Benefits of Medallion?

[tjwa]

Princess has not allowed smoking in cabins or on balconies for nearly 1 1/2 years. I haven't noticed any smoke smell in the cabins.

 

Costa not Princess is the subject here.

[paul929207]

Costa not Princess is the subject here.

Why are you discussing Costa in the Princess section?

[tjwa]

Why are you discussing Costa in the Princess section?

 

I'm not see the previous posts.:confused:

[Dorset Cruiser]

My gosh, only asked a question of OP at the end of my response to her on a Princess query. What was the actual point of your comment!

[GweninTX]

Just off the Golden as Medallion and we were invited to the circle party with the Gold passengers. We watched a short film on the Royal. Two bottles of champagne given out from a drawing from our invites and the grand prize drawing was for elite privileges for the remainder of the cruise. We were each given a card for a free drink at any bar on the ship. Short, sweet and worth it for a free drink of MY choice! Only perk is the insurance upgrade and you have a pretty pinkish purple cruise card. We are now platinum, so our one and only medallion cruise!

[Ronnieslady]

Just off the Golden as Medallion and we were invited to the circle party with the Gold passengers. We watched a short film on the Royal. Two bottles of champagne given out from a drawing from our invites and the grand prize drawing was for elite privileges for the remainder of the cruise. We were each given a card for a free drink at any bar on the ship. Short, sweet and worth it for a free drink of MY choice! Only perk is the insurance upgrade and you have a pretty pinkish purple cruise card. We are now platinum, so our one and only medallion cruise!

Hi Gwen,

We were on the Golden with you. I am the one that loved your black rinestone flip-flogs. You said they were so comforable. I thinks we talked outside the Vista Theatre. What was the name of those flip-flops again??? & Where did you get them????

Hope you read this, & can respond back to me. I will try to post this on our old roll call. hopefully it will work

Thanks again,

Grace

[Thrak]

It seems to me that the deck is a bit stacked in favor of some folks when it comes to the benefits. Those who live near ports can benefit from taking a ton of 1 - 3 day cruises and quickly rack up their "cruise count" to obtain higher member status. Those who don't live near ports don't really have that option. Not a complaint - just an observation.

 

I'll have to make my loyalty level by stacking cruise days rather than number of cruises. I've only cruised twice so far but have 25 days accumulated. Someday I hope to obtain a higher status level but, for now, I'm just grateful we have discovered cruising and that we have been able to take the two cruises we've been on.

 

I want MORE cruises!!! :D

[paul929207]

It seems to me that the deck is a bit stacked in favor of some folks when it comes to the benefits. Those who live near ports can benefit from taking a ton of 1 - 3 day cruises and quickly rack up their "cruise count" to obtain higher member status. Those who don't live near ports don't really have that option. Not a complaint - just an observation.

 

I'll have to make my loyalty level by stacking cruise days rather than number of cruises. I've only cruised twice so far but have 25 days accumulated. Someday I hope to obtain a higher status level but, for now, I'm just grateful we have discovered cruising and that we have been able to take the two cruises we've been on.

 

I want MORE cruises!!! :D

I figure there is no way to make a program perfect. Yes, people near a port can take short cruises and get to a higher level with its perks. But I figure I got to enjoy 150 days on beautiful Princess ships working my way to Elite. Others only have 50 or 100. I am not jealous of them.

[iceleven]

Some people will buy the insurance since they now get the free upgrade.

Some people will buy the DVD since they get the 10% discount.

 

I think this response might have gone right over some people's heads. It's not a gift people. It's not a reward. It's marketing, plain and simple.

 

Also, I've often wondered just how under appreciated those people must feel when they don't enjoy alcoholic beverages. Why should rewards be directed only to those who enjoy their drinks? Sure, they can order mocktails but truth be told, people go to these gatherings for the free booze otherwise they wouldn't be complaining about the watered down drinks all of the time.

[Jo and Rob]

Jo - did you notice any effects of in-stateroom smoking? We are not worried about being in the minority nationality-wise and we like Italian food but I am very affected by cigarette smoke and stale smoke odours and could not tolerate a stateroom which smelled of smoke :(

 

No problems with smoke on either Costa or MSC. In fact the smokiest experience on any cruise was on Princess in 2010 walking through the casino. We're hoping the policy is more strict now.

