CasaBlanca rooms are dated, but well appointed. Each has onsite rooms, only Virgin River is a motel, and feels like one-the cut-rate pricing means rooms do not offer many amenities, including toiletries.
There are three casino-adjacent hotels in Mesquite- Virgin River, CasaBlanca and Eureka. And, on the second visit we decided, once and for all, we’re Mesquite people. And we learned there are many ways to experience Mesquite, from a fun and inexpensive casino getaway to-well, Mesquite Gaming’s tagline, “Like Vegas used to be,” doesn’t quite cover it. So we went back, in part to prove everyone wrong. Another said, “Yeah, I’ve been to Mesquite… for booze and gas on my way to somewhere else.”
“Why didn’t you just drive another hour to Vegas?” one asked. We came back to Salt Lake and told our friends about the great time we’d had and no one quite believed us. We settled into our sparsely decorated, but perfectly OK room, ate prime rib and ham steaks for every meal-except one splurge for the Friday seafood buffet-and played bingo as often as possible for three days. The first time we went to Mesquite, it was the siren call of cheap rooms (starting at $24) and prime rib ($7.99) we’d seen advertised up and down I-15 that lured us there.
