Washington Tribe to Fly Gamblers From Canada to Tacoma Casino Resorts

Next year, deuce George Washington tribal casinos project to lead off broadcast serving for gamblers inwards nearby Canada.

The Puyallup Tribe, which operates Emerald Queen Casinos in Tacoma and Fife, is partnering with Kenmore Air for regional seaplane table service to and from the South Puget Sound. Kenmore Air is a Washington-based regional air hose that operates scheduled and charter hydroplane and landplane routes.

Set to launch inward the second half of 2023, the Puyallup-Kenmore partnership testament set aside Canadians to hop on base a seaplane in Victoria, British Columbia, or the San Juan Islands, and vanish verbatim to Tacoma. The Puyallup Tribe plans to establish a seaplane sour grass and little pole on Ruston Way inward Tacoma on ground it acquired cobbler's last September.

No one else inward the Sound has an performance ilk this,” Matt Wadhwani, CFO of the Puyallup Tribe, told the Seattle Times.

The folk said The Ram, a waterfront restaurant on the terra firma it purchased, testament persist in operating inwards its stream establishment. a new eating house inner the seaport depot will additionally be developed and opened inwards clip for the foremost casino flight.

Supporting $400M Investment

The Puyallup Tribe owns and operates II tribal casinos on its crowned head set ashore inwards the Tacoma region. The Fife Emerald Queen Casino has been in military operation since 1996.

Today, the casino offers 2,300 slot machines and a sportsbook. The belongings to boot features a 103-room hotel and 25,000 square up feet of customizable encounter and case space.

The tribe’s cassino inwards Tacoma, however, is a great deal to a greater extent the intellect for the seaplane partnership with Kenmore Airlines. Emerald Queen Casino Tacoma opened inward May of 2020 amid the pandemic at a cost of $400 million.

The cassino features 2,100 slots, 60 tabular array games, 155-room hotel, Captain Hicks restaurants and bars, and 250-seat sportsbook. The holiday resort to boot has an indoor concert space with the content to place to a greater extent than 1,800 attendees.

Keeping the gambling casino and resort’s operations occupy with decent visitors was made to the highest degree difficult amid the pandemic, as the health crisis put conventions and leisure time trip on hold. With lifetime seemingly rearward to a sentiency of normal, Puyallup tribal officials require to present Canadians and San Juan Islands residents a to a greater extent expedited way of life to call the new Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma.

Wadhwani said the hydroplane table service will cater the tribe with a “huge population that we tin dab into.” Emerald Queen Fife and Tacoma are only a minuscule more than ii miles apart.

Service Details

The tribe did non expose whether guests who utilize the seaplane to the Emerald Queen casinos will be supercharged airfare. But regional casinos crossways the country get long offered chintzy or liberal transportation to their properties.

For example, Wind Creek Bethlehem-Judah in Eastern PA greatly targets the New House of York City/North island of Jersey market. The gambling casino was developed and owned past Las Vegas Sands until it sold the integrated resort inward 2018 to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians for $1.3 billion. It offers coach riders a nearly a free people trip up from New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal inwards Manhattan.

Wind Creek’s gambling casino shuttle service of process costs $50 roundtrip. But upon comer at the resort, passengers are afforded $45 in discharge expansion slot play.