Casino New Brunswick Hotel, Moncton: Rooms, food and Parking
A reporter’s stay at the 126-room hotel at Casino New Brunswick in Moncton: room types, Hub City Pub hours, spa and pool, parking, booking steps
Inside the 126-Room Hotel at Casino New Brunsick
THE TAXI FROM Greater Moncton International took twelve minutes and the fare came in under thirty dollars. Exit 450 off the Trans-Canada, a short curve past the Magnetic Hill turnoff, and the building appeared with its lot maybe two-thirds full at four in the afternoon. Four people stood smoking by the main doors. You walk through them to get in, which is the first thing several guests complain about and the first thing I noticed.
Inside, the air was cool and the noise arrived before the lobby did: slot machines, muffled, from the floor that connects straight to the hotel side. The front desk clerk switched from French to English mid-sentence without being asked. Check-in took under four minutes. A luggage cart squeaked past me toward the elevators, pushed by a man in a Jann Arden tour shirt.
This is a hotel of 126 rooms and suites attached to a casino that opened on May 4, 2010, with a 24,000-square-foot gaming floor, a spa, an indoor pool and a concert hall on the same set of corridors. I came to look at the sleeping half of it.
Where it is and how to get there
The address is 21 Casino Drive, Moncton, E1G 0R7, in the Magnetic Hill area, off Route 2 at Exit 450. The airport sits roughly 17 kilometres away, about ten to fifteen minutes by car depending on the light at the highway ramp. A taxi runs somewhere between CAD 25 and CAD 31.
Public transit exists on paper. Codiac Transpo can get you there for CAD 8 to 11, with transfers, in about two hours. I would not do it with a suitcase.
Parking is free, and on an ordinary weekday afternoon there were spaces near the hotel doors. On show nights the picture changes. Guests report nothing available in front after 7 p.m., with the overflow lot behind the building leaving a walk of 100 to 200 metres around the perimeter, since there is no rear entrance. One reviewer put the lot at roughly two-thirds of what an event crowd needs, before hotel guests and casino patrons are counted.
What the rooms include
Mine had a walk-in shower, a safe, a robe on the hook, and a thermostat I ended up turning down twice. WiFi was free and held up for a video call. The air conditioning was audible but not intrusive; the corridor was quieter than I expected for a building with a gaming floor two levels away.
| Room category | What the listings specify |
| Queen Studio | Entry category on the property’s room list |
| Deluxe King | One king bed, city or mountain views, large bathroom with walk-in shower |
| Deluxe Queen | Two queen beds, 300-thread-count white bedding |
| Luxury King Suite | Suite category carried on the hotel pages and booking platforms |
| Marquis King Suite | Top tier, most often mentioned by guests who were moved up to it |
| Every room | Free WiFi, air conditioning, bathrobes, safe, refrigerator, LCD television |
Two things are not included. There is no room service at present, and breakfast is not part of the rate: a cooked-to-order breakfast is available for a fee, and the breakfast buffet that longtime guests remember has been discontinued. The 24-hour fitness centre, the business centre and multilingual staff are on the property side of the ledger. Star ratings run 4 or 4.5 depending on which body did the rating, with Canada Select cited as one of them.
Where to eat inside
Hub City Pub is on the casino floor, which matters: everyone entering must be 19 or older, food or no food. It runs daily from 10:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., with drink service from 11 a.m., and a late-night menu on Fridays and Saturdays until 11:45 p.m. The lunch special has been reported at CAD 6.99, usually soup and a sandwich, and it rotates. The menu leans pub: wings, poutine, bacon-wrapped scallops, burgers, sandwiches, entrees, dessert. Live music turns up on weekends.
The second room is the buffet, listed in older directories as the Lighthouse Buffet. Opinions split hard. Prime rib, salmon soup and striploin nights draw praise; powdered mashed potatoes, frozen vegetables and a thin salad bar draw the opposite. Rewards Club members get a discount, and signing up at the desk takes a minute.
Because both outlets sit on the gaming floor, families travelling with teenagers should plan meals elsewhere in the Magnetic Hill area. I ate at the pub at 11 p.m. on a Friday and got a table without waiting, with maybe fifteen people at the bar and a duo playing covers.
What else is on the property
The spa runs to 3,500 square feet, and the pool area includes an indoor pool and a spa tub whose jets one guest singled out as the strongest they had used. I counted six people in the pool room around 8 p.m., two of them children.
The Molson Canadian Centre is the reason many people book a room here at all. It seats about 2,100 in concert configuration, including 630 retractable tiered seats, and holds up to 2,500 standing. As convention space it covers roughly 25,000 square feet and takes plated banquets from 60 to 1,100 guests. Past bills include Styx, UB40, Shaggy, Steve Earle and the Dukes, The Tenors, Roch Voisine, Amanda Marshall and Dean Brody with The Reklaws. Ticketed events come with complimentary parking, with the caveat above about where you actually park.
The gaming floor itself is 24,000 square feet: slot counts are quoted anywhere from 490 in an industry directory to over 600 in tourism material, with 26 table and poker games including baccarat, craps, roulette, Spanish 21, three card poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em and a five-table poker room. Rewards Club points accrue at one point per dollar played on slots, and 35,000 points within a 13-month window moves a card to Ruby.
One thing worth knowing before you search for a booking page: the resort is a land-based property with a single web address of its own, and an independent review site sorts through what actually operates under the name Casino New Brunswick online, which is useful if you land on a lookalike domain.
How to book a room, step by step
1) Check the concert calendar for your dates, since show nights change both room demand and the parking situation.
2) Compare nights before committing. Observed rates have run from roughly CAD 92 to over CAD 300, with Saturdays often near CAD 100 and February the cheapest month at about CAD 101.
3) Pick a category from the five on the list, keeping the two-queen Deluxe in mind if you are travelling with someone who wants their own bed.
4) Book through the booking section on the property’s own site, or call 506-859-7770, with 1-877-859-7775 for long-distance callers.
5) Ask about the cooked-to-order breakfast fee when you reserve, since it is not built into the rate.
6) Ask where guest parking will be on your arrival date if a show is scheduled.
7) Sign up for the Rewards Club at the desk on arrival if you plan to eat at the buffet.
8) Remember that the floor and its two restaurants are 19-plus, and bring ID.
Is it worth staying on site
If you have tickets, yes, and the reason is mechanical rather than romantic: you walk from your seat to your bed without moving a car. Several guests make exactly that point, and after watching the exit crowd funnel toward the back lot, I understood it.
If you are in Moncton for something else, the calculation shifts. The rooms are comfortable and clean, staff drew consistent praise from the people I spoke to at the desk queue and in the elevator, and the pool is better than the building’s exterior suggests. Against that: no room service, no breakfast in the rate, a smoking cluster at the front door, and rooms that some 2024 and 2025 reviewers described as due for renovation. Mine was not tired so much as plain.
Gaming areas are restricted to guests aged 19 and over; set your limits before you play.