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Casino Hotels

These are casino hotels. Each one runs a gaming floor, and each one is also a large hotel with restaurants, a theatre or a spa attached. We describe the building, the setting and what the property does beyond the tables. Nothing here is a booking service, and nothing here encourages gambling.

Casino chips, cards, gold bars and a roulette wheel on a purple table

Hotels in this category

01

Montreal Casino & Hotel

Montréal, Québec

The property sits on Île Notre-Dame, a man-made island in the St. Lawrence, inside buildings put up for Expo 67 — the former French and Québec pavilions. That inheritance shows: sloped exterior walls, an atrium running the full height of the main block, and a silhouette nobody would design for a casino today.

Parkland surrounds it. Jean-Drapeau park, the rowing basin and the Gilles-Villeneuve circuit are all within a short walk, and the downtown skyline sits across the water. The setting is closer to a riverside park than to a gaming strip, which is unusual for a property of this size.

Dining runs from a large buffet to a fine-dining room, and the venue programmes shows through the year. The gaming floor is one feature of the property among several, spread over multiple levels of the pavilion structure.

  • Montréal, Québec
  • Île Notre-Dame
  • Expo 67 architecture
  • Riverside parkland
02

Fallsview Casino Resort

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Position is the whole argument here. Fallsview stands on the escarpment above the Niagara gorge, high enough that guest rooms in the attached Grand Hotel look directly across at the Horseshoe Falls, with the spray visible from bed on a clear morning.

Inside, the resort is organised as a small town: hotel tower, spa, retail arcade, a spread of restaurants from casual to steakhouse, and a theatre that brings in touring acts and concert residencies. Walkways connect it to the tourist district without stepping outside in February.

The gaming floor is large and occupies the lower levels. Guests treating the place purely as a hotel — falls in the morning, theatre at night — will find that entirely workable.

  • Niagara Falls, Ontario
  • Falls views
  • Theatre on site
  • Spa
03

River Rock Casino Resort

Richmond, British Columbia

River Rock sits on the middle arm of the Fraser River in Richmond, a few minutes from Vancouver International and on the rapid transit line into the city. For a great many guests it functions as an airport hotel with an unusually good address — water on one side, a marina at the door.

Two accommodation wings operate side by side, one full-service hotel and one simpler tower, sharing the resort's restaurants, spa and pool. The show theatre seats over a thousand and books comedians, concerts and boxing.

Richmond's night market and its dense concentration of Chinese restaurants are the real neighbourhood draw, and both are close. The casino floor is on the ground level of the main building; the river walk outside it is free and worth the twenty minutes.

  • Richmond, BC
  • Fraser River
  • Marina
  • Near the airport
04

Casino Rama Resort

Rama, Ontario

Casino Rama stands on the land of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, near Orillia in Ontario's lake country, about an hour and a half north of Toronto. The First Nation owns the property, and revenue from it supports communities across the province.

The hotel is the quieter half of the operation: several hundred rooms, a spa, an indoor pool, and a handful of restaurants including a steakhouse and a buffet. Lake Couchiching and Lake Simcoe are minutes away, so summer guests tend to arrive with boats or bikes in mind.

Its Entertainment Centre is the reason many people know the name — a venue of roughly five thousand seats that has hosted touring musicians for decades. Gaming runs on the main floor; the resort around it is what fills the rooms midweek.

  • Rama, Ontario
  • Lake Country
  • Entertainment Centre
  • Chippewas of Rama First Nation

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