But if we had, we would have had 10% more chips to run through this process. We did not buy the 10% bonus chips before the cruise, and at least for table play, they don't sell it onboard. We went through our $280 in promo chips and turned them into about $350 in real chips. So you keep playing the promo chips and setting aside the real chips that you win. Try your hand: 1. Earn Tier Points to qualify for higher membership tiers and benefits, and collect Redeemable Points to use toward casino play and virtually any purchases on board. You can't cash in the promo chips, you can only lose them, but you can keep any 'real' chips you win. Introducing our brand new Blue Chip Club program. On the cruise from which we just returned, we had about $280 worth of OBC to use up. Unless, as in our case, you have non-refundable onboard credit to burn. Lots of fun stuff to do on the ships, but we've come to the conclusion that the casinos are not among them on Celebrity. It only serves as 'seed money' to try to win over that amount. Then there's the 'Free Play' for the tables, which we incredulously found out last time was a case of not ever being able to get that money back. I don't expect to win, but I do think I should be able to play a little while rather than the money being a one-way street. Basically, the only way you 'get that money back' is to lose it, which does not take very long on the Celebrity ships as they have the tightest slots and video poker I've ever come across.
