Archives for July 2009

Casino Arizona by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 28, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

Casino Arizona at Salt River offers the finest in adult gaming, including slots, keno, bingo, race-book and off-track betting as well as a diverse array of restaurants and lounges. Nightly entertainment is available. This summer’s entertainment selections include BeatleMania Live, Rick Springfield and Showstoppers Live.

If Poker is your game you’ll want to visit the poker room at Indian Bend, which features 45 non-smoking tables and is the home of the largest bad beat jackpot, a whopping $500,000. Games include Texas Hold ‘Em, Seven Card Stud, Omaha Hi-Lo and a full tournament schedule. Other games include Black Jack, Let It Ride, 3 Card Poker, Casino War and Keno. If you are just learning to play poker you might want to treat yourself to a class at the acclaimed College of Cards.

Slots enthusiasts will love Casino Arizona. With over 1,600 multi-denominational, ticket-pay slots, Casino Arizona is on the cutting edge of modern gaming. Progressives, video poker and major slot events make Casino Arizona an exciting gaming destination.

Where dining is concerned Casino Arizona has it all, from the finest steakhouse to the best in all you can eat buffets. For casual dining The Willows restaurant offers an array of sumptuous sandwiches and burgers and the Salt River Café offers quick and tasty family meals including pizza, chicken and burgers with a special kid’s menu. For poker fans The Blue Coyote Grill & Sports Bar offers table side service so you don’t have to miss a moment of fun.

For big appetites The Wandering Horse Café offers an all you can eat spaghetti and meatball buffet and The Eagle Buffet offers a Friday night seafood buffet and a Saturday night prime rib buffet. For the ultimate in fine dining for special occasions and intimate dining there is the Cholla Prime Steakhouse & Lounge.

Casino Arizona is a premiere entertainment destination offering something for everyone.

The Szabo Group offers first class real estate services to clients in the Scottsdale Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Award winning Realtors and Re/MAX top producers, The Szabo group delivers experience, knowledge, dedication and proven results. Contact Joe Szabo at 480.688.2020 or visit www.scottsdalerealestateteam.com.

Old Town Tortilla Factory by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 21, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

If you are looking to capture the perfect taste of Southwestern flavors in an historic setting, it’s time to experience the Old Town Tortilla Factory. Built from a 75 year old adobe home this charming restaurant is located in the heart of the arts district in downtown Scottsdale. Their world renowned tequila bar offers 80 premium tequilas and a beautiful firewater patio seating area.

The menu offers sublime Southwestern cuisine with a Sonoran influence. The main attraction is, of course, homemade tortillas but the diverse menu also challenges with seductive salsas and sauces. Signature dishes include Red Chile Pork Chops, Shawnee Sea bass, and Stuffed Filet Mignon.

Sit on the flagstone patio shaded by stately 100 year old pecan trees; enjoy a cool mist and a Mexican beer as you savor the fresh flavors of “Carne Limon”, a Bistro cut steak, marinated in lime juice and spices served with sautéed vegetables and whipped sweet potato stuffed green chile. Or sip a refreshing margarita while enjoying “Pasta Vallarta”, a flavorful dish featuring gulf shrimp, sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms and broccoli sautéed in red chile butter over linguini served with bollilo toast. Yum!

Old Town Tortilla Factory is located at 6910 E. Main Street in Scottsdale. For more information visit: www.oldtowntortillafactory.com

The Phoenix Zoo by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 17, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

The Phoenix Zoo features over 1,300 animals on 125 acres of land with over 2.5 miles of walking trails. The trails are divided into four different themes. The Africa Trail and Tropics trails each take about an hour to walk while the Arizona and Children’s trails each take approximately a half hour each.

The Zoo features a wide variety of animals including 200 endangered or threatened birds, mammals and reptiles from all over the world. Animals are shown in environments that replicate their natural environment.

Summer fun at the Zoo includes a new event called Starry Safari. On Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer the Giraffe Encounter at Savanna Pointe will transform into a family wonderland with water slides, inflatable fun houses, animal meet and greets, wagon rides and much more. There is a $5 charge to attend Starry Safari.

