Meet a bigger-than-ever floating casino

Bigger is better. That's often the motto in the US, and also the cruise industry, which just loves big things.

Now Princess Cruises is set to launch its biggest-ever casino at sea.

The 4,300-guest Sun Princess will have an expanded ship casino with 50% more space and 30% more machines than the line’s regular Royal Class ships.

Sun Princess sets sail in February 2024 and sounds like a floating RSL to me. 

I guess the market will decide. It might appeal to folk from Big Butt, Arkansas, where they don't have RSLs.

Located on deck 8 adjacent to the ship's piazza, there will be over 200 slot machines, video poker games and live table games.

“Princess has embraced the casino experience and is proud to offer such exciting gaming surrounded by dining and entertainment,” said John Padgett, president of Princess Cruises, said in a media statement.

The cruise ship casino will have a high-limit slot area, with high-end seating and other new gaming experiences.

Sun Princess is currently under construction at the famous Fincantieri shipyard in Italy.

Inaugural 2024 cruises to the Mediterranean, Europe and Caribbean are on sale now. For more information, visit www.princess.com.

The Big Prawn loses its head

Few countries can match Australia when it comes to weird and wonderful things.

Think platypuses, boomerangs, drop bears, didgeridoos and Vegemite. All just a little bit different.

But one of the weirdest things about Australia is its obsession with "big things".

Think a giant potato, a big pineapple or a ludicrously oversized banana.

In Australia, big things - often huge models of local produce - are massive tourism attractions.

Australians will travel hundreds of kilometres to visit something, anything, that is big.

Which is why the Big Prawn made headlines this week: Someone removed its head.

The Big Prawn outside Crangan Bay in New South Wales is one of several Big Prawns dotted around the country. It is not even the most famous. or the largest.

But the prawn, which is displayed over the Big T Roadhouse, was damaged sometime between August 4-5.

Locals suspect the head was removed with an angle grinder. It has not been found.

It's Big News.