Arriving
Four ways in, and where to leave the car
Choose how you are arriving and get the steps for that route, then compare the free garage against paid valet before you set off.
Four kinds of visitor arrive at Caesars Windsor, and they need four different sets of instructions. Someone walking over from Detroit has a border to clear and no car to park. Someone driving in from London or Toronto has the opposite problem. The helper below switches between the four. If scripts are switched off it opens on the first route, and the sections underneath repeat the border, transport and parking facts in ordinary prose.
Route helper
On foot from Detroit through the Detroit–Windsor Tunnel.
Parking: none needed — you are arriving without a car.
Border documents: you are crossing an international border on foot. Check current requirements with the Canadian and United States border agencies before you set out.
On foot from Detroit, through the tunnel
- Clear Canadian customs and immigration at the tunnel exit on the Windsor side. The Detroit–Windsor Tunnel opened in 1930 and is the only underwater international vehicle crossing in the world; it operates 24 hours.
- From the tunnel plaza the property is about 11 minutes on foot — roughly 0.6 miles by a third-party measurement, so treat it as approximate rather than exact.
- The route stays inside the downtown core, heading for the river and Riverside Drive East. Check it on a live map before you set off; we do not publish turn-by-turn walking directions.
- Arrive at 377 Riverside Drive East, Windsor, Ontario N9A 7H7. No parking decision to make, and no garage to find.
- Carry government-issued photo identification: the gaming floor is 19+ and identification is checked on anyone who appears under thirty.
Driving in, and where to leave the car
- Drivers coming from elsewhere in Ontario reach Windsor on Highway 401. We do not print exit numbers or turn-by-turn directions here — use a live map, which knows about roadworks and we do not.
- Aim for the garage entrance rather than the hotel front door. Self-parking is at 257 Glengarry Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9A 1P4, in a six-floor garage attached to the building.
- Self-parking is free and open 24 hours, so there is no ticket to validate and nothing to pay on the way out.
- If you would rather hand the car over, valet is at 136 McDougall Street, reached from Riverside Drive East and Pitt Street East, open 24 hours and charged by day of the week. Rates are in the comparison below.
- Driving an oversized vehicle or a recreational vehicle? That is arranged through the concierge desk, not by driving into the garage. Call ahead.
From Windsor International Airport (YQG)
- Land at Windsor International Airport, IATA code YQG, ICAO CYQG. It is owned by the City of Windsor and operated by Your Quick Gateway (Windsor) Inc..
- We do not publish a distance or a transfer time from the airport to downtown, because we could not verify one. Check with your driver or a live map.
- Taxi and ride-hailing pick-ups are the straightforward option to a downtown address.
- If you would rather use public transport, Transit Windsor is the municipal bus operator; check its current routes and timetable, because we cannot confirm which route serves the airport today.
- Give the driver the street address: 377 Riverside Drive East, Windsor, Ontario N9A 7H7.
By bus, once you are in Windsor
- Transit Windsor is a City of Windsor municipal service and it is buses only — Windsor has no rail or light-rail system, so there are no line names to memorise.
- The hub is the Windsor International Transit Terminal, 300 Chatham Street West, which is where most cross-town journeys connect.
- From the terminal the resort is in the same downtown core, towards the river on Riverside Drive East.
- One thing to unlearn: Transit Windsor no longer runs the cross-border Tunnel Bus. Its commuter service ended on 31 August 2025 and special-event service ran only to 20 December 2025. A private operator, The Linq Tunnel Bus, now runs the Windsor–Detroit service through the tunnel.
- Check current routes and fares with Transit Windsor directly; we do not publish timetables, because a timetable printed once is a timetable that is wrong within a season.
Parking: self-park against valet
This is the decision most drivers actually have to make. In short: self-parking is free, open 24 hours, in a six-floor garage attached to the building, entered at 257 Glengarry Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9A 1P4. Valet is at 136 McDougall Street, reached from Riverside Drive East and Pitt Street East, also open 24 hours, and it is charged by day of the week — cheaper for registered hotel guests than for everyone else, dearest of all for other visitors on show days, and free for Seven Stars and Diamond members. The switch below sets both out in full, with the rate table. Those prices were the published rates at the time of writing; they change, and we would rather you re-checked them than trusted a web page.
Self-parking — free, 24 hours
- Cost: free, at all times, including show nights.
- Where: a six-floor garage attached to the building.
- Entrance: 257 Glengarry Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9A 1P4.
- Hours: 24 hours.
- Trade-off: you walk from the garage and you find your own space, which takes longer when a full theatre is arriving at once.
- Oversized vehicles and recreational vehicles: arranged through the concierge desk rather than the garage.
Valet — paid, 24 hours
- Where: 136 McDougall Street, with access from Riverside Drive East and Pitt Street East.
- Hours: 24 hours.
- Free for: Seven Stars and Diamond members.
- Trade-off: you pay for the door-to-door convenience, and you wait for the car to come back when everyone leaves at the same time.
| Who | Sun–Thu | Fri–Sat | Show days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Registered hotel guests | $15 per day | $25 per day | $25 per day |
| All other guests | $20 per day | $25 per day | $40 per day |
The three border crossings
Windsor and Detroit are joined at three points, and which one you use changes your approach to the city. The Ambassador Bridge is privately owned and tolled. The Detroit–Windsor Tunnel, open since 1930, is the only underwater international vehicle crossing in the world and runs around the clock; it is also the crossing that puts a pedestrian within walking distance of the resort. The Gordie Howe International Bridge opened to vehicles on 27 July 2026 — six lanes, a cable-stayed main span of 853 m, managed by the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority — and its separate toll-free multi-use path for walkers and cyclists opened on 5 August 2026.
We do not publish toll prices. The figures in circulation come from secondary pages and go out of date; check the operator of the crossing you intend to use.
Moving around Windsor without a car
Transit Windsor runs the city's buses, and only buses — there is no rail or light-rail network here. Journeys connect at the Windsor International Transit Terminal, 300 Chatham Street West. The one common misconception worth correcting: Transit Windsor is no longer the operator of the cross-border Tunnel Bus. Its commuter service ended on 31 August 2025, special-event service ran to 20 December 2025, and the Windsor–Detroit run through the tunnel is now operated privately by The Linq Tunnel Bus.
Arriving by air
Windsor International Airport carries the IATA code YQG and the ICAO code CYQG. It is owned by the City of Windsor and operated by Your Quick Gateway (Windsor) Inc.. We have not verified a distance or a transfer time between the airport and the riverfront, so this guide does not print one; ask your driver, or check a live map before you commit to a tight connection.
What is worth walking to
The riverfront park system is the reason to be on this side of the water on foot. Dieppe Gardens sits at the foot of Ouellette Avenue, downtown's main north–south street. The Windsor Sculpture Park stretches along the Detroit River between the Ambassador Bridge and Festival Plaza. Willistead Manor, a 1906 mansion at 1899 Niagara Street owned by the city, is further out and worth a deliberate trip rather than a detour.