About this category
These are hotels with gaming floors, and they are written up here as hotels: the site, the building, the views, the restaurants and theatres, and the gaming floor as one amenity among several.
All four are in Canada, and each one occupies a site that would be notable without the casino — an Expo island, an escarpment above a waterfall, a river marina and a stretch of Ontario cottage country.
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Montreal Casino & Hotel
Montréal, Québec, Canada
The property sits on Île Notre-Dame, on the site of the French and Québec pavilions built for Expo 67, which gives it an architectural profile no purpose-built resort could imitate. Guests are on an island in the St Lawrence, a short drive from downtown but distinctly apart from it.
It is a hotel first: rooms, restaurants, meeting space and river views, with a gaming floor as one of the amenities on the site rather than the reason the building exists. The surrounding parkland and the Formula 1 circuit are part of the same island.
Expo 67 pavilionsÎle Notre-DameRiver views
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Fallsview Casino Resort
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Built into the escarpment above the Horseshoe Falls, the resort's geography does most of the work — a large share of the rooms and the upper public floors look directly at the falls, which is the reason most guests choose it.
Alongside the accommodation there is a theatre that books touring acts, a spa, a range of restaurants and a gaming floor. The falls-side promenade is a few minutes' walk downhill.
Falls-facing roomsResort theatreEscarpment site
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River Rock Casino Resort
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
River Rock stands on the Fraser River in Richmond, close enough to Vancouver International Airport that it functions comfortably as a first or last night in the region, with a marina attached and a SkyTrain station nearby.
The hotel side covers two room buildings, a spa, a show theatre and a set of restaurants that reflect Richmond's Asian dining scene; the gaming floor is one component of a larger riverside property.
Fraser River marinaNear YVRShow theatre
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Casino Rama Resort
Rama, Ontario, Canada
Owned by the Chippewas of Rama First Nation and set in cottage country near Orillia, roughly an hour and a half north of Toronto, the resort reads more like a lakes-region destination than an urban one.
It combines a hotel, a large entertainment venue that has hosted touring performers for decades, several restaurants and a gaming floor, with Lake Couchiching and the Trent–Severn Waterway close at hand.
First Nation ownedOntario cottage countryEntertainment venue
