Bergen, Norway — Fjordside Estate

Nokka Casino Resort Norway.

Nokka Casino Resort sits where the Byfjorden meets the pine ridge above Bergen — a granite-and-glass casino estate built around one idea: that a night of serious play deserves a serious setting. Sixty gaming tables, four hundred and twenty machines, an eleven-suite penthouse deck, and a fjord that turns green and violet at midnight.

1987Founded on the Bergen waterfront
60Live casino tables
212Rooms & suites
4Restaurants & a rooftop bar
Since 1987

Casino and card tables

Nokka Resort takes its name from the old Norwegian-Finnish word for a ship's bow — the part of the hull that meets the water first. It was chosen by our founder, the shipping heiress Ingrid Solheim-Aro, who converted her family's timber-and-herring warehouse on the Bergen waterfront into a private gaming room for visiting captains and merchants in 1987. What began as six card tables and a single roulette wheel in a converted net-loft grew, over four expansions, into the granite resort that stands today: a building designed to look like it is being launched into the fjord, prow first, toward the mountains of Askøy.

Every renovation since has kept the same discipline: nothing gets between the guest and the fjord. The gaming floor runs along a curved glass spine so that even at the baccarat pit, you can watch the water change colour with the hour. Locals will tell you Nokka is the only casino in Scandinavia where the staff apologise for the aurora when it interrupts a hand at the high-limit tables — it happens more than you'd think, particularly between October and March.

The Gaming Floor

Sixty live casino tables. Four hundred and twenty machines. One view.

The main floor is arranged in three curved tiers, each stepping down toward the fjord-facing windows, so no seat in the house is more than a glance from open water. Every tier is licensed and monitored under Norway's gaming compact for tourist-class resort casinos, with a dedicated compliance office on-site.

Tier One

The Aurora Pit

Blackjack, baccarat, and punto banco under a low brass-and-glass ceiling designed to soften table noise. This is where the resort's highest-limit hands are dealt, and where our longest-serving dealers — several with over twenty years at Nokka — work the late shift.

Tier Two

The Roulette Terrace

Eighteen wheels, including four American double-zero tables for visiting guests who prefer the format, arranged around a sunken bar so spectators can watch without crowding the rail.

Tier Three

The Slot Promenade

Four hundred and twenty machines spanning penny reels to six-figure progressive jackpots, laid out along a promenade of dark timber salvaged from the original 1987 net-loft floorboards.

Stakes & Limits

Table minimums, for planning your evening

Limits below apply to our standard floor between 18:00 and 04:00. The Aurora Pit's private alcoves can be reserved in advance for bespoke limits above the posted maximum — ask your host at check-in.

GameTablesMinimumStandard Maximum
European Roulette14kr 50kr 50,000
American Roulette4kr 100kr 50,000
Blackjack (6-deck shoe)16kr 100kr 100,000
Baccarat6kr 250kr 250,000
Punto Banco4kr 200kr 150,000
Three Card Poker6kr 50kr 40,000
Texas Hold'em (Poker Room)10kr 500 buy-inNo-limit cash games
Aurora Pit private alcove4By reservationNegotiated
The Bow Club

VIP lounges, invitation and application

Membership to the Bow Club — Nokka's VIP tier — grants access to three private lounges, a dedicated concierge line, and a separate elevator bank that runs directly from the underground valet to the eleventh-floor suites without passing through the main floor.

Silver Bow

Qualifying play & entry lounge

Open to guests who play a minimum average of kr 5,000 per session across three visits. Includes complimentary valet, priority seating at the Roulette Terrace, and a dedicated host during your stay.

Golden Bow

The Fjordroom

A private gaming salon on the tenth floor with two blackjack tables and one baccarat table reserved exclusively for members, plus a stocked cellar of Scandinavian aquavit and a private sauna suite overlooking the water.

Platinum Bow

The Wheelhouse

Our top tier: a single-table private room accessible only by member invitation, with your choice of dealer, bespoke limits, and a standing reservation at Solheim, our flagship restaurant, for the duration of your stay.

Slot Rewards

Nokka Points

Every machine on the Slot Promenade is enrolled in our points programme automatically — no card required beyond your room key. Points convert to dining credit, spa treatments, or a discounted rate on your next stay.

Dining

Solheim, our flagship dining room

Named for the resort's founding family, Solheim serves a tasting menu built around the Norwegian coast — line-caught cod, foraged juniper, cloudberries in season — designed by executive chef Aksel Rein, formerly of a two-Michelin-star kitchen in Oslo. Reservations are recommended at least a week in advance for guests not staying at the resort; house guests may reserve at check-in.

Beyond Solheim, the resort operates three additional venues: Dokken, a casual all-day brasserie on the ground floor near the gaming entrance; Skutevik Rooftop Bar, an open-air lounge with heated seating and unobstructed aurora sightlines on clear nights between September and April; and The Herring Room, a late-night snack bar built into the original 1987 net-loft, serving until 5am for guests coming off a long session at the tables.

Stay

212 rooms, and eleven suites that don't appear on the booking engine

Standard rooms occupy floors two through eight, each with a partial or full fjord view. Floors nine through eleven are reserved for our named suite collection, bookable directly through the resort's reservations desk.

Popular

The Solheim Suite

From kr 8,900 / night
  • 62 m², full-height fjord glass
  • Private sauna & soaking tub
  • Dedicated Bow Club host
Aurora Season

The Wheelhouse Loft

From kr 14,500 / night
  • Duplex, retractable roof panel
  • In-room single blackjack table
  • Priority Solheim reservations
Estate

The Prow Penthouse

From kr 26,000 / night
  • 140 m², three bedrooms
  • Private elevator bank access
  • Butler service & private chef on request
Entertainment

The Ishavet Theatre

Named for the Arctic Ocean, the 640-seat Ishavet Theatre sits below the gaming floor and hosts a rotating calendar of jazz, chamber ensembles, and touring cabaret acts, alongside Nokka's own late-night residency show, Midnight Tide, a music-and-aerial performance staged six nights a week. Tickets can be added to any room reservation, and Golden Bow and Platinum Bow members receive complimentary seating in the front three rows, subject to availability.

The theatre's acoustics were tuned by the same Oslo firm that designed the concert hall at the Norwegian Opera House, and its lobby bar, The Green Room, opens ninety minutes before curtain and stays open through last call at the tables.

Plan Your Stay

The tide turns nightly at Nokka

Reserve a room, request Bow Club membership, or simply ask our concierge team what the fjord looks like tonight.

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