For those looking for family fun at a great price this summer, the Phoenix Zoo is making headlines by offering free day time admission for kids 12 and under. That even includes admission to zoo’s newest attraction Yakulla Caverns! Yakulla Caverns offers the coolest water play available with cavern- like water slides, cave creatures and plenty of room to splash around in.

The zoo is also open during special hours for the summer months to take advantage of the cooler hours of the day. Weekdays the park will be open from 7am to 2pm and weekends and holidays it will be open from 7am to 4pm.

The Phoenix Zoo is located at 455 N. Glavin Parkway in Phoenix for more information on the zoo or specific exhibits visit www.phoenixzoo.com

High Performance Driving by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

July 14, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona
Are you ready for the challenge of a lifetime? The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving has been teaching total car control to drivers of all levels since 1968. In fact they have graduated over 85,000 drivers from their intensive program.
The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving boasts the largest purpose built facility in North America, a 1.6 mile road course and an eight acre skid-pad. If you are ready to learn total car control you won’t want to go anywhere but The Bondurant School.
Specially designed classes are tailored to meet driver’s needs at any level. There are classes for beginners, aspiring race car drivers, even teens looking to improve their driving skills. For high performance driving, the vehicles offered include the following : Chevrolet Corvette Z51 Coupe 6 speed manual and 6 speed paddle shift, Chevrolet Corvette Z06, Cadillac CTS, Cadillac CTS V, Pontiac Solstice, Police Package Chevrolet Tahoe’s and Impala’s.
In addition to High Performance Driving, the school also offers a critically acclaimed Kart Racing School using top of the line karts, including CRG shifter karts and Tag karts.
The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving is located at 20000 S. Maricopa Road in Chandler. For information on driving lessons visit www.bondurant.com

CrackerJax Family Fun & Sports Park by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 10, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

If you are looking for fun for the whole family in Scottsdale you need look no further than the CrackerJax Family Fun & Sports Park. Covering more than 28 acres, CrackerJax offers a wide range of attractions for an even wider range of ages. Featured attractions include 2 miniature golf courses. Amaze ‘N Golf is specifically designed with younger golfers in mind, no putt is over twenty feet and the course is full of fun elements such as tunnels, mazes, bells and slides. For teens and adults there is the Optical Delusion course. This course is specifically designed to challenge the golfer with plenty of optical illusions and puzzles. To negotiate this course requires both skill and brains. Teens and adults are sure to have fun deciphering this golf challenge.

Other attractions include Lagoona Island where guests can negotiate more than 6,000 square feet of water fun in bumper boats. Next the family can try their hand at go-kart races on one of two specially designed tracks. For the baseball enthusiasts there are batting cages for baseball and softball with choices of fast pitch or slow pitch. The park also offers an automated driving range and golf school, for those who wish to brush up their game.

The two state-of-the-art arcades, one especially designed for younger guests, offer a wide variety of the hottest games available. New attractions include the Power Jumper, which combines bungee jumping and trampoline to create high flying fun, and the new Water Wars which takes water balloon fun to new heights.

Arizona’s largest Family Fun & Sports Park, CrackerJax opens daily at 10am. It is open most nights until 10pm and on Friday and Saturday nights it is open until midnight. CrackerJax is located at 16001 N. Scottsdale Rd. For more information visit www.crackerjax.com.

WestWorld by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 7, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

When it comes to equestrian centers, Scottsdale has one of the best in the country. WestWorld is nationally recognized, user-friendly equestrian facility and home to many special equestrian events. Located on 360 acres at the base of the McDowell Mountains, WestWorld is also home to events such as car shows, weddings, corporate functions and music festivals.

The famed Equidome is capable of providing covered seating to over 6,000 people. It is one of the finest facilities to showcase horse flesh in the United States. If you are visiting Scottsdale and are an equine enthusiast you won’t want to miss the lineup of exciting events at WestWorld.

Whether you enjoy watching Arabian Stallions, want to watch a real horse sale in action or long to watch a Polo game, WestWorld has your passport to equine happiness. The North Scottsdale Polo club plays weekly during the spring and winter months, the Arabian Stallions of Arizona host a yearly show and the summer months are filled with horse sales of all types.

