Upstate New Yorkers will get their first look at the new hotel at del Lago Resort & Casino just in time for the Fourth of July weekend.
Spa del Lago opens its doors on Saturday, two weeks ahead of schedule, with 205 rooms and 30 suites, 3,700 square feet of banquet space, a Lavazza-branded coffee shop and a café and bar.
“We were always hopeful that we could move the opening date up and we are excited,” said Executive Vice President and General Manager Jeff Babinski said.
Del Lago debuted February 1 in the city of Tyre in the state’s Finger Lakes region. Built for $440 million and featuring 1,980 machine games and 99 table games, it is one of four full-scale commercial casinos approved by New York voters in 2013.
And as the largest of the three that are up and running it has been the revenue leader, grossing $52 million on the gaming floor through May 31, according to new figures released by the New York State Gaming Commission.
Rivers Casino & Resort, which opened in Schenectady a week after del Lago with 1,150 slots and 67 table games, has generated $46.8 million through the same period. A 165-room hotel is slated to debut there in mid-July.
Tioga Downs in south-central New York, a former racino that expanded with full casino gaming in December of last year, has grossed $34.8 million from around 840 machine games and 25 tables.
If current trends hold, the three will win a combined $267 million in 2017, shy by some $58 million of the state’s projection of $325 million.
The last of the four, Resorts World Catskills, is scheduled to open in the first quarter of next year.
