Author Topic: 5 Reasons to Prepay Your Cruise Tips; One Reason You Shouldn’t  (Read 1065 times)


Offline obendus

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Re: 5 Reasons to Prepay Your Cruise Tips; One Reason You Shouldn’t
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2024, 09:56:00 PM »
The number one reason I don't prepay gratuities is that Princess offers zero financial incentive to do so. This merely amounts to an advance payment transfer, which in large volumes, works well for Carnival Corp.

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Re: 5 Reasons to Prepay Your Cruise Tips; One Reason You Shouldn’t
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2024, 06:44:51 AM »
With most of the ship now buying a "package" lately, they don't have much say about the gratuities anyway. Unless you have a real complaint about something that's gone wrong during the cruise, your sort of stuck.
We'll buy their package sometimes, and sometimes not depending on how I feel.
For our money it's just a waste as the internet isn't something I need and 15 drinks a day is way over my limit at my age. ;D

The real question is, what to do with all that OBC if I don't use it for gratuities?
Casino, perhaps?