I am very disturbed with what the Clearwater Casino has done to the community. Not simply because the gambling or the slots are awful or seem rigged, but because they are buying up the town and like most of the Clearwater buildings, the owners always opt to construct the cheapest building structures possible. If they're choosing buildings from a catalog, you get the sense they point to the cheapest or second cheapest option available. They just completed a huge nasty parking lot that sits right by the road. It's several hundred feet tall -- A rectangular gray block of cement lit with hundreds of awful cheap fluorescent lights, perched by the waterfront. It can be seen for miles. Prime real estate wasted on blob of concrete to hold a few hundred feet of cars. It's blinding from the bridge at night. Did the owners PLAN this? Why slap a 10 story, acre wide slab of parking on waterfront property? My guess is it was the CHEAPEST parking option they had. Underground parking would surely cost more. And they take this approach with all of the other buildings they erect in the community as they year by year take it away from people. They throw up marginal buildings with the money they have sucked away from old ladies and local blue collar people getting their paychecks highjacked by the Clearwater owners. And they never give back to the community. If they do in some marginal way they of course have to flaunt it. Greed doesn't even begin to describe what this operation is about.

Now they're in the process of adding a new hotel which translates to: ANY & ALL CUSTOMERS will be sucked to the bone who venture inside. That's literally what it means when you note they are building a hotel. It means YOU will pay for it. The owners don't like to pay for things! Certainly not the costs of construction, no matter how cheap and ugly it is, they want it coming from your pocket. The community pays for it and only the owners benefit from it. If you go there now you have a 99.9% chance of losing. With slots the very best they offer while the Hotel is being built is one (1) chance to cash out after you've lost approximately 60% of your principal. One chance to get about half of your money back. If you don't cash out on your one chance, they take it all and they do it quickly. It's not fun because they don't bother to give you the illusion you could win it back with a bonus because the slots don't go to bonus rounds. It's very rare. If they do they often won't pay. This is true. After playing for an hour and finally hitting a bonus the Clearwater delivers you with experience of winning nothing on your bonus round. That's a fact. The bonus gives you NOTHING. Why? I assume because the owners don't really care about the customers. I live in the area and I won't go there anymore. The majority of the locals I know have stopped going simply because it's not fun to always lose. Clearwater is too cheap to offer even the illusion that you might have chance of winning. I don't know if I can give the slots a 0... It truly doesn't make sense to rate the slots with a 1 out of 5 rating because the distance from that rating to the best rating is too close. It deserves a 1/4 of 1 point simply because the slots make sounds and the lights on them work. Other then that they are pointless as is the entire establishment.

I was really taken back by my experience there. I had no fun at all. The reason was simple. Never ever did I push a button without automatically losing the bet for the most part. I put in $100 dollars and I think maybe for one moment it may have jumped to about $102 bucks but only for a moment the rest of the time it was just a gradual decline. I put in more money and more money and it did this every time. It was humiliating actually. I felt terrible after going there. I wanted to cry to be honest but it wasn't even worth crying for. I walked into it but I didn't know a casino could be this terrible. This really was horrible and sad. I will never ever go there again. I did feel like they just stole my money. In retrospect if I had the choice I would have rather that they stuck a gun to my head when I walked in the door so I wouldn't have wasted the time because I never had a chance. They have those machines so rigged it's just sad. I know they just built this big huge ugly parking lot so maybe they wanted so extra money so they didn't have to take that out of their own pockets or something but this was CHRISTMAS! I mean do you really have to be THAT greedy and gross on Christmas. They just robbed me blind. They truly did. It's a HORRIBLE PLACE. I will never return.

Vegas recognized years ago that if they were completely greedy they’d ruin long term business and they were smart to think this way because what happens is that if nobody ever really wins then people don’t have fun and they lose interest and don’t return. Unfortunately the owners of Clearwater are not quite bright enough to get this... I can only speak for myself and the people I know who have stopped going to Clearwater just for that reason. At the end of the day it’s boring to go there because they only take your money. It’s such a rinky dink operation and I think the owners are real backwoods folk and they just don’t know any better then to think “Hey let’s just take as much as we can.” The jackpots offered are really kind of laughable and I mean they actually make you laugh – It’s a thousand bucks here or a thousand and thirteen dollars there – It’s hilarious... Most people just laugh when they announce the jackpots. I guess I’d say that if Vegas was the Major Leagues of Casinos that Clearwater would be like a selfish greedy T-Ball level Casino. The staff is nice but whoever is running that operation is real rinky dink dumb and needs to get with the program.