Princess still lets you charge shipboard account thru Slot without fee?
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Princess still lets you charge shipboard account thru Slot without fee?
I know in the past Princess (actually Holland America and Carnival too) let you charge shipboard account to put money into casino account thru the Slot machine. The Casino Account is independent from the shipboard account - and any credit balance must be settled at the Cage on the last night of the cruise. We dont really gamble but that is a good method to "cash out" excess shipboard credit.
We have not cruised Princess almost a year, and wonder if this practice is still true.
Also anyone knows buying an OBC online for the booked cruise, is the charge coming from Princess or from the shipboard account? i.e. the merchant is Princess or is Sky Princess, the ship - like at the final settlement of the cruise after disembarkation.
Our AMEX cards have an offer of $100 statement credit for $500 spend with Princess. If the billing is from Princess, I wonder if I could purchase $500 OBC, trigger the $100 statement credit - then extract any remaining balance after netting out spend / gratuity onboard using the Casino method.
We have not cruised Princess almost a year, and wonder if this practice is still true.
Also anyone knows buying an OBC online for the booked cruise, is the charge coming from Princess or from the shipboard account? i.e. the merchant is Princess or is Sky Princess, the ship - like at the final settlement of the cruise after disembarkation.
Our AMEX cards have an offer of $100 statement credit for $500 spend with Princess. If the billing is from Princess, I wonder if I could purchase $500 OBC, trigger the $100 statement credit - then extract any remaining balance after netting out spend / gratuity onboard using the Casino method.
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I've done this myself in the past--it works great. The trick is to sign up for the promotion in your AMEX account BEFORE you spend any money. I did not try the casino thing as we used the purchased OBC to buy excursions, so I can't speak to that.