For the slot players - questions to get offers

[keels81]

Personal experience says you need daily play, even at a minimum, and that anything you win that's substantial, you cash out to use towards your S&S account. 

 

Casino Hosts can see what you're spending in the casino AND what you're spending on-board, especially if you're just playing machines and charging slot money to your S&S versus putting in cash. The easiest way to get deals is to play straight off your S&S account.

[keels81]

2 hours ago, icft said:

My thought is that we are coming to the end of the widespread  free or very cheap cruise days. We each have an entertainment budget and I use mine for slots in the casino while my wife uses some of hers for the casino and some for shopping. So I'm the one who gets the better offers.

 

My budget hasn't changed in quite a few years. It was the same pre-covid as now. But while I would get offers for something like half priced cruises before covid with the amount of casino cash being the variable, I never got free cruise offers except for interior rooms on occasion. Since reopening I have consistently gotten offers for free balcony (but still have to pay port fees and taxes) with free drinks everywhere (just for me - poor wife only free in the casino) and $1,000 casino cash. I just booked my eighth one of those but my offer ends Feb. 28th. I would not be surprised if I never see that offer again now that bookings are picking up.

 

So I think you will probably be disappointed if your wife starts playing the slots in the hope of getting free room offers. I think that ship has sailed. But I could be wrong and just a moderate amount of play should get offers; but probably not free room offers.

 

I wouldn't give up hope just yet. I got one tonight that expires 4/1 ... it's free interior (which means $100 OBC) with drinks everywhere for the player and $250 in FreePlay. 

[reeinaz]

13 hours ago, CheckersMidwest said:

My husband plays table games. And wins. He usually has some sort of casino offer. Never free, but good deals & we've booked them.

 

However, this time around, I have the $0 for an inside casino offer. I rarely step foot in the casino. Mostly due to the smoke - I can't stand the smell & it makes me wheeze due to my asthma. I'll play the occasional slot & lose. Might spend $25 in the casino the whole cruise. Funny thing is it includes Drinks on Us. I'll have a drink by the pool and usually 1 each evening. Maybe they just thought it was 'safe' giving me this kind of offer?! Regardless, we took it. Sail in March.

A lot of people got this offer in the past day or 2, myself included. Many have never been in the casino. I can't make use of it though because it was limited to cruises this month and next.

[no1racefan1]

I never paid any attention to people talking about players club offers because the only time I've ever spent money in a casino was the $20 I put into a slot machine on our very first Princess cruise over 15 years ago, just to say I did. Lo and behold, I got an offer email yesterday for a variety of cruises between now and September. DH thinks they probably just have some cruises that aren't as full as they would like so they're going to offer deals however they can to get people onboard.

[kwokpot]

On 2/14/2022 at 11:46 AM, Buckeye_Siggy said:

* What kind of issues could arise if i play the slots with her card?   If a jackpot is won and i am sitting there with her card, can they not pay the jackpot?

If you hit a jackpot with your wife's card all you do is say to the slot attendant that you want the 1009-G to be issued in your name and Social Security #. 

 

[iriecruising]

Honestly on my last cruise I must have registered for the carnivals players club but only spent about 100.00 in slots on a 7 day cruise and another 100.00 at the roulette wheel. I did take the money for roulette from my cruise card so they knew I was gambling. Now I get 25.00 cruise offers. There may be a complicated algorithm to it but really I am not sure how someone like me would qualify if there were. 

[Pellaz]

On 2/14/2022 at 12:55 PM, Virga said:

 

We never actually signed up in the way that means filled something out or registered - we just donated some money to the slots and the offers appeared a little over a month later.  

 

I never signed up either.  I put maybe $20 into the cash-crane machine and $10 into the "Cash Cube" machine using my S&S card on my just-ended cruise and began seeing $0 offers for cruises along with DOU in the casino.  Sadly the cutoff on those is sailing by 3/31. 

Then I got the email yesterday that explicitly stated these cruises were Players Club offers.  For just $30 I put into two of the machines...and the joke's on them because I actually won $2,500 from the Cash Cube machine.  😮    (I couldn't believe it either).  

 

On 2/14/2022 at 11:28 PM, Indytraveler83 said:

My best guess is that there's some sort of system that puts a value on all guests. Carnival makes X in profit when YOU sail, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's based on all the money you spend, not just the casino. Then it also probably knows what type of offers are mostly likely to get you to book.

 

So the most profitable customers likely get the most offers, and in the "ideal" world they would fill every ship with the most profitable people.  When those folks don't book for whatever reason, it keeps throwing offers down a tier until it either fills the ship or runs out of time.

 

Now THIS is quite possible.  In my case, although I only spent $30 in the casino, I DID purchase a cabana at Half Moon Cay and a snorkeling excursion in Nassau, so maybe the magic algorithm put it all together and said "Hey, this guy DOES contribute to our bottom line" and coughed up the offers.  

 

OR -- and here's an evil thought -- maybe the system detected that I had won that money from the Cash Cube machine and figured "Hey, let's send him some offers!  He just went home with a boatload of cash!"  😄  😄  

 

Edited February 25, 2022 by Pellaz