My wife and I took two friends on the Jewel out of NOL the prior week (Oct 20-27) on a fully paid cruise sponsored by the Paris Casino in LV. It was hosted by Caesars NCL full time cruise consultant/host Josh Cazer, David Hoenemeyer the President of Bally's/Paris/Planet Hollywood Jim Korona VP Casino Marketing and Exec host at Paris Rudy Paredes. The whole thing was done first class. They allowed and encouraged everyone who had two cruises coming to bring another couple or friends with them also free (no hiding it). They picked up everything but the tips (yes including taxes and port fees), hosted a slot tourney for our group, specialty Steak house dinners with the execs, rooms and trans in NOL. We've gone on a lot of casino cruises with MGM, Palms, Cosmo as well as Caesars and this was as good as the Players Travel cruises through the other places.
We really enjoyed Harrah's NOL a few days before the cruise as it is one of the few CET casino's with 9/6 JOB and 8/5 Bonus and the slots we still like. The Jewel was very nice, especially if you are someone who doesn't like the new 4,000 passenger class of RCL & NCL ships. (We don't mind, this Saturday we are going on the Epic (for our 10th time) with the Cosmopolitan casino group.
One bitter sweet thing was they can now open the casino on the Jewel immediately upon leaving NOL and keep it open all night of the return even though you are not in international waters for 8 hours. They now have a special exemption. The bad side of that is the payouts on the ship are the same as all ships, which is terrible, so you will loose big on the ship if you gamble a lot.
I sure do hope they don't downgrade the remaining good VP and slots in NOL.
Dave
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> That's different. Usually when a casino is fixing a big crap sandwich they tell you it's going to taste great. So how was the Jewel, Coach? I don't do many cruises, but I have plans for NO and the Jewel this spring.
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> Hi Gang:
> Friends just returned from a stay at Harrah's New Orleans (and a cruise aboard the NCL Jewel) and have told us that their host in NOLA had some distressing news for them. The host couldn't go into details, but she told them that there are some "big changes" coming after the first of the year and they will greatly affect video poker.
> All she could say about the proposed changes was that "you will not like them!"
> Hedy and I will be sailing out of NOLA in January so I guess we'll get a first-hand look at whatever changes Harrah's makes.
> Regards,
> CoachVee & Hedy
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