write home about, but it was a decent meal. The Turkey, which I rarely even like to eat, was very moist, and flavorful. Enough for me to try another piece. Some of the side items were low or out, so they could have been better prepared. The side items we tried we decent, but not super flavorful. Could have been improved in our opinions. Service was decent. She mixed our drinks up and has to get them again, and wasn’t real attentive at taking plates, but, it was also busy, and that could have attributed towards that. So I’m not sure today was a fair assessment on how we’d normally be taken care of. Bottom line, if we needed a half way place to meet again, I would be willing to try this place again, but it would not be on the...

Long review !! I had the worse experience on my first trip here, me and my mother and stepdad went out to have a good time. We went to the bar I had two beers and one shot went to the slots and started playing, a drunk guy walks up to my step dad started talking and it was good until he said a few inappropriate remarks about me,my step dad got upset with him and got after him he threatened us with a gun and then we laughed made a few jokes about it and then proceeded to enjoy the casino. He then went on to harass more customers they called security on him and we went out side to smoke a cigarette. While smoking three cops pulled up to our vehicle claiming the casino said we were all one party and that we said we had a gun, no such thing was said expect by the drunk guy. They ran our information and proceeds to tell us the casino doesn't want us in the building we went back inside to gamble a little more after speaking to security hands down worst experience I've ever had. I loved the variety of machines but I would never go back to...