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While it's not a mass-market cruise line and it doesn't stay out to sea for more than a few hours at a time, this may give some hints to how casinos might operate on the big guys when sailing resumes!  Doug Parker, from Cruise Radio, took one for the team and went for a little sail to check it out.

https://cruiseradio.net/florida-casino-ship-offers-preview-of-cruise-gambling/

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I haven't been on a casino cruise in years, mainly because I can't breathe in there after about 1 minute. But if Victory no longer allows smoking while indoors in their casino, I may have to look into going on one of those again. Hopefully when RCCL resumes cruising here in September, there will be no smoking in their casinos as well. 

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This seems to work very well on smaller ships. RCCI could learn from this by blocking seats and removing chairs so that people social distance. I would go on one of these even though I am not ready for big ships. Under 500 people will reduce the chance of Chad's and Karen's....but truthfully it only takes one.

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On 6/29/2020 at 5:40 PM, Ampurp85 said:

This seems to work very well on smaller ships. RCCI could learn from this by blocking seats and removing chairs so that people social distance. I would go on one of these even though I am not ready for big ships. Under 500 people will reduce the chance of Chad's and Karen's....but truthfully it only takes one.

Hmmmm.....I now see how RC will reduce capacity when they sail. All Chads and Karen’s will be canceled! Brilliant! 

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1 hour ago, cruisellama said:

Cool idea, like a river boat casino, but it actually sails.

The first riverboat casinos were required to leave the dock for a specified period of time. Then every passenger had to get off and a new set get on (the same people getting off and back on were NOT known as B2B cruisers).

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35 minutes ago, HeWhoWaits said:

The first riverboat casinos were required to leave the dock for a specified period of time. Then every passenger had to get off and a new set get on (the same people getting off and back on were NOT known as B2B cruisers).

There was  one in St. Louis just float.  There was a requirement to "cycle" the gangway.

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I'm not sure if this is still the case, but the Pair-a-Dice casino in Peoria, IL was always "at sea."  You would walk down a long ramp to the boat, which I guess was far enough from the shore to be considered not to be docked.  Of course, I haven't been there in about ten years and I was definitely more than a little buzzed most of the times I went there, but I remember being told that's how they got around it.

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