Liberty

[OceanZena]

I picked my friends up this morning from Liberty and both tell me that the slots in the casino are now minimum $1.00 and nothing less than that which I find incredibly hard to believe. They said all they saw were $1 and $5 slots and nothing of lower denomination. Are they blind or is this true? With the popularity of penny slots, I can't believe Carnival would take them away and that would make going to the casino less fun for me. 

Both also said there were no shows all week which I also find hard to believe...and also that the dance club and piano bar was shut down all week too. I asked them what did they do all week, and they said "ate and sat on the balcony". They are up in years and i'm wondering if they were just not looking or basically out of their minds. 

I can't believe Carnival would do any of these things and I did an internet search and came up with no news of any of it. Please tell me they're just blind lol. 

[nccruzencouple]

I was on the Liberty in September and they had penny slots then. 

[Guest BasicSailor]

3 minutes ago, nccruzencouple said:

I was on the Liberty in September and they had penny slots then. 

I thought those pennies added up to larger sum of money in the end 😉

[OceanZena]

Thanks for confirming. They swore up and down this morning that they looked everywhere and couldn't find any penny, nickel or quarter slots and that everything was $1 and $5. They're not the type to lie or make up stories, so I think they had to have just overlooked them....but those denominations are everywhere so it's hard to do that which raised my concern. I love the penny and quarter slots and would hate to see them gone. 

[mz-s]

Well it’s not a penny per spin because you can’t just bet one penny. Maybe that’s what they’re talking about.

[OceanZena]

23 minutes ago, mz-s said:

Well it’s not a penny per spin because you can’t just bet one penny. Maybe that’s what they’re talking about.

 

No they play in Tampa all the time and know the penny slots aren't actually a penny lol. They specifically said all they saw were $1 and $5 slots. I joked that maybe they stumbled into the high limit room but they said it was all through the casino...all $1 and $5 denominations. 

[Island Dog]

"Penny" slots were 50 cents minimum per pull on Liberty in September for us.

[ZoeyVictoria]

I was on the Liberty September 26-30 and brought home 80,000 pennies from a seventy-five cent slot machine.  Almost all of the slot machines were penny slots.  

[OceanZena]

Thanks everyone for easing my mind. I don't know what the hell they were talking about....maybe they dreamt it lol. It did seem absurd to me that they'd make everything $1 and up slots, but they both insisted that's what it was in the casino. They probably had too much to drink. I'm just relieved it's not true!

[Honolulu Blue]

16 hours ago, OceanZena said:

I picked my friends up this morning from Liberty and both tell me that the slots in the casino are now minimum $1.00 and nothing less than that which I find incredibly hard to believe. They said all they saw were $1 and $5 slots and nothing of lower denomination. Are they blind or is this true? With the popularity of penny slots, I can't believe Carnival would take them away and that would make going to the casino less fun for me. 

Both also said there were no shows all week which I also find hard to believe...and also that the dance club and piano bar was shut down all week too. I asked them what did they do all week, and they said "ate and sat on the balcony". They are up in years and i'm wondering if they were just not looking or basically out of their minds. 

I can't believe Carnival would do any of these things and I did an internet search and came up with no news of any of it. Please tell me they're just blind lol. 

I'm glad you got your answer.  But mostly for my satisfaction, let me try to elaborate on what's going on.

 

Those pretty penny video slots that have become ubiquitous over the past 25 years are mostly not available to be bet for one penny a spin.  There's a minimum number of lines required to be bet (mostly 25 to 100).  And yes, I've seen penny slots where the minimum bet is $1.  That could have been what your friends saw, but it seems that a poster here has countered it.

 

The more traditional reel slots, which mostly have 1 to 9 lines per spin, haven't been seen in pennies for some decades.  Even for quarters they're becoming scarce.  I wouldn't be surprised if the minimum bet size for those were $1.

 

As for the shows, dance club, and piano bar all being shut down... I've heard of each of those, individually, being shut down on ships on other cruise lines - mostly in the beginning of the year when Omicron was running riot.  Lately I've heard of spot shutdowns due to illness/quarantine issues and the occasional visa problem.  I think having one or the other being shut down plausible, but all of them... not plausible.  Perhaps they only looked during daylight hours, or maybe they're (making finger gesture around ear that's probably been canceled these days) showing their age.

[OceanZena]

4 hours ago, Honolulu Blue said:

I'm glad you got your answer.  But mostly for my satisfaction, let me try to elaborate on what's going on.

 

Those pretty penny video slots that have become ubiquitous over the past 25 years are mostly not available to be bet for one penny a spin.  There's a minimum number of lines required to be bet (mostly 25 to 100).  And yes, I've seen penny slots where the minimum bet is $1.  That could have been what your friends saw, but it seems that a poster here has countered it.

 

The more traditional reel slots, which mostly have 1 to 9 lines per spin, haven't been seen in pennies for some decades.  Even for quarters they're becoming scarce.  I wouldn't be surprised if the minimum bet size for those were $1.

 

As for the shows, dance club, and piano bar all being shut down... I've heard of each of those, individually, being shut down on ships on other cruise lines - mostly in the beginning of the year when Omicron was running riot.  Lately I've heard of spot shutdowns due to illness/quarantine issues and the occasional visa problem.  I think having one or the other being shut down plausible, but all of them... not plausible.  Perhaps they only looked during daylight hours, or maybe they're (making finger gesture around ear that's probably been canceled these days) showing their age.

 

Yes, I know those penny slots are always 50 cents to a dollar a spin or more and never actually one cent per spin. I go to Tampa Hard Rock Casino with one of them regularly and we've talked about that while playing them, so that wasn't what she was talking about. 

She said all she saw was $1 and $5 machines throughout the casino and I pressed her about that saying she had to be mistaken but she swore up and down yesterday over breakfast after I picked them up....I think you are right about the age thing lol...she's 82, but sharp as a tack....(or so I thought). 

 

I did go straight to the source yesterday because I love the low denomination slots and asked Carnival directly and they replied back to me that my friends were definitely mistaken and they do have the penny and 25 cent slots in their casinos and shows were not shut down. 

I sail in February on Liberty and all these things they mentioned scared me and i'm so relieved that none of it was true. 

[Iluvmykindle]

I was just there a couple of weeks ago.  There are plenty of penny slots.  Some are in the smoking section and others in non-smoking.  That is all I play is the  penny slots and have been on the Liberty five times this year with casino offers each and every time.

[stormynow]

On 10/28/2022 at 6:08 PM, ZoeyVictoria said:

I was on the Liberty September 26-30 and brought home 80,000 pennies from a seventy-five cent slot machine.  Almost all of the slot machines were penny slots.  

80000 cents = 16 bags @ 40 lbs per for total 640 lbs. How in the world did I carry that off the ship.

[ZoeyVictoria]

6 minutes ago, stormynow said:

80000 cents = 16 bags @ 40 lbs per for total 640 lbs. How in the world did I carry that off the ship.

Eight one-hundred dollar bills = 80,000 pennies.