The Wild Rose is a great little casino that sprung in the middle of nowhere. My husband and I had taken a yearly trip to Las Vegas since 1986 until 2006 when the Wild Rose opened. With a casino 30 miles from home, we are able to get our gaming and entertainment on a regular basis without driving for hours! The casino itself is nothing to write home about. It’s smoky and showing its age already. If you look up you see dust lining the ceiling tiles around the air vents. The carpet is awful, dirty and grime showing through. Some things most might not notice but when you take a trip there weekly for 6 years these things become evident. The slot department does a great job keeping things fresh as Wild Rose always seems to have new games before any of the other casinos in the area. The table games dealers are normally all very friendly and make blackjack fun. The one downfall would be the security department. I have never had problems with them but the guys that are supervisors seem to all walk around like they own the place. It’s just silly and we’ve never encountered the mindset they have at any other casino we’ve ever been to. We figure they’re bored, so they look way too hard for things to do. It makes us nervous. Besides that, I highly recommend the Wild Rose. It’s a fun place in the dead of Iowa. Edit: I forgot to mention the food. The pub called Dunigans has always had great burgers and food. 2.5/3 for Dunigans. The buffet has gone through many changes and is currently as terrible as it has ever been. We quit eating there when it turned into a pasta house. It was disgusting. 0/3 for the buffet. The Wild Perk is a cafe type place in the main entryway and they do a good job of serving snacks and small meals after hours. The hours are too short, we feel if the casino is open, the cafe should be open. Many times we've left to get a snack at Kum and Go in town because the casino is offering nothing but bags of chips and candy bars. Sometimes there is a decent sandwich in the machine in the hotel. 1.5 for the cafe mainly because it's barely open when we want something.