How do you "get into" the Carnival Player's Club?

[mintsugarcube]

Saw a thread here about them getting RIDICULOUSLY low fare offers. How do I get in on the action?

 

Is it just for the high rollers? If so, not going to work for me. We just do the slots and spend about $20 a day each!

 

Thanks for your replies.

[ready2cruzagain]

I am pretty sure you would need to spend wayyyyyy more than $20 per day.

[cccer]

Not sure how much you need to spend. I get premier cruise offers fairly often and once in a while free cruise offers. I only spend about 200-300 a day, but a lot of that is casino money.

As far as joining, set up your account in the machines with your card, you can ask the casino people for help if needed. If you play table games, ask the dealer to sign up.

[getupgo]

$200 a day? Paying for a cruise is cheaper than that! I mean if you lose like I do. What us casino money,? I obviously never go in there.

Edited October 17, 2014 by getupgo

[falkcor]

play in the casino. Especially for slots you're basically automatically enrolled and tracked. They do not track table play as 'automatically'. I've seen a lot of varying feedback here though regarding level of play that has qualified, but yes $20 would be a bit low. Keep in mind though, that it is the total throughput, not initial investment. Therein, if you put in 20 but managed to PLAY $2000 (miraculously), it is the play not the initial investment you are rated on

[winddawn]

Saw a thread here about them getting RIDICULOUSLY low fare offers. How do I get in on the action?

 

Is it just for the high rollers? If so, not going to work for me. We just do the slots and spend about $20 a day each!

 

Thanks for your replies.

Play in Carnival's casinos with your Sail and Sign card inserted in the machine. For every 1,000 points you accumulate as shown on the slot machine, you get $10 cash back in the machine. Depending on the length of your cruise, you can also earn a "drinks on us card" for free drinks during the rest of that cruise. And then you go home and watch your VIFP offers on Carnival's website to see if the casino sends you any casino offers. Just be sure you enter your VIFP number on the website before checking your VIFP offers online. There is no set rhyme or reason as to what they might offer you, but the more you spend, the sweeter the offers. Just be aware that some offers you get might not be tied to your casino play. No one knows for sure except Carnival what the criteria is for those. Those certainly don't seem to be based on Carnival loyalty or $ spent based on what people post on this board. There are plenty of "Diamond" members with Carnival who post on this board that they spend freely in the casino that say that they don't get offers.

Edited October 17, 2014 by winddawn

[ashleycrew]

I actually do not spend much in the Casino probably on average about $30 a day. My last cruise I actually did win a good bit (which I proceeded to lose) but did accumulate over 1,000 points (8 night cruise). We booked 2 rooms in March and the one booked under my VIFP number was quite a bit lower with some casino cash that the other so I really do not know where the clip is but it can't be that high.

[mintsugarcube]

I'm guessing 1,000 points equates to $1,000?

[RD3PO]

I'm guessing 1,000 points equates to $1,000?

 

No. One point is awarded for every $2.50 of coin-in on regular slots, and one point for every $5.00 of coin-in on video poker games. Coin-in is the aggregate value of the bets you make. For example, if one were to play a quarter slot machine with a three quarter maximum bet, the coin-in would be $0.75 per spin. Every 3.33 spins they would be awarded one point.

 

You do not earn points for table games. Play is rated by the pit boss/casino manager and they determine eligibility for comps during the cruise (drinks, steakhouse, etc.). On average, they like to see 4 hours of play per day at an average bet of $20.

Edited October 18, 2014 by RD3PO

[springs741]

I'm guessing 1,000 points equates to $1,000?

Two weeks ago on the Magic I paid careful attention as this question as it has come up often. It was more like $2.50 to equal a point. This was on a dollar machine and I was only playing one dollar at a time. However, hubby was playing on the penny slots and his conversion was a little better as in not quite $2 per point. Not sure about why the difference?

[cruiseelady]

I play twice during a cruise, each is 5 bucks, $10 total. I guess I don't qualify for payers club lol :p

[GROUCHPUSS]

No. One point is awarded for every $2.50 of coin-in on regular slots, and one point for every $5.00 of coin-in on video poker games. Coin-in is the aggregate value of the bets you make. For example, if one were to play a quarter slot machine with a three quarter maximum bet, the coin-in would be $0.75 per spin. Every 3.33 spins they would be awarded one point.

 

You do not earn points for table games. Play is rated by the pit boss/casino manager and they determine eligibility for comps during the cruise (drinks, steakhouse, etc.). On average, they like to see 4 hours of play per day at an average bet of $20.

 

They do track table games by points now. I do not know many dollars to a point, but I do know you need 200 table points to get a drink on us card on a 7 or 8 day cruise.

Edited October 18, 2014 by GROUCHPUSS

[sunshine5]

I don't think it's tied to how much you gamble. My husband plays about $100/$200 of our money per cruise - not what I would consider anywhere near being a high roller. He typically plays craps. He just had two offers tied to his account - one for 40 or 45% off and casino chips and then book a cruise for $100 get $100 OBC, essentially free except for taxes and port charges. Excited for our two upcoming cruises.

