Worst Slot Club ?

I hereby nominate “Casinos at Sea” for the Worst Slot Club in the World. There are plenty of “Best of” categories and polls, so why not the “Worst of” ?

I found this slot club on a Norwegian Cruise line this summer. Points seem fairly standard at $ 5 coin-in for Slots and $ 10 coin-in for Video Poker. But the MINIMUM NUMBER OF POINTS REQUIRED FOR REDEMPTION IS PRETTY HIGH (2500 points).

Redemption levels:

100 Reward points for $ 1 for onboard charges to Food & Beverage and Shore Excursions. That’s 0.2 % for Slots and 0.1 % for VP.

or...

200 Reward points for $ 1 for on-board ship charges at the gift shop. That’s 0.1 % for Slots and 0.05 % for Video Poker.

My understanding is that this is run by Caesar’s Entertainment.

FREE DRINKS – to earn a Free Drink card, 1500 points are required for a 5 day or longer itinerary. So just $ 15,000 in coin-in ? The pit boss ocaissionally offers players a drink, so I did get a beer by playing blackjack one afternoon.

TOURNAMENTS – These seemed to be run pretty smoothly, BUT the rules weren’t posted anywhere, which didn’t seem to matter to most people. I asked to see them for the BJ tournament and someone found a copy after about 5 or 10 minutes. It looked to me like the prize pool was about 20 % of the entry fees. Way too stingy imho. You had to have the table high score to move on, AND one of the top 6 scores overall to make the final table.

VP Paytables – I don’t know all the paybacks for the games they had, but the best one I found was 6-5 bonus poker with 30 for 4 of a kind, which should put this somewhere around 97 %, I think.

One positive note is that I hit a Royal Flush on this silly machine on the last day the casino was open, and I was a little ahead before that. So I departed the next day with an extra ten $ 100 bills in my wallet.

Any other nominations ?

Sadly it is gone, but The Western had a players club where you redeem points for unless junk like a paper towel holder.

Quote: Boz

Sadly it is gone, but The Western had a players club where you redeem points for unless junk like a paper towel holder.

haha

And minus any mailers they send out, JohnnyQ, those are the same earning criteria that CET gives for Reward Credits...

Coincidence? I think not. The free drink card is pretty harsh though.

Also 30/6/5 is closer to 96% (96.18%), which is also the best game available at the Mirage Sports Bar. CET bars in Vegas are better than that place... :-\

Quote: tringlomane

haha
those are the same earning criteria that CET gives for Reward Credits...

Coincidence? I think not.

Right ! But the Horseshoe closest to me at least has 9/6 JoB.

Quote: Matthewds

I heard that many casinos were very good few years ago, but now they delay payments. It's a one of the reason why so many go down! So sad, when this industry makes so money!

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To me Penn national is useless. It's the only company Ive ever seen publicly complaining about how generous other companies are.