Who owns Starlight Casino New Westminster

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited runs Starlight Casino New Westminster. In British Columbia, BCLC conducts and manages casino gambling, and private service providers run the casinos. On this site, "runs" means the company that operates a casino. Gateway is that company here.

No owner of the casino is published, so this guide names none. The word "owns" appears on this site where an owner or a sale is published. For Starlight, neither appears for 2024 to 2026: no sale, no agreement of sale and no change of operator.

The same company runs seven other casinos in this guide. Three are in Metro Vancouver: Grand Villa Casino Burnaby, Cascades Casino Delta and Cascades Casino Langley. Four are in the Thompson-Okanagan, at Kamloops, Kelowna, Vernon and Penticton.

Starlight Casino New Westminster opened in 2007. No earlier name for the casino is published, and no earlier operator. The date Gateway began running it is not published either.

Gateway's dated purchases elsewhere in this guide are in the Thompson-Okanagan. In August 2002 it bought the Lake City Casinos in Penticton, Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon. On January 14, 2019, it bought Chances Kamloops and became the sole gaming provider in Kamloops.

Since January 2025, four casinos in this guide have passed to First Nations ownership, and two more are under agreements of sale. Starlight is not among the six. For 2024 to 2026, no sale, agreement of sale or change of operator has been published for it.

Starlight is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year, on Pacific time. Temporary changes and holiday hours should be checked on the casino's own site.

The floor lists 54 live table games and more than 935 slot machines. A seven-table poker room sits off the main floor. It opens Sunday to Thursday from 11 AM until late, and runs 24 hours on Friday and Saturday. MATCH Eatery & Public House holds the racebook for off-track betting on horse racing, and Kirin Restaurant is also on site. Parking is free, in a parkade to the front door and several outdoor lots, with RV parking on request.

BCLC conducts and manages the games, whichever company runs the room. Its loyalty programme is Encore Rewards, the same card named by fifteen of the sixteen casinos in this guide.

Starlight Casino New Westminster is at 350 Gifford Street, New Westminster. Its published phone number is 604-777-2946. People must be 19 or older to gamble in British Columbia. Since June 2023, everyone entering a BC gambling facility shows government-issued photo ID, checked against the self-exclusion list.

Among the Metro Vancouver casinos in this guide, Grand Villa Casino Burnaby is 8.6 km away in a straight line. Great Canadian Casino Vancouver, in Coquitlam, is 9.8 km away. These are straight lines between map points, computed by the guide, not driving distances. The site gives no travel times.