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On 3/1/2022 at 11:35 AM, justafem said:
I'm going on the Ruby in May. Can you tell me where the smoking area is please?
Not true. Smokers will smoke.
I was on the Ruby (princess) last month and the casino was dead. My server (who kept popping in every 3 minutes) said her cash tips were down 90% from 3 weeks before, with about the same pax count.
I'm a smoker, so every time I reached for a smoke, I'd have to cash out my slot, grab my drink, jacket, any other incidentals, go to the elevator bank, ride 10 levels, walk to the smoking section, jabber with humans, then think about going back to the casino.
I stopped going to the casino. As did every other smoker. Oh sure, we'd pop in there to use our complementary casino credit, but I didn't spend a penny of my own money and walked away with $300. I "earned" 22 points. Normally I'd have thousands, if not 10's of thousands and get an immediate offer of a free cruise from the pit boss. I didn't even get a "book now" discounted casino offer shoved under the door the day before disembarkment.
Then there's the people who only smoke when they drink. Or only smoke when they gamble. Or smoke when they cruise. Or any combination of the 3. It's a social thing.
Cruise lines and casinos have tried completely nonsmoking. It (obviously) didn't work. You can't ignore 20% of the population, especially that 20% who really do spend the most money at the machines.
Cruise lines also sell cigars, that's why they have cigar bars, huge mark-up. That was also lost during that brief time of no inside smoking.
It's a fine line.
Smoking is back in the casino
in Carnival Cruise Lines
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