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Cruising. I'm your house Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 536. I am back from Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas on a quick

four-night cruise and wanted to share my thoughts with you on this quick cruise review. Here we go.

I recently took a four-night cruise on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Season.

This was my first time, I believe, taking a cruise in which I redeemed a casino credit for it.

Now, I'm not sure if we've talked about it here on the podcast.

I don't have done blog posts and even a YouTube video about the casino program.

So I'll give you a very brief overview without going into too many details here.

If you want more details,

we have full articles at Royal Caribbean blog.com about this.

But essentially, if you gamble enough on a Royal Caribbean cruise,

you can earn enough points based on how much you're spending to earn a free cruise.

And that's a very, very, very broad generalization.

Anybody who knows the program as much as I do knows that's like a very like, that's kind of like

saying like, you know, if you play the lottery, you could win a lot of money.

Essentially what it really boils down to is you earn points for every dollar you wager.

Not every dollar you win, not every dollar you take out or anything like that, just how much money you're actually wagering.

And depending on if you play slot machines or table games, it kind of pays out differently.

But the bottom line is you're probably going to need to wager somewhere in the ballpark of,

oh, I'm going to say at least, you know, one or $2,000 easily in order to get it.

Now, that being said, there are caveats to this and there are people that barely gamble in the casino and get cruise offers.

It's, and I don't want to go too much into all the nuances of cruise offers, because

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