Sihanoukville Casinos

Sihanoukville was once Cambodia's casino capital by the sea. At the peak of the boom, dozens of casino hotels rose along its beaches, most of them built for Chinese tourists and many of them tied to online gambling operations. That era is over. The 2019 ban on online gambling emptied much of the city, and a wave of license suspensions in 2025 and 2026 closed more venues⁴. What remains is a much smaller scene, and the centerpiece for ordinary visitors is Queenco Hotel & Casino on Victory Beach, a long-established resort that still runs its casino around the clock¹.

For the wider picture of gambling in Cambodia, including the bigger casino cluster in Phnom Penh and the border towns, see our separate guides. This page is about Sihanoukville specifically: what is actually open, where it is, and what a first visit looks like.

Queenco Hotel & Casino: the main casino resort on Victory Beach

Queenco Hotel & Casino is the resort most visitors mean when they talk about a Sihanoukville casino. It sits directly on the white sand of Victory Beach, on the northwestern edge of the city, and it combines a full hotel with a casino that never closes¹.

The resort has been around long enough to have a track record, which matters in a city where casino hotels have opened and shut with startling speed. While newer towers around town were built around online gambling operations that were banned in 2019, Queenco kept operating as a conventional beachfront casino resort⁴. That makes it the most dependable option if you want to combine a beach holiday with some table games.

The property describes itself as a seaside retreat along Victory Beach's powdery sand, and the beach really is the draw: you can walk out of the casino and onto the sand within a minute or two¹. For many visitors, that combination of beach and 24-hour gaming is the whole appeal of Sihanoukville, and Queenco delivers it in one place.

Where it is and how to get there

Queenco Hotel & Casino is on Victory Beach in Sihanoukville, on Cambodia's southern coast¹. The resort is about 17 km from Sihanoukville International Airport (KOS), which is the main practical detail for most travelers: after landing, you are a short taxi or transfer ride from the casino, not a long haul¹.

From the city center and the Serendipity and Ochheuteal beach area, Victory Beach is a few minutes' ride by tuk-tuk or taxi. The beach sits close to the port area, northwest of the main tourist beaches.

If you are combining Sihanoukville with the Vietnamese border coast, note that the Ha Tien Vegas Entertainment Resort on the Cambodian side of the border near Ha Tien is about 150 km away, roughly 3 hours by car⁷. Some travelers do that trip as a day or overnight excursion, but it is a separate destination with its own casino, hotel, restaurants, karaoke, spa and other facilities⁸.

The casino: games, table limits and opening hours

The casino floor at Queenco offers the standard lineup for a Cambodian casino of this size¹:

• Baccarat, the game that dominates every Asian casino floor
• Blackjack, for a card game against the house
• Roulette, for table variety
• Slot machines, for play away from the tables

For more on how these games work, see our guides to Baccarat in Cambodia and slot machines in Cambodia.

Table limits are set to suit all players, from what the resort calls novice gamers to experienced high rollers¹. In practice that means you will find low-minimum Baccarat tables alongside higher-limit ones, so you do not need a large bankroll to sit down. If you are new to table games, low-limit Baccarat is the usual starting point in Cambodia because the rules are simple and the pace is slow.

The casino is open 24 hours every day¹. There is no closing time, no last call and no need to plan your evening around the tables. This is worth knowing in Sihanoukville specifically, because the city's nightlife has thinned out since the boom years, and a casino that is always open is one of the few things that reliably is.

One entry point to keep in mind: casinos in Cambodia serve foreign passport holders, not Cambodian citizens, and venues may ask to see your passport, in line with the country's gambling regulations⁹. Carry your passport when you plan to play, the same as you would at NagaWorld in Phnom Penh or the border casinos in Poipet and Bavet.

Rooms and buildings at the resort

Queenco Hotel & Casino has 199 rooms and suites, spread across two buildings¹:

The beachfront building is the quieter, more atmospheric side of the property, with the older architecture and direct access to the sand. If you want newer fittings and a more conventional hotel feel, the modern building is the one to request. The resort describes all 199 rooms as "luxuriously appointed," with an emphasis on "convenience, comfort and privacy" for travelers¹.

For a resort of this size, 199 rooms is modest by Sihanoukville boom-era standards, when towers of 200 or more rooms were common. Jin Bei Palace, for example, is a seven-story building with more than 200 luxury rooms². But Queenco's scale works in its favor for a relaxed stay: the property does not feel like a giant complex, and the beach is never far from your door.

