| The Reef Hotel Casino | |
| Location: | Cairns City, Queensland |
| Owner: | Casinos Austria International Limited and Accor Casino Investments (Australia) Pty. Ltd. |
| Website: | https://www.reefcasino.com.au/ |
The Reef Hotel Casino or Pullman Reef Hotel Casino is the only casino in Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
The hotel has 128 hotel rooms[1] and is jointly owned by Casinos Austria International Limited and Accor Casino Investments (Australia) Pty. Ltd.[2]
The complex features a central LED pillar and interactive floor which is prominent next to BAR36. The bar hosts free live entertainment 5 nights a week and serves food from 4pm-8pm every night.[3] The Reef Hotel Casino also houses the Merchant Artisan Food & Coffee cafe plus four restaurants: Tamarind, Café China Noodle Bar (in the former Cairns Customs House), Cafe China Restaurant and Flinders Bar & Grill.[4] [5]
It also hosts the Cairns Zoom & Wildlife Dome on the rooftop.[6] The Cairns Zoom & Wildlife Dome features a number of native Australian species including koalas, sugar gliders, red-legged pademelons, rufous bettongs, saltwater crocodiles, freshwater crocodiles, water monitor, scrub python, eastern short-neck turtle, red-tailed black cockatoos, double-eyed fig parrots, tawny frogmouths, laughing kookaburras and many other species.
The Queensland Government called for submissions from interested parties to build and operate a casino in Cairns in January 1992.[7] Casino licence was granted in January 1996. Reef Casino Hotel commenced trading on 31 January.
In 2022, operators of the casino were fined for paying a junket tour operator to bring patrons to the venue.[8]