We started to go toward it and then were stopped by a security guard. My dad and I arrived at 2:30 pm, and saw a line of about 25 to 30 people in the reconfigured entryway to the casino. My invitation, with the subject heading “An Exclusive Invite to our VIP Re-Opening,” read: “On Wednesday, July 21 at 10 am we’ll be open just for you! You and a guest will have exclusive access to both Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara two days before our official re-opening.”ĭoesn’t that sound amazing? Surely, the casino would have a glass of champagne waiting for me, and perhaps a “Welcome back!” kit that included a cloth mask with the Fallsview Casino logo stitched onto it. Unfortunately, despite having had more than a year to prepare for this week, Fallsview Casino bungled its opening.

Hence the reopenings both here, in Windsor ( Caesars Windsor opened today as well) and Casino Rama in Orillia, which is set to reopen July 29. Fallsview Casino has a capacity of approximately 10,000.īut under the province’s step 3 reopening plan, casinos can open up at 50 per cent capacity. That was obviously unfeasible for the two massive Niagara Falls casinos, so they remained closed. But at an exclusive sneak peek for VIP members two days ago, which I attended, we had to wait a few more hours in line.īack in October, I reported on the reopening of 11 Ontario casinos, with a very limited capacity of 50 patrons each. Fallsview Casino and the neighbouring Casino Niagara, both located in Niagara Falls, officially reopened this morning at 10 am.

Gamblers wanting to try their luck at two of Canada’s largest casinos have had to wait 16 months for them to reopen during the pandemic.

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