Ten addresses · 2026 edition

Ten casino hotels worth the night

Every hotel below has a gaming floor, and not one of them is here because of it. Our order rewards what you actually notice on a trip: the building, the surroundings and the quality of the stay. Open any entry to read the full review.

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Last reviewed: October 2026

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Checked: October 2026

1 Architecture 🏛️

Morpheus at City of Dreams Integrated resort, Cotai Strip Cotai, Macau

Steel exoskeleton drawn by Zaha Hadid Architects
Three carved voids pass clean through the slab
Pool on the roof, the Cotai Strip below

Signature Zaha Hadid exoskeleton

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Morpheus at City of Dreams

Morpheus reads like a solid block of glass that somebody has cut straight through. Zaha Hadid Architects moved the structure to the outside as a free-form steel lattice, which leaves the floor plates inside unobstructed, and three sculpted voids pierce the tower from one face to the other. A tall atrium runs up the middle with glass lifts on its wall, so the geometry keeps rearranging itself while you ride, and the trip down for breakfast becomes part of the visit rather than a corridor.

Rooms borrow the discipline of the façade: straight lines, wide glazing, a muted palette that holds up over several nights. The rooftop pool sits above the Cotai Strip, and because the hotel is one piece of the larger City of Dreams complex, restaurants, shops and sister hotels are all reachable without stepping outdoors. Gaming is confined to the shared podium underneath; nothing about a stay here routes you through it, and the neighbouring Cotai resorts are a few minutes on foot.

Best forTravellers with an eye for buildings, who want the architecture itself to be the reason for the trip.

Drawn by Zaha Hadid Architects · opened 2018

2 City centre 🌃

ARIA Resort & Casino Mid-Strip city campus Las Vegas, Nevada

Curved glass wings at the core of CityCenter
Commissioned artwork placed across the campus
Rooms with motorised lighting and curtains

Signature Glass towers of CityCenter

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ARIA Resort & Casino

ARIA anchors CityCenter, a group of contemporary towers set back a little from the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. Its pair of curving glass wings came from Pelli Clarke Pelli, and they give the hotel a calmer silhouette than the themed properties on either side. Substantial pieces from the CityCenter art programme stand in the lobbies and along the walkways, so the walk to dinner can take you past sculpture and installation rather than another parade of shopfronts.

The rooms are built around their technology: one bedside panel runs the lights, the temperature and the curtains, and floor-to-ceiling glass frames either the Strip or the ridgeline to the west. Outside there is a broad landscaped pool deck with several pools, plus a full spa and salon. A free tram threads ARIA together with the resorts on the same block. The casino is big, yet it sits off to one side of the lobby, and most of what makes the hotel worth the money happens nowhere near it.

Best forA first visit to the Strip, for anyone who prefers restrained modern design to theme-park dressing.

3 Riverside ⚓

Encore Boston Harbor Riverfront, greater Boston Everett, Massachusetts

Bronze-glass tower on the Mystic River
Public harbourwalk and planted waterfront
A short drive from downtown Boston

Setting Mystic River waterfront

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Pool
Dining
Gardens

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Encore Boston Harbor

Encore Boston Harbor occupies the Everett bank of the Mystic River, on an old industrial parcel that was remediated and landscaped before the resort opened in 2019. The curved bronze-glass tower picks up the light across the water, and a public harbourwalk with planting and benches runs the length of the shoreline in front of it. Indoors the lobby is staged with oversized floral arrangements, and the arcade of shops and restaurants feels much more like Wynn in Las Vegas than anything else in New England.

Rooms are generous by city standards, with tall glass pointed at the Boston skyline or back up the river. There is a spa, a pool and a spread of restaurants from steakhouse to counter service. Downtown Boston is a short drive, and water shuttles have operated from the resort's own dock, so check the current timetable before you build a day around one. The gaming floor takes the ground level, but it is easy to walk past on the way to the rooms, the restaurants and the water.

Best forBoston with a car or a loose itinerary, when a riverside base appeals more than a downtown kerb.

