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no reservations. We would walk up, get table, or sit at the bar. Show up early to get table.

margarita is the best. I love it, but one knocks me on my butt. wish I could drink them all day long,

before the bidding system if cabins were available, once on board the ship you could go to guest services and ask to upgrade. We were booked in a balcony and paid $30 a day per cabin to upgrade to mini suite, next cruise it was $40 per day. Now the bidding system, I put in a bid of $300 total to upgrade from balcony to mini suite. 7 night cruise, bid was accepted. We have another cruise in April and I will bid up again if available.

No one seems to have tried to book an Alaska cruise/land tour with casino offer, so I found a cruise on Holland America - 28 days around trip out of Seattle that its 21 stops. I went on the website Ocean Player Club which is Princess and Holland America casino company and asked if they would offer us a casino cabin for that cruise - never hurts to ask, I will let you know how they respond

We were on the Discovery in April 2022 - ship was not full. We ate at the Ocean Terrace 2 or 3 times. My husband loves sushi, and I still found things on the menu that meet my needs. The food is excellent and we would have lunch (only on sea days) or dinner and the cost was $15 - $20 total. if you like sushi, give it a try. I would give a five stars.

I was cleaning out my files and paperwork and came across some of the offers "in the past" that we had received. Free balcony, plus package, $500 free play and lots of cruises to choose from. I think it will be awhile before we get these offers again. We have 3 cruises this year (2023) and will not book another until we get a "good" offer.

We did our first cruise with Princess using a voucher received from Harrah's Rincon.

Harrahs also gives away cruise vouchers for Princess

we received the email. I called the next day and paid the amount. We were on Deck 10 in a regular Balcony and are still on Deck 10 in a mini suite. Not sure what happens to those that don't want to pay for the new cabin

I am not sure if you can get a free cruise/free play without taking a cruise, playing in the casino and getting yourself established. We are taking our 13 cruise on Princess next month. Our first was a 28 day "bucket" list cruise to Tahiti round trip out of LA. That cruise got us free offers. We currently are looking at a cruise on Holland America - which is a sister company to Princess - I am planning to call Holland to see if they will give us a discount passed on our Princess status - don't know if that will work, but I will try.

there are different types of casino offers. Some are "casino discount". Some are based on your casino play and you get free cabin/casino free play. They do not work the same. Once you have established yourself as a casino player, you will get the free cabin, you pay the port tax and a non refundable $200 deposit to book a cruise. The $200 pp deposit is given back to you on the cruise as OBC.

I normally get an email on which I can click on the different cruises offered or I receive a brochure and the cruises are listed. Not sure what you received.

from what everyone has said, you can call and ask for another location, or do not pay for the bid. You have only 48 hours and if you have not paid, you will keep your original room

Because I book our cruises through the casino department - I go through them for any changes to our cruise. That said - I would think that princess would give you an option to click on "pay" for accepting the upgrade cost and they would charge your credit card - easy for you and them. We may have to offer the suggestion -

the email said noon for the Aloha, Lido 1:00 for Caribe, Dolphin, Sun 1:30 for Baja, Emerald 2:00 for Marina, Rivera sky suites anytime from 11:00 to 2:30 - ship is suppose to leave at 3:00 nothing about elite, or vip

the club class mini was available for us to bid on with our "free balcony" cabin - we did not bid for the club class - the mini is fine for us

yes Discovery

we are sailing Jan 7, 2023 out of LA two days ago we got an email from Princess telling us that they were asking us not to show up until 1:00 pm. We are on deck 10 and they were listing the decks and times different. we have never had that before

Never heard of "core" obc, but when we book, we get the casino free play and then $200 OBC, which is the deposit we have to pay upfront and get back as OBC I would guess that the "core" obc is on your account and can be used for any on board purchases. The casino free play can only be used in the casino

Yes you can upgrade, but you have to pay. My experience has been if the balcony on the website is showing $1299 and the suite is $2599 - they would charge you $1300 per person to move up. You could wait for the bidding process, but all the suites may be gone and you may only be able to bid for the mini, but you can also bud for the club. We had a balcony, bid on a mini got it for a total of $300

We receive offers for a free cabin (me inside, husband balcony) with casino play. we are considering an alaska cruise, would like to do a four or five day land tour first and then get on the ship and sail back to Vancouver. my question: Has anyone done one of these cruises/land packages using a casino offer and what did you have to pay out of pocket? thank you

I tried the chat for the first time this morning. I logged in at 7:40a - and it said I was 4th in the queue 20 minutes later I was #1, then #2, then I logged out after waiting over 30 minutes.

update: Since I had booked this cruise through the casino department, I called them at 8:00a and asked if I should pay through them or call the main the number - the guy said I could pay him and I did. just a side note: This was a "free balcony" cabin offer with the princess plus included. So we had not paid anything for the cabin or the plus package, only port taxes and the $200 per person deposit, and I always get the vacation protection plan - which is always a different amount. When I booked the cruise, the charged me $66.40 each, then when the bid upgrade was accepted for $300 they said we owed $245.20, because they dropped the vac protection cost down to $39.00 - so they reduced my cost because they dropped the price of vac protection plan - ????? crazy

received email confirmation that our bid was accepted. we were booked in Balcony BB category and I placed 3 bids first was $150 total for a Premium Deluxe Balcony - rejected two days ago 2nd was $75 total for Deluxe Balcony - rejected two days ago 3rd was $300 total for mini suite - minimum I could bid - accepted last night I now have 48 hours to contact Princess to pay This was for Discovery January 7th 2023 sailing - which had lots of mini suites available when I last checked, so I was hoping that my minimum bid would be enough to get one.

We are currently booked on Discovery for Jan 7th out of L.A. Based on the info above, for us to upgrade from Balcony to Mini-Suite it would cost us $280. I had put a bid in last month to go to a Premium Deluxe Balcony and today it shows that that bid expired. *$150 This morning I put in a bid for a Deluxe Balcony and that shows expired $100 also put in a bid for $300 for a mini-suite and it is showing pending If they send me an email that the mini-suite is expired in the next couple of days, I will wait until we get on board and see if we can upgrade then. Looking at the cabins available, there are lots of mini-suites available.