NICE88 Casino in Cebu Philippines: NUSTAR, Waterfront and More

Casino in Cebu Philippines: Three Properties, Two Locations

A casino in Cebu Philippines search returns three properties across two spots on the island: NUSTAR Resort and Casino on Kawit Point, Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino in the city proper, and Waterfront Airport Hotel & Casino by Mactan-Cebu International Airport. All three sit under PAGCOR’s regulatory umbrella, the same body covering casino Manila Philippines’ Entertainment City resorts. NUSTAR is the newest of the three; the two Waterfront properties both opened in the 1990s. Each is covered below with its operator, opening date and location.

NUSTAR Resort and Casino

Universal Hotels and Resorts, a JG Summit Holdings subsidiary, runs NUSTAR, structured as a joint venture between the Cebu City Government and Universal Hotels and Resorts. The resort opened partially in 2022, with an official opening on May 8, 2022. It sits on Kawit Point, formerly Kawit Island, part of the South Road Properties (SRP) reclamation area in Cebu City. PAGCOR licenses the resort the same way it licenses every casino floor covered on this page, with the age floor at 21 here as everywhere else.

Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino

Waterfront Cebu City Casino Hotel operates this property in Cebu City, opened January 11, 1998, in time for that year’s ASEAN Tourism Forum. It was the second property to carry the Waterfront Hotel & Casino brand, two years behind its Mactan sibling. PAGCOR licenses this floor the same way it licenses NUSTAR and every private casino on this page.

Waterfront Airport Hotel & Casino

Built in 1996, this property was the first to carry the Waterfront Hotel & Casino brand — two years ahead of its Cebu City sibling. It sits directly across from Mactan-Cebu International Airport, in Lapu-Lapu, and includes a PAGCOR-operated Casino Filipino gaming area on-site. A player flying into Mactan meets this property before reaching Cebu City itself.

Cebu vs Manila: Comparing the Trip

Cebu’s three properties are smaller in number than Manila’s Entertainment City strip, where Solaire, City of Dreams, Okada and Newport World Resorts each run their own gaming floors — the full lineup sits on casino Manila Philippines’ resort comparison. Manila also has City of Dreams Manila specifically, covered in full on City of Dreams’ own resort profile, and Okada Manila, covered on Okada Manila’s resort details. Whichever island a trip starts on, the age floor is the same: PAGCOR bars persons under 21 from gambling nationwide. An online NICE88 casino session offers a third option that needs no flight at all — a bankroll and stake limits set from home, unconnected to NUSTAR, Waterfront or any Manila resort.