[2011mom]

I just booked with a casino offer and I hardly play in the casino - maybe $10 - $20 per day, though of course that's how much I end up losing - more gets pumped through the machine. I didn't get a free cruise, but I got an offer that ended up being $207 (including all the taxes and port charges) for a quickie 4-day that I'll take in December. Regular price (without casino offer) was going to be $30 higher. Plus I get $25 cash from the casino as part of the offer, and then the $50 OBC I get for being a stockholder. So it came out to less than $200 including tips for a 4-day cruise!

 

So even if you don't play much, you may still get an offer.

[mintsugarcube]

So...are these offers for cruises generally from Florida? We live in VA, and are closer to Baltimore or even NY.

 

ps. Thanks SO much for all these replies. They are truly eye opening!

[RWolver672]

If you'll pardon the expression, "It's a crap shoot" of who gets the offers. Some say they play heavily and get nothing while others play little and get the offers.

 

DW and I usually play $50-100 a night in the casino and have only gotten one casino offer. That was for a discount (not that big) on a future cruise and $50 cash each.

[jetskier]

They do track table games by points now. I do not know many dollars to a point, but I do know you need 200 table points to get a drink on us card on a 7 or 8 day cruise.

 

 

That is correct on the points for table play. I played about a hour each day on our 7 nighter and only had about 22 points for the week. So you are rated pretty low if just betting the mins.

 

Table play and slot play points cannot be combined in order to get the Drinks on US card. (I tried last cruise) :p

 

Dave

[bigdog1958]

So...are these offers for cruises generally from Florida? We live in VA, and are closer to Baltimore or even NY.

 

ps. Thanks SO much for all these replies. They are truly eye opening!

 

No, I have sailed out of Baltimore twice with casino offers. I usually only get about 35% off the cruise rate and 25 dollars cash at the casino. I don't gamble a lot, but if you are winning, you don't need to gamble much money out of pocket to accumulate quite a bit through the machine.

[Ocean Spirit]

The best I can tell (after reading lots of post and talking to folks) everyone has a different answer as to how to get all the free stuff etc.

It's a 10,000.000 question, and the players Club isn't saying

[sarahcat111]

I got an offer for a free interior room 200 dollar balcony room or a suite for 600 dollars we booked the grand suite on the freedom in January for 600 per person and no port charges and we rarely go to the casino much once or twice on a 5 day cruise and don't spend much so I don't know how we got this offer but I jumped on it

[sgttami]

I called and asked and was told it was random as to who gets a free cruise...

 

I book through Players Club ( 1-866- 766-7730) and get Casino Cash ($100)

 

Sorry to say, I've never been offered a free one yet and I spend PLENTY in the casino. I'll get the Drinks on Us card and some daily treats sent to the cabin but so far, that's it!

[ddloml]

The machines and video poker are too tight. I cannot play enough on the machines to get the 1,000 points for a $10 rebate. You need 1,500 to get the Drinks on Us card.

 

Instead I tend to play Craps, which is rarely open in the Carnival casino. On my most recent cruise, they did open the table in the afternoon for a few hours on the second sea day (day 3 of the 7 day cruise). The table was hot, I managed to get lucky, and turned a $60 buy-in into $514 a couple of hours later. Later that evening, after dinner, I visited the table again and was immediately given the Drinks on Us card. They told me I "earned it". They wanted their $500 back! I think it also helped that I would occasionally put $1 on the Pass line for the crew backing it with $1-$2 odds, usually when I was the shooter.

 

Fortunately for me, I could sit at a video poker machine whenever I was thirsty, playing for a quarter per spin. Also, as stated earlier, they rarely opened the Craps table, so they didn't get much chance to chip at my winnings, although I would play and lose with small buy-ins ($60-$75) in the evenings after dinner. Finally, on the last night, I had one last fling at Craps again, risking a $100 buy-in. I walked away with $375. So I finally won enough in the casino to make a sizeable dent in the S&S account!

[lele100]

Question on the Players Club, Are you a new member everytime you go on a carnival cruise or are you remembered from the last cruise?

 

Thanks

[Davey Wavey]

I play twice during a cruise, each is 5 bucks, $10 total. I guess I don't qualify for payers club lol :p

 

If you use your S&S card, you do qualify for Players Club, but you probably don't qualify for any offers.

 

They track your activity through your VIPF number. You will only have 1 account for the first time you use your S&S card and any subsequent cruises will be linked to your previous activity. I did see once when my wife somehow ended up with 2 VIPF numbers, but that's a different story.

[kelemur]

My husband has never gotten an offer before, but we got one after our Sept Cruise on the Sunshine. We live in Nebraska, $50 inside, $75 oceanview and some $90 balconies. He played almost every night for an hour or two, but it helps he was up $1,500 the first night on roulette and so played with $500 of that the rest of the cruise. Just like a casino, they track your initial buy in, with I would recommend at least $100 on roulette (even if you only plan on spending $50) and then how much you bet per hand. I was so happy to get that $50pp with $100 OBC back that I booked a January 5 day for him for his Christmas gift (making him buy his own plane ticket, which is more than his part of the cruise....HA!)