4 Art collection 🖼️

Paradise City Island resort by the airport Incheon, South Korea

Minutes from Incheon International Airport
A serious contemporary art collection on display
Bathhouse spa in the Korean tradition

Signature Contemporary art collection

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Paradise City

Paradise City stands on Yeongjong Island, near enough to Incheon International Airport to work as a first or last night in Korea without the long transfer into Seoul. Its owners organised the complex around art: a large collection runs through the lobby, the corridors and the gardens, among it Jeff Koons's Gazing Ball (Farnese Hercules) and work by leading Korean contemporary artists. Guests who never intend to look at a gallery still pass more serious pieces in an afternoon than many small museums own.

The hotel tower is contemporary, with rooms facing either the Yellow Sea or the approach to the airport. Cimer, the spa, follows the Korean bathhouse model with indoor and outdoor water, saunas and quiet rooms, and the wider complex adds an indoor play hall for families, a club and a shopping plaza. Seoul is about an hour away by road or on the airport railway. The casino is a self-contained area open to foreign visitors only, and the rest of the resort carries on independently of it.

Best forLong-haul arrivals who want a restful, art-heavy stop at either end of a Korea trip.

5 Beachside 🌊

The Darling at The Star Gold Coast Beachside town centre Broadbeach, Queensland

All-suite boutique hotel inside The Star
A few minutes on foot to the Broadbeach surf
Light-rail stop right beside the complex

Format All-suite boutique hotel

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The Darling at The Star Gold Coast

The Darling is the smaller and quieter of the hotels inside The Star Gold Coast at Broadbeach. Every room is a suite, so even the entry category gives you a sitting area apart from the bed, and the interiors lean on soft tones, timber and stone in a way that feels residential instead of resort-issue. A good share of the suites look east to the Pacific over the low streets of Broadbeach; the rest turn inland across the canals to the green hinterland ridge, which is at its best as the light goes.

The patrolled surf beach is a short walk east, and the light-rail stop next to the complex reaches Surfers Paradise and the length of the coastal strip in minutes. Inside The Star there is a lagoon-style pool deck, a spa and restaurants that run from formal rooms to casual bars. The casino stays in the main building and never reaches the suite floors. For day trips, Burleigh Heads and the hinterland national parks are an easy drive south and west.

Best forCouples after beach days and a well-finished suite rather than a sprawling family resort.

6 Bay sunsets 🌅

Solaire Resort Entertainment City Bayfront, Entertainment City Parañaque, Philippines

Waterfront plot on Manila Bay
West-facing rooms built for the sunset
A short drive from the international airport

View Sunsets over Manila Bay

Pool
Theatre
Dining
Views

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Solaire Resort Entertainment City

Solaire was the first resort to open in Entertainment City, the reclaimed strip of bayfront south of old Manila. Its towers look west over Manila Bay, which is the point: sunsets over that water are famous across the Philippines, and the bay-side rooms and the pool deck are set to catch them. The interiors are bright and full of daylight, with tall windows instead of the sealed, dim halls that resorts of this scale still tend to favour.

Accommodation is split between the original Bay Tower and the later Sky Tower, so it is worth confirming which building a rate belongs to. The resort runs a theatre with musicals and concerts, a spa, several pools and a long roster of restaurants covering Japanese, Chinese, Italian and Filipino cooking. Ninoy Aquino International Airport is a short drive, which makes this an easy stopover. The gaming floor is large, but the waterfront and the theatre leave non-players plenty to do with an evening.

Best forA Manila stopover with a view, especially if you are happy to plan evenings around the sunset.

7 Garden estate 🌿

The Cascades at Sun City Garden resort beside a game reserve North West Province, South Africa

Terraced streams, waterfalls and ponds in the grounds
Sits on the boundary of Pilanesberg National Park
Golf, water park and the Lost City on the estate

Grounds Waterfall gardens

Gardens
Pool
Golf
Wildlife

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The Cascades at Sun City

The Cascades is the garden hotel of the Sun City estate, dropped into terraced streams, waterfalls and ponds that gave it the name. Rooms face that greenery, and the sound of moving water carries across the grounds, which makes it noticeably calmer than the busier hotels sharing the same property. The dense planting pulls in birds, and shaded paths link the hotel to the rest of the resort, so you can wander out at whatever pace suits you.

