We got offered 2 complimentary nights in a non-smoking king room on the top/8th floor for husband’s birthday celebration. We like staying at Barona for the spacious room with comfortable bed, modern amenities and excellent staff.

I WOULD NEVER COME BACK TO YOUR CASINO BARONA' IF THIS IS THE KIND OF PEOPLE YOU EMPLOY.' I am asian and a filipino if I may add. In my opinion, rude people should not be around dealing with customers unless you the casino want to shy away from your business. I talked to another manager named Abran and he was very nice and said definitely that it was not handled properly by the said supervisor. I hope I was the only treated rudely by this guide (let the casino know if ever), because they should know how their employees treat us, the playing customers.

I was betting the minimum and more but sometimes I share with other players 'JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE'. Telling me in a very loud and threatening manner that I should stand up and give my seat for somebody for any reason except if I was causing a disturbance is not very good way of treating a customer. Mind you I was already losing$500 at this time. Through Indian gaming revenues, the Barona tribe is now able to provide its members with the basic needs any government should provide its people.I was at the casino yesterday with my wife beside me and was suddenly and very rudely told by this supervisor( I was told something like Timmy or Tim.) that it I would not bet the minimum that I should stand up because another person was waiting for a seat. The impact of such a reversal from poverty and despair is likely to impact many future generations. Indian gaming is the cornerstone on which tribes such as Barona have begun to build a community, renew their culture and share their good fortune with others. Unemployment and welfare dependency have dropped from 70 percent to zero on the Barona reservation. The casino has become the means to a restoration of self-sufficiency, prosperity and renewed hope. In 1994, the tribe, with the consulting guidance of Venture Catalyst, opened the Barona Casino 'Big Top.'

Until the early 1990s, the Barona Tribe lived on their own land but were still struggling economically in the backwoods of San Diego County. In 1932, without a homeland but with money in their pockets, members of that tribe bought the Barona Ranch which today is the Barona Indian Reservation near Lakeside, about 30 miles northeast of San Diego. The Executive Order of 1891 forced the Barona Band to move to a reservation area that is now El Capitan Reservoir. In 1870, President Grant set aside land in the Pala and San Pasqual Valleys for the first two reservations in San Diego County.

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