{"id":23539,"date":"2015-03-11T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=23539"},"modified":"2015-03-11T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T08:00:31","slug":"wednesday-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=23539","title":{"rendered":"Creativity In Ship Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our sense is that things are gradually changing on cruise-ship casinos. It started when Crystal Cruises<\/a> announced last month it was offering passengers — albeit passengers from gambling hotspots Hong Kong<\/a> and Singapore<\/a> — the opportunity to convert on-board credits into chits for the casino.<\/p>\n

\"Ship<\/a>Now, Carnival<\/a> has a promotion that gives you up to $50 to play in the casino. Book a cruise of five days or less for $25 in casino cash, six days or more for $50. The asterisk is that it applies to “select” rates.<\/p>\n

But that’s not the point.<\/p>\n

The point is that cruise lines are getting more creative with their casinos. Whether it’s because casino numbers are down or because they just want to capitalize more on what’s a high-profit center is anybody’s guess.<\/p>\n

If you frequent casinos on land, you know how the come-on works. Join the player’s club, earn points by gambling, redeem free play. There are variations on that theme from casino to casino, but those are the fundamentals of the promotion.<\/p>\n

So, will there be more of that on casinos at sea?<\/p>\n

Probably. If it works on land, and it clearly does, it’ll work on the water.<\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>All the latest cruise news<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Royal Caribbean Splendour of the Seas<\/a>
\n\t14 nights
\n\tApril 20, 2015
\n\tSao Paulo<\/a>, Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, Salvador<\/a>, Tenerife<\/a>, Malaga<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a>
\n\tOceanview: $725
\n\tCost per day: $51<\/strong>
\n\twww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our sense is that things are gradually changing on cruise-ship casinos. It started when Crystal Cruises announced last month it was offering passengers — albeit passengers from gambling hotspots Hong Kong and Singapore — the opportunity to convert on-board credits into chits for the casino. Now, Carnival has a promotion that gives you up to $50… Continue reading Creativity In Ship Casinos<\/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":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[154,270,912,72,275,1870,35,227,503,26,27,33,219,776],"class_list":["post-23539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-casinos","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-promotion","tag-cruise-ship-casinos","tag-cruises","tag-crystal-cruises","tag-gambling","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-south-america","tag-splendour-of-the-seas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539","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=23539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}