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AN EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON MOTORCOACH MARKETING in THE GAMING INDUSTRY, allows us to UNDERSTAND AND EXCEED OUR CASINO CLIENT’S goals, LIKE NO OTHER COMPANY IN OUR FIELD

NATIONWIDE - FOR OVER 25 YEARS - SINCE 1993

Casino Cruiselines (CCL) started in 1993 with the idea of busing people to the new riverboat casinos in the Chicago Suburbs of Aurora and Joliet, Illinois. The simple proposal to the casinos was, waive the boarding fee and feed guests in exchange for having busloads of gamers delivered right to their front door.

The business took off. Targeting specific groups within a certain radius of the casinos, CCL solicited, booked and coordinated group trips on a regular basis. Line Run programs followed thereafter, targeting individuals and small groups with regularly scheduled route service. By 1999 we were working with casinos in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri. Casino Cruiselines now works with casinos nationwide.

Casino Cruiselines is able to centralize the casino’s motorcoach program, unlike motorcoach operators, tour operators and coordinators. Also, CCL is not limited geographically; we are able to cover all of the casino’s target markets. We pride ourselves in protecting the brand and image of our casino clients, while enhancing their overall marketing reach. Our programs provide safe, consistent, reliable, casino branded, guest friendly service.

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AN EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON MOTORCOACH MARKETING in THE GAMING INDUSTRY, allows us to UNDERSTAND AND EXCEED OUR CASINO CLIENT’S goals, LIKE NO OTHER COMPANY IN OUR FIELD

NATIONWIDE - FOR OVER 25 YEARS - SINCE 1993

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SAFE

RELIABLE

GUEST FRIENDLY

clients

SINCE 1993 WE HAVE PROVIDED OUR MOTORCOACH MARKETING PROGRAMS TO CASINOS NATIONWIDE

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FEATURED CLIENT

Cache Creek Casino Direct Offers Regional, Daily motorcoach Trips Focused on Quality and Convenience

Cache Creek Casino Resort

BROOKS, CALIFORNIA

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motorcoach programs

OUR TURN-KEY PROGRAMS PROVIDE safe, quality and convenient SERVICE while creating steady demand

our programs target specific markets and demographics while promoting the casino

OVERVIEW
LINE RUN PROGRAM
GROUP TOUR PROGRAM

LINE RUN PROGRAM Overview:

  • Establish and maintain all pick-up locations and routes.
  • Take reservations through our (800) number; staffed 7-days a week by live reservationists.
  • Maintain casino express website and 24/7/365 online reservation system.
  • Provide detailed, daily motorcoach schedules to your casino personnel.
  • Maintain on-going communications with the motorcoach companies and your casino personnel.

GROUP TOUR PROGRAM Overview:

  • Direct Mail targeting group leaders within a 300-mile radius of your casino.
  • Our sales team will solicit and follow up with all direct mail recipients.
  • Provide marketing materials to help groups promote their trips internally.
  • Answer all group inquiries through our "single point-of-contact," (800) number.
  • Book, process and coordinate all group tours with Group Leaders and Your Casino's personnel.
  • Utilize dependable motorcoach service.

LINE RUN PROGRAM Overview:

  • Establish and maintain all pick-up locations and routes.
  • Take reservations through our (800) number; staffed 7-days a week by live reservationists.
  • Maintain casino express website and 24/7/365 online reservation system.
  • Provide detailed, daily motorcoach schedules to your casino personnel.
  • Maintain on-going communications with the motorcoach companies and your casino personnel.

