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I don't know how to research this, so I am going to toss it out here. If it belongs someplace else, let me know.

How does gambling work in the casino on a cruise ship. Do you get chips? Do you pay cash for the chips or do you charge chips to a cabin?

Here's the set up - Caitlin invites Jacob on a cruise and they are in one cabin. Thomas invites Rebecca to the same cruise and they are next door. Jacob and Rebecca dump Caitlin and Thomas and rekindle an old romance. Rebecca and Caitlin trade cabins. In this situation, would Jacob's gambling losses wind up on Caitlin's credit card?

I am getting close to finishing a 30K word story with the above set up. It's an incest story with Thomas and Caitlin being a brother and sister. If anyone who has cruised recently would be willing to look it over to check the cruise details, I would greatly appreciate it. Please send me a PM if you are interested.
 
8letters said:
I don't know how to research this, so I am going to toss it out here. If it belongs someplace else, let me know.

How does gambling work in the casino on a cruise ship. Do you get chips? Do you pay cash for the chips or do you charge chips to a cabin?

Here's the set up - Caitlin invites Jacob on a cruise and they are in one cabin. Thomas invites Rebecca to the same cruise and they are next door. Jacob and Rebecca dump Caitlin and Thomas and rekindle an old romance. Rebecca and Caitlin trade cabins. In this situation, would Jacob's gambling losses wind up on Caitlin's credit card?

I am getting close to finishing a 30K word story with the above set up. It's an incest story with Thomas and Caitlin being a brother and sister. If anyone who has cruised recently would be willing to look it over to check the cruise details, I would greatly appreciate it. Please send me a PM if you are interested.
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On Royal Caribbean you get chips but everything is charged on your cruise card.
 
sr71plt said:
On Royal Caribbean you get chips but everything is charged on your cruise card.
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Same with Celebrity. All your purchases are tied to your Sea Card, which is linked to you. You could switch rooms with people, but you still need you Sea Card, which is tied to your name, your face (they take a photo as you board), and your credit card on file.
 
sr71plt said:
On Royal Caribbean you get chips but everything is charged on your cruise card.
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How recent is your experience? In 2009, Sandra and I went on 7 day cruise with RC. Did you get physical chips? I don't remember the other tables because I played only one which was electronic Texas Hold 'em. Every seat had a console to sign in to; all betting was tabulated thru them, no physical chips.

MatthewVett said:
Same with Celebrity. All your purchases are tied to your Sea Card, which is linked to you. You could switch rooms with people, but you still need you Sea Card, which is tied to your name, your face (they take a photo as you board), and your credit card on file.
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Yep, best definitive answer to OP's scenario. All major attractions are moving to this type of system. Disney World uses bracelets instead of cards.
 
AirRichard101 said:
How recent is your experience? In 2009, Sandra and I went on 7 day cruise with RC. Did you get physical chips? I don't remember the other tables because I played only one which was electronic Texas Hold 'em. Every seat had a console to sign in to; all betting was tabulated thru them, no physical chips.
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April of 2014. But I don't gamble; just passed through the casino, so I may not have seen how it all works.
 
sr71plt said:
On Royal Caribbean you get chips but everything is charged on your cruise card.
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I had a similar experience on Carnival. They took cash for chips, or, you could just charge a dollar amount to your card and get that much in chips. I planned to and used cash when possible because they added a 5% surcharge for a card-to-chip transfer.

Anything you cashed in was paid to your ship account. (I assume they settled anything that was actually in the black after the cruise. I was not.)

The actual use varied with the game. Table games, like Craps and Blackjack, I used chips. Texas hold'em used an electronic table; you swiped your ship card to buy in and then used the table to play the game and make bets alongside other people.
 
Somewhat off topic but, you know what, I have been into several casinos, but I have never placed a bet. Given all of the other risks that I have taken in my life, this is something of a surprise. Even to me.
 
I've been in to a few casinos, and the pervading whiff of desperation always puts me off.
 
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MatthewVett said:
Same with Celebrity. All your purchases are tied to your Sea Card, which is linked to you. You could switch rooms with people, but you still need you Sea Card, which is tied to your name, your face (they take a photo as you board), and your credit card on file.
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If I was paying from my Significant Other's cruise, would my credit card be on my SO's Sea Card or would my SO have to provide their own credit card?

Thanks for this. I had assumed that people could just switch cards but they can't if their picture is on it. I take it they would have to go to the pursuer and have their rooms changed on their Sea Card.
 
On Royal Caribbean, you settle all of this beforehand (although I guess you could get the bill split while on board if you and your SO git into a snit that prompts this). Either there's one card the expenses of everyone in the party goes on, or you opt for separate billing. Still everything has to be covered by a preauthorized card.
 
SamScribble said:
Somewhat off topic but, you know what, I have been into several casinos, but I have never placed a bet. Given all of the other risks that I have taken in my life, this is something of a surprise. Even to me.
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I must say that my jaunts to Las Vegas have shown that you can drop a bundle there without doing more regarding casinos than walk across the casino floor to get to the elevators to your room. I've bet on the horses in the abstract (noted what I'd bet on which race and checking the winners without placing the bet) and bet on the dogs up to the expense I would have paid for a movie or concert that night, but I've never bet money on cards or mindlessly sat in front of a slot machine feeding it slugs.
 
8letters said:
If I was paying from my Significant Other's cruise, would my credit card be on my SO's Sea Card or would my SO have to provide their own credit card?

Thanks for this. I had assumed that people could just switch cards but they can't if their picture is on it. I take it they would have to go to the pursuer and have their rooms changed on their Sea Card.
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My SO had her own card, but we could tie it to either her credit card or my credit card. The photo's not on the card itself, but if you scan it, like when we leave the ship for the day, the computer pulls up the photo, so if you're just using the card for drinks or something, you'd probably be okay. Your Sea Card also opens your room door, so technically, I could switch cards with someone else if we wanted to switch rooms, and their card would be tied to their room, and it's unlikely we'd get caught unless our genders didn't match the name on the new card, or if we left the ship.
 
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