SunCruz Casinos

SunCruz Casinos
Company typePrivate (owned by Ocean Casino Cruises)
IndustryTransportation
Founded1994
Defunct2009
Area served
Florida and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U S.
Key people
Robert Weisberg, Chairman & CEO
ProductsCruises
Number of employees
1,000
Websitehttp://www.suncruzcasino.com

SunCruz Casinos was one of many cruise lines that offered "cruises to nowhere," legally transporting passengers into international waters beyond the reach of federal and state gambling laws.

Four ships operated out of four ports including Jacksonville (SunCruz VII), Key Largo (SunCruz I), Myrtle Beach (SunCruz VIII), and Port Canaveral (SunCruz XII).[1]

On December 16, 2009, SunCruz Casinos was reported to be closing amid reports of owing $300,000 to the Canaveral Port Authority.[2] Parent company Ocean Casino Cruises filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy December 28.[3]

At the time of the filing of bankruptcy, there were about 300 full-time and part-time employees.[4]

  1. ^ "SunCruz website". Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Port Authority: SunCruz Casino Closing - News- msnbc.com". December 20, 2009. Archived from the original on December 20, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ Greg Pallone. "SunCruz's Parent Company Files For Bankruptcy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-02.
  4. ^ Price, Wayne T. (11 January 2010). "SunCruz offers apologies". Florida Today. Melbourne, Florida. pp. 14A.