Casino Hotels

Full-service hotels that happen to keep a gaming floor downstairs.

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Four casino hotels in Canada. Each is described here as a hotel first: what the building is, where it stands, what else it contains. The gaming floor is one feature of a larger property, and this site carries no gambling content, promotions or links.

Montreal Casino & Hotel

Montreal, Canada

The property sits on Ile Notre-Dame, on land shaped by Expo 67, and the main structure is a repurposed pavilion from that world's fair — which is why the silhouette looks like nothing else in the category. Guests reach it across the water from the city proper.

As a hotel it works on the conference-and-weekend model: rooms, restaurants across several price levels, event space, and a cabaret room that runs its own programme. The island setting gives it parkland on every side, unusual for a property of this type.

The gaming floor occupies the lower levels and is one feature among several. Many guests treat the address mainly as a quiet base a bridge away from downtown Montreal.

Expo 67 pavilion
Ile Notre-Dame
Cabaret programme
Parkland setting

Fallsview Casino Resort

Niagara Falls, Canada

Fallsview is built into the escarpment above the Horseshoe Falls, and the whole design argument is the view — public rooms, the tower's upper floors and several restaurants are all turned toward the water.

The resort carries a full hotel programme: a spa, a shopping promenade, a theatre that books touring acts, and meeting space sized for provincial conventions. It connects indoors to the neighbouring hotel district, useful in a town where winter is long.

Gaming occupies a large floor at the centre of the plan, but the building's reason for standing where it does remains the gorge outside the windows.

Above Horseshoe Falls
Theatre and spa
Indoor connections
Escarpment setting

River Rock Casino Resort

Richmond, Canada

River Rock stands on the Fraser River in Richmond, close enough to Vancouver International Airport that it functions as an airport hotel for a good share of its guests. It has its own marina and a SkyTrain station a short walk away.

The property includes a show theatre, a set of restaurants weighted toward the region's strong Chinese dining scene, and a hotel block split between a main tower and a quieter wing. The riverside boardwalk is open to anyone.

The gaming floor is substantial and sits at the building's core, though the resort's daily rhythm is set as much by flight schedules as by anything else.

Fraser River frontage
Near YVR
Own marina
Show theatre

Casino Rama Resort

Rama, Canada

Casino Rama is owned by the Chippewas of Rama First Nation and sits in cottage country near Orillia, roughly an hour and a half north of Toronto. Its setting is rural, which distinguishes it sharply from the urban properties in this category.

The hotel has an all-seasons resort programme — a large entertainment centre that has hosted touring musicians for decades, several restaurants, a spa and conference facilities. Lake Couchiching and the surrounding trails are the reason many guests extend a stay.

Gaming is one department of a larger operation, and the resort presents itself accordingly: a destination in the woods that happens to include a floor.

First Nation owned
Cottage country
Entertainment centre
Near Lake Couchiching