Who owns Playtime Casino Kelowna

Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited runs Playtime Casino Kelowna. It runs eight of the sixteen casinos in this guide, four of them in the Thompson-Okanagan. Gateway describes itself as the exclusive casino operator in the Thompson Okanagan region.

Its link to this casino is dated. Gateway's purchase in August 2002 covered the Lake City Casinos of Penticton, Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon. The Kelowna casino took the name Playtime Casino Kelowna on March 1, 2018. Before that it was Lake City Casino Kelowna.

Some details are not published. In British Columbia BCLC conducts and manages casino gambling, while private service providers such as Gateway run the casinos. On this site "owns" appears only where an owner or a sale is published. No later sale of Playtime is on record, and the guide does not name an owner of Gateway itself.

The record begins under an earlier name, Lake City Casino Kelowna, one of four Lake City Casinos. In August 2002 Gateway bought all four, in Penticton, Kelowna, Kamloops and Vernon.

On March 1, 2018, it became Playtime Casino Kelowna. The Vernon casino kept the Lake City name.

Since 2024, ownership changes among the casinos in this guide have involved other rooms. Four passed to First Nations ownership between January 16, 2025, and June 16, 2026, and two more are under agreements of sale. Playtime is not one of them. On April 13, 2026, the IGCO became the province's gambling regulator, replacing the former regulator.

Playtime Casino Kelowna is open Sunday to Tuesday 10 AM to 1 AM, and Wednesday to Saturday 10 AM to 2 AM. Hours are Pacific time. Hours on holidays may change, so confirm them on the casino's own website.

There are 16 live table games on the gaming floor. Play at the tables begins at 12 PM Monday to Thursday and at 11 AM Friday to Sunday, continuing until close. Two tables make up the poker room, where No Limit Texas Hold'em is dealt at $1-3 and $2-5 blinds. Because the casino's pages disagree on poker hours, this guide does not list them.

BCLC conducts the games, as it does in every BC casino. The players' card is Encore Rewards, the same card named at fifteen of the sixteen casinos in this guide. The casino sits in the Grand Okanagan Lakefront Resort on Okanagan Lake, and casino guests park free in the parkade GREEN zone.

Playtime Casino Kelowna stands at 1300 Water Street, Kelowna, and takes calls at 250-860-9467. Admission is open to adults aged 19 and up. The self-exclusion list is checked against the government-issued photo ID that each person entering a BC gambling facility has shown since June 2023.

Straight-line distances to the other Thompson-Okanagan casinos in this guide are Cascades Casino Penticton 44.9 km, Lake City Casino Vernon 46.3 km and Cascades Casino Kamloops 105.7 km. The guide computes them between OpenStreetMap points; they are not driving distances, and no travel times are given.