Don Laughlin's Riverside Resort Flights: 34 Cities, $529 to $569 a Person, and a Schedule Anyone Can Read
The Riverside Resort's air program is a package anyone over 21 can buy, and the resort prints the whole schedule with prices. On November 10, 2026 that page listed 132 round trips to Laughlin from 34 cities on Sun Country 737s, at $529 to $569 a person with the room and the transfers included.
Published 2026-11-10.
Don Laughlin's Riverside Resort sells its Laughlin flights to anyone over 21, and it prints the schedule. On November 10, 2026 the flight page on the resort's own site listed 132 upcoming round trips from 34 cities, each priced at $529, $559 or $569 a person. The price buys a seat on a Sun Country 737-800 into Laughlin/Bullhead International, a ride across the river and three or four nights in the hotel. You pick your city from a menu, read the dates, and book by phone on 866-202-2293. Nothing on the page asks for a players card.
That is what separates it from the other charter into the same airport. Harrah's Laughlin is flown by Caesars Rewards Air, whose terms call its offers "by invitation only" and whose members are quoted prices the public does not see. The Riverside is still owned by the Laughlin family, belongs to no national program, and sells a flat-priced package the way a tour operator would.
The Don Laughlin air program is a public air-and-room package, not a comp. Sun Country Airlines flies it on 737-800s from 34 cities, most of them in Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and the plains, to Laughlin/Bullhead International (IFP) in Bullhead City, Arizona, about three and a half road miles from the hotel. Trips are three or four nights on fixed dates. The price is per person at double occupancy and covers round-trip airfare, ground transfers and the room: $529 to $569 on the schedule we read, which ran through April 30, 2027. Tickets are not refundable, and a change, cancellation or no-show costs $100 a person. The schedule is at riversideresort.com/flights. Booking is by phone, 6am to 4pm Pacific, seven days a week.
How the program works
The flight page has one control, a menu labelled Departing City. Choose a city and the page returns a card for each trip: the flight numbers, the date you arrive in Laughlin and the date you leave, the four clock times, the airport and the ticket counter to look for, the price, whether the trip is available or sold out, and whether the plane flies direct. Seven of the 132 trips were marked sold out when we read it.
There is no book button. The page gives a reservations number, 866-202-2293, answered from 6am to 4pm Pacific, seven days a week.
The resort's wording for what you get is "round-trip airfare, ground transfers, and hotel lodging at the Riverside Resort," and it adds: "When you arrive, we will be at the airport to pick you up." The airport is across the Colorado River in Bullhead City, Arizona. It has had no scheduled airline since a daily American Eagle flight to Phoenix ended in February 2018, so the casinos' planes are the only passenger service there is. The airport's own charter page says Sun Country provides the chartered air service and counts between 150 and 240 charter arrivals and departures a month for the two casinos that fly, the Riverside and Harrah's. Our Laughlin guide has the rest of the town's numbers.
The 34 cities, and how often each one flies
The list is the upper Midwest and the northern plains, with a few outliers.
| State | Departure cities |
|---|---|
| Minnesota | Bemidji, Brainerd, Duluth, Hibbing, International Falls, Minneapolis, Rochester, St. Cloud |
| Wisconsin | Eau Claire, Green Bay, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau |
| North Dakota | Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot |
| South Dakota | Aberdeen, Rapid City, Sioux Falls |
| Colorado | Colorado Springs, Denver, Pueblo |
| Michigan | Flint, Grand Rapids, Houghton |
| Iowa | Cedar Rapids, Des Moines |
| One city each | Billings, Montana; Casper, Wyoming; Kansas City, Missouri; Moline, Illinois; Omaha, Nebraska |
Being on the list is not the same as flying often. Minneapolis had 36 of the 132 trips, about one every five days through the winter. Rochester, Minnesota had six. Billings, Casper, Colorado Springs, Houghton, Omaha and Pueblo had exactly one trip apiece between November and the end of April, so from those cities the program is a single date, take it or leave it.
The season is back-loaded. The schedule showed 25 trips for the rest of November, 11 in December, 12 in January, 23 in February, 28 in March and 33 in April, with the last plane home on May 3. Sixty-eight trips were three nights and 64 were four.
