Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa

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The Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa is a casino located in Cabazon, California near San Gorgonio Pass. This 27-story casino/hotel is one of the tallest casinos not in Las Vegas, Nevada or Atlantic City, New Jersey. The casino has 310 rooms and suites. A 44-acre resort, Morongo is still one of the largest casinos in California. At 330-feet high, the casino tower is the tallest building in the Inland Empire by far.

Amenities include a spa, 3 bars, 4 restaurants, a buffet, and a 12,000 square foot ballroom. It is one of only two AAA four diamond resorts in California with Pechanga Resort and Casino being the other. Morongo's main casino floor is 150,000 square feet with over 2,000 slots and table games.

Arrayed on 44 acres between California's San Gorgonio and San Jacinto mountains, the Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa features four-diamond hotel accommodations, a luxury health spa, world-class dining, high-stakes gaming and glittering nightlife.

The $250 million resort, with one of the largest casino floors on the West Coast, has a 27-story hotel tower topped by a two-story glass penthouse restaurant and lounge. It is considered the premier recreational gaming facility in California and an accessible, convenient alternative to Las Vegas.

The resort is located 20 minutes west of Palm Springs and 90 minutes east of Los Angeles.

The resort's landmark porte cochere an architectural canopy in the shape of a desert bloom, is illuminated to create an evening light show.

Upon entering the casino, guests see a very contemporary, almost retro-60's interior. Light coves between overhead vaults, back-lit fabric draped between frames and conically-shaped light fixtures create a complex, ornate ceiling that crowns the casino floor.

The casino at Morongo offers more than 100 table games including Four Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold'Em, Blackjack, Pai-Gow Poker, Mini-Baccarat and Three Card Poker as well as California-Style Craps tables (dealt with cards rather than dice)and a 22-table poker room.

High rollers also enjoy a sequestered high-limit slot area with more than 50 games.

Elevated in the center of the casino, framed by water curtains trickling over suspended strands of glass beads, is the casino pit bar. The bar has comfortable plum and flame-colored velvet booths accented by metallic leather and glowing tables of onyx pebbles set in resin.

Morongo's hotel accommodates guests in 272 standard rooms, 32 double bay suites and six luxury casitas located on an upper level surrounding the pool. All accommodations come with plasma screen TV's and contemporary hardwood furniture.

Hotel guests have access to the resort's pool which has a swimming and wading pool, water slide, lazy river and two spas surrounded by sandy beaches and palms. Sixteen private cabanas have private bar service, TV's, refrigerators and lounge chairs.

Morongo's restaurants include the penthouse restaurant Cielo; Serrano, a 24-hour cafe, and the Potrero Canyon Buffet, offering five inviting stations of international cuisine. A food court and 24-hour room service offer convenient dining.

Club 360, a bar at the top of the hotel tower, has panoramic views.

The health spa and salon, called Sage, is named after the aromatic sage plant that grows on the Morongo Indian Reservation. A full array of facials, massage, body treatments, manicures, pedicures and full salon services is available.

The casino is located near the nation's most popular factory outlets - as well as Hadley Fruit Orchards, and a wide selection of golf courses.

Guests must be 18 to gamble on the property.