What currency is used in casino on Med Cruises?

[jcarter4551]

Hello, we are sailing the Med French Nights cruise in a few weeks from Barcelona. Does anyone know if euros or US dollars are used when you buy into table games in the casino on the Med cruises? Thanks for any info. 

[jon81uk]

The onboard currency for Virgin Voyages is always US dollars no matter where the ship is 🙂

[Tyler414]

USD, however I did see people using Euro's and the casino does the exchange for them, what the exchange is I don't know.

[RBCal]

Do the slot machines accept bills or do you charge using your bracelet?

[neverendingcruising]

You can do either 

[_tacocat_]

9 hours ago, RBCal said:

Do the slot machines accept bills or do you charge using your bracelet?

both, with 2 stipulations on the band:

 

1. if you charge it to your band directly and are not a rockstar, you'll get a lovely 7% fee tacked onto your charge - it's essentially casino credit then.

 

2. if you have sailor loot, you may get that loaded onto your band and use with no fee.  to do this, you have to go to the cashier, tell them you want slot money from your sailor loot and how much, then it gets loaded on your band.  you tap your band at a machine, log in, and download as much $ as you'd like to play there.  you can only cash out winnings and need to play through the full amount (i.e., can't download $100, play $0.50 and cash out $99.50). 

 

one other thing to note is that they can only pull from available sailor loot balance, and i think it's in multiples of $5 or $10.  if you have any pending items that will be refunded due to deep blue extras or operational issues (coffee credits, laundry, wifi cancelled excursions, etc.), you won't be able to use that $$ until they actually refund you those amounts.