Can OBC be used in the casino

[Missymo]

Can be done on the Edge. They even give instructions on how to get money from your room charge to the slot machines..  Done it on several cruises.  Have a ton of OBC on Equinox coming up.  Will see if I can get it out. 

Edited February 23, 2022 by Missymo

[ORV]

I'd say the best way to make a loophole disappear is to tell everyone about it. 

[Missymo]

10 minutes ago, ORV said:

I'd say the best way to make a loophole disappear is to tell everyone about it. 

Edge has notice on top of the cashier cage telling you exactly how to do it. You can even get a small card to keep with the information.  Don't think its a secret. 

[MRSBITS]

Thank you to everyone for your responses!

[MRSBITS]

1 hour ago, Missymo said:

Can be done on the Edge. They even give instructions on how to get money from your room charge to the slot machines..  Done it on several cruises.  Have a ton of OBC on Equinox coming up.  Will see if I can get it out. 

I'll be interested to hear about your experience aboard the Equinox regarding using your OBC in the casino!

[NCTribeFan]

I think I get it.  I've just never had an option on any other line, when charging funds to my card, to have it applied against OBC.  It just shows up in my account as a charge and, depending on the cruise line, it is offset by OBC or not. 

 

Most of my OBC from HAL was considered non-refundable and they would NOT allow it to be used for casino play.  Carnival doesn't seem to care.

[graphicguy]

13 hours ago, Missymo said:

Can be done on the Edge. They even give instructions on how to get money from your room charge to the slot machines..  Done it on several cruises.  Have a ton of OBC on Equinox coming up.  Will see if I can get it out. 

Thanks.  Good to know what to look for.

[wrk2cruise]

On Constellation it was the updated RFID units in the slot machine with the same software on other ships.  Just the one menu was missing.

[Jim_Iain]

18 hours ago, 81Zoomie said:

How do you get the slot promo credit.  I always play the slots and have never received $5 when I tap my card on the machine.

It took us awhile and the help of a friend to do it.     There is a little screen for use of a better word on the slots where you create an account with password from your card.   From that the credit showed up from our room key and you push a button to transfer to the slot machine.  

 

I'm not a gambler and would have never figured it out by myself.

[81Zoomie]

8 minutes ago, Jim_Iain said:

It took us awhile and the help of a friend to do it.     There is a little screen for use of a better word on the slots where you create an account with password from your card.   From that the credit showed up from our room key and you push a button to transfer to the slot machine.  

 

I'm not a gambler and would have never figured it out by myself.

Thanks Jim!  Will give it a try the next time 😊

[Missymo]

8 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

It took us awhile and the help of a friend to do it.     There is a little screen for use of a better word on the slots where you create an account with password from your card.   From that the credit showed up from our room key and you push a button to transfer to the slot machine.  

 

I'm not a gambler and would have never figured it out by myself.

haha did that accidentally and found I had a $2.00 credit from Transfer.  Have no idea where it came from. 

[Guppy99]

On 2/21/2022 at 8:58 PM, omeinv said:

Yes, but you'll get promo chips/slot credit, unless you have at least Onyx Casino status.  Promo chips/credit work like this:  You can bet them, and if they generate winnings, it's in cash.  But the promo amount cannot be directly converted to cash. 

 

Harris

Denver, CO

I always thought this was the case, but it was not on my last cruise. I transferred $100obc to my casino acct. I played about $20 and cashed out because I didn't notice the time. Then I cashed in my ticket, 

[publicpersona]

On 2/22/2022 at 2:50 PM, Dar & Bob said:

.  In the T&C it says that you receive promo chips which must be used and that on Roulette and Baccarat no “contra” bets are allowed.  If anyone knows what that is I would love to know.  We probably will just use some OBC this way

I didn’t see that you got an answer to this. I’ve never heard that term before but I would assume it means you can’t bet both sides of an even money bet. For example, red and black, even and odd, 1st and 2nd 18, etc. Doing so essentially takes the gaming out of it and says you just want to proceed to the end result of having your expected return from the game. 

[Guppy99]

On 2/23/2022 at 9:01 PM, Missymo said:

haha did that accidentally and found I had a $2.00 credit from Transfer.  Have no idea where it came from. 

The more you play, the more points you get (if you remember to tap your card) and then the points transfer to dollars that you can transfer to your machine.  Those dollars you can play with, but cannot cash out.

[SHIP TRAVELER]

We had a lot of non-refundable OBC on recent Reflection and Apex cruises.  We played most of the OBC through video poker machines on both cruises.  The casino desk will give you a card explaining the steps to get money from your account.  The transfers must be in amounts that round to $5, in other words you can't transfer $3 or $8 but you can transfer $50 or $25.  We always played the amount we downloaded through the machine before we cashed out.  On the Reflection a non-gambling friend joined us for the Retreat Free Slot tournament.  Only 11 players showed up so it was a very good opportunity to win something odds wise.  She   came in first (beginners luck) and won $100 "free play".  She started playing only 25 cents at a time after downloading $40 of the free play.  We told her this would take forever and told her to go five coins $1.25 a play.  She played this a while and when it was time to go to the show she tried to cash out and the slip only showed the winning for what she played through.  The remainder went back to her free play balance because she did not play through it.  We assumed this would also happen with OBC that was down loaded and not played through but are not sure after reading posts here.  We did earn free play of a few dollars for the points earned playing though our OBC so always check your account that your last night on board so that you do not leave anything on your card.