[Working 2 Cruise]

No problems with smoke on either Costa or MSC. In fact the smokiest experience on any cruise was on Princess in 2010 walking through the casino. We're hoping the policy is more strict now.

 

Actually, Princess banned smoking from staterooms and balconies, but since there are people who do smoke and Princess does not want to lose their business, the casino remains smoky. Of course, you can always not walk through the casino, if it bothers you that much! 99% of the ships are now non-smoking, but it seems like it is never enough!

[madjohn]

It seems to me that the deck is a bit stacked in favor of some folks when it comes to the benefits. Those who live near ports can benefit from taking a ton of 1 - 3 day cruises and quickly rack up their "cruise count" to obtain higher member status. Those who don't live near ports don't really have that option. Not a complaint - just an observation.

 

I'll have to make my loyalty level by stacking cruise days rather than number of cruises. I've only cruised twice so far but have 25 days accumulated. Someday I hope to obtain a higher status level but, for now, I'm just grateful we have discovered cruising and that we have been able to take the two cruises we've been on.

 

I want MORE cruises!!! :D

 

 

I did a quick search based on where you say you live and you are only a days drive away from at least 2 ports. Now it may not be the companies you like but you could build up cruises quick. I live 4/5 hours from LA and 6/7 hours from San Diego and have easily driven to both. You can do it, go for it.

[tjwa]

Why are you discussing Costa in the Princess section?

 

see post no. 35

[Cinerama]

Just off the Golden as Medallion and we were invited to the circle party with the Gold passengers. We watched a short film on the Royal. Two bottles of champagne given out from a drawing from our invites and the grand prize drawing was for elite privileges for the remainder of the cruise. We were each given a card for a free drink at any bar on the ship. Short, sweet and worth it for a free drink of MY choice! Only perk is the insurance upgrade and you have a pretty pinkish purple cruise card. We are now platinum, so our one and only medallion cruise!

 

Also just off the Golden as Medallion and we met with the Captain and others, two bottles of champagne and the drawing but no movie, no drink voucher, but we did get multiple watered down drinks!

[paul929207]

Get used to the watered drinks. We are Elite and get them too. :)

[blazerjan]

I know to many (most) the little perks what come with being Mediallion is no big deal... but we had already purchased the Premium Insurance package for our cruise and got over $80 knocked off the cost after being told we are now Mediallion... works for me!! Not everyone can take multiple cruises a year and reach the higher levels quickly. Every little bit helps.

[notentirelynormal]

It seems to me that the deck is a bit stacked in favor of some folks when it comes to the benefits. Those who live near ports can benefit from taking a ton of 1 - 3 day cruises and quickly rack up their "cruise count" to obtain higher member status. Those who don't live near ports don't really have that option. Not a complaint - just an observation.

:D

 

Keep in mind too, that those 1-3 days cruises are one way so there is still an expense to get home. Also, the expense on getting to the cruise and, for example, parking at the pier etc.

[Kinkacruiser]

I would have liked to see this additional loyalty level introduced after Platinum - say around 100 days. In Australia, we reach Platinum at 50+ and Elite at 150+ days.

[paul929207]

I would have liked to see this additional loyalty level introduced after Platinum - say around 100 days. In Australia, we reach Platinum at 50+ and Elite at 150+ days.

The numbers are the same everywhere.

 

We can only guess what benefits there might be with a new level. With the Medalion level, the only benefits are discounts when buying things (insurance and DVDs). I doubt they would add any real new benefits since these would almost certainly be given to Elites also. If anything it wold probably be something like a 5 or 10% discount in the onboard shops. Elite gets 10% now. My guess is that any real new benefits would go to some new category above Elite that would require 300 to 500 days or even more.

[Nancyquilts]

The numbers are the same everywhere.

 

We can only guess what benefits there might be with a new level. With the Medalion level, the only benefits are discounts when buying things (insurance and DVDs). I doubt they would add any real new benefits since these would almost certainly be given to Elites also. If anything it wold probably be something like a 5 or 10% discount in the onboard shops. Elite gets 10% now. My guess is that any real new benefits would go to some new category above Elite that would require 300 to 500 days or even more.

That would work for us - it took us 350 days to get to Elite when they were only counting the number of cruises.