GROUP TOUR PROGRAM Overview:

  • Direct Mail targeting group leaders within a 300-mile radius of your casino.
  • Our sales team will solicit and follow up with all direct mail recipients.
  • Provide marketing materials to help groups promote their trips internally.
  • Answer all group inquiries through our "single point-of-contact," (800) number.
  • Book, process and coordinate all group tours with Group Leaders and Your Casino's personnel.
  • Utilize dependable motorcoach service.

motorcoach programs

OUR TURN-KEY PROGRAMS PROVIDE safe, quality and convenient SERVICE while creating steady demand

our programs target specific markets and demographics

Learn more

services

WORKING in conjunction WITH the CASINO'S TEAM, WE TAILOR AND IMPLEMENT OUR PROGRAMS TO EXCEED the CASINO'S goals
- for new and existing motorcoach programs -

FOR 25-PLUS YEARS WE HAVE CONTINUALLY REFINED AND TAILORED OUR PROGRAMS WHICH NOW INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING services

OVERVIEW
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
LOGISTICS
MARKETING
PERSONNEL SUPPORT

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

  • Creating, implementing and managing an omni channel reservation strategy which provides multiple, integrated avenues for guests to make reservations including call-center (with live reservationists), responsive micro-site, mobile app, social media and in some cases, satellite marketing offices.
  • Leveraging our industry knowledge and relationships to contract with safe, well established, reliable motorcoach operators.  
  • Managing and communicating with all motorcoach operators, tour operators, coordinators and casino’s team to ensure programs deliver a great guest experience.
  • Maintaining consistent communications; providing a steady flow of information to casino’s team including detailed motorcoach schedules, guest feedback, competitive analysis and a single, condensed weekly invoice.

LOGISTICS

  • Securing and maintaining all pick-up locations, routes and schedules.
  • Scheduling motorcoach arrivals/departures in the most logistically efficient way possible, utilizing multiple routes, resulting in economies of scale.
  • Scheduling arrivals during casino’s off-peak times.  
  • Training our reservation personnel and motorcoach companies on all program details, logistics and casino specifics.

MARKETING

  • Branding and marketing motorcoach programs as the casino’s service via micro-site, social media, email campaigns, motorcoach wraps, casino’s website, internal signage and direct mail/newsletter.
  • Negotiating with motorcoach operators to allow advertising wraps.
  • Consulting with the casino's marketing team and/or advertising agency on creative and medium.
  • Marketing to targeted markets, demographics and ethnic segments.
  • Requiring every guest to be or become a member of the casino's Player's Club in order to receive incentives. This requirement helps grow the Player's Club database.

PERSONNEL SUPPORT

  • Our management team has over 100 years of combined experience in the gaming and transportation industries.
  • Provide dedicated personnel to assist with marketing, communications and logistics of programs, on and off-site.
  • Members of our management team have internal casino management and marketing backgrounds; including managing motorcoach programs internally for gaming companies such as Harrah's.

services

WORKING in conjunction WITH the CASINO'S TEAM, WE TAILOR AND IMPLEMENT OUR PROGRAMS TO EXCEED the CASINO'S goals

WE HAVE CONTINUALLY REFINED AND TAILORED OUR PROGRAMS

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marketing materials

View examples of marketing materials fRom our casino motorcoach programs

Motorcoach
DIRECT MAIL
PRINT
rack card
Billboards
MICROSITES
SOCIAL MEDIA
EMAIL
PROGRAM LOGOS
Motorcoach advertising
DIRECT MAIL MARKETING
EMAIL MARKETING
PRINT MARKETING
casino MICROSITES
Current casino microsites
Jeff Youngman

President

jeffy@casinocl.com

mobile: 847-331-0656

609 academy drive • northbrook, il 60062
CALL: 800-254-3423
©2020 Casino Cruiselines. All Rights Reserved.

CALL CENTER RESERVATION SYSTEM

we have made it our goal to make the reservation process for our clients as user friendly as possible.

2 easy Ways to Make Reservations:

Online Reservations and Call center Reservations

[1] Online Reservations: Desktop and Mobile Devices 24/7/365

[2] Call Center: Toll Free 800#/Live Reservationist 7-days a week.

