OKEECHOBEE, FL – With a grand opening ceremony scheduled for February 2025, the Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino has begun accepting reservations.
“Opening up reservations is yet another exciting step towards our grand opening,” said Marty Johns, General Manager. “We can’t wait to open the doors to this incredible property.”
The new resort, which will replace the existing Seminole Casino Brighton (first opened in 1980), will include a casino with a total of nearly 38,000 sq. ft., including space for a total of 640 slot machines and 18 tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other house-banked card games. Included in the totals are a smoke-free gaming space with 104 slot machines and a high-limit gaming area with 42 slot machines and four table games.
Dining options will include Ee-To-Lee-Kee Grill, a 24-hour restaurant; Josiah Steakhouse; Constant Grind Bistro, a fast-service and carry-out cafe offering a combination of items from a coffee bar; and Slice, and pizza kitchen. An indoor event space will offer 400 seats for banquet events or bingo games, or 900 seats set up as a performance hall. In a first for any Seminole Casino, the resort will also include Brighton Bay Bowling, a ten-lane 7,044 sq. ft. bowling alley with seats for dining.
The complex will include the first hotel to be built on the Brighton Seminole reservation. It will feature 100 guestrooms on four floors, totaling 72,000 sq. ft. Guestrooms will include a mix of rooms with either one king bed or two queen beds, plus three suites and a fitness center.
The resort’s new name, Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino, salutes popular sport fishing sites of nearby Lake Okeechobee, where Fisheating Bay is a little more than two miles from the new hotel and casino. Fisheating Bay and Fisheating Creek get their name from the Seminole name recorded on a military map of 1839, Thlothlopopka-Hatchee, translated as “the river where fish are eaten.”
Seminole Brighton Bay Hotel & Casino is currently filling positions in anticipation of its grand opening. For more information, visit www.gotoworkhappy.com.