As I stated, I just can't stop myself from gambling on cruise ships, I get bored easily on sea days and those machines are so damn convenient! I did manage to play some blackjack, best game on ship. VP again very bad on one machine with zero quads in 2 hours single line, another machine had quads but I broke even. Played QuikPics type slot and won money, played another penny slot far too long that sucked all my money.
Played total of about 4500 points on ship, just shy of there 5000 point level for first Gold tier. Points are good for a year. 1500 points gets you free drinks in casino, 2500 points gets you comps instead of free play for your points, 100 points equals $1 free play. Once you hit 2500 points go to the host end of trip to get comps taken off your account, but also start asking for additional comps during cruise such as free dinners and they will make reservations for specialty restaurants. They also may send u chocolates or wine or other goodies to your room at no charge, I don't know when they do this.
At 2500 points they will give you more room credit than the free play option, so don't do the free play until the end of trip when u have your point total.
Strangely on this ship they told me they had automatically comped "invited guests" (I guess the Harrahs people) with credits for their play based on play the night before last day. I had about 4000 points at that point which would have been $40 in free play. They instead gave me a room credit of $200 on bill. They told me my extra 500 points would go over to next cruise or I could do free play, I would have preferred to get the 5x comps versus free play option but they gave me no choice. Fortunately I have 3 more NCL cruises booked this year.
Anyone told they would have spa or other charges removed should double check their final bill. They may have just stuck on another credit rather than actually removing a charge as they did for me.
I heard of only one big jackpot on ship, but there may have been more. People I talked to were all losing and many people taking advances on room credit to get extra money to play which was far to easy to do (yep me too, though I limited myself to $1000 extra). No 3% charge, so it was credited like a normal ship bill, not a cash advance.
A smart player I know took $3000 a day advance, cashed out without playing, didn't play at all. And ended up with the cash and a huge VIsa or MC bill, to give themselves all those extra frequent flyer or whatever points. Then would pay off the bill with the cash within 30 days, so no extra credit card charges, but got those extra points. You are supposed to declare anything over $10000 brought back to US though, so not sure exactly how this worked. Presumably you could pay off the $3000 each day, but Im not sure that NCL charges your MasterCard until the end of the cruise. Guess u could do this just s couple of times and take cash home without hitting $10000 and customs questions, especially if u are traveling with a significant other.
Anyway seemed like the slots and VP were extremely bad on ship.
Fortunately I won back what I lost on ship at Philadelphia Harrahs on the way home, but that is Another story for another post.
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