Customers are asked to pre-book their visits online, while new visitors arriving after midnight will be refused admittance. to 4 a.m., with capacity of each of its four sections limited to 250 people to allow for physical distancing.

“It just wasn’t the same at all.” With COVID-19 protocols in place, Casino du Lac-Leamy in Gatineau reopened Thursday after being closed for four months because of the pandemic. “It’s very, very different,” Corbeil said, noting the absence of the sort of bright, noisy atmosphere that would be part of the allure of casinos. She described Thursday’s state of affairs as “disorganized.” Lucie Corbeil, meanwhile, only goes to casinos two of three times a year, but had brought her parents with her from Montreal to celebrate their 60th anniversary at Lac-Leamy. “But, if I don’t like it, too bad, because they’re not going to get my money,” she said. She planned to return to visit the other sections. “Maybe they have them on the other side, but I can’t go over there,” she said.

Like Normand and Lepage, Arbique also arrived Thursday to find none of her favourite games in the section where she was booked: no Mayan Chief, no Diamonds, no China Shores. Gatineau resident Nicole Arbique, who went online to book visits for each of Lac-Leamy’s first four days open and three more next weekend, likewise described her experience as “very, very disappointing.”Ī longtime regular slots fan, she can easily play for 24 hours straight without sleeping, Arbique said, and she very much missed the casino over the last four months, instead spending much of her free time painting on her iPad. Toutant was less fortunate, losing about $400. Still, she said, she left with $110 more than when she arrived.

Photo by Bruce Deachman / PostmediaĬéline Lepage and Guy Toutant, who had been twice-weekly regulars before the casino’s March closure, were also among those who returned Thursday, with Lepage describing it as just “OK,” and similarly noting her disappointment with the limited selection of slots. “But we’ll come back.” Céline Lepage and Guy Toutant, who had been twice-weekly regulars at the Casino du Lac-Leamy before it closed in March, were among the customers who returned for its re-opening on Thursday.

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