2-day Pacific Coastal, SEA-VCR.Is the casino open?

[westcoastBC]

Thinking about joining the 2 day (1 day actually) cruise from Seattle to Vancouver for a day of cards and nice dinner but not sure if we will be sailing in International waters for the casino to be open. Does anyone have experience of this? Are all the restaurants open?

[cruisequeen4ever]

For me, on one it was, and one it wasn’t. They say it’s due to Vancouver regulations, but that doesn’t make sense when it’s open on some and not on others. 

[Mud_Shark]

It's the distance off shore they go. One recent 3 day, the ship spun in circles one day sufficiently off shore ( I think 12 miles in Canada) to allow casino to open.  But on a shorter cruise than that, not sure if they will do the same.

[cruisingrob21]

Princess used to run 1 day cruises between Vancouver and Seattle for repositioning purposes, but only HAL does those now.  They probably changed that to a 2 day voyage so they can run out the straight of juan de fuca into international waters, and open the casino.  On these short cruises, I would imagine that the casino is the money maker when compared to all other onboard venues, especially if the weather is poor and people stay inside.

[westcoastBC]

Thank you. That’s kinda what I thought because I can’t see too many other reasons to go.

[memoak]

5 minutes ago, westcoastBC said:

Thank you. That’s kinda what I thought because I can’t see too many other reasons to go.

We have used the 1night cruises to commute between Seattle and Vancouver since it was cheaper than a hotel room in Seattle plus train ride.  We do this if it can be done as a b2b same cabin same ship. 

Edited June 20, 2023 by memoak

[Serious Cruisers]

I did this before covid I got to the casino around 9pm only to hear announcement the casino will be closing in 30 minutes lol

[lstone19]

Not really sure what you mean by "2-day (1 day actually)". Is it a one-night cruise or a two-night cruise? If it's a one-night cruise (I've done three), then I doubt it will be open.  You'll sail up to off Port Angeles, drop the U.S. Puget Sound pilot, sail across to off Victoria, pick up the Canadian pilot, and head to Vancouver. You'll never be out of coastal waters and the casino will not open. If it's a two-night with a sea day, you'll probably head out onto the ocean for the day (no sense in paying for an extra 24 house of pilotage) and then the casino will open.

[Serious Cruisers]

Mine was a one night/over night Vancouver to seattle

[lstone19]

13 minutes ago, lstone19 said:

Not really sure what you mean by "2-day (1 day actually)". Is it a one-night cruise or a two-night cruise? If it's a one-night cruise (I've done three), then I doubt it will be open.  You'll sail up to off Port Angeles, drop the U.S. Puget Sound pilot, sail across to off Victoria, pick up the Canadian pilot, and head to Vancouver. You'll never be out of coastal waters and the casino will not open. If it's a two-night with a sea day, you'll probably head out onto the ocean for the day (no sense in paying for an extra 24 house of pilotage) and then the casino will open.

 

With more research, this might be Royal Princess in which case it is two nights with a sea day. The casino will probably be open on the sea day and perhaps after departing Seattle.

[sunviking90]

I’m sure the casino will be open. That would be the only purpose of making this a 2 night cruise. It otherwise barely takes 1 night to get to Seattle.

Additional advice is to wait to book this as they always go super cheap last minute.

[westcoastBC]

Thank you . Reading the last few posts I am going to take a leap of faith and go for it.

[Cruise Raider]

46 minutes ago, westcoastBC said:

Thank you . Reading the last few posts I am going to take a leap of faith and go for it.

I’m booking that sailing just to be sure to get to Vancouver for the next day when we join the Majestic.  I’m booking the cheapest cabin there is and if it goes down, I will upgrade to a balcony.  
 

We were surprised that none of the shops or casinos were open on our last sailing on that last evening when we went from Victoria to Vancouver.  I spent a ridiculous amount of non refundable OBC on spa items.  It was either that or just letting them keep it.  
 

[lstone19]

3 minutes ago, Cruise Raider said:

I’m booking that sailing just to be sure to get to Vancouver for the next day when we join the Majestic.  I’m booking the cheapest cabin there is and if it goes down, I will upgrade to a balcony.  
 

We were surprised that none of the shops or casinos were open on our last sailing on that last evening when we went from Victoria to Vancouver.  I spent a ridiculous amount of non refundable OBC on spa items.  It was either that or just letting them keep it.  
 

 

We did the 3-night San Francisco-Vancouver on Royal Princess on 4/30 - the two intermediate days were a sea day and Victoria. The casino was not open the last night (that was posted in advance); I did not pay any attention to the shops. Victoria to Vancouver is 100% on Canadian waters and not for long either as on that cruise, we needed to be under Lion's Gate Bridge before 2:00am due to tides,

[sandyoftheseas]

Back in 2010 we went on two one day cruises Seattle to Vancouver both times. If I remember right the casino was open on both cruises but only for a short time 2-3 hours which was good for me because I won $1500 on the second cruise and the casino closed before I could give it back 🙂

[memoak]

18 hours ago, Cruise Raider said:

I’m booking that sailing just to be sure to get to Vancouver for the next day when we join the Majestic.  I’m booking the cheapest cabin there is and if it goes down, I will upgrade to a balcony.  
 

We were surprised that none of the shops or casinos were open on our last sailing on that last evening when we went from Victoria to Vancouver.  I spent a ridiculous amount of non refundable OBC on spa items.  It was either that or just letting them keep it.  
 

Whenever a ship leases Victoria for Vancouver the casino does not reopen. Just on b2b on the Discovery