KarmaCruisers

For my mains I ordered the catch of the day..which is Red Snapper (last had it at Bobby Flay’s Amalfi in Vegas where it was $150! Haha)

Tonight’s dinner at Catch..I got the Ciopinno..really because I wanted to see what was in this crab dish haha

Are you sure about that?? The fine print says for ONE cruise.

Forgot to post pictures of my food; lol and I got catch in 90 minutes!

Well then my offers should start getting better!

I would have but these were the type of people who wouldn’t listen to me.

Since I saw @sonomaphil in the hall and he asked..this is the $10,000 cruise I am going to try to book 11-day on the Crown out of SF for Memorial Day.

Exactly..I JUST turned 40, and have been cruising for 6 years…let’s put you starting cruising at 50..I’ve got ten more years before I start getting to be the demographic that princess markets towards.. Is it smart on their part to not use the data to their advantage? No..but you can only do so much if your C-suite is making all the money and no one else is.

I feel REALLY bad for the two kids next to me..they have the “Premier” package and they think it means unlimited food at the sushi bar..so they’re literally ordering everything off the menu..what they don’t realize is its unlimited PREFIX menu’s….at least I would BET that’s what it means; otherwise it’d be EASY to make up that $20 a day difference..

Puttin in work back there

Tokyo tea and a dead soldier

At ocean terrace now and the plus package comes with a pre-fixe preset menu. I also ordered a Tokyo Tea.

Man, that Cherry Blossom Garden was DAMN good!

a lot of people take finances personally; the way I look at it..I’m not here to give false pretenses to anyone, nor say “ohh look I got a free suite and I barely gambled!” i keep it real.

The PES lounge is pretty spartan tonight..but oddly crowded.. only had some pretty weak potstickers and instead of the shrimp ceviche they have chicken salad (which no one is getting, lol) im trying the cherry blossom garden cocktail this time. after this I’m going to go to ocean terrace for a small sushi bite; before catch at 7:30

Thank you; I appreciate the kind words. the next stage of my life will probably get pretty rocky, so it’s nice to go out and full blown degen gamble and drink; before the bad times come. (I mean hopefully they don’t; but it’s not looking that way)

4000 points to get $250 freeplay I don’t think is too bad..that $20,000 coin-in at 4% HE (expected loss of $800) with a CC cashback of $600; that’s actually a good play, for very little risk.

I think it’s much more than that..demographic also plays a huge part in it. I am 100% not princess’s target demographic…although I’m getting up there in age, to finally match my hobbies.

That is a good thought..but I don’t think it works that way; because they don’t charge the CC on file until the TOTAL bill at the end. and I don’t think you could “pay down” your bill using a CC, daily. (And on the backend side of that, CC’s work extremely slow so even if I could pay it per day; it wouldn’t POST for like 3 days..and don’t forget about holidays and weekends) I do like your thinking though… and spend isn’t important; it’s whether I maximized the value. (I know I fouled up on extracting value this cruise..but at least I got lucky with that offer)

To make that a decent play; I’d need $50,000 limit on my credit card (10,000 points on 4% edge video poker would be $50,000 coin-in with an expected loss of $2,000 with $1,500 cashback… i wish it was for sure…because I did 10,000 on our 12-day British isle cruise and got NO come-back-soon offer, at all.

Thanks! I do wonder what the minimum points required for this (which I can only assume IS the top offer) if it was indeed 50,000 points…that is an EXPECTED loss of $10,000. However, with the CCL creditcard; you’d get $7,500 CASHBACK..so you’d actually only have an expected loss of $2500…which if you were guaranteed to get this offer of $2500 freeplay..you’re actually doing a “break even” play… The only caveat, is you’d need a CCL credit card limit of $250,000! Even if you scaled that down to earning 5,000 points (which I’m not 100% sure would get you anything)..but MAYBE like an interior and $250 freeplay. Unfortunately my CCL creditcard limit is only $10,000 (ie: why I couldn’t lose any more)

I actually run a few offshore houses; so me and my Filipino friends click and I know exactly how to make sure I get what I need. My “corporate” offers; I can absolutely book myself online; that’s why I say..my current PVP is a moron-bot.

Thanks.

I actually used to have a decent PVP; he was straight up with me that he couldn’t touch anything casino offer related..but he was replaced with an absolute moron-bot, who just uses the pre-generated emails to blast my box (even though I’ve told him..I mean I THINK it’s a him anyway..”Ove”?) that my WIFE’S emails are ALSO coming to my mailbox! I’ll give Manila a call on the 21st; I’d like to use it on an Alaska cruise..but I want to sail on a Royal class; but the only thing out of SF is the Crown…

Look what showed up..so it’s obvious that the last day DOESN’T count in the casino.