Free drinks in casino?

[Thelonious]

If you are gambling in the casino, can you get drinks for free, like they do in Vegas, or do you have to pay for them?

[collegecruiser346]

I've never gotten a free drink in the casino. Free food? Absolutely. Free Drinks? No.

[Jahla Jahla]

afraid you pay for them unless one of the casino people gives you a coupon. I got several from one of them.

[Krazy Kruizers]

HAL -- no free drinks -- no coupons for free drinks -- no food.

[sail7seas]

Bar stewards pass through the casino and you certainly can purchase a drink.

[Putterdude]

If you are gambling in the casino, can you get drinks for free, like they do in Vegas, or do you have to pay for them?

 

Free drinks...you are joking....aren't you.:D

[klfrodo]

CAN you get free drinks? Yes

 

1) You're loosing your butt big time (thousands)

2) You're winning big time (thousands) and they want their money back :D

3) You're wife won big time at the slots (thousands) and she's in the process of giving it all back :(

[serene56]

Imagine how crowded that place would be if they gave free drinks like Vegas.= no one would be buying them, they would just go to the casino for a freebie.

[cruisebum50]

My husband and I have been on three different lines and the only one that ever gave us free drinks in the casino was HAL. This didn't just happen once. It happened every day for the last five days of our seven day cruise.

 

We always go to the casino for a little while after dinner and every night we were asked if he/she could buy us a drink. The first time it happened I was shocked. When it continued the next night I looked at my husband and said they must want us to keep coming back! I hit a jackpot the first night onboard and told my husband they must want their money back! They got some of it, but not all of it!

 

I will also say it was done very discretely. The person asking always waited til we were seated together and there were no others around us.

[springfire]

No free drinks!!! Say it isn't so!

[Taxguy77]

Posts 7 and 9 tell the whole story.

[WannaCruiseSoon]

I actually got free drinks on NCL

 

of course i signed up for a tournament (blackjack or texas holdem) and the host gave us all a drink "on the house"

[Thelonious]

Thanks for the info

[okgirl]

On Carnival ships the casino host will occasionally recognize your level of play with a free drink and on very rare situations they will come around with trays of free premixed drinks but I've only seen that happen on the Dream during the 1st part of the cruise when the casino wasn't busy, then once very late at night (I think they were just trying to get rid of mixer since the bar was about to close and they have to throw leftovers away)

[gerif]

Unlike Vegas where there are a myriad of different casinos you could patronize, you are pretty much a captive audience on a ship, so there is little incentive to feed you free drinks to keep you there.

[beachchick]

Unlike Vegas where there are a myriad of different casinos you could patronize, you are pretty much a captive audience on a ship, so there is little incentive to feed you free drinks to keep you there.

 

And if they offered free drinks in the casinos onboard, there would be little incentive for most passengers to actually stay in the casino and gamble. It would be (1) walk in to casino, (2) drop a couple of coins at a slot (say, $1 total), (3) order free drink and receive drink, (4) leave casino with $1 drink and go do something else.

 

Quite aside from the fact that many (most?) passengers would take advantage of having free drinks standard in the casinos, the casinos themselves would be constantly jammed wall-to-wall all day and night with passengers looking to score free drinks. In fact, with the crowds I'd bet many passengers would stand around the casino supposedly looking for an open slot or table just long enough to get a drink and leave.

 

It would irritate the actual gamblers--and rightly so!

 

(A caveat: We would be sorely tempted to go to the casino to score free drinks by sitting at the slots for a few minutes because that's what my DH does anyway. He usually gambles about $10 during the entire cruise on a "pass through" basis. Once in a while, the $1 he's playing that "pass" will pay off long enough that we end up hanging out for 10 or 15 whole minutes. So technically, he is gambling while I am chuckling at him.)

 

beachchick

[globalwife]

We got free drinks in the casino with Pullmantur, but with Pullmantur they are free everywhere on the boat. ;)

[globalwife]

We got free drinks in the casino with Pullmantur, but with Pullmantur they are free everywhere on the boat. ;)

[gerif]

And if they offered free drinks in the casinos onboard, there would be little incentive for most passengers to actually stay in the casino and gamble. It would be (1) walk in to casino, (2) drop a couple of coins at a slot (say, $1 total), (3) order free drink and receive drink, (4) leave casino with $1 drink and go do something else.

 

(beachchick

 

LOL - that's so true! I can totally see that happening. In Vegas, it's almost impossible to buy a drink. We had gone on one trip with my sister and BIL that included meal vouchers and drink vouchers. While waiting for them for dinner, DH and I sat at a bar that had built-in poker machines. We ordered drinks and started to play a bit to pass the time. Bartender refused to take our drink vouchers since we were "playing" and just kept the drinks coming. After an hour, DH said get up, we need to go meet your sister - I told him "I don't think I can!" Those drinks were strong. We came home with most of the drink vouchers.