Harrahs Laughlin Review. It’s a horror show. Please scroll down for links to our video but we invite you to read the following beforehand: on this page we’ll focus on the rooms and the resort in general, with a few lines of introductions of what you should expect from your Laughlin trip, a short paragraph on the positive aspects of this ‘resort’ and a longer section on the very bad aspects with link to the ‘famous’ video, as well as (further down) a summary of its buffet.

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We were comped during a very expensive weekend; since we were traveling last minute we welcomed the freebie and, most importantly, we were excited about reviewing Laughlin!

The drive from Vegas is only about 1 our and 30 minutes; the moment you arrive you realize that Laughlin is tiny compared to Vegas; the river is the focus of all attractions and the better resorts have some sort of river-walk connecting them all, from nice and romantic to grungy and dark. We have a video showing all of this (check our updates page so you can see when the Laughlin videos will be posted).

Despite the small size, Harrah’s Laughlin is the furthest out and, for that reason, you simply cannot easily walk to the main area: the walk is very long and somewhat ugly; you’ll often find yourself all alone walking through an area where only cars drive by, with nothing around. You can drive of course or use the water taxi to reach the other resorts (4 dollars one way, 8 dollars return, but prices can change suddenly).

You’ll have a small river beach you can use when the small adult or family pools are closed, though theoretically you can only stay on the beach until 9pm. The ‘resort’ itself is rather grungy with the North Tower and the Central Tower being the worst.

Harrahs Laughlin Review: The Positive Aspects

The North Tower is the family-friendly tower and the South Tower is the adults-only tower, which is a welcome aspect of this resort and we wish all Vegas resorts adopted this separation; this separation is repeated in the pool area, where you’ll find an adults-only pool (rather small) with one jacuzzi tub, and a ‘family’ pool. To continue on the positive side of this resort, you will also enjoy a non-smoking casino section, where the slot machines seem to be, ironically, more generous. The smoking section can be rather smoke-filled.

The wireless Internet, part of the resort fee, was fast and worked well.

Harrahs Laughlin Review: The Horror Show (negative aspects)

Cleaning does not seem to be at all a priority in this property. We were assigned a room in the North Tower, on the 14th floor, and it was filthy. It was supposed to be a remodeled room but all we saw was 2 beds with white sheets, a lonely, basic desk on one side, a lonely TV hanging from the wall and… Nothing else, except for the dirt and the stains. The worst part of it was the fecal matter stuck on the side of the toilet seat. We asked a room change and we were assigned a room on the 17th floor (the higher you are and the nicer the view is, by the way, especially if you don’t have a river view): this was was even worse: the bathroom had clearly not been cleaned so we had to buy cleaning material and clean it ourselves before we even dared to use it: what was worse in this room, however, were the many insects which were happily running around the floor, which had also some debris from the previous guests (what looked like cotton imbued with blood); some finally ran out of the room but one happily went back to its ‘home’, namely a large crack between the wall and the floor. We have a video showing both Harrahs Laughlin Rooms.

We slept with the lights on every night, as if to deter the insects from coming onto our beds (which seemed to work, for some strange reason).

The whole ‘resort’ is run down, un-kept and filthy; some public areas, mostly around the North Tower, ooze some strange smell too. The elevators are slow and have no air conditioning, which can be trying in such a hot place (it can be hotter than Vegas). If you are comped and you prefer to save money staying here rather than in a Vegas resort, I’d suggest you bring your own cleaning and disinfectant wipes (or similar).

Other negative aspects are: the gym closes at 6pm (ridiculous, whilst in Vegas they close later), the pools are both small, given the size of the resort; they were also somewhat dirty. The TV channels were not in HD, the channels selection was average and the TV Guide was non-existent (no interactive guide at all, you have to watch a slow rolling list of channels and programs). The elevators were very slow and had no air conditioning, something we also found in some Vegas resorts on this trip, however. Let’s talk about the buffet as an important part of our Harrahs Laughlin Review:

Harrahs Laughlin Review: Buffet

Although all Laughlin buffets are rather pitiful in variety and quality compared to the best ones in Vegas, they are also more affordable. Their variety is usually non-existant and the quality poor. Harrah’s buffet, however, despite looking just as low-end, surprised us all during the weekend (quite a different story during the week) with great flavor and a decent variety of dishes, albeit all cooked and most of them heavy. You have no healthy options here (and the salad bar is small and low-end), but the cooked section was incredibly tasty, so much so that we asked if they were using MSG (to which they replied that they do not)!

