Chile Welcomes Newest Casino

The $50 million Ovalle Casino Resort is holding its grand opening this week in Chile’s central Coquimbo region. It features 230 slot machines, 13 table games and 60 bingo seats and is already planning to expand early next year with a hotel, an outdoor theater and an observatory.

Chile’s Ovalle Casino Resort is holding a formal opening of the US million property on September 4.

The country’s newest gaming venue, located in the central Coquimbo region, features 230 slot machines, 13 table games and 60 bingo seats. A 78-room four-star hotel is slated to open next March along with four restaurants, an open-air theater, a museum, a spa and an observatory.

At full build-out it will employ more than 1,500 people, said the developers, Argentina’s Boldt group and Grupo Peralada of Spain.