After having planned a anniversary gift for my wife to the Harrahs Cherokee casino for over a month and having everything booked I passed the worst experience in my life. They had a security officer at the main door and he was the most discriminating person I have known he treated me as if I was from a different species or something, as soon as I entered he stopped me and my wife and asked for the ID I had lost mine and showed him my passport (which by the way I'm 41) but that was his excuse, that I didn't have my ID to not let us in. He said we could not enter the building and ended up ruining all my vacations, being in the place where they are located I had to drive 8 hours to get there and he ruined all our anniversary. Let's be serious he didn't let me in because I was (LATIN) that was his reason because having white hairs already he had no reason to say he could not prove my age that's ridiculous he discriminated us and I would have never expected that from such a distinguished casino that can't hire efficient people that are over the age era. Worst casino to go to, you can't enter the place if your from a different racial background, can't talk from the people inside because didn't have a chance to enter but hope there are more from the 21st Century.

It is so sad that the fun has been taken out of playing the slots. I saw this change coming about in 2005 and it has gotten worse and worse. After watching a documentary on tv, an interview with a Casino 'big wig', he made the comment, "The elderly don't care about winning jackpots - they just want to play, so we give them enough to play." I wondered which planet he was on when he 'interviewed' the 'elderly' because the elderly that I know love winning jackpots and here's a news-flash-they are just as disgusted as everyone else is with the Casino's greed. I predicted that some casino's would be closing....if we wanted to donate, we'd donate to a good cause...

Worst casino from a slots perspective that I've ever been to. Harrahs AND the Cherokee Indians need their cut so the payback percentage is reflected in that. You will lose money at the slots so if you play em just be prepared to lose a ton of cash.

Let's just say that I am in 100% agreement with the tight slots feedback here. It actually goes beyond just tight slots. The slots are so bad that it is ridiculous and no fun. Most slots are fairly tight but this is beyond that. Stay clear of this place. You've been warned.

As a Vegas regular, I can attest that the slot payback percentage in Cherokee is terrible. I never expect to win and in fact rarely if ever win, but the machines are so tight in Cherokee there is no entertainment involved. The Catawba Indians are trying to get a Casino in North Carolina and the Cherokee are fighting it because they know competition will force them to offer a decent gambling operation. The facility is really nice and the table games are good, but stay away from the slots unless you like donating money without having any fun along the way. Sure people win jackpots, but you have the same chance with that as playing the lottery. Good slots provide hours of entertainment and only slowly grinds away your money.

I would encourage the Cherokee Tribe to be transparent and release their slot payout percentage because I think it is low 80s.