Carnival Casino Elite Offer

[jimrebholz]

I just booked a couple cruises through the elite offer they sent.  The free drinks everywhere for you and a companion sold me.   Never had this offer before, I was just curious for those who have done it, what are the "gifts and treats" they give you during the cruise?   

[kwokpot]

4 hours ago, jimrebholz said:

I just booked a couple cruises through the elite offer they sent.  The free drinks everywhere for you and a companion sold me.   Never had this offer before, I was just curious for those who have done it, what are the "gifts and treats" they give you during the cruise?   

Treats are fresh fruit, cookies. Gifts are various types of logo gifts. Most recently it was a set of travel size suntan lotion and other skincare for sunning (all in a little case), and a round Beach blanket with fringes (IMO not particularly nice looking, big Elite cruise logo.

[kwokpot]

Here is a cut and paste of a posting I did on another thread about Elite cruise benefits.

 

About three weeks before your cruise you will get an email asking about several things. One is what you want for your In Room Bar setup. You'll choose from a list of Wines and Spirits, each passenger gets to choose one bottle. There will also be a selection of mixers for each of you to choose from a list, which also incudes sodas and water. The bottles are full sized and unopened, and since you'll be getting drinks everywhere for two people you MAY want to decide whether or not you actually want to open and drink the wine/Spirits or take it home with you, which are are certainly allowed to do. Just remember if you're flying into and from the Port you'll need to place the bottles protected in your check luggage. 

Second thing you'll be asked to decide is whether you want the complementary excursion, which there will be a preselected choice for you (both people have to take the same excursion) or you want a spa credit of $300 total, which can be used however you want by either both or just one passenger. 

The last thing you'll decide is whether you want Port Parking or the transfers. If you choose the transfers, you'll get a second email from the transfer company asking for details. 

The second email will ask what kind of transfer you want. You are given two transfers to use however you want, there's no restrictions. So if you're flying into the port you can use the two transfers for any combination you want; airport to hotel, hotel to pier, pier to hotel, pier to airport. The transfers doesn't even need to necessarily coincide with the cruise. For example, we used a Elite transfer from our London Hotel to Heathrow 3 days after the cruise ended. The transfer company didn't care the cruise already ended three days prior. All you need to do is decide which two points you want them to take you from and to, and give them the dates, places and times. To get the most value, if you have multiple transfer needs, for example you're staying in a hotel both pre-cruise and post- cruise, decide which segments are the most expensive and have Carnival pay for those and any other transfer needs you have you use a cab, car service or Uber/Lyft.

Edit: The transfers are a private luxury car service, in a SUV, luxury sedan, or something similar. They simply pick you up and drop you off. Carnival pays the gratuity, but you are obviously welcome to pay additional tips.

 

[samiam0403]

The Elite gifts I recall were: a crystal block with the ship and ship name lasered inside, a fleece blanket, a set of packing cubes, a beach towel, and a travel blanket/pillow set. I only remembered those because they were the ones I kept. 🤣 

[kwokpot]

1 hour ago, samiam0403 said:

The Elite gifts I recall were: a crystal block with the ship and ship name lasered inside, a fleece blanket, a set of packing cubes, a beach towel, and a travel blanket/pillow set. I only remembered those because they were the ones I kept. 🤣 

When did you sail? Those weren't the gifts we received in May & June, when I was on 2 Elite cruises. 

[samiam0403]

19 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

When did you sail? Those weren't the gifts we received in May & June, when I was on 2 Elite cruises. 

Just before COVID. Had 2 Elites booked earlier this year, but since Australia was still closed, had to cancel. The OP didn't put a time limit on their question of when people sailed. 😉

[lazydayz]

I received the sun care kit, the beach blanket, huge gold dice with gold plated cards, and a fruit and wine basket.  We got a gift everyday, including cookies.  We loved our Elite cruises.  

[susienews]

19 hours ago, jimrebholz said:

If they're like the VIFP member gifts they might be a photo frame or album, Beach towel with drawstring bag, carnival Headphones, Journal and pen, Chocolate covered strawberries in your cabin, lightweight Carnival jacket or Backpack, Carnival visor, stationary and pen set, thermal mug, Carnival mug and more 

 

[Slattery]

What is the rough qualification to be offered an elite casino offer with Carnival?

[MRVEGAS711]

6 hours ago, Sattery said:

What is the rough qualification to be offered an elite casino offer with Carnival?

Your cruise bankroll for the casino needs to be around $5000. 

[StephPS79]

8 hours ago, Slattery said:

What is the rough qualification to be offered an elite casino offer with Carnival?

 

Unfortunately, there's no confirmed answer to this questions.  Play what you can afford and hope for the best.

[weezal]

18 hours ago, Slattery said:

What is the rough qualification to be offered an elite casino offer with Carnival?

from personal experience, it was after i earned average of 3k pts/day on a sailing