O Points?

[Classiccruiser777]

What are they, what are they good for and how does the process work?

[Erica@cruisecritic]

They're points you get for winning competitive activities onboard -- trivia, bean bag toss, etc. You get laminated cards with your points (1, 2 or 3) after each event, and on one of the last days of the cruise, there's a redemption time when you can "buy" Oceania-logo swag with your points. Think hats, visors, T-shirts, etc. At least on my cruise, the sellers were very lenient about letting you round up your point numbers to get an item that cost slightly more points than what you had.

[sammiedawg]

We redeemed some points recently and got an umbrella and long sleeved T shirt. I normally give mine to someone avidly collecting, a couple times a preteen on board was collecting. Points are easily earned participating in trivia and bingo, ping pong,golf putting type games.

[Paulchili]

We redeemed some points recently and got an umbrella and long sleeved T shirt. I normally give mine to someone avidly collecting, a couple times a preteen on board was collecting. Points are easily earned participating in trivia and bingo, ping pong,golf putting type games.

 

I don't know how easy they are to earn :D

Technically speaking, you have to place in 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in any event to earn the points. That said, I have seen cases where points were given out more liberally - even for just participation. Varies from cruise to cruise.

You have to be on the "right" team to earn O points at trivia; some teams never finish high enough to earn points or earn just a few points (not enough to redeem for anything from trivia alone).

[ORV]

I don't know how easy they are to earn :D

Technically speaking, you have to place in 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in any event to earn the points. That said, I have seen cases where points were given out more liberally - even for just participation. Varies from cruise to cruise.

You have to be on the "right" team to earn O points at trivia; some teams never finish high enough to earn points or earn just a few points (not enough to redeem for anything from trivia alone).

 

I guess we've been lucky in picking teams.

 

Sometimes there are some really dominant teams, sometimes the winning teams vary.

 

We have a lot of swag from Big O points over the past few years. We usually just play trivia, sometimes at night, always in the day. A little baggo and if it's convenient ping pong.

 

They have got some new stuff recently that I haven't seen in the past.

[Paulchili]

I guess we've been lucky in picking teams.

 

Sometimes there are some really dominant teams, sometimes the winning teams vary.

 

We have a lot of swag from Big O points over the past few years. We usually just play trivia, sometimes at night, always in the day. A little baggo and if it's convenient ping pong.

 

They have got some new stuff recently that I haven't seen in the past.

 

The night trivia is easier to get points as fewer teams play.

I haven't seen anything new for redemption. Just got off the Insignia and didn't even use our points for redemption - gave some away.

BTW, our team came in first in the cruise-long total of points - so we did have some O points, just nothing of interest to redeem them for.