A First Visit to Hastings Casino
This page covers Hastings Casino in Vancouver for readers whose first casino trips begin in New Westminster. It explains where the room is, when it opens and what is on the floor. It also covers the ID rule at the door, and how this room differs from Starlight Casino.
Where Hastings Is and What It Offers
Hastings Casino sits at 188 N Renfrew St, Vancouver, BC V5K 3N8, in Hastings Park. The building stands on the old Hastings Racecourse site, which opened in 1889. Live horse racing there has ended. From central New Westminster, the casino is 12.9 km away in a straight line. That is a line between two map points, not a road distance, and it makes Hastings number 4 of the nine casinos in this guide.
Opening hours are shorter than in New Westminster. Hastings runs Sunday to Thursday from 11AM to 12AM, and Friday and Saturday from 11AM to 2AM. It is not open overnight. Starlight, by contrast, is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
The floor here is slot machines only. Hastings lists no live table games and no poker room, while Starlight lists 54 live tables and a seven-table poker room. This guide does not give a slot count for Hastings. No phone number is published either, so the casino's own web page is the place to check details before a trip.
Before You Walk In
- The door rule: you must be 19 or older. Security scans government-issued photo ID for everyone entering, and keeps no personal information for people who are let in.
- No live tables or poker here. A live table game means a real dealer running cards, dice or a wheel; Starlight in New Westminster lists 54 of them.
- Food and drink: an indoor lounge with a full-service bar and a stage sits near the gaming floor. Jerome's offers casual dining next to the Racebook, where races play on screens.
- Encore Rewards is the loyalty programme here. A loyalty card is a membership card offered to guests, and signing up is your choice.
- Great Canadian Entertainment still runs Hastings, but on November 7, 2025 it agreed to sell the casino portion to Tsleil-Waututh Nation. Closing needs regulators and the City of Vancouver, and none had been announced as of October 7, 2026.
Getting There and Back
This guide does not list parking or transit details for Hastings Casino, so check them before you set out. Plan the way home before you leave, too. The doors close at 12AM most nights and 2AM on Friday and Saturday, so a late ride matters.
Anyone getting behind the wheel should skip alcohol. Arrange a designated driver, a ride or another safe way back to New Westminster.
Is live horse racing still running at Hastings?
No, live racing there has ended. The last live race ran on October 19, 2025, and on December 5, 2025 Great Canadian Entertainment said it would no longer run a season. Simulcast racing, meaning races from other tracks shown on screens, continues in the Racebook on a monthly schedule.
Is Hastings Casino a place to learn blackjack?
Hastings lists no live table games, so there is no blackjack table with a dealer. Starlight in New Westminster lists 54 live tables, including Blackjack, and this guide walks through a first table there.