Slot counts are the easy part. To judge a casino hotel we follow the whole stay — the bed, the gaming floor, dinner, the show, the pool, the drive or flight in. Numbers here come only from a hotel's own website or from a source we name, and each review is stamped with the date we last verified it.
Top five on stars
| # | Resort | Stars | Where | Rooms | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fallsview Casino Resort | 4.66/5 | Niagara Falls, Ontario | 372 | Map ↗ |
| 2 | Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto | 4.41/5 | Toronto, Ontario | 400 | Map ↗ |
| 3 | Caesars Windsor | 4.40/5 | Windsor, Ontario | 758 | Map ↗ |
| 4 | River Rock Casino Resort | 4.23/5 | Richmond, British Columbia | 396 | Map ↗ |
| 5 | Hilton Lac-Leamy & Casino du Lac-Leamy | 4.22/5 | Gatineau, Québec | 349 | Map ↗ |
All ten, with the full comparison →
Our favourite stay
Casino Rama Resort · 4.14/5 · #6 on stars
Rama is the one we'd book for a weekend that is mostly about a show: a 5,000-plus-seat Entertainment Centre, 289 rooms being upgraded since 2025, a new ground-floor spa with saunas and steam rooms, and three restaurants added in 2024–2025 (Chow, MATCH, Atlas Steak and Fish). The catch is the drive — about two hours north of Toronto on Highway 400.
Opened lately
2025-07-03
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Ottawa
$350 million turned the Rideau Carleton site into Canada's first fully integrated Hard Rock resort. 24/7 gaming with 1,500-plus slots, Council Oak steaks, and Hard Rock LIVE for as many as 2,200 — but nobody under 19 gets in, anywhere on the property.
2023-08-01 (hotel; casino 2023-06-20)
Great Canadian Casino Resort Toronto
Formerly Casino Woodbine, now a resort beside the racetrack: theatre for 5,000, pool with sauna and steam, free parking, free shuttle from Pearson.
2023-01-16
Pickering Casino Resort Hotel
East of Toronto, the hotel wing of Great Canadian's $500 million Pickering project. Room sizes range from 388 to 775 sq ft (22 accessible). When it opened, the casino counted 2,200 slots and more than 90 live tables; the arena-theatre seats 2,500.
2021-11 (hotel finished)
Great Blue Heron Casino & Hotel
The Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation casino gained a hotel, declared finished on November 1, 2021. Room totals disagree — Wikipedia says 100, travel listings 116, and the operator doesn't say. The Nest event space fits up to 800 guests.
Openings table and what's under construction →
Four regions
By kind of trip
How the stars work
Six weighted criteria — casino 24%, entertainment 20%, rooms 18%, food 18%, location & transport 12%, wellness 8% — each scored 0–10 using resort websites and named publishers, then converted to stars out of 5. Methodology · how this site is funded.
Casino hotels in Canada: quick answers
Which resort has the most stars on this site?
Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, at 4.66 out of 5: 372 rooms built around the falls, a floor of 3,200-plus slots and 110 tables, a 5,000-seat stage and 20-plus places to eat.
Which resort opened most recently?
Ottawa's Hard Rock — opened July 3, 2025, with 150 rooms. The previous big opening was Great Canadian Toronto's hotel wing, on August 1, 2023.
Is the casino age the same everywhere in Canada?
No. 19 in Ontario, British Columbia and New Brunswick; 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Québec.
Can children stay at these resorts?
Mostly yes: age rules apply to gaming floors and some bars or venues, not to hotel rooms. Hard Rock Ottawa is the exception — 19+ across the whole property, rooms included.