Casino Hotels of Gangtok
A plain-text list of the casino-hotel premises catalogued in this archive. Entries are organised by the licence-status categories used throughout the site: active, historical, and unverified. No photographs of gaming floors, tables, or interiors appear here — this is a written record only.
Reported as currently active
- Casino Sikkim Deltin (successor operation) — hotel annex, reported open since 2011. Current licence status: verify with state gaming authority.
- Gangtok hotel-casino operation (2010s renewal) — hotel annex, reported licence renewal activity from 2013. Current status: verify with state gaming authority.
Historical or lapsed records
- Casino Sikkim (Gangtok riverside license) — hotel annex, widely cited opening around 1995 as one of the earliest licensed operations in the state. Exact dates: verify with state gaming authority.
- Casino Mahjong (Gangtok hotel annex) — hotel annex, reported operating in the late 1990s. Closure date and licensing lineage: verify with state gaming authority.
- Gangtok hotel-casino relicensing case (2000s) — hotel annex, reflecting a documented pattern of relicensing and rebranding among Gangtok operations during the 2000s. Specific parties: verify with state gaming authority.
Unverified records
- Gangtok standalone gaming house (unnamed record) — standalone building, referenced in secondary tourism-era accounts. Existence, name, and dates: verify with state gaming authority.
- Hotel Tashi Delek gaming room (period reference) — hotel annex, appears in period travel writing about early licensed venues. Not independently confirmed here.
- Standalone premises record (2000s) — standalone building, referenced in tourism-development literature of the period. Not independently confirmed here.
A note on building types
Nearly all of Sikkim's licensed casino operations are structured as an annex or dedicated floor within an existing hotel, rather than as a freestanding gaming building. This "hotel annex" model reflects the licensing framework's original design, which tied casino licences to hospitality premises as part of a broader tourism strategy. A smaller number of accounts reference standalone premises; these are generally harder to verify and are marked accordingly in this archive.
For interactive filtering by status, decade, and building type, see The License Ledger. For the statutory basis of these licences, see The Act Behind the Ledger.