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My wife just got a Galveston offer. Harmony 3-17 inside. Or Voyager 4-5 days in April 2024. Well so much for earning PRIME again in late April. She had a larger loss than usual too. The certs showed 7 day cruises from Galveston. BUT that was not so. They were already full.

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Hi , I' m new to the casino Royale program. I've reached prime (3400 points). Was looking at the offers and there all $200 -300 off promos. Aren't you supposed to get a "free" cruise for reaching prime, should I contact them. Thanks for any info.

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2 hours ago, jptoz said:

Hi , I' m new to the casino Royale program. I've reached prime (3400 points). Was looking at the offers and there all $200 -300 off promos. Aren't you supposed to get a "free" cruise for reaching prime, should I contact them. Thanks for any info.

You get your FREE inside cruise the year after earning Prime. They may send you better offers before then. After April 1 the free cruise should load into your offers account. Well at least you have free drinks in the casino this year and next. Our offers are not as good as they had been over the years.

 

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5 hours ago, Daghis said:

I noticed a new offer appear, but I haven't received the card in the mail with the promotion. Looks like it's the January 28, 2024, on Harmony of the Seas.

 

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yes, it's 7 night Harmony out of Galveston. Woodford Reserve - includes welcome party, private tasting dinner, exclusive mixology class (sorry, tried to attach original, but couldn't get it to work) Also says "several very special events throughout the sailing"

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Today we booked the Bold Bets and Bourbon promotion on Harmony out of Galveston on Jan 28.  Ours was a Grand Suite with offer 24WWB0102.  Anyone else taking an offer for this cruise? I'm so curious what delights the tasting dinner will provide and what the other "special events" will be! 

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22 minutes ago, betty barnacle said:

Today we booked the Bold Bets and Bourbon promotion on Harmony out of Galveston on Jan 28.  Ours was a Grand Suite with offer 24WWB0102.  Anyone else taking an offer for this cruise? I'm so curious what delights the tasting dinner will provide and what the other "special events" will be! 

Would love this but didn’t get the invite!  Not the big gambler some of y’all are! 

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Daghis

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59 minutes ago, skiiergirl said:

Would love this but didn’t get the invite!  Not the big gambler some of y’all are! 

Oh, if that were the only reason, that would make sense. Then again, if it made sense, Royal Caribbean/Club Royale probably wouldn't do things that way.

 

I'm getting comped balcony cabins regularly again. Here's my current status:

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texasreb

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I like Woodford, but did not get the offer. Also I would be just coming off a 2 week Carnival cruise. Not sure if I can stand that 2 week cruise in mid January. Not sure how crazy CDC WHO might be by then.

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14 hours ago, Daghis said:

Oh, if that were the only reason, that would make sense. Then again, if it made sense, Royal Caribbean/Club Royale probably wouldn't do things that way.

 

I'm getting comped balcony cabins regularly again. Here's my current status:

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We haven't cruised in years but the offers started coming in weekly again about a year ago. Mostly balcony offers for me, Junior Suites for my husband, sometimes with freeplay ranging from 200-700 dollars.  My guess is there is an algorithm that sees they haven't gotten any money from us in a few years so it keeps putting a bigger carrot on the stick to get us back.  I guess the right carrot finally arrived and we took it. 

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8 minutes ago, Daghis said:

They didn't have that policy already? I've joked about the idea of booking a cruise and then letting my husband go solo, but I would never do that.

They may have had in place before, we are out of the loop with CR these days.

 

We make Prime, use a few offers and our annual and don’t bother with the program much else these days. 😎


We very rarely even speak to the hosts onboard, we are no longer part of a VIP program, just a number and it’s not worth chasing other levels.


We actually get better offers from Hard Rock casinos for Royal and X cruises than we do from the respective cruise lines.

 

We got a free 6 night on Symphony Junior Suite (PF&T) obviously for us to pay and booked through Hard Rock

 

DW just went down to the casino today to pick up another freebie

And for both Royal and X

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On 9/25/2023 at 3:38 PM, PompeySailor said:

We very rarely even speak to the hosts onboard,

I think this was on my last pre-pan cruise on Mariner of the Seas (4-night). I tried to interact with the host, but even while standing at his or her (don't recall) desk, I felt like they didn't want to take the time to interact. One of the 2 or 3 times I tried to stop by, I walked away after a minute or two of not even being acknowledged standing there at their desk.

 

I felt that I got much more out of the Club Royale experience when it was by-invitation-only (after 2,000 points earned on one cruise). The perks were very straightforward (discount on your cruise or cash at the casino cashier), and I felt like they (both landside and hosts) really tried to make us "VIPs" feel special.

 

I still have very fond memories of my early-ish days of being a "VIP". I was traveling with ~20 friends. I had commented that we were going to be dining at Portofino later in the week. I guess my play was pretty good (and it wasn't even that much by later years' standards) as he comped the meal for all of us in the party and even comped $200 for wine. It's this kind of treatment that made me want to spend more in the casino (!) to be treated so nicely. Yeah, bad psychology in action, but that was the truth.

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On 9/25/2023 at 3:22 PM, Daghis said:

They didn't have that policy already? I've joked about the idea of booking a cruise and then letting my husband go solo, but I would never do that.

How do they handle that?   I've heard that if a person who booked with an offer is a no show then they charge full price to card on file for the person that does sail.  

We have a casino offer booked for January where DH and I combined offers.   He is now not able to go so I was going to call this week and see if he doesn't go can I still go without paying a fortune for our JS.

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I've not personally heard about retroactive charging, but the way I figured they'd handle it is to 1) stop giving offers to that member, and maybe 2) cancel offers already extended (allowing the member to pay). #2 is obviously a severe outcome that should be reserved for abuse, which I hope isn't happening.

 

From what I've seen, though, is that there seems to be a disconnect between landside operations and actual happenings onboard. I had learned some time ago (I don't know its current state) that if you were flying out of Las Vegas, it didn't pay to gamble at the hotel offering you perks on the last day because the lower amount of play on that last day would lower your Average Daily Theoretical (ADT), which then could lower your offers.

 

For Royal Caribbean, I've suspected that if you accept a casino offer and go on the cruise but never go in the casino, no update is made to your ADT, thus you continue to get the same kinds of offers. It's almost as if you were never there in the first place. I have no idea whether this is true, but I don't think it'd surprise me.

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On 9/27/2023 at 8:40 AM, Daghis said:

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For Royal Caribbean, I've suspected that if you accept a casino offer and go on the cruise but never go in the casino, no update is made to your ADT, thus you continue to get the same kinds of offers. It's almost as if you were never there in the first place. I have no idea whether this is true, but I don't think it'd surprise me.

I've done that. I was on a comped cruise and didn't even play my free play (the Pinnacle $8) But then a friend pointed out that my card was taken for Casino comped drinks at the bar, so the Casino knows I was there and DIDN'T play. oooops. I did still get comps, but they've dried up as I haven't sailed the reserved ones yet.  I plan to play and have fun on them!

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On 9/26/2023 at 7:46 PM, PompeySailor said:

The offer we got yesterday from HR

7 Nights on the Brand New X Ascent 

Balcony Cabin 

$332 PF&T for 2 PAX 

$23.71 each per night 

 

That’s what I call a Casino Comp 

I have 2 free Aqua class bookings from BCC for next February and March on Ascent.  Both have all included.  That is great Casino comp.

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