Aspers Casino

I only ever go here to chill out, watch some sport, have a drink and then bet £5 on roulette, 3 out of 3 times so far i’ve won more than i bet! Hopefully it continues, otherwise, I’ll still love this place i think!

I spent a few days at Aspers playing a poker tournament series, and I was very pleased with the facilities. As an American, it’s a bit strange to see a casino in a mall, but why not? This meant that on my dinner breaks, I had plenty of food options to choose from, and any breaks in the tournament could be spent walking around checking out the shops. The casino itself actually had some cheap food options, and I heard the restaurant is pretty good. Charging 50p for coffee seems a little silly, and cocktail service in the poker room was pretty slow. But other than that, it was definitely a pleasant place to play in my opinion.

I do love a casino and being only a 15 minute cab ride from my house I thought this was going to be my new hang out .
Right where do I start, the door staff are not friendly mater of fact no one was friendly in the whole place the tables were to busy to get around so I went in the poker room then had to wait 25 minutes for someone to take a drinks order, then when I needed to go to the toilet it’s over the orther side of the casino not very well thought out.
Over all the place is nicely done out good smoking area and the sky bar is ok but if you go on a weekend it’s just to busy to enjoy yourself, I much prefer the g casino.

How do you feel about gambling? Me, I don’t see the appeal. I’ve been to the dogs a couple of times and find losing any amount of money so painful that I’d rather not bet at all than feel the crush of defeat. I’ve been to Vegas a couple of times and both times managed to’flutter’ a dollar away without any need to reach into my wallet and pull out another dollar to go again. I don’t even understand poker.
So today I inexplicably found myself in the first supercasino in the UK. I don’t quite know how it happened, well yes I do… I was having my lunch in the Westfield food court when the shiny escalators to the stars guarded by the suited and booted man made me have a quick look on my Unilocal app to see what the reviews of this new casino were like… that’s when I noticed, no Unilocal review, not even a Unilocal business entry.
So for the purposes of Unilocal I finished my lunch and walked up to the big, scary bouncer. Although he wasn’t that scary and seems to be there just to keep the underage out, this place doesn’t have a dress code and is intended for everyone Vegas-​style, not just serious gamblers.
Upstairs it was pretty chilled actually, unlike the noisy, flashing lights of other casinos I have ventured into in yup, you guessed it. Some of the poker/​blackjack/​whatever tables were busy at 2pm on a Tuesday but I wasn’t here to gamble just to browse around. Then I noticed some 1p fruit machines and thought, ‘hell, I can give ‘em a pound, that bouncer will look at me weird if I come straight back down again’.. I actually did quite well, winning £8 for the £2 I ended up putting in (although it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to get the fruit machine to spin).
The fruit machines had a ‘service’ button on them which I presume means you can have drinks brought to you (I didn’t press this).
If you go to Vegas for the gambling then you’ll like this place and may even review it as a 5 star venue, if you go for the kitch, lights, shows, fake cities and 24-​hour alcohol then you probably won’t find what you’re looking for here. My rating is an attempt to balance the two.
It is open 24 hours a day, 364 days a year (closed for the 24 hours that is Christmas day). I was too scared to take photos with all the security people about for fear of being told off, so someone else will have to do that for Unilocal’s sake. I’ve done the footwork…