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How would YOU spend a $500 cabin credit?

CaribbeanBound

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CaribbeanBound

CaribbeanBound

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How to use $500 in cabin credits:

  • Drink it
  • Pick out a couple really cool excursions that you normally could not afford
  • Gamble it (okay, lose it)
  • Tip with it
  • Bid for several paintings
  • Buy drinks for everyone in the bar
  • Eat at the alternate restaurants every night
  • Order wine for your table

Post your personal suggestions below...

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gdlamberth "Live from...." Rare

gdlamberth

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I'd add buy "stuff" in the shops. Neat excuse to buy that logo thing or cruise souvenier (e.g., the T-Shirt that says "Constellation through the Canal - 2002"). On one RSSC cruise (remember most drinks and tips are included; alternate restraunts are NAC) we wound up buying chocolate covered Macademia nuts!! with the last $20 or so we had left on credit. One year I got a pair of slacks (half off) with "left over" $20 credit.

 

Greg

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ashleysmm

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I'd sample some of the Spa offerings that look great but are usually to rich for my budget. Definately would eat at the Specialty restaurant and try the wine recommended for each course I selected. Whatever was left of the $500 after the above would be for Martinis.

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Bruin Steve

Bruin Steve

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Ignore it...

It will spend itself...

 

When I cruise, I tip...I drink...I buy shore excursions...I buy stuff in the gift shop...or the photos...or whatever...

 

I do these things whether I have a "credit" or not...

 

The only difference with the credit is that my bill at the end of it all is not quite as large...

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brigittetom

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buy chips at the casino... cash them out without gambling and go ashore and spend some money then take the rest home.... If it's your money why should you give it back to the cruise line?

Unfortunately our chip money would never make it home. :D In our case we would just ignore it also and be happy at the end of our cruise that our bill is so much lower than usual.

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sunpsyche

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ah...that has a certain appeal. i remember our last cruise...midway thru...the itemized bill slipped thru under the door...the shock...and ..relief...not ours!....til we discovered...ms betencourt....was not nearly the denizen of the nightclubs as we were.....gulp....:rolleyes: ....just let that $500 ride baby ride.......gigglin...

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trcori

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we wound up with $350 credit on our second Century cruise as compensation for the cancellation of the cruise we'd originally booked (the ship was redeployed with several weeks' warning). we are not big partiers, we travel with our relatively young child, and so we really had to make an effort! you all will laugh but we spent a chunk of it on laundry. OTOH we discovered the joys of the Cova Cafe' after dinner (after dropping off child in the Fun Factory). I didn't know at the time about the casino-cash option or that would have made more sense for us!

 

TR

Millennium EC 12/12/04

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