How Casino Hotels Canada turns a hotel into points

Six criteria, six marks per hotel, each between 0 and 10. Each criterion owns a slice of the 100 points; multiply mark by slice, add the six results, round to a whole number, and that is the hotel's total. Comfort and the journey carry the biggest slices because they decide whether a stay works. Casino size carries the smallest.

What each mark looks at

• Rooms & sleep: room and suite count, published sizes, what the windows face, how recently rooms were redone.
• Pool, spa & downtime: what you can use this month, not what the brochure showed years ago.
• Getting in & out: airport and downtown distances, transit stops, parking and what it costs.
• Restaurants & bars: range, a signature room, food after midnight, buffet or brunch.
• Stage & events: capacity, who is booked, who is allowed in.
• Gaming floor: size, machine and table numbers, hours, poker and high-limit rooms.

Which sources win

Our pecking order: first the pages published by the hotel and by whoever operates the casino; second, the hotel brand and provincial tourism boards; last, newspapers and Wikipedia, always named when we use them. Conflicting sources (Lac-Leamy's room count is one example) are both printed. If a number isn't published anywhere, the page says "not published" rather than inventing one. Hotel facts in this edition date from 23 October 2026; the openings list from 28 October 2026.

Full disclosure: nobody from this site stayed at these hotels for this edition. Every guide is desk research from published material.

Money and the points

A hotel cannot pay for a mark, a placing or a mention. When a booking partner or a casino operator pays a referral fee, the marks stay exactly where they were; who pays us spells it out.

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