The casino opens at 11am and runs until 5am, with live tables from the early afternoon
Genting Casino Resorts World Birmingham sits inside the same building as the hotel. It is an open-door venue, so no membership is needed, but it is strictly over-18s and Challenge 25 is enforced at the door. Everything on this page is taken from the operator’s published pages and the Gambling Commission’s register.
Doors from 11am, live tables from the early afternoon
Three official pages give the opening hours as 11am to 5am every day.[1, 2] Live tables start in the early afternoon: most pages say 1pm, while the hotel’s casino page says 2pm.[1, 2, 4, 3] Arrive at opening and you will find machines rather than dealers, so if the tables are the point of the trip, check the time on the day.
Nobody has to join anything
This is one of the operator’s open-door venues, which means membership is not required to walk in. Guests can decide inside whether to register for the operator’s scheme or carry on as a visitor.[1, 2] Bring photographic identification regardless. The venue runs Challenge 25, so anyone who looks under 25 will be asked to prove their age, and hats and caps are turned away because faces need to be visible on the closed-circuit cameras.[1, 2]
What is on the floor
The operator names roulette, blackjack, baccarat and slots among the games available, alongside more than 100 slot machines, over 40 electronic gaming terminals and a dedicated high stakes area.[1, 2] A local review of casinos around Birmingham noted that this is the only venue in that cluster to publish floor figures at all, which is worth bearing in mind if you are comparing sizes.[4] Casino masterclasses are also advertised for anyone who wants the rules explained before playing.[1]
Two bars and a hireable room
The Sports Bar and the High Line Bar and Lounge both sit inside the casino, and both are over-18s only.[1, 7] High Line runs live music; check the venue’s own pages for the current schedule. Pendigo Suite, a flexible room beside the gaming floor, can be hired for meetings and celebrations; because it is reached through the casino, the 18+ rule and Challenge 25 apply to everyone attending.[1]
At a glance
Smart casual, with a short list of things turned away
The published standard is smart casual, and the operator is explicit that it does not expect formalwear. The exclusions are specific enough to be worth reading before you pack.[1, 2]
- Smart casual is the stated standard for the gaming floor.
- Smart jeans are accepted.
- Smart trainers are accepted.
- Club football shirts are not permitted.
- Muscle tops and vest tops are not permitted.
- Construction workwear is not permitted.
- Caps and hats are not permitted, so that faces remain visible on camera.
The premises licence sits with Solihull, and the operator licence is on the public register
Genting Casinos UK Limited appears in the Gambling Commission’s public register under account number 537, holding a non-remote casino licence under the Gambling Act 2005 numbered 000537-N-103203-037 and recorded as active from 13 January 2011.[5] A casino premises entry for Resorts World Birmingham, Pendigo Way, B40 1PU is listed with Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council as the licensing authority.[6]
We publish these details because they are checkable, not as any kind of endorsement. The register is searchable by anyone.[9] This guide is not the licensee, holds no licence and offers no gambling.
An open door, a 5am licence and machines running from late morning make this an unusually easy first casino visit: there is nothing to join and no need to plan. Turn up at eleven, though, and the tables will still be covered, which catches people out.
Decide what the evening costs before you arrive
Gambling carries a risk of losing money, and no game in any casino is designed to pay out more than it takes. Treat a set amount as the price of the evening rather than a stake you expect to recover, and leave the cash machine out of the plan.
Anyone who wants to stop visiting British casinos altogether can self-exclude from every licensed land-based casino in Great Britain through SENSE, either online or by asking to speak to a manager at any casino without entering the gaming areas.[8] Our responsible gambling page sets out how that works and where independent help is available.
Where each fact on this page came from
Every numbered marker above points to one of these pages, each of which was read on 2 September 2026. Where two sources disagreed, the difference is described in the text rather than smoothed over.
- Resorts World Birmingham, “Genting Casino”https://www.resortsworldbirmingham.co.uk/casino
- Genting Casinos, “Genting Casino Resorts World Birmingham”https://www.gentingcasinos.co.uk/casinos/genting-casino-resorts-world-birmingham/
- Genting Hotel, “Casino”https://www.gentinghotel.co.uk/casino
- The Solihull Observer, “Biggest Casino Near Birmingham, Six Venues Ranked”https://solihullobserver.co.uk/lifestyle/biggest-casino-near-birmingham-six-venues-ranked/
- Gambling Commission public register, Genting Casinos UK Limited, licence summaryhttps://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/business/detail/537
- Gambling Commission public register, Genting Casinos UK Limited, premiseshttps://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/business/detail/premises/537
- Resorts World Birmingham, “Genting Hotel”https://www.resortsworldbirmingham.co.uk/genting-hotel
- SENSE, the national self-exclusion scheme for the British casino industryhttps://senseselfexclusion.com/
- Gambling Commission, public register of gambling businesseshttps://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register