The property
Caesars Windsor, described from the outside
Address, ownership, what is under the roof, and an honest read on the kind of trip it fits. Nothing here is sold to you.
Caesars Windsor stands on Riverside Drive East, on the riverfront in downtown Windsor. The full postal address is 377 Riverside Drive East, Windsor, Ontario N9A 7H7. It is a combined gaming floor, two hotel towers, a theatre, a spa and a run of restaurants, all at the same street address — which is most of the argument for staying there in February.
Who owns it and who runs it
The property belongs to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG). Day-to-day operation is contracted to Caesars Entertainment Windsor Limited, which holds the role of OLG's service provider for the Windsor Gaming Bundle. OLG re-selected Caesars in May 2025 under an agreement running approximately twenty years, with the changeover expected in early 2026 — the last of the procurements in OLG's land-based modernisation programme. Regulation sits with the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO).
Employment is one of the more revealing figures about the place: approximately 1,800 people work there, which makes it one of the largest employers in Windsor-Essex. This is not a boutique operation bolted onto a hotel. It is a major regional workplace that happens to have 758 beds above it.
What is on the site
- Gaming floor
- 100,000 sq ft across two floors, including a 14-table poker room open 24 hours and a Caesars Sportsbook. Detail on the gaming floor page.
- Hotel
- 758 rooms in the Forum Tower and the Augustus Tower. Split and history on the rooms page.
- The Colosseum
- A theatre seating 5,000. See shows and events.
- Spa
- The Spa by Windsor Arms at Caesars Windsor, located in the Forum Tower.
- Pool
- An indoor pool and whirlpool on the second floor of the Forum Tower, looking out at the Detroit skyline.
- Fitness centre
- With a sauna, free to registered hotel guests.
- Restaurants
- Eight rooms were published at the time of writing, from a steakhouse to a 24-hour Tim Hortons. The list, with our caveat about it, is on the dining page.
- Parking
- Free self-parking around the clock in the attached six-floor garage, with valet as a paid alternative. Both are compared on getting here.
Where it sits, and why that matters
The building is on the riverfront in downtown Windsor, about 11 minutes on foot from the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel — roughly 0.6 miles by a third-party measurement, so treat it as an approximation rather than a stopwatch figure. The practical consequence is that a visitor staying in Detroit can leave a car behind entirely and arrive on foot, and that the resort draws heavily on Michigan and the wider US Midwest. Expect American accents in the lift and American plates in the garage.
Recent change worth knowing
The Ariius nightclub, which had operated inside the resort since December 2015, moved out in January 2026 to 576 Ouellette Avenue in downtown Windsor. Its last weekend on the property was 29–31 January 2026. If late-night dancing was part of your plan, it is now a walk into the core rather than a lift ride downstairs.
Who it suits — and who it does not
It suits a visitor who wants one address to cover the whole trip: somewhere to sleep, several places to eat, a theatre and a gaming floor, without going outside. It suits people crossing from Michigan for a night. It suits anyone driving in, because the garage is free and attached. And it suits show-goers, since the theatre and the beds are in the same complex.
It suits less well a traveller who wants a neighbourhood rather than a building. Windsor's independent restaurants, bars and shops are spread along Ouellette Avenue and the surrounding streets, and staying on site makes it easy to never see them. It is also a poor fit for anyone who would rather not be around gambling at all: the gaming floor is the spine of the complex, not a side room. And if you are travelling with children, note that under-19s cannot be on the gaming floor at all.
How to book
We do not take bookings and we have no rooms to sell. Book directly with the hotel: the official website is caesars.com/caesars-windsor, and the concierge line published for the property is 1-519-258-7878. We deliberately do not print a toll-free reservations number here, because the two that circulate in public sources differ from one another and we could not settle which is current — ask when you call, or use the website.