Silver Slipper Casino GM Tells Parents To Get a Babysitter, Resort Becoming 21+

The Silver Slipper Casino Hotel inward the southmost portion of Bay St. Louis, Ms., testament shortly only if be for guests older 21 and older.

Management at the Magnolia State casino owned and operated by Full House Resorts said the exchange comes inward response to parents continually failing to monitoring device their children. Silver Slipper General Manager John Ferrucci explained that the casino was late cited by the Mississippi Gaming Commission (MGC) for unsupervised children.

They cannot follow left wing unattended at all,” a frustrated Ferrucci told the Biloxi Sun Herald. “I’m non doing it anymore. We bid parents to follow rearward when they get a babysitter.”

Ferrucci says effective July 1, no I below the eld of 21 will be permitted access to the Silver Slipper resort.

Mississippi gaming laws prohibit anyone below the legal imbibition age from beingness on a gambling casino floor. But to memory access the resort’s restaurants and buffet, guests of all ages are required to walk a designated corridor that travels next to the expansion slot machines and tabulate games.

The Silver Slipper is rough ogdoad miles S of downtown Bay St. Louis. The remote casino is contiguous to the 500-acre John Hancock County Reginald Marsh Coastal Preserve.

The Silver Slipper’s 39,000-square-foot gaming blank houses roughly 750 slots, 23 tabular array games, and a sportsbook. The resort’s hotel features 129 guestrooms.

Feedback Largely Positive

The Silver Slipper joins Treasure Bay inwards Biloxi and Island View in Gulfport as the state’s only if casino resorts reserved for guests 21+. Ferrucci said going adults-only was a “difficult decision” that management “didn’t read lightly.”

No persons below the eld of 21 years are permitted in this edifice for any reason. All guests must live 21 years of eld or older in order of magnitude to live admitted to the casino, our restaurants, the hotel, or the puddle area,” the Silver Slipper website now advises.

“You may live asked to ply identification inwards dictate to enter the building. If you fare not hold the right I.D., you will non be permitted to enter,” the casino added.

Ferrucci explained that all hotel bookings for July 1 onward were contacted and notified of the impending eld requirement. The cassino GM says feedback from the guests has been relatively positive.

The casino’s Facebook carry announcing the eld modify garnered a positive degree response, too. Of the more than 500 comments, most welcomed the intelligence that kids will no longer be roaming the resort.

“Take your kids to a kinfolk resort. Casinos are for adults,” opined single commenter.

Silver Slipper Bounce Back

As was the slip for every casino in the US, 2020 was a most difficult year for the Silver Slipper. Along with COVID-19, the Mississippi Gulf Coast casinos endured an participating 2020 hurricane season.

During Tropical Storm Cristobal inwards June of that year, around 100 Silver Slipper workers had to follow reclaimed by first off responders. That’s after flooding blocked their transition from the casino to the employee parking lot. The staff members were reclaimed via a high-water vehicle.

For 2021, Full House Resorts reported that Silver Slipper revenues increased 45% year-over-year to $90.6 million. The Nevada-based gambling casino manipulator says it’s bullish on the futurity of its Bay St. Louis resort hotel because of the many recent resort-wide renovations. Those include “a substantive refurbishment of the casino and buffet, a renovated porte-cochere, repainted exterior, and the introduction of on-site sports betting.”