Ottawa Casino Online, the Car-Free Way

The night begins aboard O-Train Line 2, bound for Leitrim Station. That stop is a bus station run by OC Transpo, with a Park & Ride, and it is where riders transfer to Line 2. OC Transpo posts its own train timetables, so look them up before leaving. No published bus route stops at the resort.

From the station, the resort shuttle takes over. Runs leave Leitrim Station on the half hour, the first at 7:30 AM, the last at 12:30 AM, with gaps covered below. A Unity by Hard Rock card, which costs nothing to join, lowers the fare. The driver takes card, credit or tap, never cash.

• Card or tapno cash on the resort shuttle
• Unity carda lower fare for members
• 7:30 AMfirst run from Leitrim Station
• 12:30 AMlast run from Leitrim Station

Every departure, both ways

The timetable has three holes. No shuttle runs from 11:00 to 11:59 AM, from 5:00 to 5:59 PM or from 10:00 to 10:59 PM. Time the train so you are at Leitrim Station for the 4:30 PM run or the 9:30 PM one. Miss either and the next departure is 6:30 PM or 11:30 PM.

Shuttle times can change without notice, the resort says, and it asks riders to check the current schedule on its shuttle page. Its timetable carries one set of times, with no separate weekday or weekend columns.

Hard Rock Ottawa opened on July 3, 2025, on the old grounds of Rideau Carleton Raceway, a harness track from 1962. Step off the shuttle at any hour and the floor is open. The floor, live tables too, never shuts: all hours, every day, through all 365 days in the year. Holiday changes are not published; the phone at 1-613-822-8668 is the check.

Under the floor lights are over 1,500 slot machines and 40 live table games, with roulette, blackjack, Ultimate Texas Hold'em, craps and baccarat among them. Past them lie a new baccarat room, electronic table games and a VIP High Limit Gaming area. The tool below shows which kitchens and bars are serving at your arrival hour.

Late at night, three places matter. YOUYU Noodle Bar closes at 1 AM every night, for eating in or taking away. From Monday to Friday the first orders come at 5 PM; on Saturday and Sunday, service begins at 3 PM. Hard Rock Cafe serves from 7 AM to 10 PM daily. On Friday and Saturday, its after-hours menu runs on until 1 AM.

Past that hour, Constant Grind in the Marketplace keeps pouring coffee, with pastries and house-made gelato, 24/7.

The last shuttle to Leitrim Station leaves the resort at 12:00 midnight, and after that the stop changes. Runs to Uplands Station leave the resort at 1:00, 2:00 and 3:00 AM. The return runs leave Uplands at 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30 AM. This guide covers the shuttle only, not what runs from Uplands Station. Between the 3:30 AM run and the first 7:00 AM departure, no shuttle runs.

If the 3:00 AM run has gone, the dead hours before dawn can be spent upstairs. The hotel at the resort has 150 rooms, 22 of them suites, and a Deluxe Queen sleeps up to four. Guests must be 19 or older. Check-in and check-out times are unpublished.

The night route after midnight

The age limit covers the entire property, not just the casino: the restaurants and the hotel are also 19 or older. Have photo ID from a government ready for the door: an Ontario Photo Card, for instance, or a passport or driver's licence. Anyone younger than 21 may be asked for two pieces of ID. Anyone signed up for My PlayBreak, the OLG self-exclusion program, has opted to keep away from all Ontario casinos for the length of their term.

Keep a payment card ready for the shuttle too: the driver takes card, credit or tap, never cash.

What goes in your pockets

Straight lines between town points on OpenStreetMap give a sense of scale from around the capital. Gatineau sits 16.9 km from the resort and Kemptville 31.2 km. Cornwall is 75.3 km away, Kingston 137 km and Montréal 160.6 km. Gatineau and Montréal are in Quebec. A road or a transit route is always longer than the line, and this guide gives no travel times.

Night Transfer's route links open Google Maps with the resort as the destination. Pick a town or use where you are, then choose transit or car.

Online casino play is regulated in Ontario. Anyone who plays has to be 19 or over and physically within Ontario. Before a private site may operate, the AGCO has to register it and iGaming Ontario must sign a deal with it, and that body publishes the list of approved sites. One online casino belongs to the government itself, and it goes by OLG.ca. Any site accepting bets from people in Ontario without AGCO registration is not a legal operator in the province.

On the home page, each link tagged Ad points to a single business that runs a private online casino. It sends the guide a commission, may be replaced by another firm, and is a different company from the resort. This guide gives it no endorsement; the iGaming Ontario directory lets you check any online casino against its entries.

Ontario online rules in full

• Free, confidential and available 24/7, ConnexOntario takes questions on gambling, mental health and addiction by phone at 1-866-531-2600, through chat at connexontario.ca, or when you text CONNEX to 247247.
• Choose 3 months or 6, or between 1 and 5 years, and My PlayBreak bars you from every casino in Ontario; enrolment is by phone at 1-800-387-0098, through casino staff or in a PlaySmart Centre.
• Run by iGaming Ontario, BetGuard (betguard.ca) lets any person aged 19 or over block themselves from all regulated gambling sites in Ontario in one step, including OLG.ca.

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