Gamble at sea? There is no better place to gamble than on a cruise ship!

One of the many popular adult activities you can find on cruise ships are casinos. Most well known cruise ships world-wide offer a variety of entertainment every day, from live shows to bingo to a full casino complete with slot machines and table games.

Cruises used to be one of the few places you could find casino gambling in the United States outside of Las Vegas or Atlantic City. A cruise ship would leave port, and the casino would open as soon as the ship was three miles offshore in international waters. (The three-mile limit was set in the last century as the boundary of the United States because it was the maximum distance that shore-based cannons could fire.) Casino gambling was a big shipboard activity, especially for those that lived far away from Las Vegas or Atlantic City. While still wildly popular, that idea has certainly changed in the United States with the introduction of state-operated river gambling casinos and those run by Indian tribes.