However, the weekday food was just as bad (if not worse) than most other buffets in Laughlin: all the ingredients were inferior quality than those served during the weekends; the cooking process was also inferior (as if other cooks had been in charge of the weekend meals). As example, the fries (chips) served during the weekend were made of real potatoes, had their skin still on and were cooked to perfection (as if a real chef had prepared them). During the week, at dinner they had the cheapest fries made of reconstituted potatoes: eating them made us actually unwell; in fact, most of the dishes served were so heavy and so of such inferior quality that we felt very unwell throughout the day and evening. A huge shame because the personnel was always very polite and helpful. The nice cook behind the Calzone, pizza and pasta station was so nice that he made us a special-order Calzone and let us pick the ingredients! By the way, the Calzone and pasta station was thankfully still tasty, although later on in the evening the personnel changed again and we felt there was no interest in serving us well anymore.

We will discuss the buffet in detail soon and we will also be posting a video review of this buffet soon, so keep an eye on our updates page and ask us if you don’t see the updates soon enough!

If you found this page on Harrahs Laughlin Review useful, you will find our general review of Laughlin useful too. Don’t forget to check our updates and our latest videos.

Video of the Room at Harrah’s in Laughlin

Harrah's Buffet Hours

Harrah’s buffet review; hours and prices further down. Many of you have written asking us about this buffet. Its relative popularity is certainly due to the 24-hour buffet pass, where you are going to have to choose 3 (or, if you can be really clever, 4 buffets from the Harrah’s Group in Vegas. Clearly, once you remove the super expensive Bacchanal buffet (for which you have to pay extra even if you have the 24 hour buffet pass) all buffets belonging to Caesar’s Entertainment in Vegas are similar in quality in one way or the other, even if they are different in dish choices, so Harrah’s buffet may well feature among your choices.

We used to go to Flavors only when we had their 5-dollars-off coupons and we usually went for breakfast rolling over onto lunch: this way we ate at an affordable price and relatively well (nothing special, just an average buffet and relatively small too). These days on low traffic times they stopped serving lunch, at a huge inconvenience to all of us wanting to eat later in the day without waiting for dinner.

Would we go to Harrah’s buffet without any coupon or special deal? Probably not. Among the Caesars Entertainment Group buffets, if we consider the same price range, the Rio buffet is probably better, at least in terms of range of dishes (even though their quality, which used to be very good, has faded somewhat lately). However, if you are pressed for time and wish to stay in the area, this buffet is another decent average Vegas buffet. If you don’t have to eat at the Caesars Entertainment buffets, then I’d cross the road and eat at the Mirage buffet any day, for a comparable price.

What you can find at Flavors (Harrah’s buffet)

This Vegas buffet is average though decent, offering a respectable (but not huge) range of dishes of average flavor.

Harrah's Buffet Menu

Salad: sometimes (if you are lucky) they offer some gourmet salad dishes (such as the expensive and healthy artichokes and/or sun-dried tomatoes); usually, it’s run-of-the-mill with average salad condiments. At times they offer olive oil, other times it’s really average condiments only. Their lettuce is usually iceberg, but at times I have seen more expensive types.

Breakfast bacon and sausages: many love this section; it’s certainly better than at other low to average buffets but it’s really nothing to shout about if you have been at the Bellagio Buffet, for example.

BBQ chicken (quite popular) and Brazilian BBQ, prime ribs, some nicely cooked (but few) vegetables, wood-oven-prepared pizza (which is a rarity but of course which Bellagio excels at) average quality sushi (as in all other Vegas buffets except for at Todai’s), average quality Asian section (made-to-order won-ton is however available here, though in our opinion it’s not as good as at Craving’s just across the street, and traditional South-Western (American) dishes. At dinner you will find the ubiquitous crab legs and seafood station.

The dessert section is small and average though they offer home-made sorbet (low-fat ice-cream), gelato (healthy ice-cream which is low-fat but also low in sugar) and traditional ice-cream (full fat). Nothing like at the M buffet or at the Aria buffet, of course.

All in all, they do try but the taste of the dishes is, generally speaking, mediocre. So, if you have a coupon go ahead and enjoy this buffet; if not, you may want to check other buffets. It used to be a good affordable little buffet but these days, with their price increase, I would not rush to eat here unless I had at last a 5-dollars-off coupon, as explained in the special buffet deals page.

Location: Mid-towards-North Strip; 3475 Las Vegas Boulevard South.

Hours and Prices of the Harrah’s Buffet in Vegas:

Breakfast 7:00am to 11:00am $18+tax
Dinner 4:30pm to 10:00pm $30+tax
Friday, Sat & Sun open from 7am to 10pm from around 30+ dollars.

Weekend brunch $25 + tax

Ouch! Monday to Friday they are closed for lunch! At least during low season (I suspect things will change again during high season, provided the demand is there and… loud). That’s simply terrible, so you are forced to either have a large breakfast or an expensive dinner. Not a good thing for those holding the 24-hour buffet pass. Maybe the pass is reaching its end…

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The above prices are with a Total Rewards players card (which you can sign up for free of charge), otherwise it’s around one dollar more.

Buffet At Harrahs

As with all other buffets or restaurants in Vegas, prices can change suddenly so check with them by phone: (702) 369-5000. We endeavor to keep up-to-date but sudden changes may not be ‘registered’ immediately.

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