One detail matters only to Minneapolis. Ninety-nine trips were marked direct, and all 33 that were not left from Minneapolis: on most of that city's departures the plane stops in another town on the list, Bismarck or Rapid City or Denver, to fill the remaining seats before turning for Nevada. From the smaller cities the flight is nonstop.
What the price covers, and what it leaves out
Prices are set by city, not by date or length of stay. Minneapolis, Sioux Falls, Flint, Casper and Pueblo were $529. The six Wisconsin cities, Grand Rapids, Moline and Omaha were $569. Everywhere else was $559, with Cedar Rapids showing both $559 and $569 on different dates. A three-night trip and a four-night trip from the same city cost the same.
The resort's fine print is short. Prices are "per person, based on double occupancy." They "are subject to change, are not retroactive, and may not be available on certain departures." Tickets "are not refundable," and the next sentence reads: "A $100.00 change/cancellation/no-show fee per person will apply." You must be 21.
The page does not say what a solo traveler pays. A newspaper ad the resort ran in Bismarck in January 2022 priced the same package at $559 with all taxes and fees included, and added: "Single occupancy $50 additional charge." The Bismarck price on the 2026 schedule is still $559, so the fare has not moved in almost five years. Whether the $50 supplement has is a question for the phone call.
The departure instructions cover the rest. Check in two hours ahead with photo identification. Two checked bags of up to 50 pounds each and one carry-on of up to 35 pounds ride free; golf clubs are barred on some flights and cost $75 on the others. In Laughlin you do not wait at a carousel. The resort's staff meet the plane, you board the bus, and the bags follow to the room, for which the instructions ask you to "allow 4 to 6 hours." Going home is less gracious: the bell staff will not collect luggage on departure day, and each guest carries their own to the bus.
The advice to fly to Las Vegas instead
The standard advice for reaching Laughlin is to fly to Las Vegas and drive the 95 miles. For most of the country that is right. For the 34 cities on this list it is often wrong.
Take Bismarck. The package is $559 for the flight, four nights and the transfers. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority puts Laughlin's average room rate at $62.91 a night for the first nine months of 2026, so four nights in town run about $250 before tax, and the charter's price leaves roughly $300 for a nonstop round trip and a bus to the door. We have not priced the alternative, which changes daily, but it involves a connection, a rental car and two hours of desert each way.
What the charter costs you is choice. The dates are the plane's dates. The ticket cannot be refunded. You arrive without a car, and you stay at the Riverside, a 1,405-room resort with a bowling alley, a cinema and a classic car collection, whose King of Clubs card works nowhere else. If you live near Minneapolis, with a departure most weeks, those limits are mild. If your city has one trip a season, they are the whole decision.
Price the neighbor, too. When we ran Caesars' public flight search the same day without signing in, 89 of the 105 Harrah's Laughlin quotes it returned were $649 a person for four nights, plus a $50 or $55 administrative fee; a few last-minute seats were cheaper and the New Year flights dearer. An invited Caesars Rewards member will see less than that. A stranger pays about $140 more than the Riverside's middle fare, and the Riverside flies from a dozen towns that are not on Caesars' departure menu at all, Bemidji, Hibbing and Rapid City among them.
Booking, and two lines to read first
Read the card for your city before you call, because the two details that catch people are on it. One is the Connections line, which on a Minneapolis departure usually names a stop. The other is the ticket counter. Sun Country's name is on the counter in fewer than half of these airports, so the schedule tells you where to stand: the United counter in Bismarck, the Delta counter in Aberdeen, "Next to Alaska Airline" in Milwaukee, and the Allegiant counter in Fargo, Omaha, Billings, Sioux Falls and three other cities.
That last one may come to mean something. Allegiant agreed in January 2026 to buy Sun Country for about $1.5 billion and, by Wikipedia's account citing CNBC, closed the deal on May 13. The two still fly under separate certificates, and every Riverside trip on the schedule still names Sun Country as the airline. The resort has said nothing we could find about what the merger does to the program.
Our charter flights page sets the Riverside's cities beside the Caesars and MGM programs. The Caesars Rewards Air explainer covers the other plane into Bullhead City, and the charter comp piece the invitation side of the business. In Houghton, Michigan, the schedule's directions to the check-in desk read, in full, "Inside Terminal to the Left." If gambling has stopped being something you decide the cost of in advance, 1-800-GAMBLER is free and confidential.
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