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Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, Connecticut’s two tribal casinos that enjoy a statewide monopoly, each reopened on Monday morning as the first such casinos in the Northeast since the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic halted such entertainment in mid-March.
Which one is more worth a visit?
Both have plenty of safety protocols in evidence, but your level of risk tolerance can dictate your preference.
Foxwoods — the nation’s second-largest casino — checked the temperature of each visitor to the Mashantucket site with a non-invasive machine to make sure only those with temperatures under 100.4 degrees can enter.
Each table game, meanwhile, has only three chairs, with plexiglass separating the dealer from the players. The plexiglass is even more extensive at the craps tables (see photo at top of article) — a particularly problematic game these days, potentially.
Casino cleaners were very much in evidence at mid-day, spraying down just-available slot machines with disinfectant once patrons moved elsewhere in the casino.
At the slots areas, players were spaced the social-distancing-protocol-recommended six feet apart.
At the nearby Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, there were no temperature checks in sight.
Far less plexiglass was noticed, too, and craps players and their slot-playing brethren were sometimes fewer than six feet apart. The vibe was a bit different, too, with some craps players reminiscing to strangers about memorable previous experiences with the game at that casino. In other words, a more familiar craps table vibe.
One commonality, however, was crucial: Not only are protective masks mandated, they were worn nearly universally — and with the masks going over the nose as well as the mouth.
That’s has become typical behavior in the tri-state area, which has taken the brunt of the more than 100,000 pandemic-related deaths in the U.S. The only offenders on this front were customers drinking at the bar — and even there, the masks were in plain sight as a default mode between sips or bites.
Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, Connecticut’s two tribal casinos that enjoy a statewide monopoly, each reopened on Monday morning as the first such casinos in the Northeast since the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic halted such entertainment in mid-March.
Which one is more worth a visit?
Both have plenty of safety protocols in evidence, but your level of risk tolerance can dictate your preference.
Foxwoods — the nation’s second-largest casino — checked the temperature of each visitor to the Mashantucket site with a non-invasive machine to make sure only those with temperatures under 100.4 degrees can enter.
Each table game, meanwhile, has only three chairs, with plexiglass separating the dealer from the players. The plexiglass is even more extensive at the craps tables (see photo at top of article) — a particularly problematic game these days, potentially.
Casino cleaners were very much in evidence at mid-day, spraying down just-available slot machines with disinfectant once patrons moved elsewhere in the casino.
At the slots areas, players were spaced the social-distancing-protocol-recommended six feet apart.
At the nearby Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, there were no temperature checks in sight.
Far less plexiglass was noticed, too, and craps players and their slot-playing brethren were sometimes fewer than six feet apart. The vibe was a bit different, too, with some craps players reminiscing to strangers about memorable previous experiences with the game at that casino. In other words, a more familiar craps table vibe.
One commonality, however, was crucial: Not only are protective masks mandated, they were worn nearly universally — and with the masks going over the nose as well as the mouth.
That’s has become typical behavior in the tri-state area, which has taken the brunt of the more than 100,000 pandemic-related deaths in the U.S. The only offenders on this front were customers drinking at the bar — and even there, the masks were in plain sight as a default mode between sips or bites.