Quarters
Fourteen rooms, shutters on every window, wool blankets, and a desk that is actually a desk. Quay side or courtyard side.
A narrow house on a working quay
Fourteen rooms behind a grey stone front, a galley kitchen that opens early, a salt room in the cellar, and a very quiet card room on the top floor for guests over eighteen.
Where
Ankerplass quay, two streets behind the fish market and four minutes from the tram.
Size
Fourteen rooms over five narrow floors. One lift, added in 2019, that fits two people and a bag.
Meals
Breakfast from six, because the boats leave early. Soup and bread from seven in the evening.
Nearby
The Ankerplass strip: two theatres, a concert hall, late kitchens, and licensed gaming rooms at the north end.
Booking
By email only. No online payment, no deposit held on this website.
Close enough to walk, far enough to sleep
This was a ship chandler's house, then a boarding house for crews, and now fourteen rooms with decent beds and thick shutters. The stone is a metre deep at the base, which is why a street this busy sounds so far away once the door shuts.
Most people who write to us are planning casino city breaks — a couple of nights, one big evening out, and no interest in driving anywhere. The strip starts at the end of our street, so nobody here needs a taxi at two in the morning.
We are a small house with a small staff. There is no concierge desk, no spa menu, and no packages. Someone answers the door, someone cooks, and someone knows the tram timetable by heart.
Good casino travel is mostly logistics, and this house is built to remove them. You arrive, you walk everywhere, and you sleep properly in between.
What is in the house
Galley
One kitchen at the back. Breakfast from six, an evening pot of soup, and bread that comes out at five in the morning.
Salt room
A cellar steam room and a cold tap fed from the harbour spring. Ten minutes down there fixes most of a long day.
Card room
Top floor, four tables, guests aged eighteen and over with photo identification. Optional, quiet, and never part of a rate.
Two nights, three nights, or a week
Two nights is the common shape. Arrive in the afternoon, take one long evening on the strip, keep the second evening short, and leave after a slow breakfast. Most casino short stays we host look exactly like that.
Three nights is better if you want the city as well as the strip. It gives you a full day for the harbour museum, the island ferry, and the market without cutting anything.
A week changes the character of the trip entirely. Guests on longer casino vacations tend to go out twice, not six times, and spend the rest of the time reading in the galley and walking the sea wall. That is usually the version people repeat the following year.
| Night | Ankerplass | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Half closed | Theatres dark, kitchens shut at nine |
| Tuesday – Thursday | Steady | Best nights to eat out without booking |
| Friday | Busy from eight | Concert hall turns out at eleven |
| Saturday | Full | Book dinner, or eat here first |
| Sunday | Quiet, early | Market from seven, ferry runs hourly |
The best casino evenings we see here end early, on foot, with somebody eating soup in the galley at midnight.
What Ankerplass is actually like
The strip is one long street and two side lanes. Restaurants and bars run along most of it, the concert hall sits in the middle, and the casino entertainment district occupies the north end near the old customs house.
It is compact, well lit, and busy without being overwhelming, which is why casino tourism here tends to attract people who want an evening out rather than a weekend inside one building. You can walk the whole strip in twelve minutes.
Every venue is independently owned and licensed. We have no financial connection to any of them, receive nothing for mentioning them, and cannot make reservations on your behalf beyond telling you which number to call.
Two practical casino travel tips from the desk: carry photographic identification, because every gaming room on the strip checks it without exception, and settle on a finish time before you leave the house. Both make the evening better.
Things that save an email
- Rates are confirmed in writing. No card details are taken on this website at any point.
- Check-in from two, check-out at eleven, bags held either side at no charge.
- Casino getaway planning works better around the tram timetable than the room type — tell us your arrival time and we will tell you what is realistic that evening.
- Children are welcome in the quarters and the galley. They are never admitted to the card room.
- Our city notes page collects the rest: ferries, walking routes, market days, and where to eat after eleven.
House position. No wagering on this website. No claims about winning. Photo identification at the card room door, every time, and nobody under eighteen. Rooms and play are never sold together.
Some of the best casino experiences guests describe to us afterwards lasted about an hour: a few hands, a drink, and an early walk home along the quay. Short is not a failure. It is usually the point.