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Hippodrome Casino, Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 7JH Role Resigned Director. Judged the Best Steak Restaurant in London by the customers of Bookatable, the 100-seat Heliot Steak House has some of the best views of any restaurant in London, overlooking the main casino gaming floor at The Hippodrome. Reserve your seats today.

King's Day at The Hippodrome Casino

Celebrate King’s Day at the Hippodrome Casino on Friday 27th April!

All visitors from the Netherlands can get a very special offer of 25% Off food at the Heliot Steak House. Please bring your passport or picture ID.

Judged the Best Steak Restaurant in London by the customers of Bookatable, the 100-seat Heliot Steak House has some of the best views of any restaurant in London, overlooking the main casino gaming floor at The Hippodrome.

Reserve your seats today.

King’s Day (formerly Queen’s Day) festivities invite locals and visitors alike to join in the traditional Amsterdam celebrations, where the streets burst with orange as Amsterdammers enjoy the biggest street party of the year. Amidst orange-pride, live music, DJs, parties and a citywide street market, you’ll find an electric atmosphere not to be missed at the Hippodrome Casino King’s Day celebrations.

History of King’s Day:

Amsterdam celebrated King’s Day (Koningsdag) for the first time in 2014, after the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander on 30th April 2013 (what was then still Queen’s Day).

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The royal celebrations were first held on 31st August 1885 in honour of the birth of Queen Wilhelmina, and the Queen’s Day (Koninginnedag) tradition was born. After Wilhelmina’s daughter (Juliana) succeeded to the throne in 1949, the day was changed to 30th April in accordance with the new Queen’s birthday.

When she became queen, the now Princess Beatrix chose to retain the day in honour of her mother but as of 2014, King’s Day is officially celebrated on 27th April (the King’s birthday).

The name may have changed slightly but the festive spirit of the day is sure to remain! You’ll be treated to a sea of orange as everyone is covered head to toe in oranje(orange) as a show of pride for the Dutch Royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

Every year, the royal entourage visits a town or municipality in the Netherlands as part of the celebrations.

Leicester Square

There is a Hippodrome online casino– we feature it on this site, and it’s one of our recommended casinos for roulette.

But the most famous Hippodrome Casino is the one in Leicester Square. If you are ever in the West End, you should pop in and check it out. It’s well worth a visit.

The Hippodrome is an iconic building on the corner of Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square, opposite Leicester Square Tube station. It’s been a theatre and a music hall in the past and is now a casino with a club, restaurants and bars spread out over 4 floors. Your other option that is simlar in London is Aspers Stratford– but that´s about a 30 minute cab ride from town. The nice thing about the Hippodrome is that it´s right in the thick of it.

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At the beginning of 2006, entrepreneur Charmaine Haig took on the lease of the building and set about getting a casino licence. He ended up running it as a private event venue before selling the lease on to Jimmy and Simon Thomas in 2009, who restored the building with a £40million investment.

The Hippodrome Casino was opened in July 2012 with 4 floors of casino gaming, a Gold Room casino in the basement, the Heliot restaurant, 6 bars, a smoking terrace and The Matcham Room cabaret theatre.

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The Best Bit.

Our favourite bit is Lola’s Underground Casino in the basement (which was formerly the Gold Room). Lola’s is a unique area with live entertainment in the middle of the gaming action, with one of London’s few craps tables (which they have renamed “Dice” for the locals, plus roulette and blackjack tables that surround a cage with Lola’s gorgeous dancing girls.

Lola’s is a throw back to the Hippodrome of 1900. Then, if you head upstairs there is a big gaming floor and sweeping staircases up to the third floor cocktail bar. The Heliot Steak restaurant at the top of the gallery overlooking the gaming floor is a must if you like your sirloin. We had a medium 300g (10 oz) Sirloin USDA Prime Steak (medium rare). Delicious.

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The main arena casino floor has a cool central bar and full-height ceiling all the way up to the minstrel’s gallery of the original theatre. It’s a spectacular setting in which to play roulette.

You’ll find lots of European Roulette tables here and plenty of video roulette games scattered about- there’s even a video roulette section around the back of the main gaming floor area.

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In total there are more than 45 casino tables with Roulette, Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Dice, Pai Gow, Baccarat, Casino War covered, plus lots of video games: roulette, slots and video poker.

And if you are a smoker, head upstairs to the 2 tier smoking terrace- you can play up here too, or just grab a drink from the bar. The whole place is just great for wandering around and exploring. Just don’t lose your mates!

Table Limits at the Hippodrome

Straight up £1 – £300 (Min/Max)
Even chance bets: £10 – £5000
Dozen/column: £10 – £2500
Dragon Bet: £1 – £10

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Hippodrome run a special bet called a Dragon Bet on Dragon Roulette. You can win up to 300x your stake.

How to Play the Dragon Bet

– Pass your chips to the Croupier
– Say ‘Dragon Roulette bet’ And the ‘number’ you want to bet on
– If your number wins with a dragon next to it you win

Silver Dragon + Number: 100:1 pay off
Gold Dragon + Number: 300:1 pay off.

Video Roulette Games

The Hippodrome has 97 Novomatic Roulette machines with 2 “Live Roulette Dealer” games and one “electronic wheel” Game.
Minimum bet: 20p, maximum bet £50 per chip.

They also have 8 Franco Tombola roulette machines.
These novelty roulette games have a Bingo style tumbler- you spin your own numbers.

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The Hippodrome also runs an online casino which we feature here on this site. They run a £1000 new player´s bonus.