Last reviewed 27 October 2026
The gaming room is one room of a small hotel, open five evenings a week. Everything on this page is arranged face to face, by the people working the floor and the front desk.
Where the house stands
We would like a guest to play for an evening, enjoy it and go to bed, with no long night to regret afterwards. That shapes how the room is run: eight tables that close at one, no credit, and no cash machine in the room or in the corridor outside it. The bar in the room stops serving before the tables close.
Adults only, checked every time
Guests must be eighteen or over. Photo ID is checked at the door on every visit, however recently you were last asked, and a passport, an Australian driver licence or a proof-of-age card will do. Nobody under 18 enters the room at any hour, and we have never made an exception.
What the staff can arrange, on the spot
- A limit for the evening. Say what it is before you sit down and it will be written down and held to. If you'd like staff to suggest a figure, ask.
- A time limit. Tell the floor staff when you'd like a reminder of the time and they will give you one, in plain words.
- A break. Ask and the table will be held for twenty minutes while you get some air, and no one will comment.
- A quiet period. If you want to be kept out of the room for a stretch of days, say so at the desk and it is written down.
- Self-exclusion. Arranged in person at reception and signed at the desk, effective the same evening. It stays in place until you come back in person to lift it; staff will not lift it over the telephone, whoever is asking.
All of it happens in person, in the building. The website has no form for any of it, and none of it can be arranged by email, because we want to be face to face when it is agreed.
Signs worth noticing in yourself
- Playing longer than you meant to, more evenings than you meant to.
- Going back the next night specifically to win back what went the night before.
- Being vague with the people you came with about how the evening went.
- Thinking about the tables while you are on a boat you paid for.
- Money meant for the trip going into the evenings.
Any one of these proves nothing by itself. Two or three together are worth a conversation with yourself, and staff here have had that conversation with guests before without making it awkward.
How staff are trained
Everyone who works the floor is briefed before their first shift and again every six months: how to set and hold a limit, how to handle a guest who has had too much to drink, how to take a self-exclusion without turning it into a scene, and when to fetch the duty manager instead of handling it alone. The duty manager is in the building every evening the room is open.
How to ask
Speak to whoever is on the floor, or to the front desk, at any hour reception is staffed, which is half past six in the morning until eleven at night. There is no appointment to make and no need to explain yourself. Say the word and it is dealt with there and then.