Question about casino on HAL

[Dayenu]

This will be our first cruise with HAL - how to use the slot machines? We are not big gamblers, happy to waste some time on penny sluts.

 

Can we use cash? It's a question of just a few dollars. Should we put a card in? We'd like to avoid that. Is it still: put a dollar in, lose it, move on? Or we need a player card or the cabin key card for that?

 

We'll be on Maasdam.

[sail7seas]

You can start you play with cash but you have to put your cabin in to collect any winnings or charge funds to your cabin.

 

Edited May 28, 2015 by sail7seas

[kazu]

Put your card in, select a pin and you can accumulate points and collect your winnings easier.

 

You can charge to your on board account or put cash in. (I won't mention the other options - scary).

 

Either one is fine. winnings go to your on board account and you go to the cashier to cash out with your pin.

[Tom-n-Cheryl]

I understand that each $300 of spending onboard generates an extra cruise day point, not to exceed the number of actual cruise days, and that booking a suite will double your points earned (2 per day as opposed to 1). So - basically one can earn a maximum of 3 per day. Is this correct ?

 

Can I assume that casino spending does not factor in to that equation?

 

Tom

[sail7seas]

An eligible Suite booking earns double days, as you state.

The limit of one day worth of spending earning one day for each $300 applies to the spending only; not the actual days you get credited and then the bonus days for it being a suite.

 

If you are in an eligible suite for 7 days, you will earn 14 days for actual days and cabin category. If you spend $2,100 you will earn 7 more days for a total of 21. That is the maximum permitted on that number of day cruise.

 

[RuthC]

Can I assume that casino spending does not factor in to that equation?

You may. Casino spending does not count for bonus days purposes.

[Dayenu]

Thank you, all! My guess is - we'll forgo the penny sluts.

[57redbird]

Put your card in, select a pin and you can accumulate points and collect your winnings easier.

 

You can charge to your on board account or put cash in. (I won't mention the other options - scary).

 

Either one is fine. winnings go to your on board account and you go to the cashier to cash out with your pin.

 

On a cruise a few years ago, I did enter a PIN --- do I have to wrack my brain to remember it or can I enter a new one?

[CruiserTarheel]

All the penny sluts are on Carnival. :D

[Lady Chew]

winnings go to your on board account and you go to the cashier to cash out with your pin.

 

Oops ... no, no, no, your slot machine balance does NOT go to your onboard account. It goes to your casino account, and if you don't go to the casino cashier to retrieve it by midnight on the last day of the cruise, poof! it's gone.

[Boytjie]

thank you, all! My guess is - we'll forgo the penny sluts.

 

all the penny sluts are on carnival. :d

 

 

lmao! :d

[PhoenixCruiser]

lmao! :d

 

Same here :D

 

My husband read that they have non-smoking nights in the casino but I haven't read anything to back that up. Can anyone solve this mystery for us? It's an Alaskan cruise.

 

Thanks,

 

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[cruz chic]

All the penny sluts are on Carnival. :D

 

Behave ;):D

[cruz chic]

Same here :D

 

My husband read that they have non-smoking nights in the casino but I haven't read anything to back that up. Can anyone solve this mystery for us? It's an Alaskan cruise.

 

Thanks,

 

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There is usually one non smoking night on a cruise.

[PhoenixCruiser]

There is usually one non smoking night on a cruise.

 

Okay, thanks!

 

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[kazu]

On a cruise a few years ago, I did enter a PIN --- do I have to wrack my brain to remember it or can I enter a new one?

 

you set up a new pin with each cruise. no worries :)

 

Oops ... no, no, no, your slot machine balance does NOT go to your onboard account. It goes to your casino account, and if you don't go to the casino cashier to retrieve it by midnight on the last day of the cruise, poof! it's gone.

 

yes, you are absolutely right. I used the wrong words. thanks for the correction :)

[take us away]

Thank you, all! My guess is - we'll forgo the penny sluts.

 

Love the typo(?). You received lots of info - some more pertinent to your question than others but please know you CAN use cash in the machines. We will put in $5 and play to kill time until the show or whatever. If it gets all used up - just walk away. Have left a few cents in a machine a time or 2.

[Dayenu]

All the penny sluts are on Carnival. :D

 

Ha ha ha, finally somebody noticed my joke :D

[Dayenu]

Love the typo(?). You received lots of info - some more pertinent to your question than others but please know you CAN use cash in the machines. We will put in $5 and play to kill time until the show or whatever. If it gets all used up - just walk away. Have left a few cents in a machine a time or 2.

 

No, not a typo :D

 

Thank you! This is what I hoped for - just put cash in, waste some time, walk away.

[classicwhaler]

When does the casino on the Maasdam open on its current Montreal to Boston route? International waters only? In the St. Lawrence? Thanks for the intel!

[DaveOKC]

When does the casino on the Maasdam open on its current Montreal to Boston route? International waters only? In the St. Lawrence? Thanks for the intel!

 

Just back from a Canada/NE cruise. Casino open when not in ports, all while in the St. Lawrence. Sometimes it was an hour or so after we left port, but I did not pay attention to exactly how long.

[clogaltocruise]

My room charges to a slot machine did count towards spending. Play itself doesn't count but if I charged $300 into the machine to my room account, it did count as 1 day.

[classicwhaler]

DaveOKC---Thanks!