A short blog entry and an even shorter video showing the Princess Cruises Bingo options. These were available to us on our UK Seacation cruise on Sky Princess from Southampton.
Sorry for the quality of the audio in the video, we do this as a hobby and it was filmed on a phone. I hope it is still of some interest. The video is short so I have written up some text below the video to fill in the blanks.
Here is the video…
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About the Princess Cruises Bingo
There were quite a few options from a single paper ticket that you had to follow and shout Bingo if you won through to an iPad style tablet that took care of playing the game for you.
When we first turned up it was bewildering so I thought this video and review might help someone. It’s useful to know the options if you are interested in playing bingo onboard in advance.
The first time we played we were ‘sold’ the full package as the best value. We soon trimmed this down to just the paper tickets.
Did we have a bingo win?
Yes, we won $ 125 on the bingo on the very last day. This really meant we just about broke even. Just a little in profit but nothing to get really excited about, but it was fun.
We won on the scratch cards as well, but just bought new scratch cards with the winnings – doh!
What did we find to be the best bingo options?
We personally found the six paper tickets & 1 scratch card option for $ 39 to be the best option. It seemed the most fun. Not being bingo experts we found we were just able to keep up with the number caller.
We did try the iPad style tablet on the first day but found it a little boring and didn’t win with it. The winners seemed to be split 50/50 in the room between paper tickets and tablets. The tablet just seemed to jump around between tickets on its system. I’m sure it knew what it was doing even if I had no idea, we didn’t touch it!
The scratch card also won us $ 10 on both occasions which we swapped for new cards in the casino and then lost on. We didn’t play to win, it was just fun. As they say, only bet as much as you can afford to lose.
Anything to be aware of?
The only thing I was not aware of was the rolling jackpot, I think it could have been made clearer.
On day 1 they said $1000 must be won. I don’t think it was made clear that this would only happen during the cruise and not always on the day you play.
The daily jackpot was $ 1000 but it was only won if someone got a full house in 50 balls or less. If not won it rolled over onto the next day with a few more dollars added to the jackpot. The full jackpot was only won on the last day when the 50 ball limit was removed.
We probably would have played daily anyway, but would definitely focus on buying more tickets to increase our odds of winning on the last day of the bingo.