a question about Bingo

[donna915]

does the ship take a cut of the bingo money collected or is it 100% put into the jackpot?

[johnql]

The ship definitely takes a cut. In the past few years, the cut seems to have increased to the point where I no longer feel the jackpot payouts are fair, when compared to the cost of the games. This trend probably varies a bit from line to line, but I think it's generally true.

[glgolfer]

I think what has happened, they raised the price so much for each session, fewer people are showing up. We even had 2 sessions canceled due to lack of interest on one cruise and they were on sea days.

The last night used to be $7 to 9K, now you're lucky if it's over a couple thousand.

[donna915]

thanks, I thought so. I was on that diverted RC cruise to Canada and the jackpot winner took home $12,200...they said it was the biggest jackpot ever on a 5 night cruise...that' s because there was nothing else to do. She was the only one who felt redeemed on that trip!:)