Thunder Valley Casino Pano Hall

Indoor concert venue
Had a chance to enter this banquet hall a few times to watch a couple of concerts early this year and also enjoy a Halloween VIP event (2014). It is located somewhere in the middle of the casino so you have to walk through the smoke filled area to get to this place. If you make it late to get in line the line gets long and wraps around some slot machines and which means you get to smell the smoke in the air longer… Pano Hall is between the fast food dining section and the Rewards Card counter. There are restrooms immediately right outside of the Pano Hall so you don’t have to wander everywhere to look for one if you have to use it in between performances inside the hall.
Inside there is a bar section immediately to your left. This is the back of the hall. If it is being used as a concert the seats are arranged depending on the amount of crowd expected to attend the concert and they use two giant screens on each side of the room. The seats are regular cushioned chairs that stack and attach to each other. There is not much leg room either as you make your way in the section aisle to your seats. Guests who purchased tickets has the middle section seating. Comped tickets has the sides reserved for them. You could be seated just right underneath the huge screens if your tickets are comped. They do have staff workers that will assist you to locating your seat. I was able to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy during the New Years Eve event and also The Legends of Motown Tribute last weekend during Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. The Halloween VIP event I attended (as a guest of my friend) last year had no seating but they had tall bar tables on both sides of the banquet hall and made the middle section as a dance floor as they had a live band music on stage entertaining the guests. The food served was delicious which included beef sliders, meatballs, bacon covered shrimps and desserts galore. The Halloween decorations were great too!

I attended the Australian Bee Gees Tribute in the Pano Hall at Thunder Valley Casino and the show was fabulous. If you have a chance to see this group, jump on it! The energy was electric and everyone, I mean everyone was on their feet dancing and singing along. So much fun. There were people of all ages in the audience and no one was disappointed. Very professional and talented group with exceptional rapport with the audience. The hall itself was not much to speak of; I had fairly good seats but I could see there were a lot of bad seats. It’s not really a theater but a square room with a stage and chairs in front of it. But the show was worth it. I would like to see this group in the the outdoor amphitheater.

I have seen two shows in the Pano Hall. The entertainment is excellent, the seating layout is very poorly arranged. Surely they could have a better set up for the entertainers. Hope they will work on making every seat one that can see the stage.

Went to a awards banquet here. There had to be well over 500 people there. The room accommodated everyone nicely. The food was served buffet style. They needed to have a few more buffets set up. It took dinner over a hour for everyone to go through the buffets. The spinach salad was good, mixed vegetables good, the mashed potatoes were excellent, good recipe. The rolls were really good, they had different types, mine was honey walnut wheat, and my wife had jalapano cheese. The chicken was flavorful, the tri-​tip was so so. To me it lacked flavor, but I can throw down on the tri-​tip so maybe I am just over critical. One other thing they should do is have a entrance closer to the venue so you don’t have to walk through the smoke filled casino to get to the room. The smoke was so bad it was hard to breath. Over all it was a good place for a banquet.

I agree with the other reviewer this place has very poor seating arrangements. If your sitting to far off to the side or toward the back you might have to watch the screens more than the stage to catch the show. The stage was too low for the some of the segments of the Cirque Shanghai show. Also with the seats attached to each other you have to «excuse» and «pardon» yourself across a bunch of people to get in and out.

My first experience with this venue and my biggest complaint would be the seating arrangements. Its essentially a large square room that would serve better as a banquet hall than a concert venue. All of the seats are literally attached to one another leaving no breathing room between me and the person next to me. My wife turned to me at one point and said the guy next to her was playing «footsies» with her. I would happily pay $ 5 – 10 more dollars for a ticket if it meant less cramming of the seats! Sorry… didn’t sample the bar, but it appeared adequate.