Icon of the seas - Live (ish) - 5/18-5/25

[colesc15]

10 hours ago, BecciBoo said:

But now give us the figure you spent to get the $90!  It all sounds good until you do the win/spend figure, the break even figure....so you put in the machine maybe $500 maybe more just to get $90 back and some points?  It doesn't make sense to those of us who have to sacrifice the cruise fund and then play for 3 hrs and lose every penny........like me.....😥

Show me the extrapolation of what cruises you "won" with fares compared with all the money you've gambled..then we'll see.  I've looked at all the material/pamphlets etc and the real money is just not worth it to lose outa my pocket.  I sure had fun though at the magic drums bandit. But I only earned 79 pts or something and it disappeared along with my initial $250 in the machine at the end of March.

It's all about money cycled through. Nothing to do with wins and losses. We left this cruise with $90 more than we went with. We would gamble regardless of the casino program. 

[Coralc]

12 hours ago, BecciBoo said:

But now give us the figure you spent to get the $90!  It all sounds good until you do the win/spend figure, the break even figure....so you put in the machine maybe $500 maybe more just to get $90 back and some points?  It doesn't make sense to those of us who have to sacrifice the cruise fund and then play for 3 hrs and lose every penny........like me.....😥

Show me the extrapolation of what cruises you "won" with fares compared with all the money you've gambled..then we'll see.  I've looked at all the material/pamphlets etc and the real money is just not worth it to lose outa my pocket.  I sure had fun though at the magic drums bandit. But I only earned 79 pts or something and it disappeared along with my initial $250 in the machine at the end of March.

It is hard to lose money, when you are just losing money. That is why it is called gambling, not winning. 😄 I doubt if I will ever have enough points for comped cruises. I won $1000 on a Navigator cruise, texted DH, cashed out, and he already had the safe open by the time I was back up to the cabin. I am still playing on that money, on multiple cruises. ☺️

[Coralc]

And seriously, I did just receive a Royal Caribbean casino offer today. 😄

Lucky you, you just hit the jackpot! Casino Royale^SM invites you to set
sail on an award-winning ship and get your next payout in paradise.
Enjoy $25 OFF your next cruise plus $25 FREEPLAY to use on all your
favorite games onboard. Your exclusive offer can be applied to any
sailing departing by December 31, 2024 and is combinable with
the current Royal Caribbean^® sale — so what are you waiting for?

 

But I don't think $50 is enough to entice me to spend several thousand on a cruise right now. LOL. 🙄

 

[Ocean Boy]

11 hours ago, Coralc said:

And seriously, I did just receive a Royal Caribbean casino offer today. 😄

Lucky you, you just hit the jackpot! Casino Royale^SM invites you to set
sail on an award-winning ship and get your next payout in paradise.
Enjoy $25 OFF your next cruise plus $25 FREEPLAY to use on all your
favorite games onboard. Your exclusive offer can be applied to any
sailing departing by December 31, 2024 and is combinable with
the current Royal Caribbean^® sale — so what are you waiting for?

 

But I don't think $50 is enough to entice me to spend several thousand on a cruise right now. LOL. 🙄

 

Yeah, $50 is kind of laughable considering what cruises are priced at these days.

[colesc15]

11 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said:

Yeah, $50 is kind of laughable considering what cruises are priced at these days.

The last sentence made me giggle though... "so what are you waiting for" lol. I didn't get this "offer" so not sure what the demographic was. The one I got earlier this week was more full comps that we unfortunately can't use, stupid work. 

[Ocean Boy]

1 minute ago, colesc15 said:

 The one I got earlier this week was more full comps that we unfortunately can't use, stupid work. 

Funny thing about work. It gets in the way of doing things and without it you can't afford to do things.🤷‍♂️

[BecciBoo]

12 hours ago, Coralc said:

And seriously, I did just receive a Royal Caribbean casino offer today. 😄

Lucky you, you just hit the jackpot! Casino Royale^SM invites you to set
sail on an award-winning ship and get your next payout in paradise.
Enjoy $25 OFF your next cruise plus $25 FREEPLAY to use on all your
favorite games onboard. Your exclusive offer can be applied to any
sailing departing by December 31, 2024 and is combinable with
the current Royal Caribbean^® sale — so what are you waiting for?

 

But I don't think $50 is enough to entice me to spend several thousand on a cruise right now. LOL. 🙄

 

Well some have told me you just have to look at spending your limit as purchasing another cruise...nothing is really free except if you win an amount like you did or if you end up with $90 more than you came with, but that doesn't get you free cruises, you have to count all the $$ you put in. And we only cruise 2 times a year and I "may" elect to put $100 or more into a bandit fully realizing I will most likely lose it all, so how can I accumulate enough points?  For us it may not be worth it except for the fun.  It was really fun!  So just count it as entertainment right.  We'd have to invest a lot more money and cruise more to really get enough for the offers, right?