Bunkhouse A and B · rooms 1–18
Bunkhouse Room
The standard casino hotel room, in the crews' quarters. Small, warm, and quieter than anywhere most guests have slept.
- Sleeps
- 2
- Size
- 19 m²
- Outlook
- The workings
From $265 CAD a night
7 Below Discovery Halfmoon Creek · Yukon
A casino hotelwith a claim for an address.
Seven Below Casino Hotel is a fictional Canadian casino hotel on a Klondike creek: twenty-eight casino hotel rooms in the old bunkhouses, a cookhouse table that has fed shift workers since 1902, and a six-table casino in the green room at the back. Nothing on this creek has a street number. It has a claim number, counted from the first strike, and this one is seven below it.
Discovery The creek
Counted from
the first strike,
ever since.
Seven Below is imagined as a casino hotel that kept the only address the valley has ever used.
When gold was found on this creek, the claim where it happened was called Discovery, and every other claim was numbered by how far it lay above or below it. Seventeen claims, one creek, no street names. The workings on 7 Below shut in the fifties and the buildings stayed: bunkhouses, a cookhouse, a machine shop and the assay office. This casino hotel uses all of them, and the casino is in the green room behind the cookhouse, which is where the card games always were anyway.
- 15:00
- Arrive, forty minutes of gravel road
- 7 Below
- 17:00
- Sauna and a cold creek, if you dare
- The bathhouse
- 18:30
- One sitting at the cookhouse table
- 7 Below
- 21:00
- The casino opens in the green room
- 7 Below · 19+
- 02:00
- Lights, June to August, or none at all
- Outside
Everyone who came here was gambling on something. Only some of them admitted it.
28Casino hotel rooms
06Tables in the casino
17Claims on this creek
1971Canada's first legal casino
7 Below Casino hotel rooms
Twenty-eight rooms
in the bunkhouses.
Board walls, iron stoves replaced with better ones, wool blankets and windows built small for a reason. Every casino hotel room has blackout blinds, which in June are not optional.
Along the water · rooms 19–26
Creek Room
Facing the creek with a stove, a deep tub and the sound of moving water, which does not stop between May and October.
- Sleeps
- 2
- Size
- 31 m²
- Outlook
- Halfmoon Creek
From $420 CAD a night
The old office · 2 suites
The Assay Office
Two suites in the building where the gold was weighed, with the original scales bench, the safe door and a wood-fired sauna of its own.
- Sleeps
- 3
- Size
- 54 m²
- Outlook
- Creek and valley
From $690 CAD a night
Rates in Canadian dollars, including breakfast and the bathhouse, before GST. Casino entry is never bundled into a room rate.
7 Below The casino · adults 19+
Six tables,
in the green room.
The casino occupies the room behind the cookhouse that the crews always called the green room, because it was painted with whatever was left over. It still is. Six casino tables under low lamps, a bar against the stove wall, no machines and no screens. The card games on this creek predate the hotel, the road and most of the buildings.
BlackjackTwo casino tables, hand-dealt
RouletteOne wheel, single zero
PokerTwo tables, dealer's choice
FaroOne table, revived, badly
21:00 Casino opens 01:00 Last hand 01:30 Casino closes
How casino play works here →19+ Photo ID is checked at the casino door every night. Nineteen is the minimum gambling age in the Yukon, and it is not the same everywhere in Canada. Tell the host your limit before you sit down at a casino table and they will hold you to it.
THE GREEN ROOM · 7 BELOW
Painted with what was left over, and never repainted since.
No machines · No screens · Casino entry 19+
7 Below Casino hotel dining
The cookhouse
table.
One kitchen, one sitting, one table, the way it fed shift crews for fifty years. Supplies come up the highway twice a week and everything else comes off the land or out of the freezer, honestly labelled.
All day · 06:00–21:00
The cookhouse
Coffee from six, soup on the stove, and a door that anyone working the valley can still walk through without booking anything.
Plan a stay →Nightly · 18:00–01:30
The stove bar
The bar inside the casino, up against the stove wall. Yukon spirits, a short whisky list, and a longer list of drinks with nothing in them.
See the casino →17 claims Out in the valley
One creek,
and a great deal
of nothing.
The valley is quiet now in a way it very much was not in 1898. Three things worth going out into it for, all of them starting at the door.
All year · 2 hrs
Walk the claims
Up the creek past the tailings, the dredge and the collapsed cabins, with somebody who can tell you which pile of timber was whose.
Dec–Mar · half day
Dog team
Out onto the winter trail with a working kennel from the next valley. Cold, loud at the start, then completely silent.
Aug–Apr · clear nights
The lights
No town glow in any direction. The porch lamps go off at eleven and the staff will knock if it is worth getting up for.
40 minGravel road to the highway
2 h 30To the nearest airport
21 hDaylight in late June
4 hDaylight in late December
3 nights Casino hotel package
The Long Claim.
The stay most people take at this casino hotel: a creek room, everything at the cookhouse table, a walk up the claims, the bathhouse throughout, and an introduction to the casino if you want one.
Check dates →- Creek Room3 nights
- All mealsCookhouse
- Walk the claimsGuided
- Bathhouse and saunaThroughout
- Casino introductionOptional · 19+
- From$1,890 CAD
? Casino FAQ
Casino
questions.
What this casino hotel page is, who may enter the casino, and how casino gambling is regulated in Canada.
No. Seven Below Casino Hotel is an invented Canadian casino hotel, built to demonstrate casino hotel content and responsive web design. It takes no bookings, holds no casino licence and processes no payments. The creek, the claims, the rates and the casino are all fictional. The claim-numbering system is real and still in use.
The Yukon. Canada's first legal casino opened in Dawson City in 1971, a gold rush town of a few thousand people, decades before the big urban casinos arrived. Its proceeds have gone into heritage restoration ever since, which is a genuinely unusual arrangement and part of why this concept is set up here.
Adults aged 19 and over, with valid photo identification. Canada does not have one gambling age — it is 18 in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec, and 19 in most other provinces and territories, the Yukon included. Get it wrong by a province and the answer changes.
Not on its own account. Under the Criminal Code, lawful casino gambling in Canada is conducted and managed by the provinces and territories, which licence and oversee any venue operating on their behalf. A hotel on a creek could not simply open a casino floor and keep the proceeds.
No, and most guests do not. The casino is one room behind the cookhouse, open four and a half hours a night. Casino entry is never bundled into a room rate and nothing about the stay assumes you will play.
Decide a limit in money and in time before you walk through, and only play with money you can afford to lose. Never borrow to gamble and never chase a loss. If it stops being fun, stop. Every province and territory in Canada funds free, confidential gambling support, and every jurisdiction runs a voluntary self-exclusion scheme you can register for.