[mmindal]

Does anyone have experience with Bridge Cruises that offer Gold/Red MPs? How many points can one expect to end up with after a cruise, assuming one has "average" success during the week but doesn't win repeatedly?

[jillybean]

That would depend on what the duration of the cruise is, how many times you were playing and how large the field was.
Wouldn't Gold Rush Pairs be a better bet?

[mycroft]

ACBL Tournaments page is a great resource for this. Search on "All months", Category "Regional", Type "Cruise", and you'll get all the information for completed tournaments (5 last year, 2 so far this year - new year's cruise is in both).

For example, here is the results of that new year's cruise. Note that this is a 17-day cruise, 9 days "at sea" with "nothing else" to do. It might be a bit unusual...

I'll leave it to you to determine what is "average success" for you.

[pescetom]

mycroft, on 2024-April-29, 15:02, said:

I'll leave it to you to determine what is "average success" for you.

I once went on a cruise (nominally for another card game, but it wasn't the only reason).
Biting my tongue

[jillybean]

I'd like to know how much it costs per master point to get these gold points on a cruise.
What a great business!

pescetom, on 2024-April-29, 15:26, said:

I once went on a cruise (nominally for another card game, but it wasn't the only reason).
Biting my tongue

I hope you won plenty of cash and also saw some interesting sights and got a sun tan.

[pilowsky]

Very little.
Here's a quote from a Bridge column in The Spectator.
"I recently read an amusing article about this by the Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith, author of the hugely popular No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. He and his wife love bridge, and some years ago took a cruise which offered classes. His wife, a 'much stronger player', chose the intermediate class. She soon realised she was out of her depth: she belonged with 'the novices'. As McCall wrote, it was 'a difficult thing to be told when one has been playing bridge regularly, every other week, for 35 years'."

[P_Marlowe]

pilowsky, on 2024-April-29, 22:31, said:

Very little.
Here's a quote from a Bridge column in The Spectator.
"I recently read an amusing article about this by the Scottish novelist Alexander McCall Smith, author of the hugely popular No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. He and his wife love bridge, and some years ago took a cruise which offered classes. His wife, a 'much stronger player', chose the intermediate class. She soon realised she was out of her depth: she belonged with 'the novices'. As McCall wrote, it was 'a difficult thing to be told when one has been playing bridge regularly, every other week, for 35 years'."

The series is great, although I stopped with the 3rd entrance.

[Tramticket]

P_Marlowe, on 2024-April-30, 00:38, said:

The series is great, although I stopped with the 3rd entrance.

The Sunday Philosophy Club series is worth a read as well.

[barmar]

jillybean, on 2024-April-29, 17:23, said:

I'd like to know how much it costs per master point to get these gold points on a cruise.
What a great business!

It's really great for the directors. They get a free (or subsidized?) cruise.