Promotional OBC - Casino Non-Refundable

[Badfinger]

Through some price reductions we received the subject OBC for 2 cabins. $40 for each cabin.

 

How does the work?

 

I want to play Black Jack. And in the end I want to keep a few poker chips as well.

 

Never gambled on a cruise ship before.

 

Could I use this Casino OBC to buy a drink (with souvenir cup) while in the Casino?

[evanAction]

Do you have casino cash or regular OBC?

 

Regular OBC works as a credit on your account on the ship. You chip away at it every time you purchase something onboard: sodas, booze, souvenirs etc.

 

If you want to "withdraw" that OBC as cash in the casino, walk up to a slot machine and "charge" X amount of money from you ship account to your casino account. Then you can withdraw it at the casino cashier cage.

 

Also, I don't believe any of the casinos in the fleet have "real" poker tables, just digital PokerPro's.....so no specific chips to get there. You can however get chips from the table games :)

 

Have a nice cruise.

[Badfinger]

My cruise document identifies it as "Promotional Onboard Credit - Casino Non-Refundable".

 

As far as poker chips, I was referring to the chips that are used when playing Blackjack.

[evanAction]

Gotcha on the chips. Hopefully someone else can chime in that has used promotional OBC before.

[airmj2123]

My cruise document identifies it as "Promotional Onboard Credit - Casino Non-Refundable".

 

As far as poker chips, I was referring to the chips that are used when playing Blackjack.

 

Any drink you buy will go against this OBC. In the event you do not spend $40 on items during the course of the cruise, you will not get a check for the difference.

[Miller_KC]

Most of the OBC I've had was less than the automatic tips so we just counted it as going there then spent whatever we wanted on everything else.

 

I think there is a fee if you buy poker chips with your S&S card, but there is no fee for buying with cash. Be aware that the $1 chips no longer have the ship's name on them, just generic Carnival. Some of the $5 still have the ships on them, but that is becoming more rare too. Looks like they want you to spend at least $10 to keep the cool chips with the ship and casino name on them. Depending on the ship you can probably still get the custom $5 chips with just a few hands. Sometimes you even get chips from other ships.

[SadieN]

I've never seen the souviner cups (disco ball, fish, whaletail etc) for sale anywhere except on the Lido. The drinks are served in real glass in the casino.

[PlanoTim]

Through some price reductions we received the subject OBC for 2 cabins. $40 for each cabin.

 

How does the work?

 

I want to play Black Jack. And in the end I want to keep a few poker chips as well.

 

Never gambled on a cruise ship before.

 

Could I use this Casino OBC to buy a drink (with souvenir cup) while in the Casino?

 

We also had $40 Casino Non-Refundable OBC for each of our 2 cabins on Carnival Magic a couple of weeks ago. We got it along with a $300/cabin price reduction our TA arranged for us. Once on board, we could see that it was actually $20 credited to each of the two individuals in our cabins. It was for casino play only and did not apply to regular cruise purchases. I asked guest services and they said that my under-18 son's $20 credit would be good for arcade purchases.

 

I also asked guest services if my wife's $20 could be moved to my account since she doesn't gamble - they said no. So apparently it is non-transferrable, too. :rolleyes: I didn't pursue it with the casino, so perhaps they could have accommodated me. It wasn't worth my time. I presume you could go to the casino window and get chips for it, but don’t really know.

 

Hope that helps some.

Tim