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Hello, I am not sure if anyone else has posted this before or if this is against the rules of the board. I am looking to provide information to my fellow cruisers on Cruise Critic on how to skip the service charge in the casino. A casino employee taught me the trick on a Princess Cruise and I was able to use it on RCL and Princess. Let me know if you have tried it on other lines

 

To avoid the service charges, it is as simple as taking your cruise card to any slot machine, enter the amount of credits you want to deposit then cash out immediately. You bring the print out to the cage cashier, and you have just avoided the service charge for cash withdrawals onboard.

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Hello, I am not sure if anyone else has posted this before or if this is against the rules of the board. I am looking to provide information to my fellow cruisers on Cruise Critic on how to skip the service charge in the casino. A casino employee taught me the trick on a Princess Cruise and I was able to use it on RCL and Princess. Let me know if you have tried it on other lines

 

To avoid the service charges, it is as simple as taking your cruise card to any slot machine, enter the amount of credits you want to deposit then cash out immediately. You bring the print out to the cage cashier, and you have just avoided the service charge for cash withdrawals onboard.

 

HHHHHEEEEELLLLLLLLLLOOOOO Krzi: There is a way to avoid service charges in the casino. It is called using cash. There is no service charge if you bring and use cash.

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HHHHHEEEEELLLLLLLLLLOOOOO Krzi: There is a way to avoid service charges in the casino. It is called using cash. There is no service charge if you bring and use cash.

 

I am sure we all know there is no service charge for bringing your own cash on board. I personally do not like to bring a lot of cash on board and only bring 1-200 extra for tipping.

 

I also prefer to view my usage from the shipboard account so in the end I know how much I actually used for the cruise. I am sure there are many others out there like me.

 

This is just a tip for those who may forget to bring cash or for those who are flying and do not want to carry 1-2k of cash for their trip, you can always get them service charge free from the casino.

 

Also, the sarcasm/dragged out "hello" is rather disrespectful and unnecessary

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This isn't available to everyone, but if one is a member of Club Royale on Royal Caribbean, one of the benefits available is not being charged their 3% service fee.

 

I think we are talking about something different, the method I am providing works for anyone as long as they have a card or cash linked to their sea pass.

 

 

  1. You go to any slot machine and put your card in
  2. You charge $___ to your seapass card as credits
  3. The slot machine will now show you have $___ worth of credits
  4. Because slots cannot credit sea pass, it will print out a voucher with $____
  5. You take the voucher to the cage cashier, they give you cash
  6. No membership or prerequisites required.

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We were on the Crown Princess a month ago. Each table had a little sign saying that obtaining cash on your cruise account was now without any fee.

 

Two additional notes for Princess cruisers:

 

1. The loophole outlined above for using the slot machine as an intermediate step is now closed. For a while now, they have refused to redeem that cash if you have not played the machines.

 

2. For those who don't want to either carry cash or get their ship account mixed with casino transactions, Princess allows you to ore-order "casino gift cash". True, this is paid in advance of your cruise, but you get your cash with no problems, right at the casino cage.

 

Shalom, Andy.

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  1. You go to any slot machine and put your card in
  2. You charge $___ to your seapass card as credits

I'm not sure sure what ships work this way, but on the Oasis-class ships at least, the card slot is only for tracking points for Club Royale rewards. You can't use it to withdraw from your onboard account to play in the slot machine.

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Krzi: Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about this. We did this on the Carnival Glory and it worked out great. I don't believe we were able to do this on NCL in March. It was set up different than Carnival. On NCL, I don't think you can load money onto your card from your onboard account. We will see if it works in five weeks:D

 

P.S. Not defending anyone's nonhelpful remarks but "Casino Player" uses that Helloooo on every post regardless of the subject matter. They use i also when welcoming someone new. It is not used as a "Duh" remark.

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Its still a little odd to just have that in front of every post. However back to the topic, I know it worked in my Caribbean Princess cruise and my RCL Explorer, so I just thought I would share incase you were in a ship that allowed you to do it.

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This is correct, on NCL the only way you can get cash is from the cage, and I understand they are now charging 3% fee fleet wide.
Interesting. NCL started charging the fee, and Princess stopped charging it. Nothing like a little confusion/competition.

Shalom, Andy.

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Just curious for the ones who went to NCL, they are charging a fee even if you are going to play the slots?

 

I know RCL and Princess allows you to use your Seapass card to purchase slot credits, does NCL not allow you to do this and require you to get cash from the cage? It sounds like they are turning away money.

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Also, the sarcasm/dragged out "hello" is rather disrespectful and unnecessary
That's her trademark greeting. No sarcasm or disrespect intended. Go look at all of her posts and you'll see she does it ALL the time.
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I'm with krzi on the HHHHHEEEEELLLLLLLLLLOOOOO. That remark is just uncalled for. Seems like a remark a 22 year old might make. Maybe that poster is 22.

 

I am 23 (just 1 year older) and I do not do such a thing.... lol

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Hey people. how about a little "live and let live"? CP has done a lot of posting with excellent information and insight into casino gambling, on land and sea both. As for the greeting, just ignore it. We all have some mannerism or other that might annoy someone. I for one won't cast the first die - er, stone ;)

 

Shalom, Andy.

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Hey people. how about a little "live and let live"? CP has done a lot of posting with excellent information and insight into casino gambling, on land and sea both. As for the greeting, just ignore it. We all have some mannerism or other that might annoy someone. I for one won't cast the first die - er, stone ;)

 

Shalom, Andy.

 

HHHHHEEEEELLLLLLLLLLOOOOO AndyTheK:I have read that you are going on a cruise soon. Let us know how it went and of course the casino action. Have a good time.

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HHHHHEEEEELLLLLLLLLLOOOOO AndyTheK:I have read that you are going on a cruise soon. Let us know how it went and of course the casino action. Have a good time.
Already gone and back a month ago. I wrote up the casino part on another thread:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showpost.php?p=30727644&postcount=15

 

The cruise itself was wonderful despite rotten weather (hurricane Irene was in our planned path between Iceland and Greenland) and we missed two ports. But that's the way with northern route fall Transatlantics. Saw icebergs but no whales, and clouds made seeing the Northern Lights impossible.

 

Next up for us is southern route transatlantic eastbound in April, 2012. Lots of sea days so lots of casino time.

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