{"id":23298,"date":"2015-02-11T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23298"},"modified":"2015-02-11T01:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T09:00:44","slug":"wednesday-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23298","title":{"rendered":"Crystal Casinos Using On-Board Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crystal<\/a>Two things in life that cannot be refuted:<\/p>\n

1. We live in a points world.<\/p>\n

2. Everybody likes free stuff<\/p>\n

And so it is that Crystal Cruises<\/a> is raising that bar for the rest of the industry, by allowing passengers to convert “on-board credits” into “gambling dollars.”<\/p>\n

Starting next month, when the Crystal Symphony<\/a> sails out of Singapore<\/a> for Hong Kong<\/a>, passengers with shipboard credits will be able to convert them into vouchers or chips that they can use in the ship’s casino. In an era when casinos on land regularly offer customers “free play” cruise lines are getting with the times, and why not?<\/p>\n

“On-board” credits means spending your money “on board” the ship, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

Neither the credits at the sea nor the free play on land can be redeemed as cash. They have to be “played” but once they are, any winnings can be turned into cash. And on Crystal’s ships, any on-board credits not spent in the casino can be returned to the room account.<\/p>\n

Crystal is not the first cruise line to allow this, but usually it comes with a catch. Also a charge. By allowing it to happen without nickel-and-diming the customers — and then talking about it — Crystal is setting this bar higher than it’s ever been.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: Projection of 23 million cruisers in 2015<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Crown Princess<\/a>
\n\t7 nights<\/span>
\n\tNovember 28, 2015<\/span>
\n\tLos Angeles<\/a> (return):<\/span>Puerto Vallarta<\/a>, <\/span>Mazatlan<\/a>, <\/span>Cabo San Lucas<\/a>
\n\tInside: $439<\/span>
\n\tCost per day: $62<\/strong>
\n\twww.princess.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two things in life that cannot be refuted: 1. We live in a points world. 2. Everybody likes free stuff And so it is that Crystal Cruises is raising that bar for the rest of the industry, by allowing passengers to convert “on-board credits” into “gambling dollars.” Starting next month, when the Crystal Symphony sails… Continue reading Crystal Casinos Using On-Board Credits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,36,19,15],"tags":[648,912,72,819,1870,35,227,795,503,542,102,1885,26,27,957],"class_list":["post-23298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-reviews","category-ships","category-stories","tag-crown-princess","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ship-casinos","tag-cruises","tag-crystal-cruises","tag-crystal-symphony","tag-gambling","tag-mexican-riviera","tag-mexico","tag-onboard-credits","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}