Casino Charge a fee?

[bambidrummer]

I have not sailed on Royal in a long time. Can you take cash out on your room card on the slot machines? Carnival charges for getting chips at the table, but not for playing with your room card on the machines.

[DHADEN]

There is a 5% fee when you get chips at the tables, or if you go to the Cashier.

[tahqa]

To my knowledge you may not use your room card to get cash out of the slot machines.

[Clarea]

To my knowledge you may not use your room card to get cash out of the slot machines.

That is correct, the SeaPass card cannot be directly used to play on the machines or live gaming.

[CruisinAg]

To use your SeaPass you'd have to go to the cashier to get cash. They'd charge a percentage on that. You can insert your SeaPass card into the machine when you play but that's only done to track player's club points like you'd do in Vegas with a player's club card. I usually take cash and just take whatever I'm willing to play with that night and leave the rest in the safe.

[Cigar King]

We used to be able to get money from the Seapass when we had OBC on our account. Is this not possible anymore. It hasn't been an issue lately as Mrs. King seems to find something that *needs* to be purchased. ;-)

[Merion_Mom]

We used to be able to get money from the Seapass when we had OBC on our account. Is this not possible anymore. It hasn't been an issue lately as Mrs. King seems to find something that *needs* to be purchased. ;-)

 

The casino charges a 5% fee. They don't care if you have OBC or not. It just goes on your SeaPass account.

 

NOW............if you make your SeaPass account a CASH account, the casino won't charge the fee. ;) :D

[canuckcruiselover]

If you take cash in the casino, it is charged to your credit card as a Royal Caribbean expense not as a cash advance.

[Cigar King]

Again, we haven't done this recently, but, what I am hearing is that now, regardless of me having OBC, if I use the Seapass in the casino, I will be charged 5% and my credit card will charge me for a cash advance. That sounds terrible.

 

Am I still allowed to go to customer service and get the money?

 

I am somewhat more than normally curious about this as we have a cruise coming up with a lot more OBC than usual...I think it has prepaid gratuities as well. Just trying to plan out my options.

[cb at sea]

RCI's machines give you a ticket to "cash out" with...so any winnings, just take the ticket to the cashier, and they will give you your winnings. There is a fee if you take money from your onboard account...so just don't put your 'gambling' money onto your shipboard account!

[ZoeyVictoria]

Your credit card will not be charged a cash advance fee. All of your charges (drinks, photos, gratuities, casino) will be on the one charge to your credit card.

[cruisinfanatic]

Again, we haven't done this recently, but, what I am hearing is that now, regardless of me having OBC, if I use the Seapass in the casino, I will be charged 5% and my credit card will charge me for a cash advance. That sounds terrible.

 

Am I still allowed to go to customer service and get the money?

 

I am somewhat more than normally curious about this as we have a cruise coming up with a lot more OBC than usual...I think it has prepaid gratuities as well. Just trying to plan out my options.

Wrong. It's just a charge