Valley Forge Casino: George Washington Could Not Have Gambled Here but You Soon Can!

I've been living in the Valley Forge / King of Prussia area for almost 15 years now and for the past 4 or 5, I've been following intently the progress (or lack thereof) of the casino in the Valley Forge Convention Center.

I've known for some time that this was a "Category 3" license, which means that it's not exactly open to the public and that there were some hoops you had to jump through in order to play.

Well, I've finally heard about the criteria you have to meet. You have to either:

• have a room at the Center's hotel or
• spend at least $25 in their restaurants or stores.

Receipts and/or room keys will be checked.

The VFCC has a steakhouse, Chumley's, and an Italian bistro, Blue Grotto. Neither is heavily reviewed on Yelp, but Blue Grotto currently grades out a bit better.

The casino is set to open in early- to mid-2012. I wish they'd get it open sooner so I could do my birthday dinner there in December, but I'll just have to be patient.

(Source: philly.com's July Casino Chat)