Insider Newsletter.01.09

The Inn-side News from the Carson Valley Inn Properties

January - March 2009

WINN a Grocery Shopping Spree! Grocery Grab @ Lira’s Supermarket January 5-30

How much of your food budget could you save if you had three minutes in a supermarket to grab and toss just about anything into your shopping cart (or two)? Eight lucky INN Club members will have this opportunity January 5-30 in our shopping spree promotion — CVI Grocery Grab @ Lira’s Supermarket! This is a great opportunity to fill your freezer, stock up the pantry or get all the fixin’s to throw a big Super Bowl Party for friends. Each Friday night, INN Club members will have the chance to win one of two weekly shopping sprees or one of the preliminary prizes provided by Lira’s Supermarket. Use your INN Club card while playing in the casino and get one drawing ticket for every 150 points earned. You also receive two bonus drawing tickets when you redeem your comp points for a $25 Lira’s Supermarket Grocery Certificate. Complete promotion details and guidelines are posted at the INN Club booth.

Fiona’s Free Lunch is Back!

Our free lunch bonus in Fiona’s Bar & Grill is back for January through April 3! Every Monday through Friday, INN Club members earn one comp lunch (up to two a day!) for every 500 points earned that week playing slots, videos, blackjack or keno. Your comp points are not charged for these free lunches—it’s an added bonus for your play at the CVI. Complete details are available at the INN Club booth. Express Lunch in Fiona’s Bar & Grill is truly a feast from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with unlimited trips to the bountiful soup and salad bar... plus enjoy all you want from the panini of the day, pizza of the day, pasta of the day and carved sandwich or wrap of the day.

It Pays to be an INN Club Member Join the INN Club and use your card every time you play in our casino to earn comp points for rewards and special benefits. Comp points can be redeemed for: • Accommodations in our Hotel, Motor Lodge and RV Park. • Dining in any of our restaurants. • Shell gas cards to help fill your tank at the Carson Valley Market or at any Shell outlet in the nation. • Ironwood Cinema theater certificates. • $25 certificates for Lira’s Supermarket. • Gifts in the Home Treasures Gift Shop at the CVI. • A facial or massage at Spa at the INN. For more details (and more redemption choices), check with a host at the INN Club booth or see the INN Club page at www.cvinn.com. It pays to be an INN Club Member!

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Spring Game-A-Thon Offers Cash Prizes Our Spring Game-A-Thon weekend on March 27 and 28 is a great way to compete for cash prizes in either blackjack or slots — whichever you prefer! Just ask Gary Powers (Pioneer, CA) who won $3,000 for topping the Slot Tournament in last fall’s Game-A-Thon…or Jim Corso (Carson City, NV) who captured the $1,400 top prize in the Blackjack Tournament…or the 25

other participants who won cash prizes! The weekend includes a Friday night reception with light hors d’oeuvres, Game-A-Thon competition on Saturday and a Prime Rib awards banquet on Saturday night. The entry fee is just $99 for qualified INN Club members and $164 for all others. Call the INN Club today at (775)783-7711 from your cell, (877)783-7711 from a land line or check the details at www.cvinn.com/game-a-thon.

Blackjack and Poker Tournaments Continue to Pay Out! Monthly $1,500 Blackjack Tournaments continue on the last Tuesday of every month during 2009 — lots of fun and cash prizes for just a $25 entry fee. Sign-ups start at 5:30 p.m. at the INN Club booth and tournament play starts at 6:30 p.m. The top three finishers each month qualify for a free entry in our $1,500 Blackjack Tournament of Champions in December. An opening Shootout Hold’em tournament kicks off poker action every day at noon in our Poker Room. No limit Texas Hold’em tournaments are every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at 6 p.m. and a Ladies-Only poker tournament is every Sunday night starting at 6 p.m. Check with the poker room or the poker page at www.cvinn.com for tournament details and other poker promotions.

