On Mindil Beach, this is Darwin’s flashy casino complex, with accommodation, three restaurants and all the card tables, roulette wheels and pokie machines you need to help you lose your shirt (or win your fortune). To ensure you have a shirt to lose there’s a dress code, which means no singlets, thongs or scruffy clothing.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Darwin attractions

2. Myilly Point Heritage Precinct

0.19 MILES

At the far northern end of Smith St is this small but important precinct of four houses built between 1930 and 1939 (which means they survived both the…

3. Burnett House

0.19 MILES

At the far northern end of Smith St is a small but important precinct of four houses built in the 1930s and now on the Register of the National Estate…

4. Mindil Beach Sunset Market

0.27 MILES

Food is the main attraction here − from Thai, Sri Lankan, Indian, Chinese and Malaysian to Brazilian, Greek, Portuguese and more − all at around $6 to $12…

5. George Brown Botanic Gardens

0.49 MILES

These 42-hectare gardens showcase plants from the Top End and around the world − monsoon vine forest, the mangroves and coastal plants habitat, baobabs,…

7. Aquascene

0.82 MILES

At Doctors Gully, an easy walk from the north end of the Esplanade, Aquascene runs a remarkable fish-feeding frenzy at high tide. Visitors, young and old,…

8. Bicentennial Park

1 MILES

Bicentennial Park runs the length of Darwin's waterfront and Lameroo Beach, which inhabits a sheltered cove popular in the '20s when it housed the…