Enter Phone Reservations:
- Records online reservations from website
- Maintains website schedule and location updates
- Creates customer database (name, phone and email address)
- View Statistics: Number of trips, Passenger departure locations
- Sends email confirmation and trip details
- Auto-sends manifests to bus company

Casino Express Micro-site Desktop and Mobile Reservations:
- View Schedules & Departure Location Details
- Map of Departure Locations
- Make Reservations
- Subscribe to email list
- Group Tours Details (If applicable)

Email Confirmation Passenger Manifests:
Passenger Manifest List: Auto-sends passenger manifest to bus company and casino representative the evening prior to trip
Email Confirmation: Auto-sends confirmation email to passenger with full details of trip.

WRITTEN TESTIMONIALS

Read What clients are saying

I have been in casino marketing for nearly 20 years and have had the pleasure of knowing and working with the Casino Cruiselines team for over 10 years. As Director of Marketing, this is the second casino property I have worked for in which we have contracted with CCL to implement their motorcoach marketing programs. The first being a start-up casino operation in California and most recently in Arizona, where we wanted to grow and improve our current program that had been in place for several years. In both cases, CCL implemented their programs and marketing plans on time and on budget, surpassing managements expectations. The CCL team not only has a great understanding of casino motorcoach marketing, but also gaming operations in general, giving them a big competitive advantage over motorcoach companies, tour operators or bus coordinators. I would recommend CCL and their motorcoach marketing programs to any casino looking to implement a new program or improve its’ existing program.

“I have been in the casino business for over 40 years and first started working in a casino marketing company that specialized in operating casino buses to Lake Tahoe and Reno. I understand casino bus programs and have either developed, operated or employed them successfully and profitably in six states: Nevada, California, Wisconsin, Utah, Arizona and Washington. From that experience, I know that our casino is much farther down the road to success with a company like Casino Cruiselines paying attention to the details of our casino bus program than for us doing it ourselves. They designed the program to fit our business needs, they executed the program to produce a certain amount of desired volume and the program has exceeded our expectations in profit. Our association with Casino Cruiselines has been a bottom line winner.”

“I have been in the casino business for over 40 years and first started working in a casino marketing company that specialized in operating casino buses to Lake Tahoe and Reno. I understand casino bus programs and have either developed, operated or employed them successfully and profitably in six states: Nevada, California, Wisconsin, Utah, Arizona and Washington. From that experience, I know that our casino is much farther down the road to success with a company like Casino Cruiselines paying attention to the details of our casino bus program than for us doing it ourselves. They designed the program to fit our business needs, they executed the program to produce a certain amount of desired volume and the program has exceeded our expectations in profit. Our association with Casino Cruiselines has been a bottom line winner.”

Tony Averitt
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
CLIFF CASTLE CASINO
Jon Jenkins
PRESIDENT AND CEO
SNOQUALMIE CASINO
Jon Jenkins
PRESIDENT AND CEO
SNOQUALMIE CASINO

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FEATURED CLIENT

ANNOUNCING NASKILA EXPRESS

NASKILA CASINO

LIVINGSTON, TX

Naskila Casino, operated by the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas, located in Livingston, Texas, partnered with Casino Cruiselines (CCL), a nationally recognized casino motorcoach marketing company, to launch the “Naskila Express” service in June, 2022. CCL provides a guest friendly, omni-channel reservation platform that includes a microsite, linked to the casino’s website and a call-center staffed by live reservationists. Naskila Casino guests are able to obtain detailed information and make reservations by visiting naskilaexpress.com or by calling, toll-free (877) 757-7711.

‍The goal of Naskila Casino’s executive management team was to expedite the launch of a safe, consistent, guest friendly, luxury motorcoach service, targeting specific markets, while scheduling arrivals during off-peak times. CCL collaborated with the Naskila team to quickly develop, brand, and implement the Naskila Express luxury motorcoach service within 60-days. CCL developed routes, schedules and secured all pick-up locations. CCL then partnered with a local motorcoach company to operate the service with luxury, Naskila Casino branded wrapped motorcoaches. The Naskila Express service currently operates from over 15 departure markets throughout the region.

