text: Reading all the reviews and seeing the LONG line for this place the last time I was at the Rio years ago I expected much more than what we got Being a huge seafood fan I was really looking forward to coming herennSadly I was very disappointed by the quality and selection of seafood My friend and I got the Buffet of Buffets card and did the upgrade to get into this place Honestly if I had to do this over again I would ONLY go there if I had the Buffet of Buffets card and paid the extra It is definitely NOT worth the or so they charge If I am going to pay that much for a seafood or buffet by itself I would go to the Bellagio or Wynn hotel instead and pay the extra or so more it costs there for the better qualitynnWe got there at pm on a Friday night and we waited about minutes in line and then another minutes or so to be seated Overall it was not a long waitnnOnce we got in I did a scope of the entire place and went directly to the hot seafood There I found very small halves of lobster tails about inches long inch wide each Of course we grabbed a bunch of it The redeeming factor was that there were large plump and crispy which means they were fresh shrimp in that mix of lobster tails There were not many but I picked out a lot of the ones I sawnnThen I went on and got some oysters To my sad disappointment they were frozen and thawing I could tell because they had ice on them and when I ate one they were partially frozen They were okay considering this is the only buffet I went to on this trip along w Paris and PH that even had oysters Once thawed it smelled and tasted clean though nothing very excitingnnHonestly those were the only seafood worthy things I ate The crab claws and long crab legs were just okay You can tell seafood is not good because it is mushy Fresh seafood is plump crispy for shrimp and lobster and juicy The only fresh thing I ate was the shrimp in the lobster tail mix Other cold shrimp elsewhere were pretty small and did not look appetizing to me I do not like seafood cold honestlynnAnyway the only other redeeming thing about this place was the variety of desserts But even then they were good but not great nnIf you are okay with just getting small lobster tails a few plump shrimp there were not many in that mix and some once frozen oysters then this place would be worth your extra to add to your Buffet of Buffets card But by itself it is not worth it Most buffets offer the cold crab legs if you want that Nothing else here was unique as most other buffets offer the same things