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Rail City Casino
Nov 25, 2007 by Martha from Sparks NV
Overall Rating: 4

• Food is good, Keno people are friendly.
• When it's cold outside they have air conditioner blowing.

“Their video keno & video poker machines are tight. If you have a problem with your machine you have a hard time getting help. The slot employees aren't very alert. The Keno department is always friendly and helpful. Management at the Sands should reconsider their choices of management at Rail City. You have a lot of unhappy employees. This casino is cold in the winter. They turn on the air conditioner when it's freezing outside. If they keep up their current standards, Rail City will become as dead as the Silver Club.”

Children's Museum of Northern Nevada
Aug 1, 2007 by Jules from Hollister
Overall Rating: 4

• Entertaining for very little kids.
• Seemed like a mish mash of items thrown together.

“Unless things have changed in the past few years since our initial visit to the museum, I'm sorry to say that I wasn't very impressed with the capital city's 'attempt' at putting together a Children's Museum. I used to live in Las Vegas and their CM is superb compared to what I found there. At the time we visited, my younger son was about 2, so he didn't care, but his 11 year old brother was bored to tears. I felt as if someone had trolled through town and picked up garage sale items and called it a "museum". We're due to go back soon, so I will check it out, and hope to find something better. If not, go to Sin City and see their kids' museum. It is awesome!”

Silver Queen Hotel
Jul 20, 2007 by Sharon from Oregon
Overall Rating: 4

• Historic hotel right in the middle of everything.
• Housekeepers didn't do their job.

“We initially booked room 11. When we arrived we found the hotel did not open its front doors to check in until 11am. When we did check in first we were told that they did not have a reservation for us, but soon found it. They gave us 2 room keys, one to room 11, and one to room 26, reason being it was hot and room 26 has a window to help cool the room. They let us check out both rooms and decide on our own which one we wanted. Room 11 had people in the bed still-embarrassing, so we took room 26. We had also been warned by the lady downstairs that the help they had was not good. She must have been referring to the housekeepers. There is nothing worse than seeing someone else's "curly" hairs on your bed, not to mention the lump in my pillow turned out to be toilet paper-gross!! We headed out to see the sights and the 2 housekeepers, on the 3rd floor and one on the 2nd floor where talking back and forth to each other. The one on the 2nd floor apparently ran out of clean wash cloths and hollered to the one on the 3rd floor for some. The housekeeper on the third floor said she didn't have any clean items, so the one on the 2nd floor asked for scissors to cut up a clean towel to make some then. The 2nd and 3rd floors have a very neat opening at the beginning and end of the 3rd floor hallway, you can see to the floor below. The housekeeper on the 3rd floor tossed a pair of scissors to the housekeeper on the 2nd floor; I was only a foot or so away from the housekeeper on the 2nd floor. Also the common sense of the 3rd floor housekeeper was lacking as she seemed to find it ok to stack her dirty laundry in front of the stairs, so we ended up having to climb over them to get to the stairs. This truly is a great place to stay, and would rank even higher if the housekeeping staff where replaced by someone who cared about the quality of their work. Funny how presumptuous our house keeper was to leave a colorfully decorated envelope in our room to remind us about a tip. Change the sheets is the only tip she got from us.”

Bowers Mansion Museum
Jul 10, 2007 by Michael Mayes from Las Vegas
Overall Rating: 8

• Quiet, relaxing, beautiful; a short distance from either Carson City or Reno.
• Can be busy and therefore a bit more hectic on weekends and holidays.

“Contrary to another reviewer's comments, the swimming pools at Bowers Mansion Park are usually open starting the first weekend after Wahoe County Schools recess for the summer through Labor Day. The park is often busy but is a wonderful spot for a picnic or simply to relax on a warm summer day. Tables and barbeques are available but are taken early on weekends. However, there is ample space on the spacious lawns for blankets and chairs, so take a cooler of drinks and sandwiches plus a cold watermelon and a good book, and you're in for a wonderful afternoon. Moderate hiking in the forest behind the mansion is also a pleasant diversion and a cooling retreat from midday heat. The mansion is quite interesting and while it cannot boast of still having its original furnishings due to the financial misfortunes of it's owner, donations of several period pieces give an excellent representation of life in the home during it's heyday; the silver strikes of the Comstock Lode. Additionally, the drive to Carson City down Franktown Road, which begins at the mansion, is as perfect a Sunday drive as one can find.”

Sierra Safari Zoo
Jun 5, 2007 by Kim from Fremont, CA
Overall Rating: 6

• I liked this small zoo. It had a lot of interesting animals. Lions, panthers, goats, birds, you Name it.
• Zoo was a little difficult to find, very small sign pointing the way. The lion cages seem small for such large animals.

“I went a couple of years ago (3, I think) and enjoyed it. It's not a large zoo and really won't take much more than an hour to see everything. The staff they were very friendly and knowledgeable and answered lots of questions. I even got to pet one of the baby animals born there. They do sell soda and some candy/snacks and gifts/t-shirts in a little store at reasonable prices.”