RebekahTN

6 hours ago, Sailing12Away said:

I can't imagine a scenario where 2 people are friendly enough to share a cabin together for a trip at sea, but not friendly enough to sort out a measly $50. It's honestly an extra round of drinks at the pub, or next lunch is on me type of thing.

I agree on this.... but it could happen. We didn't get a single. I received one in the end to my email, with what I owed (daily fees for me and our daughter) and mine was charged to my card. I assume he got one and his daily fees where paid with his card. They didn't show up on my CC, so I am assuming they did his. I don't know if it being CAS made it weird or something else. If I was traveling with someone else, I would hope there was no question as to who paid which things. I would hope what was swiped with their room key went on their credit card and what I did went on mine. While I wouldn't be staying with anyone who I "Couldn't" work it out with.... but I probably wouldn't mention it, and hope they would if they knew their charges went on my account and not theirs. I might pull it up in the room and casually say, hummm, I wonder why this is on my account and not yours, but not push it, in hopes they would make it right. I MIGHT be a pushover who doesn't like confrontation.... EVEN if it wouldn't be a big deal. 

11 minutes ago, DallasGuy75219 said:

That makes a huge difference.  Different cruiseline, different rules over comped drinks in the casino.

I didn't notice until you mentioned Royal that this was on a Royal thread. We are looking into our next cruise and considering Royal as well as NCL. Sorry about that...

1 hour ago, RFerrington said:

Royal does not care which cabin any of the guests choose to sleep in so you can swap around any way you choose….but that will have no bearing on the purchasing requirements for the DBP.  If one person on a booking wants the DBP the other person on that booking will be required to purchase either the DBP or the refreshment package.

 

Regarding complimentary drinks in the casino, it is my understanding that only persons with a casino rating of Prime or above are entitled to complimentary beverages.  Some non-Prime customers may have gotten lucky and been given complimentary beverages but that is not the way it is supposed to work.  I would not go the casino and expect the non-Prime guests to get any complimentary beverages.

 

We were on NCL instead of Royal. It was our 1st casino comp and 1st cruise. On NCL my husband and his guest (me)both got free drinks this was a couple weeks ago Dec 17th - 24th.

1 hour ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

Why did you and your husband have separate onboard accounts?

Because that is the way they do it? It is all under the same reservation, but they had my husband, me and my daughter all listed separately on the reservation. His Casino OBC showed under him, MY shareholder OBC showed under him, any purchases or swipes of his card to get drinks free showed under him as well as daily charges. My 13 year old didn't have anything showing under her. For some reason mine and my daughters' daily charges showed under me as well as any purchases I made. 

I call them different accounts because my stuff purchases/daily gratuities went on mine, and his went on his. Any charges I made did NOT come off the OBC showing under him (even though $100.00 - or at least $50.00 if going by stateroom for shareholder OBC was technically mine). So at the end when he had $8.00 of OBC left and I had almost $20.00 of charges, guest services moved my charges under his name and wiped out the unused OBC.

    Did ya'll get the perk of free drinks in the bar with your Casino at Seas offer? Just asking because my husband did, and as the 2nd person, I had it as well. I don't drink at all and he rarely does at home. I did try some mocktails and this includes soda and cartons of water. We didn't do the FAS drink package and saved those gratuities we didn't have to pay.

  The casino is only open at sea, so if you are big drinkers, you may still want the package, but if you won't be drinking much while the ship is in port, you should be good. You CAN get 2 drinks each and take them with you when you go to eat or go wherever you want. You don't have to stay in the casino to drink them. In ya'lls situation the 2 friends would get the free drinks at the bar as the 2nd person as well. So if they don't drink, you could have 4 drinks each at a time when you go to the theater, to eat or wherever you wanted to lounge.

    I alone own 100 shares of NCL Stock. They linked the full $100.00 OBC to my husbands account. I was expecting it to be $50.00 on each of ours. So, when I upgraded the Wi-Fi, I drug him over to customer service to put the charges on his account instead of mine. Same for when we bought the charms for my daughter's charm bracelet. A little more inconvenient for him, but I spent my $100.00 with his and daughters help. He also had $100.00 OBC from the casino that we weren't expecting. 

   It worked out.

   So in the scenario above where someone said, if it was split between the 2 friends although only 1 was a shareholder and the non shareholder has no interest in buying something, and so no interest in giving shareholder $50.00 for something they aren't using but would just be lost if they didn't. You COULD drag the friend to things you wanted to buy and have it put on their account.

I am pretty sure they would move it at guest services as well. Because my husband still had $8.00 left of the $200.00 OBC and I had almost $20.00 in charges on mine and guest services filled out a form and transferred those charges to him. We used the last $8.00 OBC and he got to pay the rest of my bill. LOL Better than loosing the $8.00 OR trying to find something for $8.00 that didn't go WAY over that we didn't need or even want.

THANK YOU!

Where do I go to look to see if the shareholder credit has been credited to my account. I mean what tab on the website would I need to look at? I clicked everything I can think of under my reservation and on the site, and don't see anywhere that I thought it would be.