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 acquired the Lake City Casinos located in Kelowna, Kamloops, Penticton and Vernon. On January 14, 2019, it acquired Chances Kamloops, leaving it as Kamloops' sole gaming provider.

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 does not close: its doors stay open at every hour of all 365 days of the year, on Pacific time. Check the casino's own site for temporary changes and holiday hours.

The floor lists more than 935 slot machines along with 54 live table games. Poker has its own room of seven tables, set apart from the main floor. Its hours are 11 AM until late from Sunday to Thursday, with play around the clock for 24 hours on Friday and Saturday. Kirin Restaurant is on site as well, and MATCH Eatery & Public House is home to the racebook, where off-track bets on horse racing are placed. Parking is free and covers a parkade linked to the main entrance, several outdoor lots, and 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.

The address of Starlight Casino New Westminster is 350 Gifford Street, New Westminster. Its published phone number is 604-777-2946. Gambling in British Columbia is limited to people aged 19 or older. Since June 2023, every visitor to a gambling facility in BC shows government-issued photo ID, and staff check it 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. The guide measured these as direct point-to-point lines on a map, not as driving distances. The site gives no travel times.