If seeing a show at a casino - and maybe grabbing a bite and hitting the tables while you’re there - sound like just your ticket, here’s a guide to the larger concert venues. We lost a few hundred seats, but we’re OK with that if people are happy.” They’re much wider and deeper and the rows are wider. “We had gotten complaints about (the smaller ones), so we sacrificed seating to make people more comfortable. The industry standard is 15 inches and ours are 20 inches,” he said. “We’ve got much wider, much more comfortable folding chairs now. San Pietro said attendees have been pleased with a particular change made this year at the 2,500-seat outdoor concert area. The entertainment options at nearly every casino in the San Diego region are pretty much non-stop, with live music at bars, lounges, nightclubs, gaming floor stages, comedy clubs and performance areas.īut at the six area casinos sporting major theaters - Casino Pauma, Harrah’s Resort Southern California, Pala Casino Spa & Resort, Pechanga, Sycuan Casino and Viejas Casino & Resort - concert-goers will find new or recently upgraded venues outfitted with state-of-the-art sound systems, arena-worthy stage lighting and various audience-pleasing perks.Īt Viejas Casino’s Concerts in the Park, for example, there are five bars: one in each direction and one in the middle to keep the lines from getting too long, said Anthony San Pietro, Viejas’ vice president of entertainment and advertising.
