Casino de Monte-Carlo

From the casino’s official website, checked on November 3, 2026. Rules change: check before you go.

Official website

SBM leans hard on the look. Its page calls the building Belle Époque and says the table games run "under the warm glow of Bohemian crystal chandeliers". It also says the gaming tables are built by craftsmen in SBM's own workshops, which is a nice detail and the sort of thing you only learn from the operator.

It quotes the founder, François Blanc: "we should do nothing here as it is done elsewhere". And it says the image of James Bond has become inseparable from the casino. That's SBM's line, not ours.

What the pages don't give you is a founding year, a count of tables or a count of slot machines. We looked. So there are no numbers for those here, and you should be wary of any guide that prints them without a source.

The slots aren't in the main table rooms. SBM puts them in the Salle Renaissance and the Salon Touzet.

Morning heritage visits run from 10am to 1pm, last entry 12.15pm. An adult ticket is €20, a child aged 13 to 17 pays €15 and children aged 6 to 12 go free. Groups of ten or more pay €17 per adult and €12 per teenager. You get a downloadable interactive guide for your phone, and SBM says photos are allowed in some games rooms during the morning sessions.

No booking is needed. Online booking isn't available at the moment anyway.

From 2pm the games rooms and bars open, adults only, and entry costs €20. That fee includes €10 you can use on the slot machines, at the bar or in Le Salon Rose restaurant (the restaurant only takes it if you spend €40 or more). Members of SBM's My Monte-Carlo programme at Silver, Gold or Platinum level get in free once the tables open.

So the price is the same either way. The difference is what you get for it. The morning ticket buys you the rooms, a guide and the right to take pictures. The afternoon ticket buys you the rooms with the games running, plus a tenner of credit that SBM would very much like you to put in a slot machine. You don't have to. The bar counts too.

The Atrium, the Café de la Rotonde, the Salle Renaissance, Le Salon Rose and the boutique have no age limit, and the Atrium and boutique are free to walk into from 10am.

You must be 18. SBM's wording is that you have to be "at least one day older than" your 18th birthday, so the birthday itself doesn't count.

Bring a passport with a photo. EU nationals can use a national ID card instead. Photocopies are refused, and so is digital ID on a phone, which catches people out more than you'd think.

Then there's the rule that surprises most first-timers. Monaco residents may not gamble in the games rooms in any form, not even through someone else. Neither may public servants and agents of the state, region or national public bodies, or SBM's own employees. The games rooms also turn away uniformed military, clergy, anyone under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and people who have been barred.

In the morning, and in the areas open to everyone, it's relaxed: dress appropriately, and T-shirts, bermuda shorts and trainers are fine.

From 2pm in the games rooms it tightens. No shorts of any kind, including bermudas. No ripped or cut-out jeans, no sportswear, no trainers, no vest tops, no beachwear, and no flip-flops or sandals for men. After 7pm T-shirts and sweatshirts are out too.

The safe answer is trousers, proper shoes and a shirt with a collar. SBM says attire is "subject to approval by casino management and staff", which means the person at the door has the last word. Don't argue with it.

The tables offer French Roulette, Baccarat, Black Jack, Craps and Poker Texas Hold'em Ultimate. You buy chips at the cashier. That's the whole menu as SBM lists it.

Honestly, none of these games is better here than anywhere else. Roulette's maths doesn't care about chandeliers. The slot machines in the Salle Renaissance and the Salon Touzet carry the same negative expected value as every slot, and SBM doesn't publish their RTP settings, so you can't check what you're playing. If you want the room, the morning ticket gets you the room.

If you do want to play, play because the setting is worth something to you, and price the whole afternoon as entertainment. Treat the €10 credit as part of a €20 entry fee, not as a bonus. It's your own money coming back to you in a form that only works inside the building.

Decide the number before you climb the steps, and decide it in cash terms: the €20 door fee plus whatever you're prepared to lose, all of it, with nothing back. Leave the cards you don't need at the hotel. When the number's gone, the bar is still there and so is the Atrium. If the budget conversation is a hard one for you, read our responsible gambling guide first.

You go in by the main steps on the Place du Casino. Drivers can use the casino's underground car park on the Allée des Boulingrins, which joins the building. There's a lift at the Place du Casino entrance for visitors with disabilities. SBM doesn't publish public transport directions on the pages we read.