An offers question

[Dwright826]

I was wondering. I've been sailing for a while with carnival and an 1 point away from from gold. I recently got my wife to jump aboard, pun intended, and she's sitting at 8 points. Does anyone know why carnival consistently send her awesome offers like 40 percent off, and 200 obc per room but only send me generic reduced deposit, 1 category upgrades, etc. Offers. 

[matymil]

50 minutes ago, Dwright826 said:

I was wondering. I've been sailing for a while with carnival and an 1 point away from from gold. I recently got my wife to jump aboard, pun intended, and she's sitting at 8 points. Does anyone know why carnival consistently send her awesome offers like 40 percent off, and 200 obc per room but only send me generic reduced deposit, 1 category upgrades, etc. Offers. 

Did she do alot of gambling on her cruise?

[Guest BasicSailor]

Perhaps an email attached to her name on the Carnival website when she logs in .

[tallnthensome]

There has been lots of discussion or theories why certain people get better offers than others when they have sailed Carnival fewer times. To this day there is no clear answer but Carnival seems to use better offers to lure new or new cruisers back while many they already have in their grasp don't get the great offers. I sail many lines and just got back last week from an Alaska cruise where I was offered a VIFP players club elite offer....... when I don't even gamble and had only sailed Carnival three times prior to this one.  It could also be Carnival targeting people who spend a lot on board with shopping, specialty dining, drink packages, ship excursions, etc and not those who don't spend a dime once on board, 

[ZoeyVictoria]

My sister-in-law was booked on a cruise with us that was canceled, so she has never sailed on Carnival.  She is still getting those almost-free offers, two years later.

[JT1962]

From my experience, they seem to send cheap offers to those that haven’t cruised with them in a while.  I had not sailed with Carnival in 6 years and got a great offer in February for 8 days on Splendor in Alaska in May for $ 125 solo that I booked. When I returned, I got an offer for 5 days on the Ecstasy in June for $ 70 solo, which I also booked. After that, I have not received any offers close to those prices.

[Joebucks]

Because their marketing department was targeting her for whatever reason they decided to.

[Dwright826]

3 hours ago, Joebucks said:

Because their marketing department was targeting her for whatever reason they decided to.

😑. Thanks .lol

[Dwright826]

Yeeeaah. That's what I figured. They know I'm going to buy one, they're trying to get her to buy one. Makes sense

[Joebucks]

3 hours ago, Dwright826 said:

😑. Thanks .lol

 

Honestly, there's a ton of potential reasons, it's tough to speculate. It could be trying to bring back "lapsed" customers. Maybe her onboard spend was lucrative. Maybe they targeted women demographics. If you have more points, it sounds like you don't need marketed to as you're going to come regardless. 

 

Marketing is a lot of complicated than a few people's opinions on the internet.

[mz-s]

There really is no rhyme or reason. There are people who might only put $20 in the Casino every other cruise getting great casino rates right now for example. The key is Carnival and the other lines are discounting as necessary to fill their ships, hoping that guests will spend more onboard.

[notplatinum]

10 hours ago, JT1962 said:

From my experience, they seem to send cheap offers to those that haven’t cruised with them in a while.  I had not sailed with Carnival in 6 years and got a great offer in February for 8 days on Splendor in Alaska in May for $ 125 solo that I booked. When I returned, I got an offer for 5 days on the Ecstasy in June for $ 70 solo, which I also booked. After that, I have not received any offers close to those prices.

No true for me. I get them a week after returning and get them every other day

[JT1962]

Just now, notplatinum said:

No true for me. I get them a week after returning and get them every other day

After I posted that, I checked my email, and I had an offer for $70 from Jacksonville. If I did not have a 19 day cruise booked in October, I probably would’ve done it.

[matymil]

12 hours ago, Joebucks said:

Because their marketing department was targeting her for whatever reason they decided to.

Thats actually the most accurate response on this thread LOL! I just cruised with someone who went on her first Carnival sailing and she was getting emails for $75 cruises before she even got off the ship.

[RWolver672]

We are both Platinum.  During Covid, I was getting 3-5 offers a week.  Now that it's behind us (cruise wise), I haven't gotten any.

[CrzRani]

Maybe a left turn question on offers, but I have the promo code OV7 which is $500 OBC along with other stuff.  I already booked something last week with it, but it's still showing up as available and I get all the way to the end to book it, but I'm afraid that I'll get all the way to pay the deposit and on the back end they cancel the OBC. 

 

Anyone have experienced this?

[lazydayz]

7 minutes ago, CrzRani said:

Maybe a left turn question on offers, but I have the promo code OV7 which is $500 OBC along with other stuff.  I already booked something last week with it, but it's still showing up as available and I get all the way to the end to book it, but I'm afraid that I'll get all the way to pay the deposit and on the back end they cancel the OBC. 

 

Anyone have experienced this?

 

Some offers can be used multiple times.  For instance, we can book three Elite offers under the current promo.  I would go for it! 

[SCBarker]

On the topic of who gets offers and why... Do you think Carnival purchases/gets passenger information from the port, even if it's not necessarily their cruise line? I generally go out of Galveston. And the last time I got off a RCI ship, I immediately got some better offers from Carnival within 24 hours. It could be just coincidence, but it sure made me wonder if they have access to passenger port logs in general.

[Dwright826]

2 hours ago, SCBarker said:

On the topic of who gets offers and why... Do you think Carnival purchases/gets passenger information from the port, even if it's not necessarily their cruise line? I generally go out of Galveston. And the last time I got off a RCI ship, I immediately got some better offers from Carnival within 24 hours. It could be just coincidence, but it sure made me wonder if they have access to passenger port logs in general.

Hmmm. That's a great question

[DrSea]

On 8/27/2022 at 7:09 AM, JT1962 said:

From my experience, they seem to send cheap offers to those that haven’t cruised with them in a while.  I had not sailed with Carnival in 6 years and got a great offer in February for 8 days on Splendor in Alaska in May for $ 125 solo that I booked. When I returned, I got an offer for 5 days on the Ecstasy in June for $ 70 solo, which I also booked. After that, I have not received any offers close to those prices.

I have not seen many great deals since June either. I think it is due to the time of the year and with ppl who held out on covid testing making bookings. 

 

The cheapest deal I see is $90 for a 3 day cruise to somewhere. I have stopped opening these "deals" so idk where it sails to and from

[DrSea]

22 hours ago, SCBarker said:

On the topic of who gets offers and why... Do you think Carnival purchases/gets passenger information from the port, even if it's not necessarily their cruise line? I generally go out of Galveston. And the last time I got off a RCI ship, I immediately got some better offers from Carnival within 24 hours. It could be just coincidence, but it sure made me wonder if they have access to passenger port logs in general.

It might be a tracking function if you have the carnival app installed on your phone.