Listed by character rather than rank. Opening hours, dress and rooms change, so confirm with the venue before you set out.
The Victoria is the big, busy all-nighter on the Edgware Road, a room that is built around the idea that nobody is going home early. It has the layout of a proper casino: table games in the middle and a long day-into-night rhythm.
“The one London floor that never has to be asked to stay open.”
Aspers sits inside the Westfield Stratford City complex, which makes it an unusual proposition: a casino you reach through a mall, with a floor that carries on after the last shutter comes down.
“A casino bolted to a shopping centre, and open when the shops are long dark.”
The Empire is right on Leicester Square, which means it catches the end of every West End evening: the post-show crowd, the cinema stragglers and the people who simply were not ready to go home.
“West End glitter with a floor that outstays the theatre crowd.”
The Hippodrome occupies a landmark Victorian entertainment building on the corner of Cranbourn Street and Charing Cross Road. It was built for spectacle, and the casino has leaned into that.
“A grand old theatre building that now deals cards until the small hours.”
Away from the West End crush, The Gloucester has more of a neighbourhood character: regulars, a steadier pace and a floor you can actually hear yourself think in.
“A calmer, west London alternative for a night that does not need to be loud.”
Coventry is the guide’s one step outside the capital, and the reason is simple: a proper 24-hour floor in the Midlands, where the evening can run its course without a last-train deadline.
“Proof that an all-night floor does not need a London postcode.”