Journal · 15 November 2026
Two Fairmonts, two Loto-Québec casinos
Le Manoir Richelieu and Fairmont Tremblant are Québec's two Fairmont hotels with a Loto-Québec casino next door. They are very different trips.
Québec has four casinos, all run by Loto-Québec. Two of them sit beside a Fairmont hotel: the Casino de Charlevoix, next to Le Manoir Richelieu above the St. Lawrence, and the Casino de Mont-Tremblant, a shuttle ride from Fairmont Tremblant. Readers ask us which to choose, as if they were the same product in two colours. They are not.
| Fairmont Tremblant + Casino de Mont-Tremblant | Le Manoir Richelieu + Casino de Charlevoix | |
|---|---|---|
| Rooms | 310, including 65 suites | 405 rooms and suites |
| Link to the casino | Separate building on the Versant Soleil; car or shuttle | An underground passage, per Wikipedia |
| Casino size | Over 400 slots, 14 tables (visit page) | Over 700 slots, 9 tables (visit page, read 31 October 2026) |
| Casino opened | 24 June 2009 | 1994, in the Manoir's former summer theatre |
| The setting | Ski December–April; lake and golf in summer | A château above the St. Lawrence in the Charlevoix region |
| Entry age | 18+ | 18+ |
Le Manoir is the casino hotel in the strict sense: you walk to the tables without a coat. Its casino is older — it opened in 1994 in the hotel's former summer theatre, once called 'Le Casino' — and in our ranking it scores higher on the casino criterion. Tremblant is the mountain resort: ski-in, ski-out, a pool terrace that works in February, a bigger spa, and a casino that is an outing rather than a corridor.
So the choice is not between two hotels but between two holidays. If the river, the château and an easy walk to the casino are the point, go east to La Malbaie. If the snow, the lifts and the warm water after skiing are the point, and the casino is one evening among several, come to Tremblant. Both admit adults 18 and over; both are covered by Loto-Québec's self-exclusion programme.