European cruises: Only 1 casino hosts now (to save costs)

[fstuff1]

Currently on the Dawn to Europe.

 

There's only 1 casino host instead of the normal 3.

She said it's only for Europe cruises and it's to save on costs. She also said the bigger ships have 2 hosts. 

normally there are 4 hosts on the mega ships.

 

My 14 day cruise has very little gamblers but thats standard from my experience with spring transatlantics.

I'm assuming there's less gamblers on European cruises?

 

[BirdTravels]

1 hour ago, fstuff1 said:

Currently on the Dawn to Europe.

 

There's only 1 casino host instead of the normal 3.

She said it's only for Europe cruises and it's to save on costs. She also said the bigger ships have 2 hosts. normally there are 4 hosts on the mega ships.

 

My 14 day cruise has very little gamblers but thats standard from my experience with spring transatlantics. I'm assuming there's less gamblers on European cruises?

Last week, the Encore had 4 hosts. 1 Exec Host, 1 Sr. Host, and 2 Hosts. The junior hosts were responsible for continually drumming up business over the PA (getting poker players, selling scratchers, selling lotto tickets, running tournaments). 

 

That being said, the crummy land-based CAS reservations seems to be taking its toll. There were only 350 casino guests on the Encore last week (4800 total passengers). Normally, you would see somewhere between 10% and 25% of the adult passengers sailing on a casino offer (CAS direct or land-based certificate). I.e., ,closer to 1000 adult passengers sailing in a comp'ed or discounted cabin. 

[Twolittleboys]

I was on a Royal Caribbean cruise a little while ago and in the casino they told me that there is WAY less gambling on European cruises so I am not surprised to hear that. The casino was mostly empty when I passed through.