Visit Website: naskilaexpress.com

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AN EXCLUSIVE FOCUS ON MOTORCOACH MARKETING in THE GAMING INDUSTRY, allows us to UNDERSTAND AND EXCEED OUR CASINO CLIENT’S goals, LIKE NO OTHER COMPANY IN OUR FIELD

NATIONWIDE - FOR OVER 25 YEARS - SINCE 1993

Casino Cruiselines (CCL) started in 1993 with the idea of busing people to the new riverboat casinos in the Chicago Suburbs of Aurora and Joliet, Illinois. The simple proposal to the casinos was, waive the boarding fee and feed guests in exchange for having busloads of gamers delivered right to their front door.

The business took off. Targeting specific groups within a certain radius of the casinos, CCL solicited, booked and coordinated group trips on a regular basis. Line Run programs followed thereafter, targeting individuals and small groups with regularly scheduled route service. By 1999 we were working with casinos in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Missouri. Casino Cruiselines now works with casinos nationwide.

Casino Cruiselines is able to centralize the casino’s motorcoach program, unlike motorcoach operators, tour operators and coordinators. Also, CCL is not limited geographically; we are able to cover all of the casino’s target markets. We pride ourselves in protecting the brand and image of our casino clients, while enhancing their overall marketing reach. Our programs provide safe, consistent, reliable, casino branded, guest friendly service.

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motorcoach programs

LINE RUN PROGRAM Overview:

  • Establish and maintain all pick-up locations and routes.
  • Take reservations through our (800) number; staffed 7-days a week by live reservationists.
  • Maintain casino express website and 24/7/365 online reservation system.
  • Provide detailed, daily motorcoach schedules to your casino personnel.
  • Maintain on-going communications with the motorcoach companies and your casino personnel.

GROUP TOUR PROGRAM Overview:

  • Direct Mail targeting group leaders within a 300-mile radius of your casino.
  • Our sales team will solicit and follow up with all direct mail recipients.
  • Provide marketing materials to help groups promote their trips internally.
  • Answer all group inquiries through our "single point-of-contact," (800) number.
  • Book, process and coordinate all group tours with Group Leaders and Your Casino's personnel.
  • Utilize dependable motorcoach service.

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services

our programs INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING services

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

  • Creating, implementing and managing an omni channel reservation strategy which provides multiple, integrated avenues for guests to make reservations including call-center (with live reservationists), responsive micro-site, mobile app, social media and in some cases, satellite marketing offices.
  • Leveraging our industry knowledge and relationships to contract with safe, well established, reliable motorcoach operators.  
  • Managing and communicating with all motorcoach operators, tour operators, coordinators and casino’s team to ensure programs deliver a great guest experience.
  • Maintaining consistent communications; providing a steady flow of information to casino’s team including detailed motorcoach schedules, guest feedback, competitive analysis and a single, condensed weekly invoice.

LOGISTICS

  • Securing and maintaining all pick-up locations, routes and schedules.
  • Scheduling motorcoach arrivals/departures in the most logistically efficient way possible, utilizing multiple routes, resulting in economies of scale.
  • Scheduling arrivals during casino’s off-peak times.  
  • Training our reservation personnel and motorcoach companies on all program details, logistics and casino specifics.

MARKETING

  • Branding and marketing motorcoach programs as the casino’s service via micro-site, social media, email campaigns, motorcoach wraps, casino’s website, internal signage and direct mail/newsletter.
  • Negotiating with motorcoach operators to allow advertising wraps.
  • Consulting with the casino's marketing team and/or advertising agency on creative and medium.
  • Marketing to targeted markets, demographics and ethnic segments.
  • Requiring every guest to be or become a member of the casino's Player's Club in order to receive incentives. This requirement helps grow the Player's Club database.

PERSONNEL SUPPORT

  • Our management team has over 100 years of combined experience in the gaming and transportation industries.
  • Provide dedicated personnel to assist with marketing, communications and logistics of programs, on and off-site.
  • Members of our management team have internal casino management and marketing backgrounds; including managing motorcoach programs internally for gaming companies such as Harrah's.