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Jun 15, 2012 As with many visitors to Monaco, we had to see the famous casino. It was a very expensive exercise however, with the 'cheap' blackjack table having a 100 euro minimum bet. Still, its a great experience. This review is the subjective opinion of a.

Because of my extensive knowledge of casino gambling and travel, I am sometimes contacted by other publications to write stories for them.
In early 2005 I was hired to write an article about “The World’s 10 Coolest Casinos” for a major magazine and in that story, I mentioned only four U.S. casinos: Bellagio, Wynn Las Vegas, Foxwoods and Borgata. The other six casinos were in foreign countries and although they weren’t in any ranked order, one casino on the list stood out as the most important to me: Monte-Carlo.

As a kid, growing up in New York, I remember the casino at Monte-Carlo as being the most famous in the world. There were songs and stories written about it; movies were made about it and, of course, there was the famous wedding of American actress Grace Kelly to Monaco’s Prince Rainier which brought even more notoriety to the area.
With such a fabled history, I had always wanted to visit Monte-Carlo and in April, 2007 my wife and I made our first trip there. It’s truly a beautiful area and here are some travel tips for when you’re ready to plan your own trip there, plus details on my attempt to “break the bank” at the casino.
Monaco is an independent principality located along the Mediterranean Sea in Southern Europe. Only three miles long by a half-mile wide, it is sandwiched between the French Riviera to the west and the Italian Riviera to the east. It is the world’s second smallest independent state after The Holy See (Vatican) and the population is 30,000, but only 7,000 people, known as Monégasques, are natural born natives.
Many people mistakenly believe that Monaco and Monte-Carlo are the same, but the principality is divided into five distinct districts and Monte-Carlo is but one of them. The other four are: Monaco-Ville, Fontvieille, Moneghetti and the Condamine.
The usual route to Monaco involves flying to Paris and that’s where we started our adventure. While in the “city of lights” you should definitely plan on staying a few days to take in the usual sights: Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame, a walk down the Champs Elysées and a sight-seeing boat trip along the Seine.
The Paris subway, known locally as the Metro, is excellent and provides service to most any area of the city. On our arrival at the Charles de Gaulle Airport we took a bus directly into Paris, but after realizing how fast and easy it was to use the Metro, we took it back to the airport when we were ready to leave. Not only was it faster, it was also about half the cost of the bus.
You can save money on Metro fares by buying a pass at the ticket booth at any station. The “Paris Visite” pass entitles you to unlimited travel on the metro, buses and some other local train lines for your choice of one, two, three or five consecutive days. Along with the pass, you are also given a coupon book for discounts on various attractions.
There are three options for getting to Monte-Carlo from Paris: driving, flying or taking a train. Since we didn’t have a lot of time, the 600-mile drive was out of the question. Nice is the airport closest to Monte-Carlo and an Internet search revealed that Air France offered seven flights each day with an hour-and-a-half flying time and a round-trip fare of $144. The TGV (Train à grande vitesse), which is a high-speed train that travels at speeds up to 186 m.p.h., was the most intriguing option, but the travel time was still more than five hours and the cost was double that of flying.
Upon arrival at the Nice airport you can take a 45-minute bus ride to Monte-Carlo for $22, or an eight-minute helicopter ride for about $80. In researching our trip on the official Monaco website at www.visitmonaco.com I learned that you can buy a one-year membership in Le Club Diamant Rouge de Monaco for $55 and it offers some great values.
Le Club is operated by the Monaco Government Tourist Office and its membership card provides free admission to all of Monaco’s museums, the aquarium and the casino, plus discounts or perks at several hotels, spas and other travel service providers. The free admissions alone amount to about $90 in savings, but best of all, card members receive a free helicopter flight from the Nice airport to Monaco and a 20% discount on the purchase of a flight back. There is a requirement that you stay at least one night at one of 10 participating hotels in order to buy the card, but chances are you will be staying at one of those hotels anyway. For more details go to www.clubdiamantrouge.com (or call 800-371-CLUB) and while visiting the web site, be sure to check out the auctions link which allows you to bid on various hotel packages, some of which include dining options, spa visits and other extras. You can also visit the auction site separately by going to www.monacoauction.com
My wife doesn’t like to fly and we have a close friend who was injured in a helicopter crash, so in planning our trip it was understandable that she was hesitant to opt for the helicopter ride. A friend of hers, however, pointed out that she should look at it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see a beautiful city from a fantastic point of view and, after giving it much thought, she finally agreed - provided we took the bus back to the airport. I agreed to her request and it’s rather ironic that in looking back on our trip we were in agreement that the helicopter flight was a major highlight and the return bus ride via the mountainous roads was scarier than the helicopter ride!
The visitmonaco.com web site has a wealth of information for visitors and I also found it useful for planning our hotel reservations. The site breaks down hotels by category, with four star deluxe being the highest and two star being the lowest. I started at the top and visited all five of the four star deluxe hotel web sites first. The rates started at about $525 per night, but I noticed that one property, Hotel Metropole, offered a special rate of about $320 per night. The rate was nonrefundable and required a 30-day minimum advance reservation, but the savings were substantial, so I booked it. Everything turned out great as both the hotel and room were beautiful, plus the service from all of the staff was excellent.

We arrived on Sunday afternoon and were leaving Tuesday morning, so we really didn’t have a lot of free time. Naturally, the casino was the top priority and I had made an appointment through the public relations department to meet a representative from the casino for a tour shortly after our arrival at the hotel.

A view of the Casino Monte Carlo in the evening (Monaco Press Centre Photos)

Most people aren’t aware that there are actually five casinos in Monaco (you can access information about all of them at www.casinomontecarlo.com.) and the original Casino de Monte-Carlo is the largest. Just across the street is the Café de Paris, which functions as both a sidewalk cafe and restaurant, plus the rear of the facility houses the Casino Café de Paris with the area’s largest number of slot/video poker machines: 436.
Three blocks away, in the Fairmont Hotel, is the Sun Casino and about a mile further east, inside the Monte-Carlo Bay Resort, is the Bay Casino which has no table games, just slots and video poker. The fifth casino, open only during the summer months, is appropriately named Casino d’Été (Summer Casino) and can be found in Le Sporting Monte-Carlo, an

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