max gift card amount to add to S&S on board

[shuang6]

Is there a max gift card amount to load on your S&S card on board?
Is it per person or per cabin?  Thank you!

[kdr69]

Which gift cards are you referring to? Store bought ones or Carnival cash cards?  Carnival ones have 500 dollar limit.

 

General Cruise Cash provides an immediate credit to a guest's Sail & Sign account.  This credit is good for any charge made to their account including taxes and gratuity charges.  Cruise Cash is valid for a single voyage and cannot be transferred to future bookings.  Cruise Cash is non-refundable and any unused credits will be forfeited.

 

*Cruise Cash purchases limited to $500 per cabin.

[kdr69]

Doesnt seem to be one for Store bought ones.

 

Carnival (ourgiftcards.com)

[teknoge3k]

I think @kdr69 is referring to the amount that you can purchase per card, not the amount you can use for your account.

 

To answer your question, there's no limit to how many gift cards you can use on board for your account. Pre-cruise, there's a limit to how many you can use at one time to make a payment, but you can make multiple transactions.

[Elaine5715]

Guest Services will limit how much gift cards you load up to your account without any charges made.  This is to prevent people from converting discount gift cards to full value cash in the casino and getting actual cash .  There is no limit to how much you can use to pay off charges made to your onboard account.  You can only apply 2k in gift cards per visit to Guest Services.  Just make several trips.  

[KarmaCruisers]

2 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

Guest Services will limit how much gift cards you load up to your account without any charges made.  This is to prevent people from converting discount gift cards to full value cash in the casino and getting actual cash .  There is no limit to how much you can use to pay off charges made to your onboard account.  You can only apply 2k in gift cards per visit to Guest Services.  Just make several trips.  

I use the kiosk..I loaded $2000 the first day of my last cruise, at GS, and the gal seemed to insinuate that $2000 was the MAX, period.

So for the rest of the cruise I used the kiosk to load up $2000 a day. ($14,000 total) 

The caveat is, you can’t have more than $2000 in your folio, unused.

So I’d load up $2000 and go to the casino and download it to my “players” account; cash it out from the cash-out machine in the casino, and repeat the process the next day. (After playing X amount of points per day in the casino; as to not get my “players” account locked)

[Elaine5715]

4 hours ago, KarmaCruisers said:

I use the kiosk..I loaded $2000 the first day of my last cruise, at GS, and the gal seemed to insinuate that $2000 was the MAX, period.

So for the rest of the cruise I used the kiosk to load up $2000 a day. ($14,000 total) 

The caveat is, you can’t have more than $2000 in your folio, unused.

So I’d load up $2000 and go to the casino and download it to my “players” account; cash it out from the cash-out machine in the casino, and repeat the process the next day. (After playing X amount of points per day in the casino; as to not get my “players” account locked)

Guest Services isn't allowed to tell guests to just apply $1500 and come back later.  

Unless you are using a significant portion of that credit onboard, you are at risk of trigger the FinCEN warning if you are using the discounted gift cards.  They can and will cut off use in the casino.

[BlerkOne]

You can go over $2000/transaction at Guest Services, but they are supposed to notify Miami and get permission, so there will be a slight delay in when the money actually posts to your account.

[n6uqqq]

9 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

Guest Services will limit how much gift cards you load up to your account without any charges made.  This is to prevent people from converting discount gift cards to full value cash in the casino and getting actual cash .  There is no limit to how much you can use to pay off charges made to your onboard account.  You can only apply 2k in gift cards per visit to Guest Services.  Just make several trips.  

I thought this was effectively controlled with the 1200 dollar max bank at the slot? Or more specifically max charge to room of 1200.

Edited August 6 by n6uqqq

[Elaine5715]

2 hours ago, n6uqqq said:

I thought this was effectively controlled with the 1200 dollar max bank at the slot? Or more specifically max charge to room of 1200.

Nope, it has to do with people trying to cash out $$$ in $500 AARP gift cards they purchased for $450 and cashing them out in the casino for full value.  You can room charge up to $5000 per day on slots. more if you are on an Ultra/Elite cruise package (up to 7k a day) If your player's bank is full at $1600, you just get handpays if you win even a little.  

[n6uqqq]

11 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

Nope, it has to do with people trying to cash out $$$ in $500 AARP gift cards they purchased for $450 and cashing them out in the casino for full value.  You can room charge up to $5000 per day on slots. more if you are on an Ultra/Elite cruise package (up to 7k a day) If your player's bank is full at $1600, you just get handpays if you win even a little.  

Those are some high limits. As a regular cruiser without a casino deal when I have inserted my sail and sign the max I could add to a player bank was $1200 dollars. 

[Elaine5715]

22 minutes ago, n6uqqq said:

Those are some high limits. As a regular cruiser without a casino deal when I have inserted my sail and sign the max I could add to a player bank was $1200 dollars. 

Two different things, you can charge $5k to your room and play it out.  You can win/transfer credits to your player's bank as you wish but once your player's bank has $1600 credits, the machine will call for a slot attendant to pay more wins.  Any single hit on slot of $1200, requires a hand pay since it is taxable.  Anyone can room charge up to 5K a day for slot play.

 

[BlerkOne]

44 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

Nope, it has to do with people trying to cash out $$$ in $500 AARP gift cards they purchased for $450 and cashing them out in the casino for full value.  You can room charge up to $5000 per day on slots. more if you are on an Ultra/Elite cruise package (up to 7k a day) If your player's bank is full at $1600, you just get handpays if you win even a little.  

Cash out, rinse, and repeat.

[ohioNCLcruiser]

21 hours ago, KarmaCruisers said:

I use the kiosk..

What on EARTH made you think it was smart to post this on a public thread that Carnival monitors?? 🤦‍♂️ Keep that information to yourself so those who use this type of thing how it was designed to don't lose the benefit. Please report your comment to the admins so it can be deleted. I didn't quote the full comment here for that reason. 

Edited August 7 by ohioNCLcruiser