[PTC DAWG]

16 hours ago, publicpersona said:

I didn’t see that you got an answer to this. I’ve never heard that term before but I would assume it means you can’t bet both sides of an even money bet. For example, red and black, even and odd, 1st and 2nd 18, etc. Doing so essentially takes the gaming out of it and says you just want to proceed to the end result of having your expected return from the game. 

Agree, until green hits. 🙂

[publicpersona]

1 hour ago, PTC DAWG said:

Agree, until green hits. 🙂

 

Yep. That's the expected return part - if you have $100 OBC to cash out that way, you could expect to actually take home $94.70. But averages only make sense over the long haul so chance are good in the short run that you'd take home $100, but it could also be $0.

[Guppy99]

4 hours ago, SHIP TRAVELER said:

We had a lot of non-refundable OBC on recent Reflection and Apex cruises.  We played most of the OBC through video poker machines on both cruises.  The casino desk will give you a card explaining the steps to get money from your account.  The transfers must be in amounts that round to $5, in other words you can't transfer $3 or $8 but you can transfer $50 or $25.  We always played the amount we downloaded through the machine before we cashed out.  On the Reflection a non-gambling friend joined us for the Retreat Free Slot tournament.  Only 11 players showed up so it was a very good opportunity to win something odds wise.  She   came in first (beginners luck) and won $100 "free play".  She started playing only 25 cents at a time after downloading $40 of the free play.  We told her this would take forever and told her to go five coins $1.25 a play.  She played this a while and when it was time to go to the show she tried to cash out and the slip only showed the winning for what she played through.  The remainder went back to her free play balance because she did not play through it.  We assumed this would also happen with OBC that was down loaded and not played through but are not sure after reading posts here.  We did earn free play of a few dollars for the points earned playing though our OBC so always check your account that your last night on board so that you do not leave anything on your card.

Any winnings from free play (tournament, winning certificates from Deal No Deal, points) can not be converted to cash. Just OBC 

[curtsfan]

On 2/22/2022 at 12:05 PM, cruisestitch said:

I’m not sure if loophole is exactly the right word, since the instruction actually appears right on the slot machine how to do that. However, not all ships are set up to be able to do that. Apparently constellation and reflection are not. It has to do with updating the slot machines. Some ships do not have the updated machines, some do.

We were on the Reflection in November & used our OBC in the casino.  We went to the ge cashier & she loaded the credits on our cards.  

[wrk2cruise]

On 2/27/2022 at 2:53 PM, PTC DAWG said:

Agree, until green hits. 🙂

 

Yes we play Red or Black (not both at the same time) with our 6 match plays from Captains Club.  One sailing we hit Green 2 times out of the 6 spins!

[Cruise Gopher]

Any recent experiences with this?  Has anyone done this lately, and if so which ship(s)?

[the penguins]

On 3/1/2022 at 1:03 AM, wrk2cruise said:

 

Yes we play Red or Black (not both at the same time) with our 6 match plays from Captains Club.  One sailing we hit Green 2 times out of the 6 spins!

We always play them both at the same time. I play Black the boss (Anita) plays Red and always on a wheel with a single Zero. Perfectly acceptable as we are different people.

[abbydancer2003]

4 hours ago, Cruise Gopher said:

Any recent experiences with this?  Has anyone done this lately, and if so which ship(s)?

I did two sailings on the Eclipse, and I had a lot of OBC.  I came off of both with a lot of cash (a little less than the OBC, but I had fun).

 

Most ships work as mentioned above, you transfer money at the machine. However on some, it looks like the non-revolutionized ones, use an older system where you go to the cashier, and transfer even multiples of 50.00 at a time to a ticket.  They give you the ticket, you put it into the slot, and play away.  When you're done, you hit cash out, and it prints a new ticket that you can insert into another (or the same) machine or take to the cashier and cash out.  The tricky part was that it had to be in even multiples of 50.00. We did end up with a very small amount of OBC left.

 

 

[Cruise Gopher]

5 hours ago, abbydancer said:

I did two sailings on the Eclipse, and I had a lot of OBC.  I came off of both with a lot of cash (a little less than the OBC, but I had fun).

 

Most ships work as mentioned above, you transfer money at the machine. However on some, it looks like the non-revolutionized ones, use an older system where you go to the cashier, and transfer even multiples of 50.00 at a time to a ticket.  They give you the ticket, you put it into the slot, and play away.  When you're done, you hit cash out, and it prints a new ticket that you can insert into another (or the same) machine or take to the cashier and cash out.  The tricky part was that it had to be in even multiples of 50.00. We did end up with a very small amount of OBC left.

 

 

Great! So I am on a revolutionized ship so I should be ok. So I guess best thing to do would be start small and test it out with maybe $50 to see if it works and then just go up from there if it works out ok?

 

I suppose I’d have to check my on board account to make sure the slot charge is actually deducting from the OBC?

[the penguins]

1 hour ago, Cruise Gopher said:

Great! So I am on a revolutionized ship so I should be ok. So I guess best thing to do would be start small and test it out with maybe $50 to see if it works and then just go up from there if it works out ok?

 

I suppose I’d have to check my on board account to make sure the slot charge is actually deducting from the OBC?

If you do too many in quick succession your card will be frozen in the casino for 24 hours.