Where To Gamble In Louisiana
Get directions on how to get to Paragon Casino Resort by car or by plane. Find your way from Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport or Alexandria Airport (Louisiana). Paragon is located in Marksville, LA and features a lavish hotel, delicious dining, world-class gaming and more! Visit our site to plan your next visit.
Louisiana boasts several large casino resorts. Bus tours to these casinos are popular in nearby Texas, where gambling has not been legalized, as well as neighboring states like Arkansas and Mississippi. These bus tours can take visitors to a one-day visit of the casino or include an overnight stay in the popular resorts.
- The casinos of Lake Charles, Louisiana, are about 145 miles east of Houston, Texas. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, the Las Vegas-style casinos cater to Texans in search of gaming.
- Casinos in Louisiana. Louisiana is home to three types of casinos: riverboat casinos, Native American casinos, and one land-based casino. In 1991 Louisiana approved riverboat casino gambling, it was actually the fourth state in the U.S. In 1991 the law only allowed for a maximum of 15 riverboats to operate statewide.
OK Tours
OK Tours offers round-trip bus tours departing in San Antonio, Texas, and arriving at the Coushatta Casino in Kinder, Louisiana, or the Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, Louisiana. The tour company has one turnaround service and two overnight stays. The turnaround service departs from San Antonio on Friday and arrives at the Paragon Casino Resort the following day. Visitors can spend the day at the casino before returning to San Antonio that evening. The first overnight service departs every Sunday and arrives at the Coushatta Casino, where they will spend the night in the Coshatta Grand Hotel adjacent to the casino. The second service also departs on Sundays, and arrives at the Paragon Casino, where visitors will stay at the Paragon Resort's hotel.
OK Tours 737 Austin Street San Antonio, TX 78215 Phone: (210) 222-8880 Oktours.com
Paragon Casino Resort Tours
The Paragon Casino Resort offers both day trips and overnight tours. The casino will send its own bus to pick up visitors from anywhere in the Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi or Oklahoma areas. Visitors must be a member of the casino’s Players Club for bus pick up, and are required to stay at least five hours for day trips. Visitors can schedule bus tours through the casino’s tour and travel representatives.
Paragon Casino Resort 711 Paragon Place Marksville, LA 71351 800-946-1946 Paragoncasinoresort.com
Kerrville Bus Co.
The Kerrville Bus Co. offers day trips and overnight stays to the Coushatta Casino from San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The bus tours run Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday each week. Overnight tours include a hotel room stay with double occupancy. The Kerrville Bus Co. accepts both reservations and walk-up clients. As of 2010, fees for the bus tours started at $30 and each guest receives a $15 to $30 dollar cash voucher to use inside the Coushatta Casino.
Kerrville Bus Co. 1001 S. State Highway 16 Fredericksburg, TX 78624-4439 (830) 997-2249 Iridekbc.com
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