For Golfers the famed Sanctuary at WestWorld offers the finest in natural golf courses available in the world. This spectacular par 71 course was the first course in Arizona and the 17th in the world to receive the coveted Audubon Signature Status. For more information on WestWorld visit: https://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/westworld.asp

Pueblo Grande Museum by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 4, 2009 szabogroup

By Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

The Scottsdale/Phoenix area is rich in Native American history. The Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park is devoted to preserving this history and presenting it to the public. The museum is dedicated to preserving objects and documents from the Pueblo Grande archeology site but it also serves as the repository for professionally excavated archaeological project collections from the Phoenix metropolitan area.

The Pueblo Grande archeology site is remarkable because it is the ruins of the Hohokam civilization. The Hohokam (literally translated it means “those who have gone”) were a prehistoric people who lived in central and southern Arizona from about AD 1 to 1450. Expert farmers, they grew corn, beans, squash, and cotton in abundance. They constructed adobe villages and engineered hundreds of miles of canals to irrigate their fields. Their pottery, woven textiles and shell jewelry were and are highly prized. In the sixteenth century Spanish explorers arrived in Southern Arizona to find the Hohokam villages in ruins.

Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park is located in a 1,500 year old Hohokum village and offers visitors and opportunity to walk the trails of the ancient civilization. Over 70 years old, the museum is dedicated to the study and interpretation of Hohokam culture. Visitors to the museum enjoy exploring the ruins and imagining what life would have been like for the Hohokum. The last remaining ruins of an actual irrigation canal dug by the Hohokum can be viewed as well as replicas of homes and an ancient ball court.

For more information about The Pueblo Grande Museum visit: https://phoenix.gov/parks/pueblo.html

Scottsdale Laser Tag by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 2, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

Laser Tag is one of the hottest new sports, and Scottsdale has a couple of different choices for great laser tag fun. If you are looking for an afternoon of family fun you can visit Fiddlesticks Family Fun Park in Scottsdale. Located at 8800 E. Indian Bend Road, Fiddlesticks offers a wider variety of fun including go-karts, miniature golf, bumper boats, batting cages and, of course, laser tag.

If you are a hardcore laser tag enthusiast you need to check out the action at Stratum Laser Tag in Mesa. Stratum features the world’s largest indoor laser tag arena, designed by same team that designed Universal Studios. Stratum offers 18,000 square feet of techno entertainment, 13,000 square feet of which is devoted solely to laser tag. There are 15 different levels in varying heights, 90 towers, bridges and ramps and a state-of-the-art sound system with theatre quality lighting including strobe and black lights. Not enough for you? Make sure you visit the Black Hole Time Travel Simulator!

With vests and phasers to outfit more than 60 participants, Stratum Laser Tag is the perfect venue for team building excursions, birthday parties and family reunions. For more information on Stratum Laser Tag visit: www.stratumhq.com

Hall of Flame by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group Scottsdale Arizona

July 1, 2009 szabogroup

by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group

The Scottsdale/Phoenix area is full of fun and interesting things to do, it doesn’t matter if you are a first time visitor or a life long resident, there is plenty to enjoy. If you are a fan of fire fighting you won’t want to miss the one of a kind exhibit available at The Hall of Flame Fire Museum. Fire fighting equipment dating in age from 1725 to 1969 is displayed on almost a full acre of land. While the vast majority of equipment displayed is American there are also pieces from England, France, Austria, Germany and Japan.

The museum painstakingly refurbishes and reconditions fire fighting equipment, restoring it to mint condition. In recent years restoration projects have included a 1924 American LaFrance engine and an 1870 hose carriage. Both of these restored treasures are now on display in the museum

Among the more notable exhibits is the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes, which was designed to honor firemen who fell in the line of duty. This is an emotional but worthwhile exhibit to view. Also featured in the museum is a gallery devoted to the history of wild land firefighting in the U.S.
The Hall is located in Phoenix, Arizona at 6101 East Van Buren St. It is open Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5, and Sundays from Noon to 4. For more information visit: www.hallofflame.org
The Szabo Group offers first class real estate services to clients in the Scottsdale Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Award winning Realtors and Re/MAX top producers, The Szabo group delivers experience, knowledge, dedication and proven results. Contact Joe Szabo at 480.688.2020 or visit www.scottsdalerealestateteam.com