Elite Cruises, any overall impact?

[jamie717]

I just read our October 5, 2024 cruise on the Jubilee is an Elite cruise, what impact will that have on the average "non-elite" cruiser? Does it mostly just affect the casino?

[jimbo5544]

8 minutes ago, jamie717 said:

I just read our October 5, 2024 cruise on the Jubilee is an Elite cruise, what impact will that have on the average "non-elite" cruiser? Does it mostly just affect the casino?

Certainly if you frequent the casino, there will be some impact, but nothing substantial.  My guess the impact would be more on sea days. Not a gambler here but asw events from time to time and saq cabin adornments.   

[jamie717]

1 hour ago, jimbo5544 said:

Certainly if you frequent the casino, there will be some impact, but nothing substantial.  My guess the impact would be more on sea days. Not a gambler here but asw events from time to time and saq cabin adornments.

Thank you!

[jimbo5544]

3 hours ago, jamie717 said:

Thank you!

Enjoy your cruise.

[lazydayz]

Specialty dining, especially at the steakhouse, may fill up towards the end of the cruise.

 

Spa busier than usual the first few days.

 

Other than that, no real impact unless you want to play in the casino. The casino will be busier and there will be a few drawings you will not be entered into. 

 

[Elaine5715]

Casino will be full

[Jamman54]

3 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

Casino will be full

Correct. On embarkation and port days people will be staking their claims on machines two hours before the ship even sails. Crazy! 😎

[jimbo5544]

3 hours ago, Jamman54 said:

Correct. On embarkation and port days people will be staking their claims on machines two hours before the ship even sails. Crazy! 😎

I was thinking an entirely different word…

[Saint Greg]

3 hours ago, Jamman54 said:

Correct. On embarkation and port days people will be staking their claims on machines two hours before the ship even sails. Crazy! 😎

I remember people were sleeping at their machines on embarkation day on Spirit.

 

[Saint Greg]

On 6/1/2024 at 12:45 PM, jamie717 said:

I just read our October 5, 2024 cruise on the Jubilee is an Elite cruise, what impact will that have on the average "non-elite" cruiser? Does it mostly just affect the casino?

I’d say if you’re not a gambler no big impact. Maybe a good impact because those people won’t be in the places you like to go. They’ll have a bunch of private events. But the casino will be full. On Horizon it was hard to find a machine just to use my platinum free play on a sea day.

 

[VentureMan_2000]

24 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

I remember people were sleeping at their machines on embarkation day on Spirit.

 

 

Oh... never thought of that... the casino version of lounge chair and show chair savers.

So, do any of the casino gamers place a banana or a spare sandal on the seat to reserve it ?  🤣

[Saint Greg]

6 minutes ago, VentureMan_2000 said:

 

Oh... never thought of that... the casino version of lounge chair and show chair savers.

So, do any of the casino gamers place a banana or a spare sandal on the seat to reserve it ?  🤣

I don’t remember. I just know I got some drinks at the casino bar and people were sitting at machines and even sleeping at machines…Even though we were hours away from even sailing away.

 

 

Edited June 3 by Saint Greg

[VentureMan_2000]

4 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

I don’t remember. I just know I got some drinks at the casino bar and people were sitting at machines and even sleeping at machines…Even though we were hours away from even sailing away.

 

 

 

As one casino gamer once answered candidly, she said gamblers are wired differently.  I thought that was a solid answer.

Edited June 3 by VentureMan_2000

[Saint Greg]

3 minutes ago, VentureMan_2000 said:

 

As one casino gamer once answered candidly, she said gamblers are wired differently.  I thought that was a solid answer.

Definitely. I’ve seen people pee in their seats. Touch each box before the reel stops. Cover up the two end reels so you can just see the middle one…weird superstitious stuff.

 

[VentureMan_2000]

3 minutes ago, Saint Greg said:

Definitely. I’ve seen people pee in their seats. Touch each box before the reel stops. Cover up the two end reels so you can just see the middle one…weird superstitious stuff.

 

Oh... definitely.  We are totally amazed to watch folks just sit there and press the button on slot machines like they are in a slot tournament ... even when they have hit a "potential jackpot".  Slot-machine gamers that are there to have fun will press all the symbols on the touch screen or take their additional winning spins one at a time.  Not the zombie casino slot gamers... they just press the spin button right through the fun participation portion of the slot "potential jackpot" without enjoying any of it. 

It's just crazy.

[Colorado Beach Bum]

Most cruises these days are either ultra, premier or elite cruises.  And other casino offers aren’t even those so you end up with a bunch of casino players on almost every cruise. Elite cruises used to have the lowest number of invited guests but that has changed post COVID.  From my experience though elite cruises seem to be the least crowded and ultras by far the busiest.  The ones you want to avoid are the slot tournament cruises - those are extremely busy. 

[Mike45LC]

I've been on a few Elite crises.  As already noted, the casino is very crowded on Elite cruises.  Players are circulating like sharks, waiting for one of "their" slots to open up, racing for the now available seats.  Casino staff is overwhelmed, paying out handpays, emptying overfilled machines.

 

Every Elite casino guest is upgraded to Platinum for the cruise, so a huge number of guests have priority tender, embarkation and debarkation [unless that perk is suspended].  And free laundry.  Some of the "platinum for the cruise" Elites think that their Elite/Platinum status entitles them to all sorts of privileges.  

 

Unless I am one of the Elite, I prefer non-Elite cruises.