Closed historical entity
SkyCity Queenstown Wharf, also called Wharf Casino and formerly associated with the Lasseters Wharf name, closed during the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 and did not reopen. SkyCity’s corporate licence table records that the licence was surrendered on 28 March 2024.
Closed means closed. Old directory pages that display daily hours, a phone number, games, restaurants, hotel offers or a nearby-active relationship are stale and are not reproduced here.
Not the active SkyCity Queenstown
The active venue is SkyCity Queenstown at Level 2, Stratton House, 16–24 Beach Street. The two records have different identifiers and may not inherit operational fields from one another.
Timeline
- 23 March 2020: Wharf Casino closed at the start of New Zealand’s first COVID-19 lockdown.
- 2020–2023: Corporate reports continued to describe the venue as closed and not expected to reopen.
- 28 March 2024: the venue licence was surrendered.
Primary evidence
SkyCity Entertainment Group licence table, checked 2026-10-04. The record is also described in SkyCity’s FY24 annual reporting.
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