Also I saw something about a TEMPORARY card for visitors when I was leaving, so possibly this would be an even easier process. You can’t take big bags in, but there are lockers available. Just thought I’d review so others could see the process to get in.

It’s a fairly big casino, nothing too special about it. The casino provides a vibrant and lively atmosphere for gambling enthusiasts. Most recently in 2012, the casino underwent a multimillion-pound refurbishment and was renamed. In November 2007, the two sister casinos, 'Spielers Casino' and 'Westcliff Casino', were refurbished by Genting Stanley to create the casinos named Southend Mint. Winnings went onto card (had a good couple of hours and left with 10 times the cash I started with ) ) Took the card to a cash out machine in the casino and withdrew the cash I won. Try your luck at the slot machines, table games, or poker rooms. The building itself actually descends three floors down. Played Roulette Machine by putting card in, then cash. Then went into casino, didn’t play any table games. It sold its 17 stake for 415 million in 2016. Go to a machine (no queue), use passport and put in personal details etc, let machine take a photo of me, then machine gives me a card. Sister firm Genting Malaysia Bhd., which operates the country’s casino resort, has invested in Genting Hong Kong before, more than two decades ago.

Read the reviews before I visited so didn’t actually expect to be able to go to casino as I wasn’t going to wait hours to get a card - BUT that turned out to not be the case at all, maybe the process has changed since the reviews but here’s what I had to do:

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