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Just for fun, Did you ever not charge anything on your account

Ilovepj

By Ilovepj,
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SRQfireman

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The only time we would have a large balance is if we go to ports we never been and take an excretion the ship offer. Other wise small balance of a drink or 2 or 0 balance. We pay tip in advanced. We don't get exited any more with the $10.00 sale ....and everything else is so expensive. Did a specialty restaurant on the Oasis only.

 

Whewwwww........I wouldn't take an excretion either from the ship......even if it was free....just not my cup of tea.

Good luck on that in the future :D :) :eek:

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tispwisp

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Nope! Although we have had some very small amounts due at the end of the cruise due to prepaying tips, excursions, and by getting OBC from travel agents and stock ownership. :)

 

However on a few of our cruises, we had some very large amounts due as a result of art buying or obtaining glass pieces from the Celebrity glass blowing auctions! :o

 

Just depends what is going and what we want at that time. However, I think we are through with the buying stage now and any purchases will be for drinks or food. :p

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garycarla

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Interesting. Different folks do different things.

 

Casino - we do cash only. (too much sadly)

 

We do have a charge for booze. Cruise would not be the same without that.

 

Almost never do tours. For sure never do photos. Rarely buy anything in gift shops.

 

Would never, ever, give them money for tips in advance. We pay that a few weeks AFTER the cruise. And earn points doing it.

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We set a budget for onboard spending, then usually go over anyway! We don't spend more than we can afford and always have a great time!

 

I'm not implying that you have to spend more money to have a great time. That's just how we choose to do it.

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sellwingri

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many cruises where we pushed the $2,000 mark!

Interesting thread. Onboard spending is one of the keys to profitability for RCI, I would wager they have a really great handle on the average onboard spending and that impacts the rate for cabins.

 

The number crunchers have gotten darn good at knowing what to look for when pricing cabins.

 

I'm glad I got to your post or I would have thought I was losing it. We prepay tips and usually do private tours but the drinks and bingo and pictures and everything else usually leaves us with at least a $1500 bill.

 

While I try to bring my own gambling money, I do sometimes run out and hit my card for a couple hundred.

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LoneStarJeffe

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OK, I will confess. A long time ago (1993), we had a cruise planned and Mr. Genius (me) decided to delay a car payment to free up cash that month to pay something else. The problem was, I had missed the previous month's payment and we were now two months behind. The car was almost paid off. You can guess what happened next.

 

They repo'd the car. :( My wife first thought it was getting stolen. Then she found out it was repo'd. Not my shining moment. I learned three lessons that day. Do not ignore bills and don't get creative on trying to maximize cash flow. And my wife is an amazing person who did go from anger to forgiveness and I needed to honor that by making sure it did not happen ever again.

 

Our only choice to get our almost paid for car back was to pay the towing company what we owed the bank plus the tow charge plus storage. My wife had been saving up her tip money over time to use as spending money on the cruise and we used that to get our car back. But that left us with nothing in terms of spending money for the cruise.

 

We drank a lot of coffee and iced tea. We enjoyed the pool. We window shopped around the ports. And we had a good time. We spent a lot of time together on that cruise appreciating our time together and what we had as "included" with our cruise. We did not worry about what we could no longer afford.

 

I can truly say, yes you can go on a cruise and not spend anything beyond what is included with your cruise fare. And we did tip the crew members that trip. My wife was a waitress and we would not go without tipping them. So we borrowed the tip money from a friend and paid it back. Although we were on HAL at the time, we knew to tip even though HAL said it was not required.

 

I have better managed my cash and bills and budgeting ever since. And we have gone on many more cruises with some money on our account due at the end which we paid out of allocated budget for misc expenses. I track our expenses each day in an envelope and compare against what we budgeted for our daily spend. And if we spend more one day, we spend less the next day to stay in budget. That is the result of my bad money management so long ago that could have ruined our cruise vacation. But didn't. :)

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petesweet

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The majority of my cruises I 've never charged anything on my sea pass account.

 

Don't take ship excursions

 

Not drinker be it alcohol or soda

 

Very happy with the food included

 

Don't gamble or play bingo.

 

On board photos are ridiculously expensive. Even tell the photographer to not bother taking my photo.

 

Not a shopper so the on-board shops don't get my money.

 

If I happen to have OBC will find something to treat myself. If there's a balance I generally just donate it to RCCL's partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Sounds like me. (I don't even use my diamond balcony discount.) The cruise people make NOTHING on me, but I have the time of my life on a cruise in my little inside cabin.:D

Kathy

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teajak

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Does not sound fun to me to have a $0 balance ...:D
WOW, are you wrong. We have a great time. Our bills were for tips but now we pre-pay those. We are D+ so drink at Happy Hour, we don't drink much during the day unless DH has a beer. WE get different perks from AAA travel. All that fun and a zero or small balance at the end.Perfect.;):p:D
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xcell

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Most of the time some money for a nice pic of the kids but that's pretty much it. I always wonder what and how much others spend. .. as each item is a line and I have seen bills 2 to 3 (or more) pages. ..

 

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RCcruisinfamily

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HI,

 

Just for fun, I was wondering if anyone ever had no balance to pay on the last night.

 

In other words, let say, you already paid for tips, port stuff, and now you step on the ship, you don't drink, (only free stuff) etc. You don't gamble, I am leaving on my in 8 days, and I always have at least 1000 to spend, so just for fun has anyone ever just not bought anything on board. This does not mean OBC used, I mean you start out with no OBC, but all other things paid before you get on the ship.

 

Again, Just for fun:D

 

We charge so little. We have been questioned by customs on why we took nothing back into the us. We only purchase consumables:) No tshirts, keychains, crap from the village. Been there done that. Tips, drinks(just a few) and we usually have OBC. We don't even to excursions through RCI anymore, except at Labadee. Kids like the coaster.

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