Prize Token Exchange

[Cottager]

I read the Patters for the Grand that was posted on this web site and on the last day they have a "Prize Token Exchange". Is this like the dam dollars on Holland America? If so, what kind of prizes can you exchange for. I will be on the Grand in early January. (My first Princess cruise)

[Host Caroline]

We play trivia all the time and they have a tokens that you win for individual days and then they have an exchange for 'ship stuff' the last day.. it's similar to the "dam" dollars but not sure what other events on Pricness they give this for since trivia or occ. "name that tune" are the only ones we play. We had 20 each last cruise! Got some nice luggage straps and reversible totes that cost about $15 in the boutique!

[paul929207]

On our last few Princess cruises. They gave prizes for Trivia, etc. Previously, they gave tokens that were redeemable the last day for prizes. Some prizes were one token, others were more.

[geoherb]

On our cruise last December on the Sun Princess, they gave out coupons good for particular prizes. Sometimes the coupons were for items that the gift stores did not have in stock. In those cases, they'd let us trade them in for other items. But if the coupon was for something they had in stock, we were stuck with that item--no matter how many water bottles we'd already won.

[caribill]

We were on the TA on the Grand last spring when I think they first used the tokens. With an 16 day trip, they felt that people winning the same cheap prize (luggage strap, for example) over and over would not be the best thing to do.

 

So, for just about every contest on board, from trivia to Cinco de Mayo to Elvis impersonater, they gave the "tokens" which are actually a piece of paper about the size of a playing card.

 

Near the end of the cruise, they set up where you could redeem any tokens you had. Examples: 1 token=a luggage tag; 8 tokens=a Princess clock).

 

Not all ships have been doing this.

[Globaliser]

On our cruise last December on the Sun Princess, they gave out coupons good for particular prizes. Sometimes the coupons were for items that the gift stores did not have in stock. In those cases, they'd let us trade them in for other items. But if the coupon was for something they had in stock, we were stuck with that item--no matter how many water bottles we'd already won.

This was what we had on our Sea Princess cruise in May 2007. On the last day, one of the cruise staff very kindly exchanged a number of our coupons for things that we were going to get too many of, for coupons for other things that we would have more use for. This way, we avoided the "too many water bottles" syndrome.

 

Otherwise, we'd have been hawking the unwanted coupons around!

[sprinkles]

We were on the Grand in October. We watched the morning show every day and they had a trivia question (usually easy). You filled out your answer in the library, then the next day they would pick some winners for prize tokens.

 

Tammy

[Cottager]

Do they have beach towels you can redeem for? I have a couple "dam ship" towels and it would be nice to add a princess one. We use them at our cottage and they are always a conversation piece.

[TXTraveler76]

Hi,

 

Just off the Grand yesterday and the prize tokens were these

1 token = luggage tag

2 tokens= passport wallet or sport bottle

3 tokens= baseball cap

4 tokens= reversible tote bag

 

Hope this helps