Adults 18+
The properties in this guide that carry age-restricted areas, and the guide's fixed way of describing them. This page sets out that way, and the limits the guide itself refuses to cross.
Age-restricted areas: where they exist and how they sit
Among the fourteen properties in this guide, the casino floor is the age-restricted area. Where the property's own listing describes an 18+ section - and the listings for these properties do - the guide notes it in the entry, in the same position every time, rather than leaving it to the footnotes.
Physically, the restricted floor is separate from the guest rooms. At the properties described here the casino is reached from the lobby or the ground floor, not from the corridors that lead to the rooms, so a guest who never enters it does not pass through it. The guide describes that separation, because it matters to the stay.
The separation runs the other way too. The guest floors, the dining rooms and the public lounges remain open to the whole hotel, and the age restriction is a rule about one part of the building, not about the stay. We describe both halves of that arrangement in every entry that contains a casino floor.
Why an age-restricted floor is one amenity, not the headline
A casino is one amenity among many at the properties in this guide: the rooms, the dining, the public rooms and the setting all sit in the same paragraph structure, and the age-restricted floor takes its place in that list like any other facility.
Leading with the casino would misdescribe most of these stays. Several of the properties here are better known for a shoreline or a building than for their gaming floor, and the guide describes what the property is, not what is the loudest part of it.
This is also a question of the guide's independence. The properties are commercial businesses with commercial interests, and an editorial guide that headlines one of them risks describing the marketing instead of the place. The measured structure keeps the description on the property and off the promotion.
Personal limits belong to the visitor
This site does not advise anyone to gamble, to drink, or to do anything else at a property described here. It describes what the property is; what a visitor chooses to do inside it is the visitor's own decision, made with the property's own rules in hand.
Equally, the site does not discourage. An entry that described an age-restricted area in hushed, cautionary language would be doing the property's business for it, and the guide stays out of that. The description is neutral: here is what exists, here is who it is for, here is where the property's own rules are found.
If a reader is unsure what the right limit is for them, the answer is not in this guide. It is in a conversation with the people who set the rules - the property and, where relevant, the laws of the place the property sits in.
Where to find each property's own rules
Every entry in the guide links to the property's official listing page, and that page - or the property's own website behind it - is where the rules that actually apply are written. Age limits, operating hours, dress codes and the fine print all live there, and they change without notice.
The guide's entries restate only the broad strokes: that an 18+ area exists, where it sits in the building, and that the property's own rules govern access. Anything more specific - the exact age, the hours, the identification a guest must show - is the property's to state and the property's to enforce.
When the guide's description and the property's own page disagree, the property's page wins, without discussion. That is the whole of the guide's editorial position on the subject: describe, point, and stop.
The rules above are the guide's own editorial rules. The properties' rules, always, are the ones that apply at the door. If a description in the guide and a property's own page ever disagree, the property's page is correct, and the contact page is open for corrections.