Oldsweets

Was pleased that Blue Chip Club finally offered Balcony Cruise with drinks & Internet. This new offer is only open to us through 1 Aug and was for the Pacific Coastal. We have been sailing with other lines casino offers because of the huge surcharge for drink package, internet, port fee’s, & taxes. We were thrilled!

Ok, here is the answer should this happen with anyone else. We placed holds on these reservations and allowed pvp to complete. Pvp in process of canceling holds to rebook so he could apply credits we had (which is a good thing) bumped into a problem of some sorts. He had created an actual 2nd booking which couldn’t be accessed for some reason. When we talked with carnival last evening they said no booking on system so they booked us and this new booking got promptly canceled because they really did have a booking. You can’t have 2 bookings for same person, same date obviously so we got notice that Sorry you canceled your booking last night 1 hour after making it. This morning I got through quickly and got a wonderful agent on the call center who stayed with the problem after she validated she understood its history. She worked at it and also found no other booking for this trip in my name & VIFP number. She then brought in a lead agent who quickly found d the invisible booking and what you know problem resolved. WE HOPE! but clearly it all depends on getting a good customer service and thank you carnival for todays agent.

I agree which is what we did. My wife booked a cabin under her offer with a guest and I booked a second inside cabin under my offer without a second guest.

Any advice appreciated. My wife and I each had inside room for the Hot offer and we each booked a room on Sunday. Her room has held but my booking canceled sending me the standard email saying “ sorry you have canceled your reservation”. Second time was our pvp booking the cabin on Monday and yep it canceled on him. I waited until last night thinking my pvp would get it fixed but worrying that offer would close out so I called carnival last night and got a great agent. She booked my room and took $200 deposit and 1 hour later yep another sorry you canceled your reservation email. I am waiting on carnival to open at 9 to get into line to talk with someone again but wondered if I am missing something?

Great helpful information as we prepare to do our first MSC cruise. Wondering what a good deal for a paid upgrade from balcony to YT club using our casino offer would be. Thanks for this helpful info.

Over the past week we saw our great casino offers disappear and at one point over the weekend we had zero offers available. Yesterday we saw new casino offers appeared but they are significantly reduced which we expected would happen as Carnival got busier with stronger bookings or the number of our used offers reached a certain point. As background we have indeed taken advantage of a number of these offers and we played extensively in the casino on each of those cruises. We also have a number of the most generous offer “Plan Now Sail Later” booked for the coming months. While we suspect that our offers will remain tight for awhile but hopefully will increase as the data of our play begins to impact our history. We are certainly not complaining as we get it and as a couple who enjoy playing in the casino the offers we were getting under Plan Now Play were actually good enough that we literally canceled casino cruises we had booked with other cruise lines in order to accept these lucrative offers from carnival. It was simply money that as gamblers we couldn’t leave on the table. So our question is what are the casino junkies seeing and wondering if others are seeing this tightening of offers or we simply had booked enough of the best offers to have shut off the best offers. This is one of the reasons we like these boards and knowledge can be powerful tool.