Visiting Coral Island Casino on Blackpool's promenade

Coral Island Casino is a small, land-based casino inside Coral Island, the pirate-themed amusement complex on Central Promenade in Blackpool (FY1 5DW). You can walk in without a membership, play American roulette from £1 a chip or blackjack from £5, and use a bar with sport on the screens. There is no Coral Island online casino: the operator’s Gambling Commission licence covers its Blackpool premises only. Below is what we confirmed on the venue’s own websites and on the regulator’s register on 10 November 2026.

Where Coral Island Casino is

Coral Island is the large arcade building on the seafront. The postal address is Coral Island, Central Promenade, Blackpool FY1 5DW. The casino describes its own spot as “on Central Drive, just off Blackpool Promenade”, so think of it as the back of the same block rather than a separate building down the road.

Getting there:

• By car: the casino points drivers to the Bonny Street car park, which is opposite.
• By tram: the casino says the nearest tram stop is a short walk away.
• On foot from the prom: go through Coral Island itself. Admission to the complex is free.

Opening times, and why you should phone first

This is the one area where the venue’s own pages disagree, so here is everything we saw:

Source on coralislandcasino.co.uk	What it says
Contact page	Mon–Thu 12pm–4am (tables from 2pm); Fri–Sun 10am–4am (tables from 12pm)
Live tables page	Tables “open from noon every day”
FAQ page	“The casino is currently closed”

The FAQ line looks like a leftover. The contact page is the most detailed, but if you are travelling in for a late session, ring the casino on 01253 627579 and ask whether the tables are running that day.

The wider Coral Island complex keeps its own hours: 10am until late Monday to Friday and 9:30am until late at weekends, according to coralisland.co.uk. From 1 May 2026 its adult gaming centre (the 18+ arcade, which is a separate area from the casino) opened 24 hours a day from Thursday to Sunday.

Tables, slots and stakes at Coral Island Casino Blackpool

Don’t expect a Las Vegas floor. The casino’s site lists two live table games, some electronic roulette and a short row of slots.

Game	What the casino lists
American roulette (live)	Chips from £1; a single number pays 35 to 1
Blackjack (live)	Bets from £5; side bets Perfect Pairs, 21+3, Top 3 and a Top Pairs progressive
Electronic roulette	Played on a live wheel or an automatic one
Slots	Around 20 machines, play from 10p, including Lucky Lady’s Charm, Book of Ra, Rainbow Riches, Cleopatra and Pharaohs Gold

The casino’s pages give two different starting stakes for electronic roulette, so check on the terminal before you put money in. New to roulette or blackjack? The casino’s FAQ says gaming staff will run through the basics if you ask.

Membership, ID and the dress code

Coral Island Casino says it is the only casino in Blackpool that does not ask for membership. If that holds, it is the clearest difference from the other casinos in town. A few rules still apply:

• You must be 18 or over. Staff may ask for ID if you look under 25.
• Once you play or win more than £1,500, you have to show ID and become a member.
• Offers and promotions are for members only. The casino runs a loyalty scheme called the Advantage Club, but its site gives no details of how it works.
• The dress code is smart casual.

Collecting winnings and keeping limits

The casino lists three ways to take a bigger win home: leave it with the casino and collect later, take a cheque, or have it sent to your bank account if you have a Visa debit card. The machines let you set a time or spending limit and warn you when you reach it.

Coral Island’s safer gambling page adds two more tools. You can ask the cash desk to cap how much you withdraw, and you can talk privately to the duty manager about self-exclusion. Our safer gambling page covers the national schemes, including SENSE for land-based casinos.

Coral Island casino and amusements: the rest of the building

The casino takes up one corner of Coral Island. The complex calls itself Blackpool’s largest free-admission attraction, and most of the floor is arcade. Inside you’ll find:

• Family rides: the Pirate Flyer, Camel Derby, the Pirates Quest ghost train and the Sky Rider.
• Arcade games: 2p pushers, ticket games and a prize shop. Tickets don’t expire.
• 18+ areas: the adult gaming centre with fruit machines, cash bingo run by video callers on touchscreen consoles, and Virtual Darts lanes. Darts costs £7 per person per hour, and each lane takes 1 to 8 players.
• Food: The Buccaneer, Captain Jack’s bar and grill, the Coral Harbour Kitchen and Bar food hall, two fish and chip restaurants and a takeaway chippy on the prom. Under-10s eat free with a paid adult meal, and you can’t book tables.

Only assistance dogs are allowed inside. The general enquiry line for the complex is 01253 293 133.

Who runs Coral Island

The venue is run by Leaguenotion, trading as Coral Island (company number 02540173, registered in London). On the Gambling Commission’s public register its account number is 1874. Its trading names are “coral island” and “nobles amusements”. It holds a non-remote casino licence under the 1968 Act (since May 2012) and licences for bingo, an adult gaming centre and a family entertainment centre.

We found no link between Coral Island and Coral, the high-street bookmaker. Coral belongs to Entain, and its online casino runs under a different company’s licence. We explain how to tell them apart on our Coral Island casino online page.

Is there a Coral Island online casino?

No. The register lists an “ancillary remote” licence for Leaguenotion, which only covers gaming on equipment inside its own premises. It has no full remote licence, which is what any online casino serving Great Britain needs, and it has no registered domain names. Any website calling itself “Coral Island Casino online” is not the Blackpool venue. That includes the earlier version of this domain, which made the same claim and was wrong.

If you came here wanting to play from home, our partner’s current offer comes from a different, separately licensed online operator. It is not Coral Island:

Check the current offer

Our verdict on Coral Island Casino

We couldn’t find a set of reviews we would trust enough to quote, so this is our own take from the venue’s published details. Coral Island Casino suits a casual hour of roulette or blackjack on a day out in Blackpool. You can walk straight in, the minimum bets are low, and food and the arcade are in the same building. It isn’t the place for a long poker night or a big choice of tables. If table games are the main reason for your trip, phone ahead to confirm the tables are open.

Quick answers

Is Coral Island Casino open today?

The casino's contact page lists Monday to Thursday 12pm to 4am and Friday to Sunday 10am to 4am, with tables starting later. An older FAQ on the same site still says it is closed, so phone 01253 627579 before you set off.

Do I need to be a member to play at Coral Island Casino?

No. You can walk in without joining. The casino asks for ID and membership once you play or win more than £1,500, and you need membership to get its offers.

What is the dress code at Coral Island Casino?

Smart casual, according to the casino's own FAQ.

Is Coral Island Casino the same as Coral casino?

No. Coral Island is run by Leaguenotion in Blackpool. Coral (sometimes typed as corals or koral casino) is the bookmaker owned by Entain, which holds a separate online licence.

Is there a Coral Island casino in Letterkenny?

We found no Coral Island casino in Letterkenny or anywhere in Donegal. The venue with that name is on Blackpool's Central Promenade.