Genting Casino Derby
Before you go:
Reg/Walk In: Reg
Cashout at Machines: Card system
Dress Code: Smart casual
Rewards Programme: Yes
Parking: Free customer parking
Restaurants: No
Bars: Yes
Genting Casino – Riverlights Derby Review. The Genting Casino Riverlights Derby first opened its doors in 2011 and is a large and modern casino that carries numerous gaming options spread across a spacious gaming floor, a good quality inhouse restaurant and two bars for you to kick your feet up in.
- Genting Riverlights Derby Casino was unveiled in late 2011. It is a modern, relatively large casino located in the heart of Derby in the East Midlands – the UK’s most central city. You will find the casino next to Morledge bus station and a 15 minute walk from Derby’s main train station.
- The casino in Derby is a relatively large casino. The casino’s official name is Genting Club Riverlights. It offers a considerable number of slot machines. The total number of live game tables is 14, which is large.
- Genting Casino Riverlights, Derby: Hours, Address, Genting Casino Riverlights Reviews: 4/5.
Address: Derby Riverlights, Morledge DE1 2AY
Telephone: 44 1332387690
Website:http://www.gentingcasinos.co.uk/club/derby-riverlights/
What a beautiful place. No, not Derby, although I’m sure it has its charms, but this new Genting casino (opened in 2012) is one of the more attractive UK casinos you’ll ever see. First, however, you have to get there ….
No doubt very straightforward for the locals, finding the place from the M1 is a bit of a drama – perhaps I should have invested in a sat-nav that cost more than £50 on reflection. The real fun starts however when you get to the site, and try to get set in what has to be the strangest car park in the western world. The casino is adjacent to / part of the Westfield shopping centre, and uses their car park. Aside for the fact that the entrance is all but invisible, you’re still not done with the pre-casino entertainment. Firstly the ticket machine had run out of tickets, necessitating a reverse manoeuvre not seen in the Highway Code – I reckon I should, on leaving, have told the machine I’d run out of money as well, maybe we could call it even. Next there are untold dozens of disabled bays – perhaps the next Paralympics aren’t in Rio after all, but Derby. Finally there’s a staircase clearly marked for the Genting, although you might want to give it a miss if you’re not a fan of cobwebs, dark spaces, or smells of dubious provenance. The final fun comes at the bottom of the staircase, when you open the door to be confronted by a steel cage with a lever marked “push” on the door and a menacing looking red button. I know it sounds like some sort of CIA training scenario, and felt a bit like one too. Pushing the lever marked push did nothing, and the red button looked more like an alarm / ejector seat than something useful. Eventually I gave it a poke, and it turns out you have to push the button, then the door, and you’re free again.
After all that, thankfully the casino itself is a triumph. They have a bar area on the ground level, which presumably anyone can use, then being greedy have two lots of reception – one at the bottom of the stairs, and another halfway up – presumably they man the higher one when it’s busy.
Coming out onto the main upstairs gaming floor is all worthwhile however, it’s fantastically well fitted out. If you’ve ever been to the Aria casino in Vegas, it’s like a mini-version of that, with a smashing bar area and restaurant (although the bar area seems to have stolen the “G” illuminated ceiling, but spent about 1/4 as much money on it). The seating around the bar area is also fantastic, with comfy booths and a stage area for entertainment. There were some mysterious stains on said seating however – perhaps wipe-clean might be best rather than something more exotic. I decided against the scratch and sniff test, I’m sure they were just cocktail spills. As for the stage, there were signs up saying they had a psychic evening coming up. Got to be the easiest gig in the world for a psychic, doing a casino – just tell everyone, “you won’t win”. Simple.
I visited early in the day before the tables opened at 2pm, so only the slots and electronic roulettes were in play. Those areas are all very well turned out, modern gear, and even a growing sight in casinos – a couple of FOBT machines, exactly as you’d find in bookies, with the mandatory group of lads around it, clearly thinking they were going to be the first people in history to crack roulette.
Overall, this is a site you should see, whether you want a night out, a punt, a game of poker or just to experience one of the nicest casinos in the UK.
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Before you go:
Reg/Walk In: Reg
Cashout at Machines: Card system
Dress Code: Smart casual
Rewards Programme: Yes
Parking: Free customer parking
Restaurants: No
Bars: Yes
Address: Derby Riverlights, Morledge DE1 2AY
Telephone: 44 1332387690
Website:http://www.gentingcasinos.co.uk/club/derby-riverlights/
What a beautiful place. No, not Derby, although I’m sure it has its charms, but this new Genting casino (opened in 2012) is one of the more attractive UK casinos you’ll ever see. First, however, you have to get there ….
No doubt very straightforward for the locals, finding the place from the M1 is a bit of a drama – perhaps I should have invested in a sat-nav that cost more than £50 on reflection. The real fun starts however when you get to the site, and try to get set in what has to be the strangest car park in the western world. The casino is adjacent to / part of the Westfield shopping centre, and uses their car park. Aside for the fact that the entrance is all but invisible, you’re still not done with the pre-casino entertainment. Firstly the ticket machine had run out of tickets, necessitating a reverse manoeuvre not seen in the Highway Code – I reckon I should, on leaving, have told the machine I’d run out of money as well, maybe we could call it even. Next there are untold dozens of disabled bays – perhaps the next Paralympics aren’t in Rio after all, but Derby. Finally there’s a staircase clearly marked for the Genting, although you might want to give it a miss if you’re not a fan of cobwebs, dark spaces, or smells of dubious provenance. The final fun comes at the bottom of the staircase, when you open the door to be confronted by a steel cage with a lever marked “push” on the door and a menacing looking red button. I know it sounds like some sort of CIA training scenario, and felt a bit like one too. Pushing the lever marked push did nothing, and the red button looked more like an alarm / ejector seat than something useful. Eventually I gave it a poke, and it turns out you have to push the button, then the door, and you’re free again.
After all that, thankfully the casino itself is a triumph. They have a bar area on the ground level, which presumably anyone can use, then being greedy have two lots of reception – one at the bottom of the stairs, and another halfway up – presumably they man the higher one when it’s busy.
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Coming out onto the main upstairs gaming floor is all worthwhile however, it’s fantastically well fitted out. If you’ve ever been to the Aria casino in Vegas, it’s like a mini-version of that, with a smashing bar area and restaurant (although the bar area seems to have stolen the “G” illuminated ceiling, but spent about 1/4 as much money on it). The seating around the bar area is also fantastic, with comfy booths and a stage area for entertainment. There were some mysterious stains on said seating however – perhaps wipe-clean might be best rather than something more exotic. I decided against the scratch and sniff test, I’m sure they were just cocktail spills. As for the stage, there were signs up saying they had a psychic evening coming up. Got to be the easiest gig in the world for a psychic, doing a casino – just tell everyone, “you won’t win”. Simple.
I visited early in the day before the tables opened at 2pm, so only the slots and electronic roulettes were in play. Those areas are all very well turned out, modern gear, and even a growing sight in casinos – a couple of FOBT machines, exactly as you’d find in bookies, with the mandatory group of lads around it, clearly thinking they were going to be the first people in history to crack roulette.
Overall, this is a site you should see, whether you want a night out, a punt, a game of poker or just to experience one of the nicest casinos in the UK.