So I traveled to Biloxi, Mississippi with my two best friends over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. I had never been before. I wanted to go to the beach and my friends wanted to go to a casino so we compromised and chose Biloxi. It's got casinos and I got to see the ocean! Despite being almost totally destroyed by Hurricane Katrina almost 3 years ago, Biloxi looks surprisingly...fine. Dont' get me wrong, you can see remnants of the damage and it appears that only the Casinos could afford to rebuild. There isn't much to do in Biloxi along the coast except for relax at the beach or go to a casino. Trying to find a restaurant outside of a hotel/casino was extremely difficult. In fact, we had one of those GPS thingy's. We named her "Sassy Suzie". Anyway, Suzie, led us to nothing occasionally. Meaning that we would plug in an address and Suzie would do her thing. She would say "destination on right". We would look right and ....nothing....nada...zip...flattened. Even Suzie couldn't determine where certain addresses were.
Overall, we had a really great time. We stayed at Treasure Bay Hotel & Casino. The rooms had been remodeled and were very nice with patios and flat screen tv's. We ventured down to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and also the Beau Rivage. Both of these hotels were VERY nice and construction is about to begin on Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. It looks like many of the venture capitalists are taking advantage of the lesser property prices and taking their chances that no future disaster will destroy their Vegas style locations.
Biloxi will eventually be Las Vegas...on the beach. Wow...it's like a dream for me!
If you haven't been to Biloxi, I recommend it. About 8 hours in the car was well worth the destination. I can't wait to go back.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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