Saturday, January 8, 2011

Boycotting Shipboard Casino

I am on a cruise on a Holland America ship and am boycotting the casino. Now understand, I am not a high roller--definitely a low roller. I only play slots and the cheap ones at that. I can milk a $5 bill in a penny or 2 cent machine for quite a while. Sometimes I win a little, but usually lose. But over the course of a week's cruise, I probably spend $50 to $100 in the casino.

Well, not this year. I ran to the casino last night between activities and looked for a penny slot. Found one and ran through my dollar bill in record time. WTH? I looked closely at the machine and saw that they have gerryrigged the machines to only allow multiple lines to be played. So, instead of a penny slot, it is really a 9 cent slot, And that is the way with every slot machine in the casino--even quarter slots.

That is terribly unfair. And there are less people playing slots this year. Good. They won't gt my money for sure.

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