Casino discount on cruises.

[ghstudio]

Note: this is NOT a complaint 🙂  I've just booked two HAL cruises and on each I've received a casino discount.  I have never been told that I would get one...but it miraculously appears.  Yes, I have visited the casino but I'm pretty much a minimum bet type of guy.

 

when I left my last cruise, I received a letter saying I'd get $65 casino money on my next cruise...but nothing about some sort of general discount on cruises.

 

Can someone explain the casino discount....

[kazu]

9 hours ago, ghstudio said:

Note: this is NOT a complaint 🙂  I've just booked two HAL cruises and on each I've received a casino discount.  I have never been told that I would get one...but it miraculously appears.  Yes, I have visited the casino but I'm pretty much a minimum bet type of guy.

 

when I left my last cruise, I received a letter saying I'd get $65 casino money on my next cruise...but nothing about some sort of general discount on cruises.

 

Can someone explain the casino discount....

 

Casino discount is applied on a number of cruises (not all) for those who use the casino.  No one really knows how it is determined.

It doesn’t show until you select your cruise as if you are booking.  Once you log in, the price reflects the casino discount if there is one/if you qualify.

 

Since you received a letter offering casino cash if you booked a cruise in 30 days, it’s a sign (to me) that you should receive the casino discount on a regular booking.

[rodndonna]

27 minutes ago, kazu said:

 

Casino discount is applied on a number of cruises (not all) for those who use the casino.  No one really knows how it is determined.

It doesn’t show until you select your cruise as if you are booking.  Once you log in, the price reflects the casino discount if there is one/if you qualify.

 

Since you received a letter offering casino cash if you booked a cruise in 30 days, it’s a sign (to me) that you should receive the casino discount on a regular booking.

 

Just another tidbit - of late, it seems, our Casino discount only appears against the "we select your room" option. No big deal for us, and not sure if that applies to everybody.

 

If you got a $65 dollar come back and play ... you are likely in our range of gambling as we got one for $75 once so I will now bore you with out experience. 🙄

 

With that level. we have always maintained our casino fare discount since sailing with HAL (coming out of Covid). We have received some "free" cabins some time ago, but believe those days are gone (except for Carniva,l who we have not sailed with in years and gambled virtually nothing then... we are still getting daily free cabins offer for last minute cruises with them).

 

We now seem to be on a list getting periodic offers for "deeply discounted" cruises which are relatively close to sailing (within 2-3 months?). I think with those, our stockholder OBC and AARP OBC benefits are not eligible (not sure as we have not booked one, but they are definitely not if you book a "free" cabin). 

 

Overall, at our Casino  discount level and preferring to book with HIA (which being part of your fare, is discounted as opposed to being $55/pp/day if added to a deep discount of free cabin), our best deals are generally still booking early takoing advantage of early bonuses and using our normal Casino discount on the fare and then being eligible for our stockholder and AARP OBC credits.

 

It is continually changing though, and what I have said may be out of date before I finish typing this ...🤔

 

[kazu]

11 minutes ago, rodndonna said:

 

Just another tidbit - of late, it seems, our Casino discount only appears against the "we select your room" option. No big deal for us, and not sure if that applies to everybody.

 

that hasn’t been the case with me.  I always select my room and get the discount in my pricing.  Casino discount shows on my HAL confirmation.

 

I wonder if it makes a difference what cabin category is chosen?  I normally do a verandah.

 

[rodndonna]

25 minutes ago, kazu said:

 

that hasn’t been the case with me.  I always select my room and get the discount in my pricing.  Casino discount shows on my HAL confirmation.

 

I wonder if it makes a difference what cabin category is chosen?  I normally do a verandah.

 

 

I just tried a "mock-splurge" booking on a Veranda, and again the fare is only discounted on the "we select your room" option. Possibly, it is just an error with the website as I can never continue the booking past that page as the next summary page is always blank for me these days.

[Shippy]

Do not know what the criteria is but we constantly get email offers for a casino discount.

  They only apply to certain cruises & certain category cabins.

 There was one for next April we took. They offered us a signature suite. We paid the difference to upgrade to a Neptune suite.

   We ONLY play penny slots. My average bet is $2.00