About a year ago, the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians opened a new casino in Mackinaw City, Michigan, under the same name – Odawa – as their casino/resort in Petoskey. I wanted to maintain our record of having been to and gambled in every casino in Michigan.
For her birthday, which was last week, my wife wanted to spend a couple days at her favorite Michigan casino, the Little River in Manistee.
This presented the perfect opportunity for a mash-up road trip.
The new casino really is tiny, about 5,000 square feet accommodating 120 slot machines but no table games, no hotel, no restaurants, no gift shop. What they do have, which is very cool, is a machine into which you insert your driver’s license, and out pops a player’s card.
Before making our way to the Little River, we spent the first night at the Kewadin Casino in St. Ignace, and the next night in Brimley at Bay Mills Casino. Then we took off for Manistee.
We needed directions, so we called OnStar. We use this service frequently when we travel, sometimes even close to home if we get lost trying to find something. The OnStar people we talk to can be friendly or hostile and anything in between (frequently bored) but they are generally all business and relatively efficient.
This time our "Advisor" was very pleasant and sounded young. We told her where we wanted to go, and in just a moment she said, “I have the Little River Casino and Resort in Manistee, Michigan. I’m downloading the directions to your vehicle now. Thank you for using OnStar.”
Then she added, “Know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em,” and terminated the call.
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