Its a nice little casino,,with a good variety of slots,,I was on my way back from blackhawk colorado!! Date of experience: August Response from Chris J, Guest Relations Manager at Diamond Jo Casino Responded Aug 24, Thank you for taking the time to review us.

We are thrilled to see your overall experience was great. We look forward to having you as a guest again soon! Duane B wrote a review Jul Roscoe, Illinois contributions 58 helpful votes.

Tight slots. My wife and I stopped here for an overnight when returning home. We had stopped here a few years ago and the results were the same - we were cleaned out.

I'll blame the tightness of the slot machines due to the dry spell they had because of the Covid pandemic. By far the majority of slot machines were of the older style.

I looked online before we made reservations at the hotel to see how the casino was handling the social distancing and other recommendations. The social distancing was good in the casino, I saw few slot machines cleaned none after we left a machine , masks were recommended for customers and only a few wore them, all casino employess wore masks.

We ate at the Burger King in the casino. The waitress didn't wear a mask and when a customer left a booth or table it wasn't cleaned before the next customer sat down.

Date of experience: July Response from Chris J, Guest Relations Manager at Diamond Jo Casino Responded Jul 29, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us.

We pride ourselves on exceptional customer service, and we sincerely apologize that we did not achieve this during your stay.

We have forwarded your comments to all the appropriate departments for review. If you would like to discuss it further, please reach out to us directly.

Thank you once again for being our guest. DoubleGinMN wrote a review Feb Rogers, Minnesota contributions helpful votes.

First timer. Drove down after finding out they are part of bconnected program. Had a ton of fun playing craps and blackjack. Table crew was super nice and made the play more fun.

The Diamond Jo Casino is located at Bell Street, in the rapidly developing Port of Dubuque. It has slot , keno , and video poker games, and 17 table games, including: Big Raise Hold 'em, Blackjack , Craps , Four card poker , Let It Ride , Roulette , Texas Hold 'em , and Three card poker.

On April 1, , the Dubuque Racing Association DRA and local businessman Robert Kehl opened Iowa 's first riverboat casino in Dubuque's Ice Harbor, the Casino Belle.

This boat's operation was short-lived, however, and relocated to Missouri in , following a change in ownership. Soon after, the DRA began to search for a new riverboat to operate under the gaming license already in place.

The organization selected the Greater Dubuque Riverboat Entertainment Company L. The name honors businessman Joseph "Diamond Jo" Reynolds, who owned a Dubuque shipping company, among other enterprises.

The "first" Diamond Jo Casino began operations on May 18, After a year and a half, in October , that boat was replaced with a larger, 1,passenger riverboat.

Peninsula was acquired in November by Boyd Gaming. In September , Peninsula Gaming officials announced that the Diamond Jo would begin a major expansion, during which it would become a land-based casino.

The museum will take over the Diamond Jo's existing Portside Building, as well as the riverboat, and renovate them into an IMAX -like theater and exhibit space.

The land-based complex, which is a short distance away from the old casino property, opened on December 11, The Diamond Jo complex features three sitdown restaurants The Woodfire Grille, The Filament and Kitchen Buffet , two bars the Tree Bar and The Game Sports Bar , a 30 lane bowling alley Cherry Lanes with scheduled leagues, and an entertainment theatre complex The Mississippi Moon Bar.

The Mississippi Moon Bar was named after the refrain in the Doobie Brothers song " Black Water ", which the casino uses in their current commercial campaign.

The Doobie Brothers were also one of the first groups to perform at the bar. He started two ventures at a young age. First, he set himself up as a local butcher.

At the age of seventeen, he and his brother Isaac established a general store in nearby Rockland, New York. He was married to Mary Morton, who was born about in Thunder Hill, Sullivan County, New York.

He reorganized and expanded the facilities, and was soon turning a profit selling leather. In , Reynolds sold his businesses in Rockland and moved his family to Chicago.

He started a tanning business on West Water Street. He traveled through Wisconsin and Minnesota , buying hides and furs. There was another J. Reynolds in the same business in Chicago, and their shipments became mixed.

Joseph Reynolds conceived the idea of establishing a trademark. He marked his next shipment with his nickname "JO" enclosed within a diamond. In , Reynolds sold his Chicago tannery and entered extensively into the grain business along the Mississippi, moving to McGregor, Iowa , and made his home there.

Just one transportation company—the Minnesota Packet Company— hauled grain on that part of the Mississippi River , and Reynolds found that other shippers were given priority, while his grain languished and sometimes spoiled.

In , he entered the steamboat business to avoid losses to his cargo sitting at the docks. He commissioned the steamboat Lansing and hired a captain from Wisconsin.

This allowed Reynolds to move his grain along the river to the railhead at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin on his own timetable.

Then the Minnesota Packet Company made a deal with Reynolds: if he agreed to sell the foot sternwheeler , they would extend better freight service to him in the future.

He sold the Lansing. However, not much later, he built a ton sternwheeler and two barges. He named the steamboat Diamond Jo. The Northwestern Packet Company, reorganized from the Minnesota Packet Company, approached Reynolds in regard to selling his fleet in Reynolds agreed and contracted with shipping companies to transport his grain for the next three years.

In , a new cartel of grain merchants was able to control shipping in the area, and Reynolds started building a new fleet of steamships.

In , he acquired some barges and the The next year he purchased three more steamers and a fleet of barges, calling his new company the "Chicago, Fulton, and River Line.

He continued to acquire more vessels, including tugboats and barges, and established a shipyard near Dubuque, Iowa. However, with this new enterprise, Reynolds increased the tonnage he hauled on behalf of other shippers, and expanded the scope of his river operations, running anywhere from St.

Louis to St. During this expansion toward St.