Rivers Casino Philadelphia Opens Luxury Suites Hotel at Nearby Battery
Rivers Casino City of Brotherly Love has finally opened a hotel more than 17 years after the companion that owns the belongings told commonwealth officials it would tender lodging.
Rivers Casino this hebdomad debuted its Riversuites Hotel at The Battery Philadelphia. The 62-room all-suite facility is portion of The Battery, a mixed-use coordination compound inner a former power flora along the Delaware River.
In add-on to its 62 guestrooms, the 500,00-square-foot Battery has 171 residential apartments, office staff space, a third house bar, an indoor gym, co-working space, a rooftop pool, a library and study, and a golf simulator. An outdoor wharfage provides buck private gathering blank for residents and tenants.
Eric Althaus, full general manager of Rivers Casino Philadelphia, says opening night a hotel has “always been something we wanted to do.”
This gives us another tool to submit upkeep of our guests and to work people to this expanse that typically don’t come up [northeast of the downtown area],” Althaus added.
Rivers Casino is owned and operated by Rush Street Gaming, a Chicago-based developer of regional casinos. The 45,000-square-foot gambling casino has over 1,500 one-armed bandit machines, 72 table games, and a BetRivers Sportsbook.
The casino in 2022 won $118.4 jillion on its slots and $98.2 million on its tables. Its oddsmakers won $13.1 million.
Hotel Adjacent to Casino
The Riversuites Hotel at The Battery is a unawares walk from the gambling casino along the Delaware River Trail. Rivers Casino officials say a free shuttle testament also ship guests between the facilities who doh non bid to urinate the roughly three-tenths of a mil walk.
The Riversuites rooms mountain range inwards sizing from 850 foursquare feet to nearly 2,300 straight feet. Each occupancy comes with a full kitchen, a sleeping room with a queen mole rat or Rex bed, a dining area, and a full bathroom.
Rooms put up at present be booked, with rates starting at $275 a nighttime before taxes and a $25 nightly resort hotel fee.
Hotel Long Overdue
When Rush Street Gaming applied for its Philly casino certify inward 2006, accompany reps told the Keystone State Gaming Control Board (PGCB) that the gambling casino would include a hotel.
The Battery was highly-developed and is owned by Ira Lubert through and through his tangible acres steadfastly Lubert-Adler. Lubert is behindhand a architectural plan to open up a mini-casino in State College nigh Keystone State State University at the Nittany Mall. He’s partnered with Bally’s on the project, but a effectual challenge to the PGCB awarding Lubert the license is ongoing.
Rush and Lubert-Adler didn’t disclose publicly their financial arrangement.
Rivers Casino trueness members participating inward Rush Rewards tin can now habituate their points for stays at The Battery. Negro cardholders characterize for a disengage night stay. The tier up unwavering begins at 25,000 points.
Rush Rewards credits one gunpoint for every $5 wager on slots, $10 on video poker, and $10 in sports bets. Table and electronic mettlesome credits are based on middling bet and time played and vary past spirited type.