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It’s Happen-INN at the CVI! Bill Manders Live at the CVI on Friday, January 23: Catch Bill’s broadcast live in the Cabaret Lounge from 3 to 6 p.m. For a chance to join him for dinner in the private Vineyard Room in Fiona’s Bar & Grill after the show, listen for contest details on KOH 780 AM January 5-16 or check www.kkoh.com. Valentine’s Day dinner at the Inn features specials in both Fiona’s Bar & Grill and Katie’s Country Kitchen. Along with the regular menu, a steak and lobster tail special will be offered on Saturday, February 14 in Katie’s. Fiona’s is serving its regular dinner menu plus three Valentine’s Day specials. Fiona’s reservations are recommended at 775-783-6650. Menus and details are available at www.cvinn.com. 23rd Annual Sporting Clays Game Feed, Feb. 19-21: After a Thursday reception, Friday shooting is at the Walker River Resort and Saturday’s clay targets are thrown at the Carson Valley Clays Club. A Saturday-evening game feed buffet wraps up the weekend’s activities. Call the Sales Department at 775-783-6665 or see www.cvinn.com/shooting. Brenn Hill in Concert, March 21, Shannon Ballroom: Brenn’s performances pay homage to Western music’s finest traditions. Produced by Denise Beronio and Nevada Horse Park, tickets are $25 per person and are available in person at the CVI Gift Shop or Eastern Sierra Feed in Gardnerville. To order by phone, call Denise at 775-781-9644. INN Club members may use comp points for Brenn Hill tickets.

It wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day at the Inn without some Irish festivity! All day on Tuesday, March 17, INN Club members earn triple points! Katie’s Country Kitchen is serving Irish specials for breakfast, lunch, and dinner—including a $7.77 Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner Special! Fiona’s Bar & Grill is offering an Irish theme to the Express Lunch, and Irish dinner specials will be added to the regular dinner menu. All dinner entrees include Fiona’s soup and salad bar. Menus and details are available at www.cvinn.com.

Eagles and Ag Feb. 2-March 1 Bald and golden eagles, hawks, falcons, owls and other bird and wildlife species are the stars in the annual Eagles and Agriculture event February 28-March 1! Activities include private motor coach tours to area ranches, an afternoon Owl Prowl tour, a photography workshop, a guided raft/canoe trip and social events. More information is available at www.visitcarsonvalley.org or 775-782-8144 or 800-727-7677. Stay at the CVI for the Eagles and Ag weekend — ask about our special rate when making your hotel reservations — 775-783-6629 or 800-321-6983.

NFL Action Continues on ‘Super’ Sundays The post-season version of NFL Football at the CVI happens Sundays during the Wild Card, Divisional, Conference Championship and Super Bowl games. Café Cabaret is serving our popular $2.50 Football Munchies, plus jumbo Bud and Bud Light for $1.75. NFL prizes will be given away in the casino, Cabaret Lounge and poker room during the AFC and NFC Conference Championship games on January 18 and on Super Sunday, February 1. And keep playing during the games because INN Club members earn double points all day on playoff Sundays and Super Sunday. On Super Bowl weekend INN Club members earn tickets for our $1,000 Super Bowl Grid. As an additional benefit this year, all 100 square winners get a free Super Bowl Parlay Card to play at the Cal Neva Sports Book — a chance to win up to $3,000 more! Check all the post-season football details at the INN Club booth or www.cvinn.com/football.

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2009 Golf Season Coming Soon!

The 2009 golf season kicks off April 24 with our Annual Spring Stag Golf outing. Play continues through October as over 100 golf groups, associations, and clubs visit the CVI.

The Spring Stag offers play on two of our area’s top courses, The Golf Club at Genoa Lakes/Lakes Course and the Eagle Valley West Championship Course. There’s a reception on Thursday, April 24, a 36-hole scramble on Friday and Saturday, a banquet Saturday night, and casino fun! Our group golf packages fit as few as 12 and as many as 150+. Eleven area courses present plenty of golfing experiences for beginners, low-handicappers or the vast majority who fall in-between! We arrange for your rooms, golf tee times, group receptions and dinners — and we’ll be happy to outline a proposal for a 2009 visit for your group! For more on the Spring Stag or our group golf packages, call us at 866-284-7766, ext. 9 or visit www.cvinn.com/golf. A typical reaction from past golf groups who “strayed off the fairway” — “The ‘boys’ and I are ready to come back. I hate to admit it but we tried another resort for the last two years and it’s just not the same. With several of the guys living in Reno, and the airport for the rest, it seemed like the thing to do but they don’t have the same down-home flavor that we like at the Carson Valley Inn.” From 2009 returning group chairperson Steve A. of Millville, CA