Casino perks

[Elaine5715]

14 hours ago, NutsAboutGolf said:

When booking a CCL cruise, the casino offers can come with following perks, free-low cost fares, free play, drinks, shore excursions and specialty dinners.  Then depending on the offer, they may also give out the VIFP platinum status for the sailing which gives you more perks.

 

Once onboard, to get comps its as simple as tier points.  Depends on duration but on a 7 or more night cruise, 1500 tier points gets you drinks while playing and 4500 tier points for a specialty dinner.

Only the 1500 points to get the DOU is accurate.  The free specialty dinner isn't, it is at the discretion of the onboard casino hosts.

[NutsAboutGolf]

6 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

Only the 1500 points to get the DOU is accurate.  The free specialty dinner isn't, it is at the discretion of the onboard casino hosts.

 

Interesting, thanks!  Just curious, what point range have you seen for the specialty dining?

[icft]

7 minutes ago, NutsAboutGolf said:

 

Interesting, thanks!  Just curious, what point range have you seen for the specialty dining?

I suspect the casino has a certain number of specialty slots available and they try to give them to those with the highest points, recognizing they can't wait till the last day or two. So if you are on a slot tournament cruise you need lots and lots of points. If you are on a regular cruise without the hardcore gamblers you sometimes need surprisingly few. I have been given a Steakhouse dinner, on a Wednesday (that's when they gave it to me on a Sunday to Sunday cruise) with as few as 5,000 points. I have also gotten over  well over 10,000 points on a cruise and only gotten cookies and wine. So they seem to grade on a curve so to speak. If you want comps find out when a big Southern Baptist group is cruising.

[chuck812]

Haha - I wonder if a Norway cruise is likely to have big gamblers.  We only have 2 sea days, one at the beginning and one at the end.  If we were just talking about Americans, I'd guess no - seems more likely to have families and older people.  But I wonder... it leaves from London, maybe it attracts a big crowd of Brits and other Europeans, who may be letting loose.  

[kwokpot]

44 minutes ago, chuck812 said:

Haha - I wonder if a Norway cruise is likely to have big gamblers.  We only have 2 sea days, one at the beginning and one at the end.  If we were just talking about Americans, I'd guess no - seems more likely to have families and older people.  But I wonder... it leaves from London, maybe it attracts a big crowd of Brits and other Europeans, who may be letting loose.  

It's an Elite Cruise the last of my b2b2b on the Pride (The 1st cruise is also Elite) so there will be lots of gamblers on the Norwegian Fjords cruise. Assuming you're also on an Elite cruise it's a great port to get free private transfers. Post cruise we'll be staying in London for three more nights so the transfer should be taking us from Dover directly to our London hotel.

[Elaine5715]

On 1/29/2022 at 11:13 AM, 1025cruise said:

Sure. You get a 14 day cruise for the price of 2 7 days 🙂

 

6 hours ago, NutsAboutGolf said:

 

Interesting, thanks!  Just curious, what point range have you seen for the specialty dining?

 

6 hours ago, icft said:

I suspect the casino has a certain number of specialty slots available and they try to give them to those with the highest points, recognizing they can't wait till the last day or two. So if you are on a slot tournament cruise you need lots and lots of points. If you are on a regular cruise without the hardcore gamblers you sometimes need surprisingly few. I have been given a Steakhouse dinner, on a Wednesday (that's when they gave it to me on a Sunday to Sunday cruise) with as few as 5,000 points. I have also gotten over  well over 10,000 points on a cruise and only gotten cookies and wine. So they seem to grade on a curve so to speak. If you want comps find out when a big Southern Baptist group is cruising.

Nailed it.  They do grade on the curve.  I forgotten all about that method. 

[Virga]

I don't know about anyone else, but the onboard comps don't matter even a little bit to me.  I'm donating to the casino in the hopes of incredible discounts on expensive cruises, and generous OBC/Freeplay offers on cheap short offseason cruises.  I don't need the hosts on any particular cruise to give me anything extra - I just want to keep the offers algorithm thinking highly of me.  

[icft]

10 minutes ago, Virga said:

I don't know about anyone else, but the onboard comps don't matter even a little bit to me.  I'm donating to the casino in the hopes of incredible discounts on expensive cruises, and generous OBC/Freeplay offers on cheap short offseason cruises.  I don't need the hosts on any particular cruise to give me anything extra - I just want to keep the offers algorithm thinking highly of me.  

I agree with those priorities!

[chuck812]

17 hours ago, kwokpot said:

It's an Elite Cruise the last of my b2b2b on the Pride (The 1st cruise is also Elite) so there will be lots of gamblers on the Norwegian Fjords cruise. Assuming you're also on an Elite cruise it's a great port to get free private transfers. Post cruise we'll be staying in London for three more nights so the transfer should be taking us from Dover directly to our London hotel.

Thanks Kwokpot - I did not know that.  Just so I'm clear, the Pride is doing the fjords in June and July, are both of them elite?  I'm just on a fun match, hoping to get another offer some day - those elite parties and perks sound awesome but we're excited to be cruising at all!  So, if it's graded on a curve, I'll be at the bottom - it'll be like that college math class where I suddenly became stupid, later realized I was sitting between a couple future physics PhDs.  On the bright side, if it's an elite cruise, perhaps there will actually be some serious table action.  What do you usually play?

[auburn77]

We play slots and budget our play. We have never gotten even close to 1500 points, yet we get excellent casino cruise rates. We are sailing later this month in a Grand Suite we got for about half price. When we booked, the offer said that it included DOU. Does this mean we get this from the beginning without accumulating 1500 points?

[NutsAboutGolf]

2 minutes ago, auburn77 said:

We play slots and budget our play. We have never gotten even close to 1500 points, yet we get excellent casino cruise rates. We are sailing later this month in a Grand Suite we got for about half price. When we booked, the offer said that it included DOU. Does this mean we get this from the beginning without accumulating 1500 points?

Yes.

[d12j28]

1 hour ago, auburn77 said:

We play slots and budget our play. We have never gotten even close to 1500 points, yet we get excellent casino cruise rates. We are sailing later this month in a Grand Suite we got for about half price. When we booked, the offer said that it included DOU. Does this mean we get this from the beginning without accumulating 1500 points?

Maybe. If it says for you and a travel companion then yes. If it just says DOU while playing then only the person who booked. Unless you both had the offer then make sure to see casino host for the other person.