About Casino Stays Guide

How a hotel gets into the guide

We start from the casino licences, not from hotel marketing. Each Australian state and territory licenses a small number of land-based casinos, and only some of them have a hotel in the same building or resort. A property makes the list when all of these are true:

• the hotel is open and taking bookings at the time we check it;
• a licensed casino operates in the same building or the same resort precinct, not just “nearby”;
• the hotel publishes a street address and a phone number we can call;
• the property can be booked through its own website and at least one major booking site.

We then read the hotel’s own website, its room and dining pages, the regulator’s public information and, where it helps, Wikipedia. Facts we could not confirm are left out rather than guessed. For example, Mindil Beach and Country Club Tasmania don’t publish a room count, so the cards don’t show one.

How the editors’ score works

The score out of 10 is our own judgement, and we label it that way everywhere. It is not an average of guest reviews, and we don’t show review counts because we don’t collect reviews. Five things go into it:

• Location (25%): waterfront, city centre or resort grounds, and how easy it is to reach sights without a car;
• Rooms (25%): range of room types, views and recent refurbishment;
• Food and drink (20%): number and variety of restaurants and bars on site;
• Facilities (20%): pools, spa, gym, parking and family suitability;
• Practical value (10%): published from-rates and whether book-direct deals exist.

Ongoing works lower the score while they last: Mindil Beach Casino Resort, for instance, is renovating until mid-April 2027. Here is the current list:

Hotel	City, state	Score	Casino
Crown Towers Perth	Perth, Western Australia	9.3	Crown Perth casino in the same resort complex
Eos by SkyCity	Adelaide, South Australia	9.1	SkyCity Adelaide casino in the same precinct
Wrest Point Hotel Casino	Hobart, Tasmania	8.7	Wrest Point Casino in the same building
The Ville Resort-Casino	Townsville, Queensland	8.6	The Ville Casino in the same resort
The Reef Hotel Casino	Cairns, Queensland	8.4	The Reef casino in the same building
Mindil Beach Casino Resort	Darwin, Northern Territory	8.2	Mindil Beach Casino in the same resort
Country Club Tasmania	Launceston, Tasmania	8.3	Country Club Casino in the same resort
Crowne Plaza Alice Springs Lasseters	Alice Springs, Northern Territory	8.0	Lasseters Casino in the same complex

Photos and credits

Hotel photos are freely licensed pictures from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card and below. The large images in the header and the About, Service and Mission blocks are illustrations made for this guide. They set the mood and don’t show any particular hotel.

Image	Author	Licence
Crown Towers Perth	Samuel Wiki	CC0
Eos by SkyCity, Adelaide	Yu Chu Chin	CC BY-SA 4.0
Wrest Point, Hobart	Damien Ramon Naidoo	CC BY-SA 3.0
The Ville Resort-Casino, Townsville	Ridiculopathy	CC0
The Reef Hotel Casino, Cairns	Bahnfrend	CC BY-SA 4.0
Mindil Beach Casino Resort, Darwin	DaHuzyBru	CC BY-SA 4.0
Country Club Tasmania, Launceston	Aaroncrick	CC BY-SA 3.0
Lasseters, Alice Springs	Andy Mitchell from Glasgow, UK	CC BY-SA 2.0
Hero, “About”, “Our Service” and “Mission” images	Illustrations created for this guide; they don’t show a specific hotel	—

Independence and funding

Casino Stays Guide is published at casinostaysguide2026.com and can be reached at [email protected]. We are not owned by, and have no agreement with, any hotel, casino operator or booking site. Links to Booking.com and hotel websites are plain links without tracking or affiliate codes, so we earn nothing when you book. No hotel has paid to be listed or to change its score.