Category · 4 entries

Casino Hotels

Hotels that also operate a gaming floor — read here first as places to stay.

Top 10 casinos — gold casino chip with dice and roulette elements

Montreal Casino & Hotel

Montreal, Canada

The property sits on Île Notre-Dame, on the artificial island built in the St Lawrence for Expo 67, and its main structure is one of the pavilions left behind by that fair. The architecture is the reason to look: a stepped, faceted tower with a glazed drum at its centre and long views back across the river to the downtown skyline.

It functions as a full-service hotel with restaurants, event space and a park setting that is unusually green for somewhere within sight of a major city centre. A gaming floor occupies part of the complex and is one facility among several rather than the organising idea of a stay.

Expo 67 pavilion
Island setting
River and skyline views
Gaming floor on site

Fallsview Casino Resort

Niagara Falls, Canada

Fallsview is built into the escarpment above the Niagara gorge, which is the single fact that shapes everything about it. The guest tower rises from the slope so that the upper floors look directly across at the Horseshoe Falls, and the public levels step down the hillside rather than sitting on a flat podium.

The resort carries a spa, a large theatre used for touring productions, and a spread of restaurants at several price points. Its gaming floor is one part of a property that is otherwise organised around the view and the entertainment programme.

Escarpment site
Falls-facing rooms
Theatre venue
Spa and dining

River Rock Casino Resort

Richmond, Canada

River Rock stands on the middle arm of the Fraser River in Richmond, a few minutes from Vancouver's airport and on the rapid transit line into the city, which makes it one of the more practically located resort hotels in the region. It has its own marina, and the water frontage is the property's better feature.

Accommodation is split between a main hotel and a quieter secondary building. A show theatre, a conference floor and a range of restaurants fill out the complex, with a gaming floor operating as one of its facilities.

Fraser River frontage
Private marina
Near the airport
Show theatre

Casino Rama Resort

Rama, Canada

Casino Rama Resort sits in Ontario cottage country near Orillia, on land belonging to the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, and the setting is rural rather than urban — lakes, low hills and a good deal of open space around the buildings.

The hotel component is substantial, with a spa, several restaurants and a large entertainment centre that draws touring acts through the year. As elsewhere in this section, the gaming floor is listed as one facility of a resort that is otherwise read as a place to stay.

Cottage-country setting
First Nation owned
Entertainment centre
Resort spa