Sun City is roughly two hours by road from Johannesburg and borders Pilanesberg National Park, where drives at either end of the day go looking for elephant, rhino and lion. On the estate itself there is championship golf, the Valley of Waves water park and the Lost City complex. The Cascades keeps its own pool and restaurants. The casino belongs to the central entertainment building, a separate address, so a night here never means sleeping over a gaming floor.

Best forPairing a safari with resort comfort, above all for anyone who would rather have quiet gardens than a loud pool.

8 Lakeside 🛶

Hilton Lac-Leamy Lakeshore parkland Gatineau, Québec

Directly on the shore of Lac Leamy
Indoor and outdoor pools plus a full spa
Park trails and cycle paths from the door

Setting Lakeside, facing Ottawa

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Theatre
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Hilton Lac-Leamy

Hilton Lac-Leamy sits on the shore of Lac Leamy in Gatineau, on the Québec bank of the Ottawa River, with parkland and water wrapped around the building. From the upper floors the view carries over the lake towards downtown Ottawa, so you get the capital's skyline without having to sleep inside its traffic. The hotel is a modern tower with a lot of glass, and a large share of the rooms are turned towards the lake and the green belt rather than a street or a car park.

Leisure runs to indoor and outdoor pools, a full spa and an adjoining theatre that books concerts and touring productions. Walking and cycling routes through Leamy Lake Park start more or less at the entrance, and the Canadian Museum of History and Gatineau Park are both a short drive. A covered walkway connects to the Casino du Lac-Leamy, which is its own building; most of a stay here is spent by the water or over the bridges in Ottawa.

Best forSeeing Ottawa and Gatineau, when lakeside quiet suits you better than a downtown address.

9 Rainforest 🌳

Iguazú Grand Resort Spa & Casino Subtropical forest edge Puerto Iguazú, Argentina

A short drive from Iguazú National Park
Subtropical gardens and open-air pools
Close to the point where three countries meet

Nearby Iguazú Falls

Gardens
Pool
Spa
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Iguazú Grand Resort Spa & Casino

Iguazú Grand sits at the edge of Puerto Iguazú in the far north-east of Argentina, ringed by the warm green forest of Misiones province. The resort is arranged around landscaped gardens and pools, and the subtropical climate becomes part of the routine: breakfast outside, afternoons beside the water, evenings that never really cool. Mornings arrive with birdsong out of the surrounding trees, and the unhurried tempo suits anyone who wants genuine rest between long days at the falls.

The reason to be here is Iguazú National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site whose walkways reach the Devil's Throat and dozens of lesser cascades; the gate is a short drive from the hotel. The Brazilian side of the falls and the marker where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet are also within reach. Back on the property there is a spa, open-air pools and restaurants cooking regional dishes. The casino keeps to its own wing and stays comfortably out of the way.

Best forAnyone visiting Iguazú Falls who wants gardens and a spa waiting at the end of each day.

10 Riviera ⛱️

Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic Seafront promenade Cannes, France

Faces the Palais des Festivals on La Croisette
Private beach on the Bay of Cannes
Heated outdoor pool and a spa

Address La Croisette, Cannes

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Spa
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Hôtel Barrière Le Majestic

Le Majestic holds one of the best-known addresses on the Riviera: La Croisette, straight across from the Palais des Festivals, the hall that stages the Cannes Film Festival every May. The white façade faces the sea, and the front rooms look over the promenade and its palms to the bay and the Lérins Islands behind it. For a fortnight in spring the hotel is the centre of everything; the rest of the year it settles back into being a calm, classical seafront base.

Guests can use the hotel's private beach across the promenade, with loungers and a beach restaurant, alongside a heated outdoor pool and a spa. Dining includes Fouquet's, the Cannes branch of the Paris brasserie. The old port, the Suquet hill and the shops along the rue d'Antibes are all walkable, and boats for the islands leave from the harbour. Barrière does operate gaming rooms in town, but they are separate addresses and nothing in the hotel nudges you towards them.

Best forA Riviera stay where the beach, the promenade and the old town are all reachable on foot.

Reading this guide

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