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Old Aug 22, 2024 | 6:59 am
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Holland is also offering free cruises for non-gamblers. My wife and I went on our first Holland cruise just before Covid hit (big anniversary cruise). Starting around mid-2022, we were getting multiple free cruise offers. Made sense as there was probably a lot of concern from the general public about cruising. We took them up last year and took a 12 day Adriatic Sea cruise out of Rome. They did let me upgrade the room to a Neptune suite for a very reduced rate (i.e. about $1600 for both of us.) I figured that would be the end of the free cruise offers as people would be heading back. I guess I was wrong as Holland has started sending out more of these free cruise offers to us for cruises through the first quarter of 2025. My wife is not a big fan of cruising , but I'm working on her to see if she is up for another cruise.

And note that the extent of either of us spending any money in the casino was $20 spend out of which we left with $60 (from slot machines and I couldn't tell you how we won it as I just couldn't follow the logic of what wins and doesn't win on those machines.)

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