OBC from NCLH Purchase

[Syd58]

Recently purchased and would like to have an idea of what the OBC can be used for.  We will be on Vista.  I have heard it can't be used for excursions nor is refundable at end of the cruise. 

[mauibabes]

I have used it in the Shops to buy gifts, clothing, jewelry, paintings from the Artist in Residence, paying my bar bill or other charges, even paid for Bingo Cards. I do not think it works in the Casino but it is good in the Spa.

Bottom line, you can never have too much OBC or what I call O Funny Money. If I have leftover 💰, I have even purchased a great bottle of wine and hauled it home, compliments of O. 
Just enjoy,

Mauibabes

[osandomir]

3 hours ago, Syd58 said:

Recently purchased and would like to have an idea of what the OBC can be used for.  We will be on Vista.  I have heard it can't be used for excursions nor is refundable at end of the cruise. 

You can use that OBC for excursions if you book them on board. Also, if you pay for your pre-purchased excursions by the credit card this credit will be applied to your excursions or any other expenses on your onboard account first and the rest of your cash payments will be turned into refundable OBC.

[Russiamomm]

56 minutes ago, osandomir said:

You can use that OBC for excursions if you book them on board. Also, if you pay for your pre-purchased excursions by the credit card this credit will be applied to your excursions or any other expenses on your onboard account first and the rest of your cash payments will be turned into refundable OBC.

For our August trip, the credit is showing in our account.   It was added to the SM excursion credits.  We booked several excursions and the cost was slightly more ($15 or so) than the SM credit.  The account is showing the difference as the remaining credit.  So, it appears they did let me use it to pay for pre-booked excursions.  
 

This will be our first O cruise, so I may be reading it wrong, but I didn’t have to pay the extra $15 when we booked the excursions.  

[osandomir]

58 minutes ago, Russiamomm said:

For our August trip, the credit is showing in our account.   It was added to the SM excursion credits.  We booked several excursions and the cost was slightly more ($15 or so) than the SM credit.  The account is showing the difference as the remaining credit.  So, it appears they did let me use it to pay for pre-booked excursions.  
 

This will be our first O cruise, so I may be reading it wrong, but I didn’t have to pay the extra $15 when we booked the excursions.  

It’s possible that the things have changed with Simply More. All our previous cruises have been with OLife. The most recent one was in April this year. I just explained how the shareholders benefits always worked for us. It’s great if Oceania somehow made it easier to work. But it’s also possible that it’s all upon the person in the office who is applying the credit to your account one way or another. And anyway one would be able to apply this credit against the cost of the excursions they selected.

[growlers]

Will it credit against the daily gratuities?  

[basor]

22 minutes ago, growlers said:

Will it credit against the daily gratuities?  

yes

[Thought2go]

8 hours ago, osandomir said:

You can use that OBC for excursions if you book them on board.

I booked 2 excursions -pre cruise & used up the SM allotment and needed another $40- the O rep used my OBC to pay that amount.

My CC was not charged. The difference came from the OBC I had on my account.

[vlthom]

Can be used in the spa, shops, bars, and excursions booked on board.  It’s not difficult to use up.

[osandomir]

8 hours ago, Thought2go said:

I booked 2 excursions -pre cruise & used up the SM allotment and needed another $40- the O rep used my OBC to pay that amount.

My CC was not charged. The difference came from the OBC I had on my account.

This thread is about NCL shareholders benefits. There are different sources of OBC that you could have on your account. Did you use shareholders OBC? If so, I’m glad that you had all sorted out.

[Jim_Iain]

I noticed on my recently applied shareholder credit was split equally between both guest.   I had expected to book a solo excursion but it would only allow me to use 1/2 of it.   I decided--- why bother... so Oceania lost my excursion booking.    I will just let it be applied to our gratuities instead.

[PhD-iva]

2 hours ago, Jim_Iain said:

I noticed on my recently applied shareholder credit was split equally between both guest.   I had expected to book a solo excursion but it would only allow me to use 1/2 of it.   I decided--- why bother... so Oceania lost my excursion booking.    I will just let it be applied to our gratuities instead.

The shareholder benefit is per stateroom, not per guest. 
Enjoy your cruise!

[iowananny]

I think Jim may be right.  On their new Less is More gimmick we booked excursions for our January cruise to the Amazon.  We came close to what we had to spend and my husband wanted to take an excursion that I wasn't interested in.  It should have used all the credits we had been given for the trip but because I wasn't going on the excursion he had to pay full price for it which he expected and then use what was left of the money I had not used to help cover the cost.  

 

I didn't work that way.  He couldn't use "my money" to pay for the remainder of his excursion.  Apparently the money is split up between each person in a cabin and if one person doesn't want to use all their credits they just lose it their cabin mate cannot use it.

 

We're going on a Baltic cruise in a few weeks and we both used all our credits on tours.  Let's just hope they aren't cancelled, and we lose them that way.  

 

Right now we're wondering if Oceania is the right cruise line for us.  Our travel agent is going to work on the $47 but I doubt if she has that much luck.  It's not that much money but yet again $47 is $47.  

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