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Located on Deck 8 at mid-ship, Veendam’s casino is a modest facility, but probably sufficient for a ship of this size. In addition to several dozen slot machines there were tables games, including Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Caribbean Stud Poker, Roulette and Craps. At slots, players could load cash onto the room key card.
Gaming lessons were held on the first day of the cruise, with Texas Hold’em tournaments scheduled at other points.
The casino is designated as non-smoking, but that term is in conflict with the reality—most slot machines and tables have a sign that says “smoking allowed while gambling,” but cigarette smoke wanders where it will, including a few feet over to the non-smoking slots and tables. That said, overall the facility was usually not too smoky (we actually found the smell sometimes worse just beyond the casino, where stale smoke lingered in a stairwell).
The bar MIX was adjacent to the casino.
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