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The hotel guide · 30 October 2026
Choosing a casino hotel is mostly about the night, not the slot count. So we follow your stay in order: the room you sleep in, the pool or spa you unwind in, how you get there and away, where you eat, what's on stage and, last, the gaming floor. Every figure comes from the hotel's own pages or a source we name, and each guide shows the date we last checked it.
no. 2 on points · Gatineau, Québec
Points put Fallsview first, and for a first-timer that is right. Ask us where we would spend our own long weekend, though, and the answer is Gatineau: a five-star room over two lakes, pools you can swim outdoors in January, a 17-room spa and Parliament Hill ten minutes away by car. It is the one stay on the list where you can forget the casino exists and still have a great trip — and remember it on Friday night, when the floor stays open until morning.
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All ten, with the full scoreboard →
Built on the old Rideau Carleton raceway-casino site for $350 million, and pitched by Hard Rock as the first fully integrated Hard Rock in the country. The floor never closes (1,500-plus slots), Council Oak is the steakhouse, and up to 2,200 fit in Hard Rock LIVE. Under-19s can't enter at all.
Opened 3 July 2025 · 150 rooms, 22 of them suites
Formerly Casino Woodbine, now a racetrack-side resort: a 5,000-capacity theatre; sauna, steam and pool; no charge to park; a complimentary Pearson shuttle.
Hotel opened 1 Aug 2023 (casino 20 Jun 2023) · 400 rooms, suites included
Great Canadian built it as part of a $500 million resort on Toronto's eastern side. Room sizes range 388–775 sq ft, and there are 22 accessible rooms. Opening-day counts: 2,200 slots, more than 90 live tables. Seats in the arena-theatre: 2,500.
Opened 16 January 2023 · 275 rooms, 33 of them suites
The casino belongs to the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, and it declared the hotel complete on 1 November 2021. Room counts disagree. Wikipedia: 100. Travel listings: 116. Operator: no figure. The Nest, its event space, holds up to 800.
Hotel finished November 2021 · Around 100 rooms (counts differ)
Openings, projects under way and refits →
Hotels we cover, and the casino age, in each one:
Each hotel is marked out of 10 on six things, and each mark carries a share of 100 points: rooms 26, pool and spa 20, getting in and out 20, restaurants 17, the stage 9 and the gaming floor 8. Comfort and convenience weigh most because they shape a stay more than the size of the casino does. The full method, and what we refuse to do, is on how the points work.
Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, with 91 of 100: falls-facing rooms, the 5,000-seat OLG Stage, more than 20 restaurants and one of the country's biggest gaming floors. Our editor's pick for a long weekend is Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau.
The Ottawa Hard Rock: 150 rooms, open since 3 July 2025. The one before it was Great Canadian Toronto, whose hotel welcomed guests from 1 August 2023.
Nineteen in New Brunswick, British Columbia and Ontario; eighteen in Québec, Manitoba and Alberta.
Usually, yes: the limit is enforced on the gaming floor (plus a few bars and show venues), not in the rooms. The exception is the Ottawa Hard Rock, where everyone must be 19+.