Opinion…Who the heck is picking these?? Best at what? Borgata is no place to play craps. The CA places don’t even play craps with dice, they play them with a six deck shoe of cards from Ace to 6.

By Don Chareunsy (contact)
Wednesday, July 15, 2015 | 2:24 p.m.

Red Rock Resort has made the Top 10 Best U.S. Casinos list chosen by USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice travel awards contest. The casino resort, awarded No. 8, was the only Las Vegas casino to make the Top 10.

The 10Best Readers’ Choice Award contest launches categories every other Monday at noon revealing each category’s 20 nominees. After four weeks of voting, the contest ends on the 28th day at noon. On the Friday after voting ends, the winners are announced. The rules allow readers to vote online for one nominee per category per day.

Nominees are chosen by a panel of experts, which include editors from USA Today and 10Best.com; expert contributors; and sources for these media and other Gannett properties. The nomination panel for each award category is displayed on its contest page. Voting is digital, and the 10Best Readers’ Choice Award contest is accessible at 10Best.com.

The Top 10 Best U.S. Casinos are:

1. Pechanga Resort & Casino (Temecula, Calif.)

2. Mohegan Sun (Uncasville, Conn.)

3. Foxwoods Resort Casino (Mashantucket, Conn.)

4. L’Auberge Casino Resort (Lake Charles, La.)

5. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Biloxi (Biloxi, Miss.)

6. Harrah’s Resort Southern California (Valley Center, Calif.)

7. Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa (Atlantic City, N.J.)

8. Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa (Las Vegas)

9. French Lick Resort (French Lick, Ind.)

10. Thunder Valley Casino Resort (Lincoln, Calif.)

Nominees for Best U.S. Casino also included Aria, Bellagio, Caesars Palace Las Vegas, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage and Wynn Las Vegas.

The full list of winners, and nominees, can be found at 10Best.com.

Don Chareunsy is the Las Vegas Sun’s entertainment and luxury senior editor and has been a journalist for nearly two decades.

Robin Leach of “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous fame” has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past 15 years giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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