Casino Offers with OBC

[kwokpot]

6 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

You  always pay port fees and taxes.  

I understand what you're talking about, we do multiple free casino offers ever year. At issue is we have multiple people describing different types of offers, which confuses the issue. The Carnival Players Club offers that include large OBC but no freeplay aren't fully comped rooms. We have those offers too. I'm inquiring about what offer the OP received. Here's that offer from our account. But as you see there's charges besides taxes and fees, but $1,000 OBC and no freeplay. So yes, if you net everything out, you're getting back more than you're paying, but the way some posters are describing the offer makes it sound like something entirely different. 

[Elaine5715]

3 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

I understand what you're talking about, we do multiple free casino offers ever year. At issue is we have multiple people describing different types of offers, which confuses the issue. The Carnival Players Club offers that include large OBC but no freeplay aren't fully comped rooms. We have those offers too. I'm inquiring about what offer the OP received. Here's that offer from our account. But as you see there's charges besides taxes and fees, but $1,000 OBC and no freeplay. So yes, if you net everything out, you're getting back more than you're paying, but the way some posters are describing the offer makes it sound like something entirely different. 

I have found most don't understand casino offers which the casino loves.  

[kwokpot]

8 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

I have found most don't understand casino offers which the casino loves.  

You're absolutely right about that! I have no argument with you. I was just trying to see what type of casino offers people are getting and if it's something I've never heard of I would like to try that avenue also. I learned about URComped, the independent 3rd party cruise casino hosting company, from Cruise Critic posts, and now we use that company multiple times a year to book comped casino cruises. We used URComped to try out Virgin Voyages and we liked them so much were going on our third comped Virgin cruise in February! 

[Elaine5715]

8 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

You're absolutely right about that! I have no argument with you. I was just trying to see what type of casino offers people are getting and if it's something I've never heard of I would like to try that avenue also. I learned about URComped, the independent 3rd party cruise casino hosting company, from Cruise Critic posts, and now we use that company multiple times a year to book comped casino cruises. We used URComped to try out Virgin Voyages and we liked them so much were going on our third comped Virgin cruise in February! 

ECHO payers get the most generous offers and some then pretend the "we don't spend hardly anything".  URComped requires a certain level of continuous play which shocks others who thought it was more of a hidden secret for low level players.  

[kwokpot]

6 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

ECHO payers get the most generous offers and some then pretend the "we don't spend hardly anything".  URComped requires a certain level of continuous play which shocks others who thought it was more of a hidden secret for low level players.  

That was another level from Carnival that I had never heard of until someone here on CC posted a photo for the mailer for that program. My husband is the gambler in the family, so when I speak of offers and such I'm speaking on his behalf. We live in Philly so being only 1 hour away from Atlantic City we're there quite often. Although my husband is part of most of the mainstream cruise casino programs he enjoys Carnival's casinos the most. Overall we prefer Celebrity for their upscale ships and more diverse itineraries. We wish Carnival had more interesting destinations, which is why we're taking the 30 day TP in two weeks on the Luminosa, knowing that it's an older, smaller ship than the Excel Class. We were on the similar size Pride last year in Europe, 3 cruises B3B, all comped, total 32 days. We lucked out having the first and last cruises being Elite, and were able to use the Elite transfer benefit from Dover to London City Centre in a private Mercedes that would have costed us over $300 if we had to pay.  We then use the remaining transfer from our London hotel to Heathrow for another comped private transfer that otherwise would have been costly. .

[StephPS79]

25 minutes ago, kwokpot said:

You're absolutely right about that! I have no argument with you. I was just trying to see what type of casino offers people are getting and if it's something I've never heard of I would like to try that avenue also. I learned about URComped, the independent 3rd party cruise casino hosting company, from Cruise Critic posts, and now we use that company multiple times a year to book comped casino cruises. We used URComped to try out Virgin Voyages and we liked them so much were going on our third comped Virgin cruise in February! 

 

Just got our confirmation through URComped for a Virgin cruise in June 2024!  Been really wanting to give Virgin a try!  Unfortunately, it's just a 5 day, was trying to hold out for 7 day out of Miami, but they didn't seem to have any after March/April.

 

Have your subsequent cruises on Virgin been booked through URComped?

 

[kwokpot]

2 minutes ago, StephPS79 said:

 

Just got our confirmation through URComped for a Virgin cruise in June 2024!  Been really wanting to give Virgin a try!  Unfortunately, it's just a 5 day, was trying to hold out for 7 day out of Miami, but they didn't seem to have any after March/April.

 

Have your subsequent cruises on Virgin been booked through URComped?

 

The 2nd one this past January was, but on that cruise my husband gambled enough to generate a direct free XL Sea Terrace cruise from Virgin themselves. The certificate had a book by date, 30 days, sail within 6 months, but we missed the deadlines;however, calling Virgin's casino department they allowed us to use the expired certificate for a cruise for NEXT February, so they were very generous about that.