Buying OBC before the cruise

[wombat50]

Can you put money onto your OBC account before your cruise. With Princess I can but cant find anything about Celebrity.

[Saab4444]

What is the benefit of doing this?

[GastroGnome]

You can play the currency if you are not in the US.  If the USD drops suddenly you can stick a bit on OBC at less cost to you in your own.  But I vaguely had at the back of my mind that celebrity had closed that loophole a couple of years ago?  Certainly GBP hasn't done so well recently that I would have tried!

[wendyam76]

I used to do this until the £ dropped so much but I don’t think they have closed the loophole. I hate having a huge credit card bill at the end so adding OBC helped with that.

Wendy 

[bengaltiger1]

We have done this on several occasions when the exchange rate as better than we could get anywhere else. 

 

https://www.celebritycruises.com/cruise-gifts/items-results?category=ONBDCR&collection=ONBDCR

 

£19.60 per $25 unit. 

 

If you are only looking at the exchange rate and no other factors, it’s not a good rate atm. 

 

[upwarduk]

6 hours ago, bengaltiger1 said:

£19.60 per $25 unit

Certainly not a good rate, I bought at £15 for $25 in 2015.

[perkydebrajean]

9 hours ago, Saab4444 said:

What is the benefit of doing this?

 

I did it when my daughter and I did our first cruise. Knew we'd be doing spa treatments, specialty dining, drinks and some shopping. Our final bill came out to $17.24 which was a lot better than getting the huge credit card bill at the end of the cruise.  At least for me it was.