New Carnival Players Club

[rellersi]

Awesome new program. My office went from $500 cash in my last one to $200 in chips with the new offer

[CaneDawg]

Mine are exactly the same as last months offers. Be sure to check your trash/spam folder if you don't get emails. Mine get auto sent there sometimes even though they are not suppose to.

[ZoeyVictoria]

Same old offers for me, too. I checked the two that I already booked: one is $25 pp more, and the Conquest in December no longer has a casino offer available. Disappointed that nothing really changed except the name.

[Port of Tampa]

Wow what buzzkill feel like I met the Wizard of Ozz on that. My free play has gone from $800-$600-$400-$200 and now $50. Will enjoy our final Premier cruise over Memorial Day then stick with land based casino offers.

 

Cheers and good luck everyone.

[oxymoron11]

Mine sounded like you get a DOU card when you get there.

 

With your Drinks on Us! reward, all cocktails, beer and wine - as well as nonalcoholic drinks - are free as long as you're playing in the casino. See a Casino Host on board for further details.†

[wisnir]

I just got a "Players Club" offer for $200 in "fun chips" and "up to $500 off casino rates". In looking at a 5 day cruise on Carnival Elation from Jacksonville, FL and it quoted $1,036 for an interior room (single rate), in cross checking that rate with ************ offers for the same cruise it is $1,088, a whopping savings of $52, for a suite (single rate) Carnival Players Club offer is $2,196 and ************ for a suite (single rate) is $2,268 a whopping saving of $72.

To me, this is false advertising, I called the Players Club and they could not offer a plausible explanation, so BEWARE of the rates quoted. I do the Royal Caribbean Casino Royale "Club Royale" players program which was changed to April 1 to March 31 for a annual rolling yearly which is based upon the number of cruises and amount gamed dependent upon your level of offers in addition to its Cruise Certificate program,given out on the last night of your cruise, which offers a "free" interior cruise for 2,400 points, a "free" ocean view for 3,600 points and a "free" balcony for 4,800 points earned into its "enhanced" new annual program. It appears that Carnival is following suit with Royal Caribbean in tightening up its casino program. I got a cover letter with and its rough outline of its casino program with levels at "Choice, the lowest to Prime, Signature and Masters" (its highest level). I am at the Signature level and the comps are 1) free internet, worth $20 per day, no 5% "casino convenience fee" for chips charged and free drinks in the casino. Carnival requires 1,000 points earned before the free drinks in the casino. It does appear that both cruise lines are making it more difficult for players to earn comps. Problem with RCCL's Club Royale, if you are a slot player it takes $5 to earn one point towards the Cruise Certificate programs, so if you want an interior cabin you need to run $12,000 through the machines.

 

Still awaiting Carnival's Players Club details but I don't anticipate it to benefit the casino player, but quite frankly, I doubt that they will be forthright with details of its new casino players program.

Edited May 1, 2018 by wisnir

[gnocchi_mommy]

Mine too- exactly the same offer.

[winddawn]

Sounds like the "New" Carnival Player's Club is a dud. I agree with Port of Tampa. I'll stick with my freebie land-based casino offers, or other cruise line casino offers unless I get comparable worthwhile offers from Carnival. Oh well. There are far worse problems in life.

[bingomamma19]

I did get an offer today in my email--it said "urgent-free room" It was specifically for the may 6th breeze sailing and said it was from the new players club. The offer was for a free balcony room.

 

Unfortunately I could not jump on that, but was happy to see they sent a decent offer, haven't had one in a few years.

[rls1970]

I did get an offer today in my email--it said "urgent-free room" It was specifically for the may 6th breeze sailing and said it was from the new players club. The offer was for a free balcony room.

 

Unfortunately I could not jump on that, but was happy to see they sent a decent offer, haven't had one in a few years.

 

I got the same offer with code SURPRISE, but since I live in ORLANDO, arranging all of that travel in 4 days is simply not an option, nor is it worth the trouble.

[wisnir]

I just got a "Players Club" offer for $200 in "fun chips" and "up to $500 off casino rates". In looking at a 5 day cruise on Carnival Elation from Jacksonville, FL and it quoted $1,036 for an interior room (single rate), in cross checking that rate with ************ offers for the same cruise it is $1,088, a whopping savings of $52, for a suite (single rate) Carnival Players Club offer is $2,196 and ************ for a suite (single rate) is $2,268 a whopping saving of $72.

To me, this is false advertising, I called the Players Club and they could not offer a plausible explanation, so BEWARE of the rates quoted. I do the Royal Caribbean Casino Royale "Club Royale" players program which was changed to April 1 to March 31 for a annual rolling yearly which is based upon the number of cruises and amount gamed dependent upon your level of offers in addition to its Cruise Certificate program,given out on the last night of your cruise, which offers a "free" interior cruise for 2,400 points, a "free" ocean view for 3,600 points and a "free" balcony for 4,800 points earned into its "enhanced" new annual program. It appears that Carnival is following suit with Royal Caribbean in tightening up its casino program. I got a cover letter with and its rough outline of its casino program with levels at "Choice, the lowest to Prime, Signature and Masters" (its highest level). I am at the Signature level and the comps are 1) free internet, worth $20 per day, no 5% "casino convenience fee" for chips charged and free drinks in the casino. Carnival requires 1,000 points earned before the free drinks in the casino. It does appear that both cruise lines are making it more difficult for players to earn comps. Problem with RCCL's Club Royale, if you are a slot player it takes $5 to earn one point towards the Cruise Certificate programs, so if you want an interior cabin you need to run $12,000 through the machines.

 

Still awaiting Carnival's Players Club details but I don't anticipate it to benefit the casino player, but quite frankly, I doubt that they will be forthright with details of its new casino players program.

 

Update: May 2, 2018. I spoke with CCL players club telephone representative, and she actually gave me some additional information on the "new" Dealers Choice Players, club. She stated it is basically the same program with a different name. So much for something new for the players. I did take advantage of the "free" interior cabin for the Carnival Pride on August 5th, 2018 a seven day cruise out of Baltimore, MD. I asked her what comps I would receive and she could not tell me, she said she had to go to another screen. She came back and said that I will receive $300 in "fun chips", nothing else, NO "Drinks on Us", no waiving of the convenience fee for charging your chips to your cabin. She did not even know if there were going to be any Premier Players club casino events int he evening.

So it does appear that there is nothing new in the Carnival Cruise Lines Dealer's Choice players club program. wisnir.