Other casinos in Sihanoukville, such as Jin Bei Palace

Beyond Queenco, the picture in Sihanoukville is mixed, and it has been changing quickly. Here is where the main names stood as of the most recent reports:

The most prominent other name is Jin Bei. The Jin Bei Palace Hotel is a seven-story building with more than 200 luxury rooms and a large casino, and as of October 2025 it remained open and busy with Chinese-speaking guests, even while under US sanctions². However, in November 2025 the Jin Bei casinos in Sihanoukville's Buon commune, described by local police as having multiple locations, closed and asked their workers to quit³.

The closures go wider than Jin Bei. Cambodia's Commercial Gambling Commission has suspended and revoked casino licenses across the country, and the notices have named specific Sihanoukville venues: Casino Jin Pei Bun in Village 4, Sangkat 4, Preah Sihanouk City, and G.C. Casino on Street 103 in Village 3, Sangkat 4¹⁰. A wave of suspensions followed sanctions connected to a Cambodian prince in late 2025³.

This is the latest chapter in a longer decline. Sihanoukville's casino boom was built substantially on online gambling, and when Cambodia banned online gambling in 2019, many gaming venues in the city shut their doors for good⁴. The Golden Sand Hotel and Casino, one of the names from that era, was among the properties caught up in the crackdowns that followed¹¹. Before the boom, Sihanoukville had only a couple of smaller operations catering mainly to expats and tourists, and the city may be drifting back toward something like that scale¹².

The history is older than the boom, too. Sihanoukville has had casinos since at least 2000, when the casino at the Holiday Hotel in Phnom Penh chose to move to Sihanoukville, betting on the coastal city's future as a gaming destination¹³. For two decades that bet paid off spectacularly, and then it did not.

For a full list of what is open across the country, see casinos in Cambodia, and for the capital's much larger and more stable scene, see casinos in Phnom Penh.

Is Sihanoukville still open to travelers?

Yes. Despite the casino closures and the headlines around them, Sihanoukville as a destination remains open, and travelers should not assume that casino hotels or the city itself are closing⁵.

What has changed is the character of the place. The city is quieter than at its peak, some developments stand unfinished or empty, and the tourist infrastructure is thinner than it once was. But the beaches, the islands offshore, the airport and the hotels that remain are all functioning, and Queenco on Victory Beach continues to operate as a normal beachfront casino resort⁵.

The one thing to plan around is which venues are actually open. Between the 2019 online gambling ban, the 2025 sanctions wave and the license suspensions that have continued into 2026, the list of operating casinos in Sihanoukville has shrunk repeatedly⁴. Confirm directly with any property other than Queenco before you build a trip around it.

On who may play: casinos in Cambodia are for foreign passport holders, and Cambodian citizens are not admitted to the gaming floors⁹. Bring your passport, expect it may be checked, and see our page on gambling in Cambodia as a visitor for the details.

A first visit: what to expect

If you are heading to Queenco or another Sihanoukville casino for the first time, here is what the experience generally looks like.

Getting in is simple. Arrive with your passport, since foreign-only casinos in Cambodia may request it along with your visa under the country's gambling regulations⁹. There is no membership requirement at a resort casino like Queenco; hotel guests and walk-in visitors both use the same floor.

Dress is casual by big-casino standards. Sihanoukville is a beach town, and no local venue publishes a formal dress code. As a safe rule for the region, smart casual works everywhere, and the standard set at comparable casinos in the region is to keep these off the floor¹⁴:

• Swimwear
• Sleeveless tops
• Sleepwear

Shoes are worn at all times¹⁴.

On the floor, expect Baccarat to dominate. Queenco's lineup is Baccarat, Blackjack, Roulette and slots, with table limits spanning novice-friendly minimums to high-roller levels¹. The atmosphere is relaxed rather than formal, and because the casino runs 24 hours, the quiet hours are late morning and early afternoon if you prefer an uncrowded room¹.

Money is handled in US dollars in practice, as it is across Cambodian casinos; see our page on gambling payments in Cambodia for how chips, cash and cards work. Set a budget before you sit down, since low-limit tables make it easy to play longer than planned.

Finally, keep your expectations for the city calibrated. Sihanoukville today is a quieter, more workaday beach city with a handful of surviving casinos, not the neon casino strip of the late 2010s. If you come for the beach, the islands and a few relaxed sessions at a 24-hour table on Victory Beach, the city delivers exactly that¹.