Casino - slots?

On other cruise lines for the slots, you set up a casino account on the slot machine with a pin. You can transfer money from your sail account to your casino account. Play, when finished, can either cash out or transfer your money to your casino account to use later. When you cash out, you go to cashier, hand in your sail account, sign in with your casino pin and receive your cash.

Is this the same on Celebrity?

On all the Celebrity ships we have been on, you use it just like any Casino in Las Vegas. You can play with putting in your cash, play that machine, if you don't like the machine and or want to change, you print your ticket and move to the next machine, feed in the ticket and continue to play. Once you are done for the day, take your ticket to the casino window and get your cash or keep it for the next time you want to play.

We were on 3 cruises last year where we went to the casino cage, paid $1,500 and received credit on our acct for $1,750. This amount was put on our room key. You would go to a machine, put in your card, put in your pin and then select how much you wanted to play - if you selected $100 you would have to play $100 on that machine - sometimes it would give the "not played amount" back to your card, or a message will come on the screen and it would tell you that you have $25 left to play. Normally, I would play on $25 on anyone machine until I knew if I liked it or if it was a "good" machine. The $1750.00 was non refundable. You had to "play the whole thing during the course of the cruise - which on a 13 night transatlantic was easy to do. Hard to explain, but if you select to play $25 and it a jackpot of $100 - you can print a ticket to take the winnings out of the machine. So you sit at a machine, select to spend $25, you select $1.00 per spin, you spin, you hit $100, you still have $24 left to play on the machine, but you can print your winnings for $100 and cash it in or save it for another time.

On all the Celebrity ships we have been on, you use it just like any Casino in Las Vegas. You can play with putting in your cash, play that machine, if you don't like the machine and or want to change, you print your ticket and move to the next machine, feed in the ticket and continue to play. Once you are done for the day, take your ticket to the casino window and get your cash or keep it for the next time you want to play.

We were on 3 cruises last year where we went to the casino cage, paid $1,500 and received credit on our acct for $1,750. This amount was put on our room key. You would go to a machine, put in your card, put in your pin and then select how much you wanted to play - if you selected $100 you would have to play $100 on that machine - sometimes it would give the "not played amount" back to your card, or a message will come on the screen and it would tell you that you have $25 left to play. Normally, I would play on $25 on anyone machine until I knew if I liked it or if it was a "good" machine. The $1750.00 was non refundable. You had to "play the whole thing during the course of the cruise - which on a 13 night transatlantic was easy to do. Hard to explain, but if you select to play $25 and it a jackpot of $100 - you can print a ticket to take the winnings out of the machine. So you sit at a machine, select to spend $25, you select $1.00 per spin, you spin, you hit $100, you still have $24 left to play on the machine, but you can print your winnings for $100 and cash it in or save it for another time.

I didn't know about the second half of your post. With $1500 on the card they give you an additional $250 to play with? Do you know what the sliding scale might be. For example with $1,000? Also, is there a minimum amount you can commit to play on any single machine?

Thanks!